Rendezvous with a Satellite

by Mark on Thursday, 2nd July, 2009 at 12:53 am

My band, Arbelos, has been making a slow tour this year. We started in Dumfries back in April and performed in Edinburgh last month. This month we are making our way into outer space from the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow. This is the venue for the Satellite 2 Science Fiction Convention and Arbelos will be playing at the Dead Laika Party on Sunday 26th July.

The weekend of the convention follows on from the actual date of the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11′s lunar landing and the Apollo programme will be one of the themes of the convention. This makes it an ideal venue to continue touring Arbelos’ new suite of Songs Of Apollo’s Children. We also get to play Sunjammer to Colin McInnes, Glasgow’s own designer of solar-sailed spacecraft.

I plan to be there for the full weekend and flog some CDs to help pay for the gig. Noel and Ken will arrive on the Sunday with the PA and other heavy equipment necessary to launch Arbelos towards the Moon.

You can keep posted on the Arbelos Tour Of The Worlds over at the band website (http://www NULL.arbelos NULL.eu). The convention has its own site (http://www NULL.satellite2 NULL.org NULL.uk/?page=home) and you can sign up there for a very reasonable rate.

Twitt