Robbie Lesiuk

An eventful weekend in Inverness last month resulted in the following:

After the bar staff made a couple of phone calls, we eventually sourced another PA with which to finish the gig. It just so happened to belong to a band whose guitarist hails from Falkirk originally and used to play in a band with me. What a small world it is.

The reason I am babbling on about this now, is that I finally replaced the mixer today with a shiny new one. I am sure for the professional audio experts out there, it’s not the kind of high quality, highly expensive equipment they would recommend, but we were paying for it ourselves and I am sure it will do the job fine.

Zoey Van Goey are a band based in Glasgow, with songs so catchy that I still can’t get them out of my head despite it being a couple of months since I saw them play live.

When I was playing with YIFI, Zoey Van Goey, Alan Bissett and ourselves embarked upon a short tour, which was frankly brilliant. Four nights straight of the Zoey’s tunes being beamed into my brain has left an indelible mark and a bit of a craving for more.

Luckily for me, that craving will be quenched shortly when they release their debut single. In fact, it’s already on their myspace page for a preview listen and I have had it on in the background almost constantly since I noticed.

Go and listen for yourself: http://myspace.com/zoeyvangoey, then once you are hooked like me, go along to their single launch night and buy a copy. I am so keen to go, that despite playing a gig in Motherwell on the same night, I am going to drive like a maniac up the M74 as soon as I get off-stage in the hope of catching at least the end of their set.