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Live music courtesy of….Uke Boogie - The Best Of compilation! (www.ukeboogie.co.uk)Happy  night hosted by pockets *Kazookeylele Kid* and Alex *Melodica Muncher*.  bring your ukulele and rock out hard style, or play us some calm  ukulele to melt our minds!…Luz Da Lua (http://www.myspace.com/luzdalua)Me and Maja (http://www.myspace.com/meandmaja)========================================plus FUN!Ping-Pong all night long!Someone Spiked The Punch and maybe even the Photobooth!

Live music courtesy of….

Uke Boogie - The Best Of compilation! (www.ukeboogie.co.uk)

Happy night hosted by pockets *Kazookeylele Kid* and Alex *Melodica Muncher*. bring your ukulele and rock out hard style, or play us some calm ukulele to melt our minds!

Luz Da Lua (http://www.myspace.com/luz
dalua)

Me and Maja (http://www.myspace.com/meandmaja)

========================================

plus FUN!

Ping-Pong all night long!

Someone Spiked The Punch

and maybe even the Photobooth!

Saturday 4 September, Stornoway Book Festival, 22.00 - Free 
The Golden Hour returns to Stornoway to make magic in the lovely An Lanntair venue. Here’s who is performing:
Words:
Ryan Van Winkle - Short poems, long stories
Kei Miller - poet, novelist, award-winner. Really, you love him already and you don’t even know.
Music:
Hailey Beavis - an angelic voice, but devilish on six strings.
Foxgang -  punked-up reggae and pop and Fox Gang stap your dancing wellies on!

Saturday 4 September, Stornoway Book Festival, 22.00 - Free 

The Golden Hour returns to Stornoway to make magic in the lovely An Lanntair venue. Here’s who is performing:

Words:

Ryan Van Winkle - Short poems, long stories

Kei Miller - poet, novelist, award-winner. Really, you love him already and you don’t even know.

Music:

Hailey Beavis - an angelic voice, but devilish on six strings.

Foxgang punked-up reggae and pop and Fox Gang stap your dancing wellies on!

Click Clack Club
Monday 16th at 8.30pm
A bold new funky and idiosyncratic venture!

Click Clack Club

Monday 16th at 8.30pm

A bold new funky and idiosyncratic venture!

its the end. the end is here.from the people who brought you:jiggery fuckeryjiggery donkeryjadery donkery…jadery thatcherybiggery fuckeryandutterly fuckerywe are pleased to present Infinite Fuckery.DANCE PARTYwith our good friends:ROOTMITTEN/DEAD ON THE LIVE WIREvideos by esoterickafree. free. free.

its the end. the end is here.
from the people who brought you:
jiggery fuckery
jiggery donkery
jadery donkery
jadery thatchery
biggery fuckery
and
utterly fuckery
we are pleased to present Infinite Fuckery.
DANCE PARTY

with our good friends:

ROOTMITTEN/DEAD ON THE LIVE WIRE

videos by esotericka

free. free. free.

TOTAL KUNST GALLERY presents



SZAJNER [from this gleaming, words are born…]



8th-21st August, daily noon - 10pm



“A rain of signs created as ‘impediments’, fractured, fragmented or interstitialreadings.” A two-week installation and sound piece bythe French composer, theorist and visual artistSzajner. The work is part of the artist’s ongoingmicro-installations “Suspended Readings”.

TOTAL KUNST GALLERY presents

SZAJNER [from this gleaming, words are born…]

8th-21st August, daily noon - 10pm

“A rain of signs created as ‘impediments’, fractured, fragmented or interstitial

readings.” A two-week installation and sound piece by

the French composer, theorist and visual artist

Szajner. The work is part of the artist’s ongoing

micro-installations “Suspended Readings”.


THE GOLDEN HOUR!
August 18th, 2010 8pm Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Pl Free! Free! Free!
Reading: Lidija Haas – stops the presses with her new chapbook
AL Kennedy – novelist, comedian, rude and wonderful.
Ryan Van Winkle – short poems, long stories.
Music:Earl Grey and the Loose Leaves –  A brawling bar-room  blues band that sounds like Captain Beefheart oan  the train over tae Howlin’ Wolf’s hoose fur a bevvy and a brace with  Sonny Terry and the Mississippi Sheiks. Contagious.
&&&& loads more!!!!

Very excited!

THE GOLDEN HOUR!

August 18th, 2010
8pm
Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Pl
Free! Free! Free!

Reading:
Lidija Haas – stops the presses with her new chapbook

AL Kennedy – novelist, comedian, rude and wonderful.

Ryan Van Winkle – short poems, long stories.

Music:
Earl Grey and the Loose Leaves – A brawling bar-room  blues band that sounds like Captain Beefheart oan the train over tae Howlin’ Wolf’s hoose fur a bevvy and a brace with Sonny Terry and the Mississippi Sheiks. Contagious.

