HOT Golden Hour Summer Line-up!!
June 14, 2009
We’ve got AMAZING Golden Hours planned for June and July with a spectacular August Extravaganza. There will be reading, drinking and dancing! Have a look. You will not call me a liar.
What: The Golden Hour
Where: The Forest – 3 Bristo Place
When: June 17, July 22nd, august 19th; 8pm
How Much: Free
Booze: BYOB (please pay corkage)
June 17th
Readings:
Emily Ballou: The good poet launches her new book The Darwin Poems.
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Lauren Pope: Poems. Sass. More Poems.
Dave Coates & Fiona Morrison releasing new chapbooks.
Music:
St. Jude’s Infirmary – a rare acoustic set. A deep treat for the ears.
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Sarah J Tingle: little songs on a little guitar.
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White Heath: a blend of space-rock and tribal noise
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Visual Rubbish:
More Cartoons from Mr. Dan Meth
July 22nd
Kei Miller – An excellent reader of depth whose book, There is an Anger That Moves, is one moving collection. (recomended reading for Homecoming Scotland)
Niki Andrikopoulou – All the way from Greece with fine new words.
Russell Jones releasing his new Chapbook of sci-fi poems.
MUSIC
Gary Stewart – upbeat folk-music is relaxed, unpretentious and well-played.
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Half Sisters – joyus songs to fall in love with.
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Meursault – starry-eyed electronica with cotton-picking wreaths of banjo plucks and ukulele strums.
Visual Rubbish:
More Cartoons from Mr. Dan Meth
August 19th — The Festival Special
Readers / Writers:
Jen Hadfield – a remarkably original and inventive poet who recently won the TS Eliot prize.
Ryan Van Winkle – poems & stories from the Reader in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library.
Nick Holdstock – short stories which grow inside you like golden crocuses.
Ericka Duffy – hot new prose from her hot new chapbook called The Succubus!
Benjamin Morris – Poetry and life lessons from the number one gentleman.
Jason Morton – stories that can eat bricks.
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Jane Flett – seamstress of most fetching stories.
Music / Song Writers:
Billy Liar – Acoustic + infectious punk.
Jed Milroy – singer songwriter and hunter finally back from the Woods.
Withered Hand – intense, eccentric, bittersweet and very wry original songs.
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Jonny Berliner – Joyus songs about crustacaens, exhaustion, and gluecose.
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The Black Diamond Express – a rocking, hell-playing, old time string band.
Visual Amazement:
A cast of hand-drawn marionettes are magically brought to life. This is what happens at the accidental meeting of inkblots, photocopies, cardboard, angle-poise lamps, the occasional table, video technology, a laptop and a banana box.
