Neu! Reekie!'s last dance with Summerhall for 2013 in association with Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. Tiks: http://www.summerhall.co.uk/.../neu-reekies-last-dance.../
STARRING: TeenCanteen - Withered Hand - Georgio 'The Dove' Valentino & David Mcclymont - Rachel McCrum - Kei Miller.
Brought to you by writers Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson, Neu! Reekie! is a feast of music, animation and spoken word that has taking Scotland by storm.
MUSIC FAE
WITHERED HAND
Edinburgh's FAVOURITE DIY folk-rock troubadour Dan Willson brings new look Withered Hand to this special show, fresh from recording long- awaited second album.
"Killer melodies... wobbly folk grooves... tunes full of warm, woozy sing -song charm" (Rolling Stone)
"Beautifully constructed lyrical frameworks... on this banjo tinged brand of Caledonian gospel" (Mojo)
http://witheredhand.com
TEENCANTEEN (single launch)
are comprised of five girls: Carla Easton (lead vocals, keyboards), Sita Pieracinni (vocals, bass), Amanda Williams (vocals, acoustic guitar), Marlena Morris (electric guitar) and Deborah Smith (vocals, drums). Sunshine pop, girl-group harmonies and multi-melodies. Having collaborated with Eugene Kelly/The Vaselines; had their songs covered and released by BMX Bandits and spent time tinkering about in the Belle and Sebastian Studio – they’re now ready to release their first single Honey. Recorded at the Old Mill and mixed by Bill Ryder-Jones (The Coral), this explosive single will be launched with love by Neu! Reekie! Records. Trust us, these will be collectors items. http://www.teencanteen.co.uk
READING & FILM SCREENING FAE
GEORGIO 'THE DOVE' VALENTINO & DAVID MCCLYMONT
WORK TITLE: It's a Funny Religion When You Pray, 'Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, Play a Song for Me'
American exile Georgio Valentino and Scottish exile (thus, naturally, in absentia) David McClymont present a rather Byzantine conceptual odyssey. "It's a Funny Religion When You Pray, 'Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, Play a Song for Me'" begins with a decade-old, unreleased (one is tempted to add 'lost and all forlorn') Orange Juice tribute album (to which the boy Valentino contributed one of his first, faltering home recordings) and ends with an unexpected YouTube playlist (crafted this summer by Orange Juice's own bassist, McClymont) and accompanying text (written in alternately wistful and clinical prose by the present-day Valentino).
http://www.georgiothedovevalentino.com
POETRY FAE
KEI MILLER
was born in Jamaica in 1978. He read English at the University of the West Indies and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. His work has appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Snow Monkey, Caribbean Beat and Obsydian III. His first collection of short fiction, The Fear of Stones, was short-listed in 2007 for the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize. His first poetry collection, Kingdom of Empty Bellies, was published in March 2006 by Heaventree Press; his second, There Is an Anger That Moves, was published by Carcanet in October 2007. He is also the editor of Carcanet's New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology. He has been a visiting writer at York University in Canada, the Department of Library Services in the British Virgin Islands and a Vera Ruben Fellow at Yaddo, and currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
RACHEL MCCRUM
has been performing and promoting around Edinburgh for the past two and a half years. She is one half of Rally & Broad, one half of Stewed Rhubarb Press, and fits any remainder into working with the Inky Fingers Collective. Her first pamphlet 'The Glassblower Dances' won the 2013 Callum MacDonald Award, as a result of which she spent two weeks as the Michael Marks Poet in Residence at the Harvard Centre for Hellenic Studies in Nafplio, Greece.
http://rallyandbroad.wordpress.com/meet-rally-broad.../
Plus new works from Professor Electrik AL
TICKETS: http://www.summerhall.co.uk/.../neu-reekies-last-dance.../
Neu! Reekie! is supported by Creative Scotland and DreamTower Productions