We met Blue Roses after the soundcheck for their gig during the Edinburgh Festival. They were tired, hungry and hadn’t really known the session was happening until that morning due to some communication issues. However, they soldiered on with smiles on their faces and treated us to two songs before the heavens opened.
Due to time constraints and the fact that you can’t move in central Edinburgh during the festival without tripping over a tourist, we headed back to the same graveyard where we took The Thermals a couple of months before, albeit a different part of the huge site.
Blue Roses is the solo project of Laura Groves, but live she has a small band with her. Here we get two songs with Laura and Sadie, with drummer Josh sitting this one out.
The first track is Doubtful Comforts, the first single, released earlier in 2009. This version has less plink andplonk than the recorded version, but is every bit as warmly ethereal.
The second track we got, just in time, is Coast, . It’s difficult to see on the video, but about half way through the song, the Scottish summer weather (rain) kicked in, slowly getting heavier throughout the remainder of the song. The girls heroically kept going with a knowing grin to each other, impressing the foreign tourists who encountered more than they bargained for when they decided to have a nose round the historic site.
