More on that gig on 19th September. It’s at 8 pm, in the White Horse, Canongate, and it’ll focus on Venus’s travels (hence Venus in Orbit). Unfortunately Kirsti Wishart can’t make it this time, but our other regular reader, Halsted M Bernard, is going to do an extra shift with the spoken word pieces. She’s fresh from being the star of the Illicit Ink Unbound show at the Book Festival, so we’re very lucky to have her.

There’ll be new songs, newly-discovered fragments of Venus’s life story, and even a prize draw where you can win your very own Venus Carmichael mug – all for the tiny admission fee of £4/£3 concession. So come on down – what else will you be doing on a Saturday night in mid-September, when Bake Off’s not on and the Voice hasn’t started up yet?

Stand by for more news of a mysterious Venus-related find in an Edinburgh record shop…

Hi y’all,

So Tribute to Venus has been quiet of late – too much of life getting in the way of both of us making music the way we’d want! – but tomorrow night, Thursday, you can catch us at Clerk’s Bar, South Clerk Street, at the open mic from 10 onwards. We hope to pop up at a few of these kind of things in the coming months, to try to spread the Gospel of Venus, although we also plan to do some ‘proper’ gigs of our own soon…

In the meantime, if you’re on Edinburgh’s South side and fancy popping in for a chat, we’d love to see you!

Hi everyone, just to let you know that the bonus track you get when you order our EP, ‘Wedding Dress,’ is now up for a listen on Soundcloud. It’s demo quality, but we’re pretty pleased with it – and it turned out to be a favourite with some from our gig at the White Horse. Remember, sign up to our Facebook page or give us your email address, and you get the track ‘Highway Tonight’ from the EP absolutely free!

We’re hoping to do some low-level appearances at open mic nights and such over the next few weeks – maybe see you there!

https://soundcloud.com/tribute-to-venus/wedding-dress

Venus herself seems to contact us in mysterious ways. She still has her associates in Edinburgh – in particular, a former clothes shop owner known in her blog only as Farrago Man – and, every so often, a cassette tape arrives at Kelly’s house with some songs. Recorded in what sounds like rudimentary conditions on acoustic guitar, they’re not on any of her records, but the voice is unmistakeable.

We like to think these unmarked packages of cassette tapes mean she’s had word back about us, and she approves enough to give her some of her unreleased material.

Wherever you are, Venus, thanks, peace and love!

The latest tape – with ten all new songs – arrived just before Xmas. It’s marked ‘Tape #9,’ as you’ll see from the picture. So far, we’ve had Tapes # 1, 4, 5 and now 9…

We hope to do justice to some of these new songs, both live and in the studio, as soon as we can.