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NEU! REEKIE!

Neu! Reekie! are a literary production house ran by two poets (Michael Pedersen & Kevin Williamson) that have been curating and producing cross-culture shows for over seven years. They showcase a unique fusion of spoken word, animation, film and music at regular events within Scotland and the world over. Having developed a collective of core artists Neu!Reekie! has become a fertile breeding ground for collaboration and one of the fastest moving grassroots arts organisations in the U.K

This night will feature:

KATHRYN JOSEPH

Kathryn Joseph's debut album – bones you have thrown me and blood I've spilled – carried her from being one of Scotland's best-kept secrets to winner of Scottish Album of the Year Award, within six months in 2015. An ethereal experience, her debut record is lyrically compelling, sonically vivid and consistently moving.

Most recently Kathryn has been performing with Out Lines – a collaboration between her, Marcus Mackay & Twilight Sad's James Graham – who've completed a triumphant tour including supporting the likes of label mates Mogwai.

SCOTTISH ALBUM OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015 | Winner TOP 50 SCOTTISH ALBUMS OF 2015 | No. 2, The Herald TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2015 | No. 2, The National ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2015 | No. 2, Roddy Hart, BBC Radio Scotland HOT 100 2015 | No. 3, The List FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF 2015 | No. 4, GoldFlakePaint SINGLE OF THE YEAR 2015 | the bird, Vic Galloway, BBC Radio Scotland

"VERY SPECIAL INDEED" | Lauren Laverne, BBC Radio 6 Music "BRUISED AND YET BEAUTIFUL" | Nicola Meighan, The Herald "YOU'LL BE LEFT OPEN-MOUTHED" | Andrew Hannah, The Line of Best Fit "EMOTIONALLY RAW, METICULOUSLY CRAFTED SONGS" | Bill Cummings, God is in the T


HOLLIE MCNISH

Hollie McNish loves writing poems. She has published four poetry collections and a play about football. She won the inaugural Arts Foundation Spoken Word Award in 2015 and the Ted Hughes Award in 2017, which she was really excited about. Her poems receive many millions of online views and she was the first poet to record an album at Abbey Road Studio. Pink has tweeted one of her poems and so has Davina McCall. https://holliepoetry.com


Also featuring Michael Pedersen & Kevin Williamson with more acts to be announced soon.

NEU! REEKIE!

In July 2015 we embarked upon The Anywhere But the Cites tour –17 shows and 35 performers over the best part of month. This was aw over Scotland with some of our favourite artists in tow: Liz Lochhead, RM Hubbert, Bill Ryder-Jones, Hollie McNish, Stanley Odd, Aidan Moffat, Jenni Fagan, King Creosote, (tour buddies) FOUND & many mare. And, aye, the premise was nestled in the banner – we'd go Anywhere But The Cities. So we journeyed to the likes of Thurso, Durness, Oban, Hawick, Dingwall and Ullapool and onto the Islands tae – Mull and Skye.

It's 2018 and we're not on tour again but back out of the cities to sculpt a couple of focused events with Ross Archibald and The Drouthy Cobbler in the hope of reigniting our fuse with the area


'Scotland's favourite avant-garde noisemakers..Neu! Reekie! dismantle the structures and snobberies dividing high and low art - art is for everyone' (The Skinny)
'A wonderful world of cross-cultural verve' (The List)
'A triumph' (Sunday Times)