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player Leo McCann also decided to leave at the same time. It can often spell the end for a band, but Malinky opted instead to re-group around the remaining original members, Steve Byrne and Mark Dunlop, and added singer and cellist Fiona Hunter and Liverpool-born Ewan MacPherson to the line-up alongside former Burach fiddler Jon Bews. They band celebrated the transition with a big show at Celtic Connections in 2005, featuring all of the then- current and former members, and have forged ahead since, absorbing further changes in personnel around the core trio of Byrne, Dunlop and Hunter. (Kenny Mathieson) ■ Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s, 346 1405, 27 Aug, 9pm, £10 (£8).
PREVIEW PRESTON REED Under the hammer
Guitarist Preston Reed is a dazzling exponent of the guitar technique broadly known as ‘hammering-on’, a percussive method of playing on the neck that looks as impressive as it sounds. You can get a flavour from his CDs, but there is no substitute for the visual as well as audible impact of seeing him do it live. Reed has recalled that he felt he had
reached a plateau in his John Fahey and Leo Kottke-influenced finger- picking style back in 1988, and felt
limited as both player and composer — ‘I had started to feel like the guitar was telling me what to do, and I wanted to be running the show.’ He had seen some other players
using the hammering-on technique, guys like Stanley Jordan, Jeff Healey and Eddie Van Halen, and decided to do a little experimenting with the idea of playing ‘guitar and drums at the same time’. Two decades on, his genre-crossing music is remarkable, and not just for its dazzling technique. (Kenny Mathieson) ■ Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s, 346 1405, 29 Aug, 9pm, £12 (£10).
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Camille O’Sullivan: the Dark Angel For every fly-by- night that comes to
Edinburgh in August and picks up the awards, TV contracts, films scripts and buggers off to their newly purchased castle on a tax haven Caribbean island, others do some sweating for their rep and Camille O’Sullivan stands alongside the likes of Russell Brand and Rhys Darby, as Fringe veterans who’s repeat visits have paid dividends. O’Sullivan’s 2009 has been one of Time Out magazine covers and Later . . . with Jools Holland appearances and her smoky style — Broadway via the Reeperbahn and the back streets of Dublin — is finally getting the sizeable crowds it rightly deserves. ■ Assembly Hall, 623 3030, until 31 Aug, 10pm, £15–17.50.
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