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Preview: The Sounds

The Sounds: The Liquid Room

With more celebrity friends than you can shake a stick at, and bringing Scandinavia's take on new-wave to this year's T on the Fringe ...

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Kaiser Chiefs preview

Kaiser Chiefs: Meadowbank Stadium

“When we used to play support slots, our philosophy was always: ‘let’s nick the other band’s fans’"

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Stephen Fretwell

Stephen Fretwell: The Liquid Room

It’s Fretwell’s refreshingly old school approach to performance that really thrills

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Jamie T

Jamie T: The Liquid Room

The gig equivalent of a frantic shag in an alleyway

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Preview: The Shins

The Shins: Edinburgh Corn Exchange

Their trademark sound lies in James Mercer’s weightless voice, which soars over a rich guitar-pop landscape

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Lau

Lau: Acoustic Music Centre @ St Brides

A consummate display of folk musicianship

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Meow Meow

Meow Meow in Beyond Glamour: The Absinthe Tour: The Spiegel Garden

Perfect slapstick with a virtuosic broken cabaret routine and an utterly magnificent voice

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Highly Strung?

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain: Assembly @ The Queen's Hall

The brilliance of these ukulele mentalists is made immediately clear through the contrast between their black tie dress and musical absurdity

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Karbido

The Table (Stolik): Assembly Aurora Nova

Ever wondered what a razor blade striking a wooden table sounds like?

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Tom Russell

Tom Russell and Michael Martin: Acoustic Music Centre @ St Brides

This is a man in fear as he approaches sixty and Armageddon is coming one way or the other, either by god’s hand or our own

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Camille - La Fille du Cirque

Camille - La Fille Du Cirque: The Spiegel Garden

By performing male-authored songs, she subtly shifts their emphasis

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Duke Special

Duke Special: The Liquid Room

It’s not every night that an old man beats a cymbal so hard with an egg whisk that he loses balance and falls off a stage. Then again, it&rsq...

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Steve Adey @ The Underbelly

Underbelly Live @ Underbelly: Underbelly

After a short technical delay, local acoustic singer-songwriter Emily Scott opens the night with some understated but intriguing balladry. Breaking...

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James

A full blown rejuvenation of the soul

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Mikelangelo

Mikelangelo - The Nightingale of the Adriatic: The Spiegel Garden

Greeted with a roar of applause and winning laughs with every comb of his hair, it is clear that Mikelangelo has won his audience over before the d...

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Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer: The Spiegel Garden

Possibly the most "Fringe" act at the Festival

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Silent Disco @ McEwan Hall

Silent Disco - Visual Galaxy: McEwan Hall

The premise: plonk 1000 of the young and the beautiful in Edinburgh's majestic McEwan Hall, give them all a set of headphones, spin some serious beats into their grateful ears and wait for them to party away in the silence

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Orkestra Del Sol

Orkestra Del Sol: The Spiegel Garden

Orkestra Del Sol's triumphant and flamboyant return to the "Seagull Tent" is a joy to behold

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Isobelle Campbell & Mark Lanegan

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan: The Liquid Room

Every yin needs a yang...

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