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      Half-Light Nights presents Twisted Fire Starter

      8th – 10th February 2022
      Performers: Jamie Cowan, John Crooks, Robin Campbell, Catherine Rose Tausney
      Twisted Fire Starter raises themes of environmental action and slacktivism; while asking the question of ‘How far would you go to stand up for what you believe?’
      Premiered in Blackfriars in February 2020. The show has been described by previous audiences as ‘Hysterical’ and ‘Handles real relevant topics with humour and wit’. Twisted bursts back onto the stage with a perfect blend of comedy, savagery, viciousness and tragedy.
      Written by Jamie Cowan, a Leith based playwright and performer. Jamie is an alumni of Traverse Young Writers and has also had previous work featured in Traverse Breakfast Plays 2020 (Contemporary Political Ethics (Or How to Cheat))
      The run time for this show is approximately 1 hour.
      Start and end times: Doors at 18:45, Show at 19:30, Show end 20:30
      Category: Political, Comedy, Climate, Activism
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      Trash Cinema presents My Bloody Valentine

      Nothing gets the heart beating faster than the sight of your favourite serial killer looming out of the shadows, so why not join Trash Cinema this Valentine’s Day for the stone-cold slasher classic My Bloody Valentine.

      Every year Harry Warden returns to the town of Valentine’s Bluff to bring bloody terror to anyone trying to get their Valentine’s end away, leaving heart-shaped boxes of gore as a grisly warning. Thankfully for us, the inhabitants are Valentine’s mad and are determined to have their party whatever the consequences…

      Bring a date and cuddle up for the scary bits! Bring yourself and watch all those lovesick fools get their just desserts!

      Doors open at 7pm, feature starts at 7.30pm.

      Free popcorn and sweeties provided at the door.

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      Hound presents – Hounds of Love w/ Yung KP, Culte + Las Acuarelas

      Previously postponed ‘Friends Xmas Bonzana’ has been reimagined for all your Valentines needs!
      Local Dawgs hound invite you to ‘Hounds of Love’ with pals Yung KP, Culte and Las Acuarelas.
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      Showing undoubtedly pop rock tendencies and slacker elements, Hound take influence from artists including Weezer, Pavement, Paraquet Courts and Yuck. Smooth and upbeat chord progressions with angular lead parts are paired with a direct and honest style of lyricism with subjects of loved ones, halcyon days and awkward moments. Recently having released new single ‘September’ on London label Permanent Creeps, they have gained airplay from the likes of Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 music.

      Yung KP
      Take a look at these song titles. Yung KP aka Curt Spankee has genuinely been washin’ dishes, sweepin’ floors and minute hand counting whilst wishing he was somewhere else.  Riding in the side car to a superior force is a drag!
      But nevertheless, don’t worry.  Yung KP is satisfied. He’s satisfied because he knows he is for real and so is his punk. Thats right. PUNK. despite his name he is not a Rap artist.  He’s a triumphant musical KP to the bullshit head chef of the A.I. generated popular music world.
      Culte
      Producer of subtle, beautiful, maudlin, indie pop? Yes! Impeccable style? Sí! Australian accent? Ja! Asian? Hai!
      Everything you white males could ask for, but don’t get ahead of yourself boys because this catch is taken, and he’s on the geetar, and is dreamier than you. Moving from her native Australia all the way to sunny Glasgow to pursue her dreams of being the object of our collective desires, Culte is out of the bedroom and is plugging straight into your ears with minimal to no low fidelity. Catchy hooks, dreamy lyrics, and a voice of a lyrebird, come see Culte group together some of Glasgow’s finest (members of Kaputt, Yung KP, Hound, Rapid Tan), leaving behind her deadbeat original band to contract sunstroke in Australia. Realising and reinterpreting her bedroom musings live, onstage, sounding like what only the sweetest dream The Sandman can bring. Ironically enough, sleeping on this one would be counterproductive. Facebook / Spotify 
      Las Acuarelas
      Las Acuarelas are a mix of sunny West Coast psych sounds, Spanish-inflected garage-punk and subtle shades of 60’s Latin American music based in decided less sunny West Coast Scotland; Glasgow.  They formed in 2018 when friends and members of different Glasgow bands came together to start a new project. Their debut double A side single “Lavapiés/Concrete Paradise” was released in February 2019.
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      Saramago presents: MOLLY LINEN, CLEMENTINE MARCH, OTIS JORDAN

      Molly Linen’s beguiling voice is both emotive yet serene, recalling the dulcet whispered tones of Cat Power, layered upon melodic fingerpicking guitar lines. For fans of This Is The Kit, Anne Briggs and Nick Drake. Molly has received radio support from BBC 6 Music’s Gideon Coe, Marc Riley and Cerys Matthews, as well as BBC Scotland’s Vic Galloway and Roddy Hart.

      Praise for Molly Linen’s recent EP ‘Days Awake’, out on Lost Map Records:

      “Remarkable…a delicate, hugely emotional return” – Clash

      “Gorgeous and precise, ‘Days Awake’ is a masterful piece of work that takes Linen’s signature serene sound and elevates it with varied instrumentation and ambient-inspired elements.” – Folk Radio UK

      “Beautiful” – The Scotsman

      “…Molly Linen returns with six majestically realised new songs that feel as natural as breathing, as hopeful as the beam from a lighthouse.” – Monorail Music

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      Cleìmentine characterises herself as “an alt-rock teenager from the 90s,” yet one who studied classical guitar from a young age, and followed her love of Vila Lobos, Caetano Veloso and more to Brazil for two years in her 20s, where she became immersed in choro, samba and traditional Brazilian genres. Sung in four languages – English, French, Portuguese and Spanish – and influenced by everything from Nirvana to Milton Nascimento, Cleìmentine’s melodically idiosyncratic and joyfully wild music embodies her nomadic spirit by recognising no borders – be they musical, linguistic or geographical.

      Cleìmentine will be playing her album ‘Songs of Resilience’ in full. Songs of Resilience is sung almost entirely in English and features just Clémentine’s voice and acoustic guitar. It’s a stripped-back, raw and direct reaction to the times and circumstances in which it was made.

      “At its heart Songs of Resilience is very like its artist – eclectic, charming, and just a little bit erratic.” – Snack Mag

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      Georges Aperghis: 14 Récitations

      Soprano Stephanie Lamprea performs the entirety of Georges Aperghis’ 14 Récitations. A 45-minute avant-garde song cycle for unaccompanied voice, 14 Récitations (1977–78) shatters traditions of music and theater through innovative uses of atonality, extended vocal techniques (including operatic singing, speaking, sputters and screams), puzzles and repetitions. Each movement incorporates variations of non-semantic text-setting, incorporating combined fragments of French words and vocal utterances to create “mental portraits en miniature.” (Aperghis)