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The Shoogle Project and MOVE
Luka Bloom and The Long Notes
O2 ABC Glasgow 39
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
and support
LUKA BLOOM
SHOOGLENIFTY
FUSION
SUNDAY 22ND JANUARY, 7.30PM
£15, STANDING
It’s Shooglenifty’s main mission in life to make people
dance, so working with renowned Highland dance-maker
Frank McConnell was a natural meeting of minds and
talents – especially since Shooglenifty bassist Quee
MacArthur had already contributed to several previous
productions by McConnell’s Plan B company. With six
dancers strutting their stuff to a live set from the band,
The Shoogle Project – part gig, part ceilidh - promises
to get its audience comprehensively in the groove.
Another dynamic, high-octane fusion of contemporary
dance with Scottish tradition comes courtesy of MOVE,
in which a heavyweight posse of pipers, drummers and
instrumentalists – including Neil Primrose (Travis), Fraser
Fifield, John Goldie and John Saich – meets hip-hop crew
Random Aspekts.
MOVE are supported by the Year of Creative Scotland
SPONSORED BY
FOLK
WEDNESDAY 25TH JANUARY, 7.30PM
£15, SEATED & STANDING AREAS
Many would vie for the honour, but few better merit
the role of personal musician to the Dalai Lama, on
his Australian tour last June, as Irish world troubadour
Luka Bloom, who opened each of His Holiness’s “public
conversation” events with As I Waved Goodbye, a song
he wrote in tribute some years ago. A longtime Glasgow
favourite, Bloom delighted fans once again with 2010’s
Dreams in America, a newly-recorded, solo-acoustic
sampler from his 25-year back catalogue.
Dazzling London-based quartet The Long Notes,
comprising Jamie Smith (fiddle), Colette O’Leary
(accordion), Brian Kelly (banjo/mandolin) and Alex Percy
(guitar/vocals) recently released their superb second
album, In the Shadow of Stromboli.
INDIE
THURSDAY 26TH JANUARY, 7.30PM
£15, STANDING
Their justly-titled, Mercury-nominated album Diamond
Mine announced Fence Collective heid yin King Creosote,
aka Kenny Anderson, and dance/electronica artist
Jon Hopkins as one of 2011’s dream-team pairings,
sending critics into unanimous raptures. Seven years
in the making, it features an array of gems delved
from Anderson’s 20-year archive, tumbled and polished
with freshly-recorded vocals, found sounds and digital
manipulation, to create – in Anderson’s words – “a nearclassical
suite of emotion ranging from cracked despair
to patched-up euphoria.”
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