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Neu! Reekie! Spoke In The Wheel
'Scotland's favourite avant-garde noisemakers' bring you a May show in the stunning Leith St Andrews Church.
Featuring: SALOME BENIDZE * HELEN MORT * ERIN FRIEL * REV MAGNETIC *THE HONEYFARM - hosted by Michael Pedersen & Kevin Williamson.
***Please note - £5 from EVERY ticket sold will be going to the #SAVELEITHWALK crowdfunder - we'll hear from a spokesperson.***
Artist Info:
SALOME BENIDZE
is a poet, novelist and translator, as well as a campaigner for women's rights. She won the Saba Award for best debut in 2012, which brought her nationwide recognition. She is the author of two collections of poetry and one novel, The City on Water, which was a national bestseller and won the Tsinandali Award in 2015. Her works of translation include David Beckham's My Side, Shirin Ebadi's The Golden Cage and Salman Rushdie's Two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights.
HELEN MORT
was born in Sheffield. Her first collection Division Street won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. Her collection No Map Could Show Them (Chatto & Windus) was a PBS Recommended Title. In 2017 she presented Mother Tongue on BBC Radio 4, exploring poetry in translation. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Manchester Writing School.
REV MAGNETIC
Rev Magnetic involves members of Mogwai, Prides, Fin Killie, Gift Horse & more.
While touring the world as guest multi-instrumentalist with Mogwai, Luke Sutherland (Long Fin Killie, Bows, Music A.M.) used the downtime to sketch a bunch of songs. Once he got home, he wrote a handful more and recorded them with the help of a few friends at his cottage on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. The result was an albums worth of material with references ranging from My Bloody Valentine to Teebs, Lemmy-era Hawkwind to ABBA, Vaughan Williams to Boulez. Keen to translate the radiant chaos of the recordings into a live setting, Luke put together Rev Magnetic, featuring Audrey Bizouerne (Gift Horse), Sam Leighton (Prides, St MARTiiNS) and Gregor Emond who played with Luke in a band called Hynd, way back before the birth of the internet. Combining elements of dream pop, shoegaze, R&B, and post rock, their first single, Like No Girl That Ever Was/Dont Let Joy Destroy You is the sound of summer at full surge.
ERIN FRIEL
One of the most exciting new names in Scottish hip-hop, Erin has been recording amazing material, is part of Deadlife Crew, and collaborates regularly with Louie John Lowis (Hector Bizerk). Recently she opened for Loki at his sell out King Tuts event for Poverty Safari.
THE HONEY FARM
The FIRST (and only, and by default greatest) all-female Scottish hip hop group*, some are calling The Honey Farm the most exciting new voices in Scottish rap (The List) and you KNOW they rear free-range, farm-fresh, bass-laden hip hop direct from the East Coast.
Since 2016, MCs Bitta DisGrace, Pimpses hAsha and SweetHardt Dowt have been melting faces all over the floor of the Scottish music scene with their big beats, slick sassy rhymes and very nice vibes. Bangers like Lads, Three Monkeys and Ass Bitches simultaneously skewer and celebrate rap stereotypes with their unapologetic, take no shit attitude. NSFW listening, be ready to be humming these hooks all the way home. The Honey Farm most recently released their debut L.A.D.S. a dragged-up pussy-grabs-back takedown of laddish, bull-shit behaviour.
Hosted and curated by Michael Pedersen & Kevin Williamson.
ORGANISATION INFO:
NEU! REEKIE!
'Neu! Reekie! dismantle the structures and snobberies dividing high and low art - art is for everyone' (The Skinny)
A wonderful world of cross-cultural verve' (The List)
A triumph' (Sunday Times)
POETRY TRANSLATION CENTRE
gives the best contemporary poems from Africa, Asia and Latin America a new life in the English language, working with diaspora communities for whom poetry is of great importance. By fostering creative collaborations between poets and translators, the PTC produces high-quality translations that extend the audience for international poetry.
Supported by Creative Scotland!
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LocationLeith St Andrew's Church (View)
410-412 Easter Road
Edinburgh EH6 8HT
United Kingdom
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