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<\/p>\nLIVE REVIEW & INTERVIEW | LOGAN\u2019S CLOSE w\/ Sarah Shaun | LEITH CRICKET CLUB, EDINBURGH | 21st May 2026<\/p>\n
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Rating: 5 out of 5.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs that mine?\u201d Scott asked, pointing at a Tennent\u2019s can on the stage floor at Leith Cricket Club. Room full of folk who knew the answer. That\u2019s Logan\u2019s Close. Silly and right and local in a way that doesn\u2019t need explaining.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d caught him outside earlier, having a smoke between soundcheck and doors. Asked him about the Crazy George\u2019s line in \u2018Hot Blondes in Your Area Tonight\u2019. My dad spotted it first \u2014 we listen to their album Heart Shaped Jacuzzi in the car and when it hit he said \u201cthat\u2019s Crazy George\u2019s, man, that\u2019s Crazy George\u2019s.\u201d The furniture shop in Wester Hailes that\u2019s long gone now, but everyone from there knows it. Changed to Bright House later, had one at Westside Plaza.<\/p>\n
Scott wrote the whole song about his dad sitting in his flat in Murrayburn Gardens. The couch, the telly, the fridge, the washing machine, all from Crazy George\u2019s, all on tick. He didn\u2019t pay any of it off. \u201cSo they came round and took all of his couches and his telly and his washing machine off him because he didn\u2019t pay. He had all of his shit on deck and then just took it off.\u201d Big silver box telly appeared in 2002, Scott\u2019s dad proud of it, then down the line Crazy George\u2019s wanting their telly back.<\/p>\n
I was doing exactly what the song describes when my dad pointed it out. Sitting about Wester Hailes. Waiting. That\u2019s what pushed me to start writing. To stop waiting.<\/p>\n
Scott didn\u2019t know that when I asked him outside. He just told me about his dad, about the flat, about the repossessions. But that\u2019s what the song does. It names the place and the people in it, and if you\u2019re from there you recognize yourself.<\/p>\n
Now they\u2019re going to London in July to record album two. Middle of July. This gig \u2014 first of two sold out nights \u2014 was the fundraiser. Getting the songs gig-ready so they\u2019re not wasting studio time like last time. \u201cBecause I think last time when we recorded we were a bit like\u2026 we knew the tunes but not really. We still had to do quite a lot of work in the studio which ate into quite a lot of time. You want to try and be as efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The week before this gig they played HMP Addiewell. Category A. Maximum security. Stuart \u2014 the bassist, who builds office chairs for a living \u2014 was in there the same day working. Didn\u2019t know the band were playing until Scott mentioned it. They were Googling the place on the drive over: \u201cWhat\u2019s the chat with this place, because obviously it\u2019s like West Lothian so it cannae be that bad.\u201d Found out it was high security. Fingerprints required. Pat-downs in a wee private room, Scott with massive sweat patches before he even got inside.<\/p>\n
The sound engineer who recorded one of their earlier tunes, \u2018Ticket Man\u2019, works there now. He built a wee stage in the room, got beanbags in there, boys not handcuffed. Midday. Two acoustic sets.<\/p>\n
Scott and Carl sitting with their legs crossed, looking out at a room full of bald heads and legs spread wide. \u201cI noticed when we were on stage\u2026 they\u2019re all sitting there like fucking legs as wide as fuck\u2026 and I\u2019m sitting there with my legs crossed\u2026 we\u2019re the only ones with our legs crossed.\u201d<\/p>\n
They played \u2018Gouch\u2019. Scott told the crowd: \u201cThis song\u2019s about my sister.\u201d Someone shouted back, start of the first chorus: \u201cWho\u2019s your fucking sister?\u201d<\/p>\n
They thought the boys would go mental for Johnny Cash covers. They went mental for the original stuff instead. Attentive. No one making noise while they were playing. Got it recorded. The sound engineer\u2019s gonna mix it.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe and Carl met at football club in Dunbar when we were like eight\u201d Scott said. \u201cStarted the band in 2014. Multiple lineups over the years \u2014 they had a really jazzy drummer one time, really jazzy keys player, so the sound was different. This version\u2019s been solid for three or four years \u2014 Scott and Carl on guitars and vocals, Stuart on bass, and Gavin Lamont on drums holding down the core. The Raeburn brothers joined on keys late last year. First gig with Stu was 2021, at the Battery in Dunbar. 150 folk there.\u201d<\/p>\n
