Starring: TOM LEONARD - JENNI FAGAN - FOUND (Lomond Campbell & River of Slime) - THE JUST JOANS
Brought to you by Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson Neu Reekie! is a fire-blazing feast of spoken word - film - animation and music fusions. Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/404369. Each night features two spoken word acts; two musical acts and a medley of curated short animations.
FOUND
River of Slime & Lomond Campbell.
They met at art school. Don’t they all? River of Slime, with his methodical patience and an obsession for the multilayered was perfect for printmaking. Lomond, an explosive yet tactile man with deft hands was best suited to the sculpture department. They wire up electronic musical devices of varying reliability and set in motion a dense, menacing sound that’ll leave you wondering whether you should dance or dig out your collection of video nasties. Both Slime & Lomond have made a limited edition 12” vinyl coloured EP which will be available for the first time at Neu! Reekie! On Friday 19th July. It’s the first music the two FOUND collective members have released since factorycraft, the critically acclaimed 2011 album on Chemikal Underground.
The List on River of Slime – ‘a toxic aural sludge’
The Herald on Lomond Campbell – ‘folk seducer’
TOM LEONARD
is a Scottish poet, best known for his poems written in dialect. In Glasgow, Tom Leonard joined a group of new and distinctive authors, including Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, James Kelman, Aonghas MacNeacail and Jeff Torrington, of whom Hobsbaum was the nucleus. He has been part of the Scottish literary scene for the past forty plus years. With Alasdair Gray and James Kelman, he has been appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Glasgow University. Published in 1969, his Six Glasgow Poems kick-started a literary counterculture.
http://www.tomleonard.co.uk
JENNI FAGAN
is a poet and novelist with both forms winning awards and plaudits, she is shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott, the James Tait Black Prize and was recently selected as the only Scottish author on the once in a decade Best of Young British Novelists list (Granta). The film rights for her debut novel The Panopticon are about to be finalised imminently, she lives in Burntisland, with her partner and toddler.
http://thedeadqueenofbohemia.wordpress.com/
THE JUST JOANS
" As all Scots know, there are two Scotlands. The first is a vision of a romantic, heather-clad glen, a landscape rich with mystery, but bereft of life but for the haunting strains of a lone piper wafting down from somewhere high on the hillside. This is the vision dear to the heart of our American tourists. The other Scotland is the sort of place that never makes it into VisitScotland's glossy brochures. This is the Scotland of the self-destructive, macho posturing of the self-loathing hard men. It's about the small-town, judgemental post-Calvinist, obsession with, and criticism of, your neighbours. It's about trying to get to your reluctant, soon to be ex-, girlfriend's house past the chip-shop and the rampaging, drunken 'young team' ready to "plunge ye, ya walloper" on the basis of your religion, or what football team you support, and of course, both are inextricably linked anyway. It's about a November of endless night and incessant freezing rain and you're sitting on the bus to your house as it takes it's circular, halting route through all the schemes. And you're on your way back from Uni with no money and a growing sense of lost potential, and all the people you were at school with are getting on and off the bus too, coming back from their hopeless, soul-destroying day jobs in tertiary industry and you drift off into a dream of comforting, pointless nostalgia. And that, my friends, is the Scotland which is soundtracked so beautifully and almost uniquely by The Just Joans." The Streetlight Doesn't Cast Her Shadow Anymore blog.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX694KGjtF4