The Roquefort Files

Last week kicked off with the annual Coba Fynn & Friends (post) Christmas Night Out at the Celtic Connections Festival Club. We assembled at Khublai Khan’s to gird our loins before heading along to the Central Hotel. This high concept, medium execution restaurant has always puzzled me a little. Call me a sceptic, but I’m [...]

The various members of Coba Fynn have been the pivots around which some of my more memorable nights out have eccentrically revolved. Chris presided over a number of noteworthy evenings back in our salad days, culminating one night in a Dantean descent to the lowest level of Espionage with a man named John who foamed [...]

Coba Fynn played Barfly again the other week, trying out a couple of new songs on a mostly unfamiliar audience (most of whom had been bussed in from Dunfermline to follow their leaders, Nine Circles and Val Verde) and with a secret weapon up our collective sleeves. Now you may remember we play the Liquid [...]

Ash & I spent a late Thanksgiving over at Jeff & Devon’s place on Friday night, where we were fed and watered in rather spectacular fashion. Brenna was over visiting* during a break from her trick riding gig at the circus, but rather than press her for anecdotes about clowns, horses or freak accidents involving [...]

let the band begin to play. In other words, the Coba Fynn demo is finally here and Davis has done astonishing work on it. Get it here!

I did nothing at the weekend. I’m glossing over a letterbox-eyed, four-hour Resident Evil 4 session (we had to break the TV in somehow, and MGS3 is just so dashed cerebral sometimes) but in effect, we wore a path from the couch to the kitchen and back for two days straight. Lofty plans of a [...]

Coba Fynn are back in action. Having said that, don’t bother clicking on that link just yet – our esteemed internet host switched us to a different server recently, breaking our site in the process. Normal service should be resumed in a day or two. Anyway, we managed a more productive return to form in [...]

So we played two gigs at the weekend: on Friday we opened at Fury Murry’s and on Sunday at the Universal. Friday was the 7th anniversary of the ‘Fynn’s first ever gig, and although we weren’t playing in the same place as we had done back in 2000, Coba Fynn had a long and illustrious [...]

Coba Fynn played the Liquid Ship on Thursday. We soundchecked and retired upstairs for an hour or so, then filtered back downstairs with Charlie’s massive entourage of medic mates as the hour drew near. Martin and I were hanging around near the door, waiting for the rest of the band to arrive, when I inadvertently [...]

Ash and I took advantage of the balmy weather on Saturday, promenading serenely through Inverleith Park and over to the Botanics, petting friendly dogs along the way. I remember walking through the “desert” glasshouse in the botanics a few years ago, standing on a yellow(ish) brick road with the Sahara behind me and Death Valley [...]