During lockdown I was staying at a caravan park with my family. Pheasants walking about. Stuart was talking about being in a caravan too, writing tunes every day and walking his dog. I misheard him say \u201cwrote tunes\u201d as \u201croaches\u201d and had to ask him to repeat it.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe and Carl used to underage drink at the same place\u201d Scott said. Different years, same park. First place I got served, I told him. First place he bought fags, he said \u2014 they had a wee machine, no one stopped him, 15 years old.<\/p>\n
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Credits \u2013 Kasia Pisarka<\/p>\n
Inside Leith Cricket Club the heat was baking by the time doors opened.<\/p>\n
My mum, dad, and sister came. The room filled fast.<\/p>\n
My sister was 110 percent sure she\u2019d bought tickets back in March. Turned out she hadn\u2019t, and we weren\u2019t on the list. Had to find Carl, sort it at the door. Shout out to the doorman and the band for getting us in.<\/p>\n
Sarah Shaun opened. Trancy, dream pop, proper emotionally direct sound. My mum and sister started dancing. I joined them.<\/p>\n
Then Logan\u2019s Close. Scott in a cowboy hat someone handed him from the crowd. Buckfast on stage. Girls chanting Westside Plaza. Crowd shouting for \u2018Touching on the 33\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are gonna play a lot of new tunes for you guys,\u201d Scott said at the start.<\/p>\n
They debuted a song about playing late-night acoustic sets at Whistlebinkies as the Scat Rats, their acoustic duo. Proper standout. I shouted \u201cthat\u2019s a fucking tune\u201d when it ended. Scott shouted back something about being in love with me, called me a paid stooge. Hope that\u2019s one of the first new ones they release.<\/p>\n
Another new one called \u2018Cuckchair\u2019 \u2014 funny name, absolute tune, need to hear it again to say more but it\u2019s got something. One with the line \u201cI wish I was a stoner but I\u2019m an alcoholic,\u201d delivered like a confession that got a laugh because it landed true. \u2018Northern English Girls\u2019 \u2014 \u201cDon\u2019t you hate it when you fall for a northern English girl,\u201d Scott said before it. \u201cDidn\u2019t end great but got a song out of it, wayyyy.\u201d Heartbreak as a punchline, then playing the song anyway. The Raeburn brothers holding it down on keys, the sound fuller and tighter than Heart Shaped Jacuzzi.<\/p>\n
The new material sounded different live. Looser, more like performance pieces than recordings. The kind of songs that need a room to make sense. Carl and Scott\u2019s vocals were the best I\u2019ve heard them, bigger, more confident, feeding off each other. The crowd got behind the new tunes almost instantly, singing along to songs they\u2019d never heard before just by listening. <\/p>\n
On the Whistlebinkies song the whole room was with them by the second chorus. The Raeburn brothers on keys make this feel like a complete lineup now, settled and ready. This is a band made for a bigger stage. Leith Cricket Club was the start of the next wave.<\/p>\n
Ridiculous song titles, silly personalities, banter that never stops. Then the lyrics land and the emotional depth was there the whole time. Not sadness, belonging. Recognition. Songs that name the place and the people in it<\/p>\n
The band were struggling with the heat. You could see it. Didn\u2019t taint the show they put on.<\/p>\n
Scott asked: \u201cYou guys ready?\u201d The crowd cheered. \u201cNo, fucking youse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Near the end: \u201cWe got like two more songs. But pretend this is the last.\u201d The crowd bowed jokingly. They played three more. The crowd chanted \u201cwan mare tune\u201d three times. Scott leaned in: \u201cWas that no anuff?\u201d<\/p>\n
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Credits \u2013 Kasia Pisarka<\/p>\n
They closed with \u2018Half & Half\u2019. The whole room sang it back at them. Not just the chorus \u2014 every word. I could see my dad across the room. He caught the Crazy George\u2019s line first, months ago in the car. Now he\u2019s watching me shout these lyrics at a gig I\u2019m covering. That\u2019s what stuck. A fanbase that knows every line, that spans generations, that means it when they sing it back.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t enough. It never is with this band.<\/p>\n
Carl and Scott have this swagger that feels purposeful and awkward at the same time, like they know exactly what they\u2019re doing but aren\u2019t taking it that seriously. You can hear the Merseybeat and British invasion influences in there \u2014 60s baroque reworked with scorching guitar riffs and a modern edge. Bridging the gap between early rock vitality and what\u2019s happening now, without feeling like they\u2019re trying too hard to do either.<\/p>\n
Album two\u2019s being recorded in London in July. The new songs are ready. The fanbase is growing, loyal, cult-like in the best way. This is a night out in Edinburgh. This is the music scene. Five stars. Six if I could.<\/p>\n
Half the interview had to be censored, but just know these boys are hilarious, got stories for days, and the talent to back it up.<\/p>\n
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