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Save The Forest ART AUCTION
14th May, 6-10pm @ AXO Gallery, Leith
Local and international artists are donating their work to a charity auction in support of the Forest. By bidding in this auction, not only are people buying art but they are also supporting the arts community. Save The Forest Art Auction →
Jade And The Jacks
9-Piece Band - Soul, Rhythm and Blues, Ska, Reggae and more…
4th May, 8pm
Ten Tracks & The Forest Cafe present
Roofraiser - Save The Forest Cafe with Jade and the Jacks
TEN TRACKS and THE FOREST CAFE present
R O O F R A I S E R II
We’re at it again!
……various live shows
in various venues
in aid of various causes
…but mostly to
Save The Forest Cafe
SHOWS 8pm-11pm (unless marked otherwise)
BRING YOUR OWN BOTTLE (Forest Hall Shows only)
Corkage:
Small bottle/can (beer/cider) £0.50
Large Bottle (wine/cider) £1.50
No Spirits
Sunday 1st May @ The Store (GRV)
(Club night 10pm-2am)
DELTA MAINLINE
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Delta-Mainline/120466471296749
+ HOBO DJs
£1 before 11pm
£3 after
Wednesday 4th May @ The Forest Hall
JADE AND THE JACKS
9-piece band playing extended set of SOUL/SKA/FUNK!!!
http://www.myspace.com/jadeandthejacks
8pm
£4 donation
Friday 6th May @ St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry St, Cowgate
JAPAN FUNDRAISER
All profits go to Japan’s Red Cross and Hand in Hand for Japan
Includes Japanese songs, Taiko drums, Shamisen, local singer songwriters, classical music, bands, and…
…Japanese foods, crafts, art works, raffle prizes from local restaurants, shops, and theatres!
Artists include: Calum Carlyle, Real Dave, Town House, Beggar Girls, The Forest Trio (incl members of Lipsync for a Lullaby), Gudrun Sabrina, Norman Lamont
6pm
£3 (free for children under 5)
Tickets available at Ripping Records
For more info, contact abetchak@yahoo.co.jp
Tuesday 10th May @ The Forest Hall
SONG, BY TOAD presents
FRANCOIS & THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS
THIS IS THE KIT
BABE (feat. Gerard of Findo Gask)
8pm
£5 donation
Wednesday 11th May @ Forest Hall
QMU, FOREST & TEN TRACKS
present a special bill for RAG
TBC - look out!!
8pm
£5 donation
Friday 13th May @ Forest Hall
TALL TALES (formerly The Social Services)
MIGHTY MOTH MAGNETS
SMALL FEET LITTLE TOES
8pm
£5 donation
Saturday 14th May @ Forest Hall
SCREEN KIDS
Plus Support
8pm
£5 donation
Friday 20th May @ Forest Hall
[AWRY] PSYCHEDELIC CEILIDH
with JEN & THE GENTS
20th May - Ceilidh (feat?)
8pm
Sunday 22nd May @ The Store (GRV)
HIDDEN MASTERS
YOUNG SPOOKS
10pm
£3
Friday 25th May @ Forest Hall
HUMPHREY WOOD
Friday 27th May @ Forest Hall Doune The Rabbit Hole (Asazi)
DOUNE THE RABBIT HOLE PRESENTS AN EVENING OF EVEN MORE SPLENDOUR THAN THE LAST ONE, WHICH WAS SPLENDID INDEED
ASAZI SPACE FUNK EXPLOSION
ADOPTED AS HOLOGRAPH
and more tbc…
8pm
£5 donation
Saturday 4th June @ The Forest Hall
FREAK OUT
Promoters of the famous THE BIG FREAK nights, stage a DISCO! end to the first day of the Meadows festival, featuring…
RUBY AND THE EMERALDS at the very very least.
(There will be acts for an alternative palate downstairs…)
9pm
£3 donation
ROOFRAISER @ THE MEADOWS FESTIVAL!
Saturday 4th June / Sunday 5th June @ The Forest Stage, The Meadows
Featuring (so far…)
SATURDAY
Ruby & The Emeralds
Dark Jokes
Donna Maciocia
The Pineapple Chunks
Conscious Route
Kung Fu Mother
SUNDAY
The Stagger Rats
Small Feet Little Toes
Miasma
Missing Cat
Enfant Bastard
INKY FINGERS WORDLAB
“Anxiety and the Writer”, with Eliza Langland
Saturday 7th May, 2-5pm, Action Room, Forest Café
Building on our hugely popular monthly open mic (fourth Tuesday) and writers’ groups (second Thursday), Inky Fingers is launching a new series of special free workshops, where the best of local and national writing and performing talent will be sharing their skills. Each month, one of our open mic feature performers will be running a workshop to stimulate your brains and help you expand the horizons of your writing and performance.
Eliza Langland is a writer and actress with over thirty years experience in professional theatre and radio who now runs her own practice in Edinburgh as an e-motivational coach and hypnotherapist. In this workshop she’ll be exploring why and how people write, and how anxiety can both fuel and impede the writing process. Come to explore your own writing and discover new possibilities in your work!
