The Skinny & Ten Tracks Birthday Party

We're turning four this October, so come out and stay up way past your bedtime

Article by Chris Duncan | 10 Sep 2009

Shameless self promotion? Yes. Worth getting excited about? Most certainly. The very magazine you hold in your hands turns four years old in October, whilst Ten Tracks turns one, which makes us a couple of infants. Walking shakily, drooling, talking with minimum coherency, these are all traits the The Skinny's editorial staff will surely display come the anniversary bash. But the acts on show are the main selling point. Confirmed acts include:

The Blessings (live)
Meursault (live)
RBRBR (live)
Over the Wall (live) 

Slabs of the Tabernacle DJs
Radio Magnetic DJs
Men and Machines
Astroboy
David Barbarossa
Huntly and Palmers Audio Club

Meursault's album received critical acclaim across the board and they have been described as "one of the country’s most promising new bands - a group who in the wondrously evocative Pissing On Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues have created one of Scotland’s records of the year".

David Barbarossa of Curious Curious and Damaged Goods will be teaching the kids a long-overdue lesson in the finest kraut, funk, disco and anything else that is good and available on vinyl. Joining him will be Andrew Thomson of Huntleys and Palmers Audio Club, following a similar manifesto of high quality music, unrestrained by genre.

Italo disco and all related cosmic sounds will be provided by Slabs of the Tabernacle, fresh from their newly found home at Universal, while Brian D'Souza could play, well, anything he damn well pleases. Fingers crossed for an acid set.
All this and more artists in the pipeline yet to be announced over the coming weeks. Bouncy castle, paper hats, sweets and piñatas filled with amyl nitrate included in the ticket price.

The Arches, 10 Oct, £7.