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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)
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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!
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 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!
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.
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://gotoizumi.web.fc2.com/
http://www.myspace.com/gotoizumiinternational
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…