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Hog The Stage have been running a competition to find an unsigned band to win a slot at the world-famous Edinburgh Hogmanay party. The entries are now all in - these are our favourites.
It's easy for amateur gentleman music writers like me to dismiss bands like Come On Gang! as somehow lightweight, mere flashes in the musical pan, small if shiny parts of the city's musical tapestry. Some might pooh-pooh the whole caper on that sort of basis, move on, and go hunting for something more worthy. Me, I say they're like sequins - without them, things are just plain fucking boring.
It's becoming weird, reviewing
Come On Gang! shows. I stumbled across them by total accident a while back, and since I really, really liked them back then, I think I might now be getting a bit snow-blind and maternal when it comes to trying to be objective and all that guff. Essentially, I'm worried I might have completely crossed the line between "Hey, here's a band I like, and here are the reasons...
It's been a while since I last saw Come On Gang back at the start of the year - since then, they've been to SXSW, played a bundle of decent support slots, and got a new cheerful and mohican-ed bassist called Rob. Tonight's eight-song set doesn't go anywhere new song-wise, with new-ish ones Red Fred and Santa Maria being the only two tracks not off the setlist from last year, but they seem to...