Places are limited: e-mail inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com to sign up.
Find Inky Fingers online at http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=101994993200164, and on Twitter @InkyFingersEdin.
Meet Ken O’Neill
A Q&A session with the new independent candidate for the Lothian region
7-9pm, Tue 3rd May, Forest Hall
Whale vs Elephant
Indietronic Live Music
2nd May, 9pm
A techno DJ, a background singer in an orchestra, an acoustic folk singer/songwriter and others have been part of the music project Whale Vs. Elephant, started by Tobias Braun, a guy growed up in the south west of germany, in the year 2007. They helped to develop his acoustic singer/songwriter project, into a mix of electronic- and acousticmusic which flows now freely between the Icelandic and German music scenes (as Tobias lived in Iceland for a while) among other influences. And as many influences crated this music, as many instruments like Keyboard, Guitar, Glockenspiel, Omnichord and strong electronic elements by PC will be used in their live shows.
The Bottom Rung Big Beat Festival 29th & 30th April 6pm-1am
Tony 2-Eyes (Land of 1000 Dances) and Big Gus (The Go-Go) present a line up of Scotland’s finest Garage Punk, Beat, Trash, Rock’n’Roll bands and DJs.
A weekender guaranteed to take your attention as far away from any royal wedding as possible.
Free Entry, Suggested Donation £6 each night, Bring Your Own Booze
Organized in part to help raise funds for The Forest Cafe continued existence this is, in name, a free event but we would like to stress the need for generous contributions to make this event a success. All artists and DJs are giving their time and talents for free.
The Line Up
Janey & The Ravemen
Playing for the first time in Scotland, The Ravemen are an almost complete resurrection of Hamburg era, R’n’R, Beat legends The Kaisers (with the help of a couple of The Rapiers for good measure.) Expect a gear pre-fab-four riot, all beatle boots, skinny ties and leather waistcoats.
The Thanes
Needing little introduction, The Thanes have now been performing their own styled Garage Punk mixed with R’n’B, Folk Rock and Psych for nearly 25 years. This year will see their 9th LP released on Dirty Water Records in the autumn. http://www.myspace.com/thethanes
Les BOF!
Probably Scotland’s only French language Garage Beat combo! 60s French classics from the likes of Jacques Dutronc and Ronnie Bird mixed with their own punked up r’n’b originals. Their debut LP on the CopaseDisques label is out in June. http://www.lesbof.fr/
Hidden Masters
Prog-folk psychadelia from Glasgow. Their debut single ‘Nobody Knows We’re Here’ released on State Records last year is well worth a spin. The group contains ex members of The Needles and Bangtwister. http://www.myspace.com/hiddenmasters
The Brutes
Brute by name Brute by nature! Lo-fi, high octane garage punk from ex Grease Monkeys and Bangtwister members. Recently featured on Shindig magazine’s download CD. http://www.myspace.com/theebrutes
The Fnords
A female fronted chaotic garage trash trio with more than a hint of surfing guitar. From Edinburgh and Glasgow and featuring one ex member of the legendry Gussets. http://www.myspace.com/thefnords
Keith Doulgas and The Corps of Discovery
Traditional picked country blues from the master of the green Gretsch Anniversary. http://www.myspace.com/keithdouglas
Thee Phar’I-sees
Trashy garage rockabilly with a Crampsish edge. From Glasgow. http://www.myspace.com/thepharisees
Charles Randolph Rivers’ Slim Rhythm Revue
A one man band typhoon! Rockabilly surf blues occasionally towards the Hasil Adkins end of the spectrum. Formerly one half of Thee Phantom Herd.
Prairie Rose & The Wildwoods
This wonderous innocently voiced, trashy, country trio were recently tipped by The List magazine as ones to watch in 2011. Contains an ex Rohypster. http://www.myspace.com/prairierosethewildwoods
The Leith Links
A metamorphous of former Edinburgh Surf guitar champions Preston Pfanz & The Seaton Sands, now dedicated to the sound of Link Wray and his distorted guitar rumble. http://www.myspace.com/theleithlinks
Disc Jockeys
Recorded music on the phonograph played to you by your hosts Tony 2-Eyes and Big Gus along with the Vintage Violence DJs playing extreme rock’n’roll from the 50s to the 80s plus R’n’B and Soul from The Mike & Tina Turntable Revue.
Friday running order: CHARLES RANDOLPH RIVERS, KEITH DOUGLAS, HIDDEN MASTERS, FNORDS, THE THANES
Saturday running order: PRARIE ROSE & THE WILDWOODS, THE LEITH LINKS, THEE PHAR’I-SEES, THE BRUTES, JANEY & THE RAVEMEN, LES BOF!
