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M It IltllCLJl lLJHt RANARIM The Counting House, Edinburgh, Sat 9 Apr
“Yes. we really look forward to it.' says Ulrika Boden of Ranarim. the Swedish band due soon at the capital's Ceilidh Culture festival and raved about by. among others, Karine Polwart. the Edint)uigh—based singer who has Just topped this \"t?£tl 's BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. ‘We've never been to Scotland. but we're reallx influenced by “(:eltic" groups and srngers.‘ continues Ulrika. ‘Do you know that we p|a\ many schottisches in Sweden? It is very popular — not as common as polskas of course. but one of the main dance rhythms.’
With Sofia Sanden iwho also handles fiddler making two young women haimon\ singer's up front. Ranarim have been dubbed 'the ABBA of folk music] but in Niklas Roswall thei. also boast a world champion nyckelharpa player. A cross between a fiddle and a hur'dy-gurdy it's played with a shert bow. with the fingers pressing on keys to stop the strings. Add Jens Engelbiecht on gurtar mandola. and \ou'\.e got the core band. formed back in 198)? ~— but to Edinburgh thex bring their expanded six-strong line-up. 'We are quite happy With the sound now' saxs Ulrika. ‘We have worked at rt. rehearsed a lot. because w insanted to stay true to the acoustic nature of our traditional music — e\ en when we write our own lyrics to old tunes. or new tunes to beautiful old words — but it's also good for bigger events to have the power of bass and drums.“ And it's their success at marrying the old and the new that now takes them round the world — they are big in Japan!
'We really love traditional music] Ulrika inSists. 'That's what we all play. and plzh in other groups and with other people. but Banar'im is the main band for all of us. and in Ranarim we also feel able to change the musrc. play around with it. and aim e somewhere new. It works because we trust each other's taste.‘ iNor'man Chalmersi
Mingling with Arab Strap is more than likely to leave you with a stinking hangover. . . but it can also lead to veritable indie stardom, as three quarters of Sons and Daughters have recently proved. And regular ‘Strap touring string player cum ldlewild, Reindeer Section and Mogwai musician Jenny Reeve hopes the same will happen with her latest four-piece
It has also left you with a musical CV most people would kill for, crammed full of bands aplenty. Talking of which, whatever happened to Eva?
we treat these forthcoming dates with Babygod as Reeve‘s official launch? - e ."i no”.
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INDIE POD LE TIGRE one Oran Mor, Glasgow, Fri 18 Mar
Last night Le Tigre saved H‘y life . . . No matter how the week may have trodden you down. a FHUZI‘) night spent in the conipani, of the world's premier all-girl electro-punk ftili‘lltlSI dance band ceiints as a remedy in anyone's book. Synchronised dance routines. cartoons on the big screen at the back of the stage and home-made pink superhero outfits all-inclusive. if the Libertines ifOr examplei had taken a leaf out Of Le T's book they wooid still be together today. And never would have been crap. Fending Off the rniSConception that feminist H‘CémS snarling and serious. Kathleen Hanna rex-Bikini Killr. Johanna Fateri‘ait and JD Samson are abort the most fun you can have in public. with or without drugs. Samson — in ilTTDTQSSI‘JBII’ convincing Sparks-rii0ustached drag ~ swept the others off their feet during the itch, -footed cover of the Peinter Sisters' 'l'rh So EXCrted'. '.‘/hli€‘ their heliur“- :oced aftthelt‘ 'Decaptacon' did the same for us art. It ferhinism's this much fun, ‘.-.rnere do I sign up? 'DaWd Pellocki
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Universal Bar, Glasgow, Thu 17 Mar
This monthly event gives a dozen aspirhg singers the chance to hone their craft in front of a friend“, and receptive audience. Debbie Sabin is a GtmanUve songstress with big and distinctive tones — somet-ihere between Brork and Billie
reheat. that iS’. Seng Choices .vere traotiona‘. though not 'trad' — think EHa
F:tzgerai‘rl ().' Peg}, Lee and far the male ~.oi_:aiists. Sinatra (glare Dal‘, opened with a plaintim Gaeliri air, about “be low)!» gir' milking :‘ows' but her vOlSKfl of Wawe Shorter's iotsteps' was (IBCKICUI‘, rrrodern
It was left to cohost Sue MitHugh to round proceedings off. announcmg sorriething experimental" to oohs and ahs from the audience, It wasn't a free jazz noisefest. rather Gerschwm's ‘Sorrtebody Loves Me' With two (count ‘emi tricky tempo changes. but, like even/thing else tonight, it werked perfectly. {Miles O'Toole)
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THE ERRORS «o Barfly, Glasgow, Tue 15 Mar
Fresher than a mountain daisy eating a packet of Refreshers. the Errors are the latest signing to Mogwai's Bock Action imprint and this brief and charmineg stilted set shows all that's good about rhiXing churitering. unpredictable analogisms With rushes ( f those guitar lines their bosses made so potent. lhe evening :8 visited by the obligator/ gremlins: corrtputers crash and the trio's nonchalance soon turns to silences like those on an awkward first date. Sort out tr e tech and they'll have it made.
M855 spent years working out how to get their eartnouake-inSide-a-church organ sound from turntable to stage and it shows. Rather than painstakingly reproducing the studio recordings the/“re built their plaintive. textured erectronica into a menaCing rock beast. Usmg this old-fashioned seiution to a thoroughly modern problem, main brain Anthony Gonzalez leads his gurtar quartet mtn vrgOur, coming over like Swemeo’river playing Boards of Canada. The effect is dynamic. bob and breathtaking. (Mark Robertsoni
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