What's it all about?
A 3-day festival of experimental music, sound and performance. This year we've pulled in a clutch of artists to create a series of events that each explore different aspects of music that doesn't quite fit any given category.
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What this requires of you
An open mind, an interest in things that don't fit into the normal, given categories, and to be in Glasgow between the 15th and 17th Feb 2008. Not much else. Well, let's be honest; you'll need a ticket. But we've made them real cheap: a mere tenner for a day or 25 quid for the whole lot. But then that's not much; it's cheaper than last year.
Call 0141 565 1000 or visit www.thearches.co.uk to book your tickets, find out where the Arches is, how to get there, accessibility and the like.
Thank you
Many thanks to all our supporters.
Where to stay
If you're needing accommodation in Glasgow during the fest, we have some ideas.
A chance to connect to the source of the folk spirit; for sure.
We wanted to do an event that really explored the anarchic, communal and kinda self-validated vibe of musical creation that's a big part of why we dig some of the of the great revenant folk players of our time. What's it like to actually hang back at Matt Valentine's house (Maximum Arousal Farm, Vermont), late at night and listen to the songs being swapped, the beers going down?
So we've invited to MV & EE with their band the Golden Road to sit in with The Cherry Blossoms - Middle Tennessee's finest anarchic post neo-skiffle collective specializing in kazoo-exotica - to sit about, take turns to swap a few songs, sink a pint of 80/- at the bar and come back and sing a few more.
Watch out for a guest appearance from Glasgow's own ecstatic folk poet Richard Youngs.
An intoxicating brew of revenant folk and avant-garde/ beat/ outsider techniques fused in the sun of Neil Young's heaviest electric cuts.
Just about the finest good time, back to the source jug band you've maybe never heard. Sweet as all hell vocals and a kazoo sound to die for.
