Heylo, Hope all’s going well! Just a wee note to say there’s another Edinburgh gig in March – on Saturday 24th, supporting Graeme’s (formerly of The Kays Lavelle) new project, Bad Books. It’s at Sneaky Pete’s in the Cowgate. More specifics, etc. when they’re confirmed. Andyx
Northern Noise gig in Manchester
Hello, As you may have seen, we’re in Manchester at the Castle Hotel pub this weekend to play a Northern Noise gig, their first ever night in fact, so it should be pretty special! The line-up for the evening is Narwhals, ourselves and headliners Hhymn who are on a wee tour ahead of their album launch in May. There are a … Read More
Christmas gig at Sneaky Pete’s
Hello, We’ll be having a Christmas shindig again this year! This time in Edinburgh (Facebook RSVP here). On Saturday December 17th, we’re playing a full band show at Sneaky Pete’s, along with Alan Oates of Little Pebble fame, who’ll be performing under his distortion-tinged band project The Oates Field, they released a great album Wild Oates this year! Also joining … Read More
Roundhouse Radio/AWAL On Air session
Andy recently nipped in to Roundhouse Radio (photographic evidence below) to have a wee chat with the lovely Grace Huber, presenter of the AWAL On Air radio show – a new Roundhouse Radio/AWAL collaboration. They talked about songwriting, Fuzzy Star and being on the AWAL compilation ‘We Are Folk Vol 1‘ that came out last week. He also played a few … Read More
We Are Folk
The artist-friendly folks at AWAL are putting out a digital compilation featuring a selection of folky and acousticy music on their digital distribution roster and Fuzzystar are on it. Called We Are Folk Vol 1., Late Night Radio from our acousticy EP of the same name ends the compilation of ten tracks nestling alongside artists including The Bonfire Band, Passenger, … Read More
Ides of Toad on Saturday
Hello, Apologies for the slight radio silence. There’s been one of those tedious post-festival/away on holiday/back from holiday but now ill lulls around here of late… now broken by: The Ides Of Toad Organised and ran by Matthew of the Edinburgh based Song By Toad website/label, this next Saturday (Oct 1st) there’ll be a Fuzzystar contingent supporting the highly recommended … Read More
New Edinburgh show. Manchester postponed.
Hello, BAD NEWS: Unfortunately our Soup Kitchen gig on September 1st has had to be postponed. We’re working on a new date and will hopefully have that confirmed pretty soon. Thankfully followed by… GOOD NEWS: Andy and Malcolm will be supporting Foon Yap from (of Woodpigeon fame) when she brings her Foon Yap and The Roar band to Edinburgh this coming … Read More
Festibelly Festival this weekend
We’ll be at Festibelly 2011 this coming weekend. On Saturday we’re heading down to the New Forest for a set in the Autumn Shift tent. We’re going to be on sometime late afternoon, follow us on Twitter (@Fuzzystar) and we’ll post exact timing nearer the weekend. Facebook event for the Autumn Shift tent here. Festibelly 2011 website.
Standon Called…
We’re back home and fighting off one of those post-Festival illness things you sometimes get, possibly from subsisting purely on Guinness and crisps for several days. Thank you to everyone who came along to see us open the Autumn Shift stage on Friday night and spoke to us over the weekend, we had a blast! The rest of our weekend … Read More
Playing Lach’s Antihoot
This coming Friday (August 5th), Andy’s playing one of the slots at Lach’s Antihoot at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Kicking things off at midnight he’ll be doing a couple of songs at the start of three hours of pretty much anything goes, from comedy to dance, spoken word, magic and performance art. Facebook event here. Lach used to run now … Read More