This Sunday (21st October) come and check 12-string wizard Micah
Blue Smaldone who's come all the way from Portland, Maine, USA, and
is playing Henry's Cellar Bar (8 Morrison St, EH3 8BJ). Entry is £4
only for mailing-list members and friends (£5 otherwise).

There's a couple of tunes on his myspace page at
http://www.myspace.com/micahbluesmaldone, and he's even more amazing
live (some of you might have caught him at Henry's last year with
The Hub)... Support comes from The Bluesfather and Fiona Crawford (a
gal and her ukulele!), doors are 8pm and we'll start about 9pm, till
about 11.30pm / midnight.

Here's also one of the reviews of Micah Blue Smaldone's first album
(on Cerberus Shoal's label North East Indie), which should give you
a fair idea of what to expect:

"On his first solo CD, New England fingerpicker Micah Blue Smaldone
displays an impressive grasp of blues and ragtime guitar styles,
including the subtleties of melody and syncopation that elude many
players. Some Sweet Day is replete with guitar licks (played on a
Regal steel-bodied resonator) that should impress fans of
Mississippi John Hurt, John Jackson, Blind Boy Fuller, and Blind
Blake. Smaldone, who moonlights as a guitarist in several Boston
punk bands, wrote or arranged all but one of the CD's 14 tunes,
including "Across the Shore," modeled after Blake's blues playing in
the key of C, and the catchy instrumental rag "Ice Cream Socialist."
His rather mannered singing seems patterned after 1920s jazz
vocalists, minstrels, and songsters like Jimmie Rodgers. It's
startlingly old-fashioned and would be more jarring if Smaldone
didn't pull it off with such grace and depth of feeling." Ian Zack -
Acoustic Guitar magazine

Another gig not to be missed next week, for those who are into synth-
driven heavy rock, Liverpool outfit Kling Klang
(http://www.myspace.com/superposition) are playing at The Ark (3-7
Waterloo Place, East End of Princes St) next Friday (26th October),
with support from Glasgow's Titus Gein
(http://www.myspace.com/titusgein) and our local favourites Eunoia
(http://www.myspace.com/eunoiatheband).

Please note this gig is no longer at The Hive but at The Ark and
doors are 8pm, with tickets available on the door for £5 for mailing-
list members (£6 otherwise).