The Music Box is a state-of-the-art, music and performing arts centre based in the grounds of Stevenson College, Edinburgh.

Acoustically tuned and kitted out to industry-standard specifications, this striking facility offers excellent practice, recording and performance facilities to musicians, actors and dancers, which includes:

During the day our facilities are taken over by students but we also open up the space to paying customers between:

The Music Box offers a range of creative courses to pursue a career in the Creative Industries or evening and weekend courses to explore leisure and professional interests. If you are interesting in studying here you can find more information please visit www.stevenson.ac.uk . Oh and word of advice… be nice to the Music Box staff and you’ll go far!

Generally speaking the blog will be a mixed bag of…

Blurts
The blog will not be limited to small bands only we have heard of because where’s the fun in that? Expect us to cover well known bands and artists when we feel fanatical enough about getting our two cents in. We can be mouthy weirdos when we want to be but please don’t take it personally. It is all in jest, that’s just our humour. Seriously we spend all day making fun at each other. You should really see it as a compliment.  


Reviews
The gig reviews that we do cover will only be gigs we were actually going to go to regardless. So admittedly they’re bound to be on the favourable side. Same goes for album and single reviews. It’s just the nature of it and really we aren’t the sort of folk who are going to sit down and listen to a Sugababes album. Ok maybe Al might buy one to look at the cover sleeve. We will try to be as fair as possible on our reviews. If you disagree with us fair play please call us up on it.


Listings
This won’t be extensive live listings sorry but we are only going to push live gigs we think everyone should be aware of. If James Blunt is coming to town we couldn’t give a rat’s ass. Please can I say now if you’re a James Blunt fan stop reading this blog right now there is nothing here for you. We will cover Edinburgh and Glasgow mostly which will be reflected in gig reviews. Al represents the West side so if anything’s worth noting he’ll blog about it. While Elaine will try keep the blog updated with gigs around Edinburgh. But she is famous for her procrastination and is distracted easily. So just bear with her.


Podcasts
As regular as volcanic ash eruptions we will post podcasts when the mood strikes us. Expect these to be full of crap we like since these won’t be weekly or anything. No matter how much we like the sound of our own voices.  We don’t see the point of playing generic unimaginative music you get looped on Radio 1. If you have any tracks you would like us to cover please do get in contact with us. If you’re any good that is...


Please contact us with any and everything and please do comment on our postings. Even if you don’t agree with us, but then really why would you not!?!