Friday night isn’t just about De Rosa – it’s about Esperi and The WIldhouse too. It doesn’t seem that long ago that a gig would normally comprise just headliner + support – multi band bills were something of a rarity. Yet, by and large, of late I’ve found that I’ve enjoyed bills with 3 or 4 bands on and discovered a lot of interesting stuff.
So if you’re coming to see De Rosa on Friday I’d urge you to come along early and catch two very different bands. Here, in their own words, are who they are:
Esperi

MPT _ What are you up to?
Chris “we are up to lots , musically : writing new songs ,recording some ,playing all over Scotland especially in december and doing a few dates in Northern Ireland at the end of december /start of january . making an album .
“individually : Cat is working on her masters in art at duncan and jordanstone which involves a lot of sound art /experimental music ,her newest project is filming birds in flight and then using the footage to create a random piece of music from the patterns they make .
“Jon is performing with is side projects ‘bullet hell’ , ‘ violent jack off ‘and of course his solo work ‘Jon’ , and he also bakes .
“spit is writing and recording a lot of really good music for his solo project ‘nomogram’ , and has jury duty .
eilidh is, sadly for esperi, heading to the alps for snowboarding season but will be back in the spring .
chris is trying to make sure we’ve got somewhere to play and something to sing
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MPT – Any recordings?
C – “we have an e.p that seems to be selling quite well and we are recording at home just now , so far its sounding good , spit is the engineer , he’s doing a good job. Its a good atmosphere to have a home studio set up and its good not to have any time restrictions , and its a good thing to learn and understand ,and its good you can just play in you boxers .”
MPT _ What can people who don’t know you expect on Friday?
C – “if you ve not heard us you can probably expect to hear something quite well balanced , by that i mean we dont go too far in any one direction , we re song based but not in a singer songwriter way , we have some techy bits but we re not prog , some jazzy bits but not wank , folk but not tuchter ……. that kind of thing .”
MPT – What are you listenig to at the moment?
“im currently listening to my two dogs rolling around the living room with a ball he he , and dianogah’s ‘battle champions ‘ is on in the kitchen .”
Esperi – website - Myspace
The Wildhouse

what the band is up to is;
promoting our latest album – poet:saint, playing third on the bill everywhere we go, addressing adult literacy issues, coining new phrases (sample – “it’s melt, man!”), stripping indigenous peoples of their rights and property and looking forward to a frills free Christmas
plans for recording;
we have loose plans for recording and are currently in the process of recording our alter-ego band (the kafkas)’s album, which is essentially acoustic, the vibe is mellow but the mood is cruel
what can people expect from the wildhouse;
a brief history lesson in rock music posing as subversive art, the-wildhouse = sub-velvet-under-ground
what are we currently listening to;
peter wildhouse likes a great deal of wide and varied music, he is very cultured, sheila wildhouse can find merit in music played on the radio, she is very open-minded, recently i have been listening to buzzcocks, magazine, bad brains and the chocolate watch band, the only contemporary music i listen to is america’s wooden shjips and africa’s tinariwen