Wednesday 20 August
Exhibition Private View (18:00 - 20:00)
Private view for the static exhibition.
Featuring:
Beyond Truth, Lies, Glamour and Everything: Essays on Edith Massey by John Waters and Cookie Mueller will be read as accompaniment to a dress made by Tom Moore. Readings by Emily Stuart and Michael Reid.
Film (20:00 - 20:30)
WHAT THEY COULD DO SHORTS:
Films by Tom Moore (Tom Moore, UK, 2007-2008)
Russia Is A Different Country (Thomas Latter, UK, 2008)
Ecstasy (Garry Sykes, UK, 2008)
No Place Like Home (Ad Hoc and Mixpaste, UK, 2008)
Performance (21:00 - 03:00)
Albumen Records (web)
provide readings from their new generative prose research
Ignatz Aaron Höch (web):
Straight from A to Nowhere. Another proud fool caught in the flood, struggling to remember the sound of his own footsteps, and the beat of a loose heart. singer / songwriter.
What They Could Do, They Did
perform a live multi-platform improvisation
An Empty Orchestra (web)
spins out tall tales and faded memories with a collection of broken instruments and laptop processing.
Les Enfant Bastard (myspace)
rejoins us in his rightful place as anti-pop protagonist king, this year bending circuits and breaking hearts with frightening ease. Cam, we've missed you so.
The Capsized Smiles (web)
have fought spiders and demons, and now return from their travels with rock'n'roll in their hearts
Thursday 21 August
Film (19:30 - 21:00)
Quiet City (Aaron Katz, USA, 2007, 90 mins)
One of the breakout talents of the movement dubbed 'mumblecore',
Katz's second film Quiet City is a masterpiece of subtle emotion as a young woman adrift in New York meets a young man and they wander together through two unforgettable days and nights in the city.
Performance (21:00 - 03:00)
Steed of Destiny: Doomed bass from the darkened grimm forests of the north.
The Duchess & The Demon (myspace), the unfortunate parasites of folk noise
Withered Hand (myspace): Fantastically flaky, tiny-voiced Edinburgh strummer reminiscent of alt-folk loon Daniel Johnston.
Egg (MC) Muffin (web)
stage a duel: a cacophony of disembodied voices struggles against a battery of drums.
Friday 22 August
Film (19:30 - 20:20)
Kwaidan; Stargate; Blackout (Disinformation, UK, 1996-2008)
Jesus Rides Shotgun (Burke Roberts, USA, 1997, 50 mins)
A near legendary cult classic funded by dole cheques, Jesus Rides Shotgun
follows its hapless doormat protagonist as he discovers his fiance making hardcore porn without him and flees on a journey of self discovery across roads and plains in a mini-van.
Performance (21:00 - 03:00)
An Empty Orchestra (web)
spins out tall tales and faded memories with a collection of broken instruments and laptop processing.
The Capsized Smiles (web)
showcase material from their forthcoming avant-pop EP
Bambikill (myspace)
tumbles though intoxicating mists in a dark psychedelic landslide, tied to her drummer.
Ad Hoc (web)
builds chaotic permutations of sound from across the spectrum of cultural media, from club-orientated live remixes to avant-garde treatments of found sounds.
Dirty Summer (myspace)
are a kiddie three-piece from Dunfermline. They combine yelping vocals, turbo distortion bass, schoolie synth melodies and wallofsound-like noise to create a rampant racket they brand as "car crash pop".
Saturday 23 August
Film (19:30 - 20:00)
Karaoke (Garry Sykes, UK, 2008, 35 mins)
World premiere.
Karaoke is a no wave musical, a video portrait and above all a romantic picture. Karaoke is compromise, obsession and addiction. Karaoke is change, determined spirit and love.
Performance (21:00 - 03:00)
Urlaubshits (live) (web)
takes you on a Balearic night drive through cosmic disco to acid house.
Albaross (myspace)
plays rap songs and singalongs, mashing up everything he has ever heard and liked, read and liked or watched and liked.
7VWWVW (myspace)
collide a plethora of wobbly synths beneath a synthetic sky of Super Mario clouds
Bunty (myspace)
loops and loops her whispers, hums and pops, alongside stop-motion VJing from
the heroic Adam Hender.
Jesus the Magic Ghost (myspace)
are the modern equivalent of Dante's Inferno, dabbling in witchcraft, drugs and the houses of local council members.
Babyshaker (myspace)
launches a high-velocity jungle assault, demolishing beats as he rampages through his European tour
...and throughout the week...
The Ring 'o' Fire Eaters: Monstrous minstrels myseriously materializing. They have never rehearsed, but they play. O yes, they play.
Hestia Peppé (web): Performances. Her work attempts to create a space for itself to inhabit sometimes inhospitable media and meanings. This work is home.
The Glitch-a-Sketch (web): A chaotic projected installation, manually short-circuited to create unpredictable error-visuals.
The Ludovico Technique: The latest edition in the series of this concept photo-projection slideshow, drawing in imagery from apocalyptic religious visions to retro-futurism. Curated by Garry Sykes.
What They Could Do DJs provide an everchanging soundtrack to the festivities.