Snakeskin Shoe Review

A rare appearance for us in Edinburgh - come and see us alongside singer songwriter Pete Kavanagh and Chris Finegan

On Saturday 13th May we played the Gentle Giant Music Festival in Forth, Lanarkshire. Stuart Brodie is a bit of a veteran of the festival there but the rest of us didn't really know what to expect (and on or two had to be shown were it was on a map). I have to be honest, Forth was for me a place I would drive through on the way south and not somewhere i would have considered as having a vibrant music scene. 

We were more than a little surprised by what we found.
 

The venue was larger and well set up - we were second on but by the time we did the venue was already filling up nicely. The PA was well set up and the sound from our side of the stage was pretty good - in the end we had a blast  - as these photos hopefully show.

Photos Courtesy of Lesley-Anne Young Photography and Gentle Giant Music Festival.

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I am bone and I am teeth 
I’ve been running with the beasts 
I could kill you in your sleep 
Close your eyes, my darling. 

As cruel as frost, as fat as sun 
The fox and I are on the run 
You bring your hounds, you bring your gun 
Who captures who, my darling 

Alls fair in love and war 
But it’s not And 
Its either/or 

I am sister to the moon 
She says the big days coming soon 
I hold the Earth, you’ve one platoon 
War is over, my darling. 

I know the power rests in me 
Makes it frightening to be free  
I’m sleeping with the enemy 
Close your eyes, my darling

Nice photos by Michael Cochrane of Snakeskin Shoe Review at the Purple Orange last week. No sound check for five instruments and four vocals plus only one overwhelmed monitor made it a real trial for the more sophisticated parts of the band, but the big messy noise still seemed appreciated and the point, for me at least, was to get out and exist.