&&&& loads more!!!!

Very excited!

WHAT THEY COULD DO THEY DIDFriday at 21:00 - 07 August at 03:00Upstairs at The Forest CafeAfter  a year in the wilderness, WHAT THEY COULD DO THEY DID return to The  Forest Cafe on a mission of unadulterated ultra-violet destruction and  recreation - we’re having a party!WTCDTD will be helping to  celebrate the Forest’s 10 year anniversary (you can’t spell decadence  without decade) in style THIS FRIDAY, featuring musical, visual and  sensual entertainments galore, including plus FREE GAMES with PRIZES,MASS SLAUGHTERBINGOZINE STALLand DJs til late to dance the night away!FREE ENTRY!this FRIDAY AUGUST 6th9pm-late, upstairs at the Forest3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH1 1EY!FREE ENTRY!

WHAT THEY COULD DO THEY DID
Friday at 21:00 - 07 August at 03:00Upstairs at The Forest Cafe
After a year in the wilderness, WHAT THEY COULD DO THEY DID return to The Forest Cafe on a mission of unadulterated ultra-violet destruction and recreation - we’re having a party!

WTCDTD will be helping to celebrate the Forest’s 10 year anniversary (you can’t spell decadence without decade) in style THIS FRIDAY, featuring musical, visual and sensual entertainments galore, including
 
plus FREE GAMES with PRIZES,
MASS SLAUGHTER
BINGO
ZINE STALL
and DJs til late to dance the night away

!FREE ENTRY!

this FRIDAY AUGUST 6th
9pm-late, upstairs at the Forest
3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH1 1EY

!FREE ENTRY!

TASHWEESH
August 2nd starting 9pm in the Upstairs Hall
Tashweesh means ‘interference’ in Arabic and effectively sums up the band’s  role in  their native Palestine as a group offering a creative intervention  against the political stagnation faced in their home country.  
Their  performance will include electronic, glitch and abstract hip hop with  Arabic rapping and a strong presence of live visuals. 
Find out more about Tashweesh at www.tashweesh.com.

TASHWEESH

August 2nd starting 9pm in the Upstairs Hall

Tashweesh means ‘interference’ in Arabic and effectively sums up the band’s  role in their native Palestine as a group offering a creative intervention against the political stagnation faced in their home country.  

Their performance will include electronic, glitch and abstract hip hop with Arabic rapping and a strong presence of live visuals.

Find out more about Tashweesh at www.tashweesh.com.

Che Camille presents Fashion on the Fringe

Saturday July 31st
Free and BYOB
THANK YOU SO NICE
OKKER
LINDSAY & THE STORM
RANTUM SCANTUM

Saturday July 31st

Free and BYOB

THANK YOU SO NICE

OKKER

LINDSAY & THE STORM

RANTUM SCANTUM

Goto Izumi

Live at The Forest Cafe on August 6th!

Melancholic melodies, retro-flavored original songs

Narrative, with a touch of theatrical play

Japanese avant-garde on accordion

http://www.organ-za.com/

http://gotoizumi.web.fc2.com/
http://www.myspace.com/gotoizumiinternational

Join  the Forest and The Big Red Door in theirMAGICAL MEDIEVAL  PROCESSIONLeaving from The Forest (3 Bristo Place) and …The  Big Red Door (10 Lady Lawson) on JULY 31st at 3pmwe  shall march towards The Meadows, wearing crazy costumes, singing and  dancing. We will then stop in front of the Pavilion to play games, have  workshops, fight in box wars, enjoy delicious food, learn new skills,  meet magical creatures and see the most amazing costumes… all  in order to raise money for the 2 charities involved!Bring your  costume and the whole family for a great Saturday afternoon outdoors!Both  venues will have an AFTERPARTY so watch this space…

Join the Forest and The Big Red Door in their

MAGICAL MEDIEVAL PROCESSION

Leaving from The Forest (3 Bristo Place) and
The Big Red Door (10 Lady Lawson)

on JULY 31st at 3pm

we shall march towards The Meadows, wearing crazy costumes, singing and dancing. We will then stop in front of the Pavilion to play games, have workshops, fight in box wars, enjoy delicious food, learn new skills, meet magical creatures and see the most amazing costumes…

all in order to raise money for the 2 charities involved!

Bring your costume and the whole family for a great Saturday afternoon outdoors!

Both venues will have an AFTERPARTY so watch this space…

Sunday July 25th at 9pm
Free and BYOB
Jilly Mathews and Grainne Rooney present FLUTION
A funky fusion of  classical and jazz acoustic music, improvised around the marriage of  flute and harp

Sunday July 25th at 9pm

Free and BYOB

Jilly Mathews and Grainne Rooney present FLUTION

A funky fusion of classical and jazz acoustic music, improvised around the marriage of flute and harp