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LIVE DATES
Upcoming...

9 October: Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh
(supporting The Aliens)


Recent...

13 September: The Box, Glasgow
12 September: Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
11 September: Deaf Institute, Manchester
10 September: Porter's Bar, Bath
9th September: Monto Water Rats
8th September: Sanctuary Cella, Brighton
7th September: Joiners, Southampton
6th September: G Fest, Grantham
28th August: Borderline, London****
25th August: Southbound Sessions, Edinburgh

17 July: Beanscene, Stirling
16 July: Beanscene, St Andrews
10 July: Beanscene, Hawick
9 July: Beanscene, Leith
3 July: Beanscene, Ayr
13 June: Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
6 June: The Meadows Festival, Edinburgh
4/5 June: GoNorth Festival, Dundee
29 May: Herriott Watt Students Union, Edinburgh
6 May: Liquid Room, Edinburgh

5 May (day): Ripon Beer Festival

5 May (night): Matrix, Ripon*

11 April: Dry Bar, Manchester
10 April: Industry, London
9 April: Sanctuary Cella, Brighton
8 April: The Ark, Edinburgh
8 March: Leith FM Session
6 March: Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh**
29 February: Cannonsgait, Edinburgh
11 February: Soho Revue Bar, London***
7 February: Mono Bar, Birmingham
6 February: Joseph's Well, Leeds
5 February: Troubadour, London
4 February: The Ark, Edinburgh

* supporting Mull Historical Society
**supporting Sandi Thom
*** supporting Oh Laura

**** supporting Tom McRae

 

 

PRESS

In due course we'll get the propoer excerpts from all the magazines and itnerviews together. In the meantie, this is what's happened on the press front so far...

"...haunting melodic pop from the Edinburgh newcomer - hottest download of the week" The Sunday Times / "Why Alex Cornish isn't signed to a major label and being flown round the world in a big jumbo jet drinking champagne is beyond me' – Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music / "Amazing" Dermot O' Leary Radio 2 / 'This is amazing' [debut single] and the album is 'wonderful' - Jim Gellatly, XFM Scotland / “In the absence of any discernible musical talent, the dream for any music critic, especially at fanzine level, is to find that most elusive of things, which is an artist nobody else has heard about so you can proclaim them from the rooftops triumphantly. After years of searching and false starts, I’ve found him. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Alex Cornish – the man I’m putting my money on to be huge...he has created one of the best albums I have ever heard” - Tasty Fanzine / “Cornish is a bright songwriting talent with heaps of potential” - Music Week / “The album is an absolute belter” - Edinburgh Evening News / 'This is a truly brilliant album, I defy you not to love it, go out an buy it - 10/10” - The Beat Surrender / 'Surprising myself, I've discovered that it's really worth putting the time into this record. It may not be my sort of music but fuck me, he can really write a tune. There's a little twist in each song that is eminently sticky and eventually I found myself letting the songs slip, one by one, past my normally immaculate angsty indie-snob defences' - Song by Toad Fanzine / '...a thing of beauty, a work of total pleasure, a genuinely superb debut [album]...divine' - ToxicPete / ‘Cornish has carved out a tune-packed and memorable debut…a DIY gem’ - Is this music? Magazine / “Alex’s music has power, grace and a depth of emotion that one doesn’t always find in pop songs” – Matchbox / I was featured in the arts supplement in the Edinburgh Evening News "Scotland's answer to David Gray" and also the Scottish Sun / “Alex has the kind of press quotes that most DIY artists could only dream about getting, but this would mean little without the sterling quality of the work, which thankfully is as good as the press he’s generating...a polished talent” - Record of the Day. There's a lot more too...The List gave the album 3/5 and Drowned in Sound a healthy 7/10 - blimey...