Scotland’s Frightened Rabbit played another excellent show in San Diego on November 5, less than six months from their previous date at the Casbah.
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Scotland’s Frightened Rabbit played another excellent show in San Diego on November 5, less than six months from their previous date at the Casbah.
Continue reading ‘Review: Frightened Rabbit; November 6, 2008; U31, San Diego’
Frightened Rabbit is one of the best bands out there that you can still see in a small club. They’re comprised of two brothers and two multi-instrumentalists: singer/songwriter/guitarist/whisky sipper Scott Hutchison, his brother Grant (who destroys drumsticks and provides vocal harmonies), and Billy Kennedy and Andy “Medusa” Monaghan who both alternate on keys, guitar, and bass.
Legend has it that as a kid, Scott was compared to a Frightened Rabbit for his lack of social skills, but you wouldn’t know it from this show. Hutchison’s between-song banter was often hilarious and he showed no shortage of the fabled Scottish charm; he even exuded silliness as he discussed a “plectrum” (pick) that someone had given him.
Continue reading ‘Review: Frightened Rabbit; June 23, 2008; Casbah, San Diego’
Scotland-based Frightened Rabbit mix folk, punk, and pop into a wonderfully Indiemotional brew.