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Neu! Reekie!'s End of Year Screamer

  • scottish book trust Drunk's Close, 55 High Street, Royal Mile, EH1 1SR (map)

FEATURING:

Miriam Gamble, Jenni Fagan, The Sexual Objects, Emelle, Billy Liar

For the last time in 2011......MICHAEL PEDERSEN and KEVIN WILLIAMSON bring you Neu! Reekie! - the best in avant-garde spoken word, music and film-animation.

STARRING......

SPOKEN WORD from:

MIRIAM GAMBLE: multi award winning, Brussels born Belfast braised, poet of the Bloodaxe breed http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/personpage.asp...

JENNI FAGAN: Scottish poet and novelist - been down to London and back again - Blackheath Books to Random House - http://thedeadqueenofbohemia.wordpress.com/about/

MUSIC from

THE SEXUAL OBJECTS: singer Davy Henderson (The Fire Engines, Win, Nectarine No. 9) and his boys boast pop pounding giant choruses and ferocious lyrical charm - www.myspace.com/thesexualobjectsmusic

BILLY LIAR: musical mini slot (or ten minute teaser) from Edinburgh's own punk/folk prodigy -http://www.billyliarmusic.com/

EMELLE: from launch night to the closing party, Emelle have been our frenzied, folksy, sometimes fiddling staple - www.myspace.com/emellebros

ANIMATION by

IAIN GARDNER - BAFTA nominated animator and animation consultant for Edinburgh International Film Festival - http://www.iaingardner.co.uk/

......plus Kevin's rich feast of avant-garde animation - he's saved the best til last - we'll say flirtatiously!

ALSO featuring our first ever pop-up bookshop to be hosted by Anon Magazine - http://www.anonpoetry.co.uk/

And our final RAFFLE OF THE ABSURD for 2011!

Oh and much more!

£5 or £4 concession - ALL drinks £2 ALL night!