EVER GONE TO A concert, got stuck at the back hardly able to see the stage, thinking that in spite of the ongoing rock'n'roll situation you'd rather be at home listening to the same songs on record? This was the Throwing Muses gig at the Calton Studios. Despite some snappy pop from the Real Ramona I left early, cheered somewhat by the Tony Iommi haircut of the bassist in Anastasia Screamed.
There in three sentences is my review of Throwing Muses from 1991. This was published in TLN (Tennents Live News) a free music magazine that ran for a few years alongside the brewers support for live music in Scotland at the time. I believe the Calton Studios benefitted from that investment. The section 'Short Lives' featured readers reviews of gigs limited to 60 words - I appear to have taken that quite literally unlike some of the other writers. I was surprised reading that I'd left early but I do remember being right up the back with limited views of the stage despite my height. I can only think that my girlfriend couldn't see a thing and that was a big factor in the early exit. I still have and listen to the Real Ramona and I do have the Anastasia Screamed album 'Laughing Down the Limehouse' (it kinda sounds like their name). I've since seen Kristin Hersh twice and stayed until the end both times.
Thanks to Edinburgh Gig Archive for the image edinburghgigarchive.com And Thanks to TLN for the original publication. Note: perhaps bizarrely at the time of LeithNotes re-publication of this review the issue of TLN in which it features was available on Ebay for £9.99!
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