Inky Fingers Open Mic
26 April, 8pm
“To the altar! To the block!”
featuring COLIN DONATI and ELIZA LANGLAND
and YOU, on our famous open stage
On the occasion of what may be either the most momentous ceremony of modern times or a distracting hangover from an outdated despotical
tradition best left ignored, Inky Fingers is bringing you a
loosely-themed open mic: to the altar, or to the block? We’re inviting
some of the city’s top poets to contribute their words on the dread
wedding, and you can join in to (or ignore the theme entirely at your
discretion).
The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place in the main room of the Forest
Café every fourth Tuesday of the month, from 8-11pm. It’s free to come and free for anyone to perform, regardless of style, experience, or identity. It is big and celebratory and welcoming and fun. We want to hear from everybody. We want your poems, your rants, your ballads, your short stories, your diaries, your experimental texts, your heart, your mind, your body. We want the essay on your summer holidays you wrote when you were four, your adolescent haiku, and extracts from your eventually-to-be-completed epic fantasy quadrilogy. We want to hear your best new work as well. And we want people to care about the way words are performed.
Our feature performers this month are Colin Donati, a writer and
musician whose work ranges from the beautifully traditional to the
startlingly contemporary, and Eliza Langland, whose comically profound words will shake your lungs and tickle your brain all at the same time
Open Mic slots are five minutes long; e-mail: inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com to sign up and be sure of a slot!
Find Inky Fingers online at http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com,
on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=101994993200164,
and on Twitter @InkyFingersEdin.
Golden Hour Wednesday 20th April 8pm
Northwords Now launch!
Readings and Music
Readings by:
- Tracey S Rosenberg Poems that fight dirty.
- Ian Stephen After 15 years in the coastguard, Ian Stephen became a full-time writer of poetry, prose and drama in 1995. The sea continues to feature in his work.
- Hugh McMillan Works as a history teacher in Dumfries and lives in Penpont. His next full collection of poems The Lost Garden (Roncadora Press) is due in 2010 as is a Selected Poems from Shoestring Press.
Music By:
- Wild Myrtles A vocal harvest of traditional music.
- The Irresistible Urges Original songs and voodoo rhythms.
- Eye of the Duck Post psychedelia atmos-core surf metal.
TEN TRACKS and THE FOREST CAFE present
R O O F R A I S E R
a month of live music to help Save the Forest
various live shows …in various venues in aid of various causes
…but mostly to Save The Forest Cafe
SHOWS 8pm-11pm (unless marked otherwise)
BRING YOUR OWN BOTTLE (Forest Hall Shows only) Corkage: Small bottle/can (beer/cider) £0.50 Large Bottle (wine/cider) £1.50 No Spirits
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Friday 25th March @ Forest Hall
ROOFRAISER :: OPENING PARTY
WHITE HEATH UNION CANAL YUSUF AZAK
Donation £5
Saturday 26th March @ Forest Hall
THE POLICE BOX
LADY NORTH ILIOP
Donation £5
Friday 1st April @ Forest Hall
TRACER TRAILS PRESENT
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSIO’S MALAIKAT DAN SINGA THE LEG
Donation £5
Wednesday 6th April @ Forest Hall
BROKEN RECORDS (Acoustic) DONNA MACIOCIA
Donation £5
Thursday 7th April @ Wee Red Bar
LIPSYNC FOR A LULLABY TOKAMAK
7PM
Tickets £4
Friday 8th April @ Forest Hall
REAL DAVE & THE PEOPLE :: ALBUM LAUNCH
with special guests PORTNAWAK & THE WOO BLUDSLUGZ
Donation £3
Saturday 9th @ Forest Hall
ROBIN WILLIAMSON (The Incredible String Band) plus support
N.B. AFTERNOON SHOW
4PM
Donation £5
Sunday 10th April @ The Store (GRV)
THE BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS (Club night 11pm-3am) + DJs
£1 before 11pm £3 after
Wednesday 13th April @ The Forest Hall
CONSCIOUS ROUTE plus SUPPORT
Donation £4
Friday 15th April @ The Forest Hall
SMALL FEET LITTLE TOES plus support
Donation £5
Saturday 16th April @ The Forest Hall
THE PINEAPPLE CHUNKS BILLY LIAR HIVA OA
Donation £5 on the door.
Sunday 17th April @ The Caves, Niddry Street South
TEN TRACKS PRESENTS
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW JAMIE SUTHERLAND (Broken Records) ADAM STEARNS BAND
7PM
£10 in advance
via http://www.tentracks.co.uk/blog/76-ten_tracks_presents_hawk_a_hacksaw_live_april_17th_2011
£12 on the door
Friday 22nd April
DOUNE THE RABBIT HOLE FUNDRAISER
Featuring Acts (tbc) Performing at Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival (June ‘11)
Donation £4
Saturday 23rd April
SCREEN KIDS FIEVEL PRIMI HUMPHREY WOOD
Donation £5
Sunday 1st May @ The Store (GRV)
DELTA MAINLINE (Club night 11pm-3am) + DJs
£1 before 11pm £3 after