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Episode #1: Come On Gang
Welcome to Off The Beaten Tracks, a musical project set in unusual surroundings. In our first ever outing, we’re thrilled to show off the fizzing art-pop of one of Edinburgh’s finest new bands Come On...
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Episode #2: Team Turnip
For our latest session we took the many boys and girls of Team Turnip, gave them some fresh air and sunshine and watched their folky chamber pop blossom in the Edinburgh spring sun. We picked...
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Episode #3: Malcolm Middleton
It’s amazing the stuff you see when you get out of the city for a day. Open spaces, for example; birds of prey, epic views, rolling hills and clearer skies; and Malcolm Middleton in the loft of the...
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Episode #4: Slow Club
Our second Homegame session comes from Slow Club, Moshi Moshi signings and nicest-people-ever. Charles and Rebecca braved the icy Fife winds to record two songs for us at the end of the pier in...
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Episode #5: Frightened Rabbit
Something old, something new, something borrowed… Okay, we didn’t get anything blue, but in our latest session with the utterly marvellous Scott from Frightened Rabbit, we got the classic ‘Be Less...
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Episode #6: Honeytrap
Uncharacteristically blazing sun and the soft rolling Water Of Leith provided the backdrop to our latest excursion into the fresh air, this time accompanied by the delightful Honeytrap. Fresh(ish)...
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Episode #7: Jesus H. Foxx
The barmy and brilliant Jesus H. Foxx first ran into each other in 2007, as a four-piece. While the current count of band members now sits at an unwieldy seven, they’ve somehow tamed the early...
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Episode #8: The Thermals
Wow, we were excited about this one. For our first ever non-UK act, we managed to somehow persuade none less than The Thermals, Portland OR’s finest, to join us for some evening sunshine, some fairly...
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Episode #9: Randan Discotheque
We met Randan Discotheque three months ago to record this session. Due to some scheduling problems and technical difficulties it’s taken us till now to get it on the site. Forgive us. It’s been worth...
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Episode #10: FOUND (Feat. Cybraphon)
For our tenth session, we managed to get something a little bit special, the first performance of FOUND using their latest art installation, Cybraphon, as a backing band. Cybraphon is – by some...
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Episode #11: The Stormy Seas
We spoke to Stormy Seas a really long time ago, but life got in the way for us and them, and it took us till recently to organise a session. So on a very windy, sunny day, Stormy Seas took us up the...
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Episode #12: Blue Roses
We met Blue Roses after the soundcheck for their gig during the Edinburgh Festival. They were tired, hungry and hadn’t really known the session was happening until that morning due to some...
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Episode #13: Oxjam Edinburgh Preview
For those of you who know us in real life, this may come as a surprise, but we here at Off The Beaten Tracks are – honestly – good-natured souls really. So when the folk behind Oxjam Edinburgh came...
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Episode #14: Julia and the Doogans
We at OTBT suffer from a constant and terminal case of puppy-esque over-enthusiasm – in fact, that was how the whole thing started off. “Fancy putting a project together based around stuff we have...
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Episode #15: The Xcerts
Good things come to those who wait. We recorded this session way back in August, but for various reasons we’re only able to put it on the site now. The Xcerts are perhaps not the normal type of band...
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Episode #16: Allo Darlin’
While stormy weather pounds on the British Isles, we thought it was as good a time as any to finally get round to putting out our session with the charming Allo Darlin’. When confronted with chirpy...
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Episode #17: Frightened Rabbit vs. Meursault
Charity events can so easily become self-congratulatory, parochial and dumb; this one blew our damn socks off. Off the back of a fairly daft suggestion over some beer, came this, the singer from one...
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Episode #18: Moustache of Insanity
Moustache Of Insanity. Moustache. Of. Insanity. Say it out loud – go on – and then try to take it all seriously. Savour the feeling, the realisation that music is not necessarily there to be taken...
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Episode #19: Jeff Lewis
When we started this project, we were looking to find out what happened if we took artists we loved on record or on stage, and find out whether they would sound better, worse or different when taken...
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Episode #20: Amazing Baby
It wasn’t our fault. We know we said we’d take bands into interesting nooks and crannies, we know we said we’d make them do it acoustically, we know we said it would all be done in nice HD video… and...
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