Love Boat Big Band

A legendary legacy from the famously creative crucible of Edinburgh’s 1990s music scene, The Love Boat Big Band delivers the classiest musical cocktail of shipboard-style swing, show-tunes and hand-picked pop gems – served with a uniquely scintillating twist – over two decades after first setting sail.

Authentically Edinburgh-built, forged by the city’s festivals, the band first launched amid the fabled late-night maelstrom of the Bongo Club Cabaret. Then as now, it musters its star-studded musical crew from a myriad of current Scottish acts, splicing A-list musicianship and ambassador-class sophistication, sewn together by sly maritime allusions.

The Love Boat repertoire – as featured on their debut album Songs In The Sea Of Life – spans such diverse classics as Little Feat’s ‘Sailin’ Shoes’, Sidney Bechet’s ‘Hold Tight’, Sinatras ‘”World On A String’, Louis Primas ‘Sing, Sing, Sing’ and The Harptones’ ‘Life Is But A Dream’, together with brilliantly reinvented cuts from the likes of Donna Summer, Michael Jackson and the Eurythmics.