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What They Could Do, They Did

The Forest Café
Edinburgh, 2007

Block Information: Avant-Pop

Café
Wednesday 8th August, 22:00 - 00:00
“Immunity from the Terminal Death dysfunctionalism of a Pop Culture gone awry”

Featuring...

  • Monkey Grinder Organ
  • Bellend Sebastian - the inebriated shudderings of a pair of twats (myspace)
  • Daddy I Want A Pony
  • Eskimo Folk Tales - a set of 4 traditional folk tales taken from the Angela Carter collection, rendered as life-size shadow plays with original scores.
  • Write-A-Pop-Song Showcase - entirely written and recorded earlier at the workshop earlier in the week.
  • Prince covers night - an open covers set so we can imagine we actually got to go see him... do anything you want as long as it's a Prince cover.
  • Ad Hoc creates a live 15-minute micromix, using fragments of a hundred pop songs
  • DJs play all the records you can't normally get away with, in the café till close