Thursday 15th May, Dunfermline Carnegie Hall: The Twilight Sad / Frightened Rabbit / Dirty Summer

From the fog-drenched streets of Glasgow roar The Twilight Sad: first, echoing from a distance as if calling out from a memory, then gaining a momentum powerful enough to lift anything in its path. Fuelled by its own energy, this band wraps us in blankets of guitars and flat-out good songwriting.
The Twilight Sad purvey an awestruck, ragged sentimentality. Lyrically suggestive and metaphorical, their songs give glimpses of bitter experience and romantic failure, their songs at times verging on the anthemic or celebrative, yet firmly rooted in the familiar, often unsaid hurt behind day to day events.
Where the band’s recorded sound is layered with many melodies, their live sound is a more intense experience which replaces the intricacies of the recordings with a more visceral wall of noise.

www.twilightsad.com

Frightened Rabbit

Though the past year has seen Frightened Rabbit finally step into public view, the past few years have largely been about the band quietly honing their sound and cultivating their art. In February 2006 they went into the studio with Glasgow based producer Marcus Mackay to record some songs. The resultant recordings ended up as the band’s debut LP ‘Sing The Greys’ which was re-mastered by Alan Douches and re-released by Fat Cat in Autumn 2007.
An incredibly accomplished live outfit, further live dates followed into 2007, including a brief but successful US jaunt, culminating in a sold-out show at The Mercury Lounge in NYC, before the album was even available in the US. The band will release their new album in 2008

www.frightenedrabbit.com

Dirty Summer

A trio who may be too young to actually drink in the bar here, Dirty Summer feature a female drummer equipped with a solitary tom-tom and snare. Standing up. Standy-uppy drummers almost guarantee greatness, but Dirty Summer are no Low, in fact if there's an opposite to Low`s light gentle melodies this is it. The Mary Chain's Gillespie circa Bobby Gillespie might be closer to the mark, but that may be a disservice as there's more to them than rehashing 'Upside Down'. With noise levels are kept, largely, to the max, the Other 2 grind out dirty distorted bass, and trigger samples and screeching keyboard. Mired in an electrical storm, when not rumbling along at a threateningly glacial pace, Dirty Summer may suddenly burst into a happy hardcore rhythm that would scare the bejaysus out of Alex Empire.

www.myspace.com/dirtysummer