The fine people who organised the Sick Kids Sunday event in Edinburgh in January let us have some space to record some sessions that day. We recorded five sessions, including our last episode as well as Rob St. John and Men Diamler. Part 2, coming next week, will feature the last two bands we recorded that day. We were really happy to get sessions from these two while they were in Edinburgh for such a short time, and we felt they went well together.
First up is Rob St. John, former and future resident of Edinburgh, currently in exile studying in Oxford. He is joined for the first track, “The Acid Test” by a member of his band, Bart from eagleowl, on backing vocals. The second track, “An Empty House” is a brand new track. Both have that fine combination of hushed, fingerpicked guitar and Rob’s deep velvet vocal.
Next we have Men Diamler. Richard, as he is otherwise known, was kind enough to play us some tracks before he jumped on the overnight train towards the South of England to play a show the next day. We get one quiet country tinged new(ish) song in the form of May, and one bigger, more boisterous song in the form of “Black As A Cat In The Morning”, which towards the end literally had us stunned.
