Leith Mills Summer Party with Hame-ish!

Leith Mills Summer Party with Hame-ish!

A night out that feels like a night in... with tasty food, a comfy seat, fabulous entertainment, and maybe a wee bit of discounted shopping!

Come along and enjoy:

Songs from our feature music act, Faith Elliot!

Verse from our feature poet, Shasta Ali!

And poetry and music from our Hame-ish Live line-up!

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Faith Eliott is a songwriter and visual artist. Born in Minneapolis, they moved to Scotland nearly two decades ago.
Through storytelling and world-building, they illustrate intuitive landscapes populated by hagfish, Pleistocene volcanoes, cursed memes, and late-Renaissance apocryphal monsters lurking in the aisles of Asda. Sonically, Eliott grounds themself in a stripped-back, lyric-driven songwriting approach that evolves through the recording process to incorporate orchestral elements—often contributed by frequent collaborator Robyn Dawson—along with electronic textures and found sounds.
Their most recent album ‘dryas’ was released on May 30th via Lost Map Records. It follows two previous releases, ‘Impossible Bodies’ (2019, OK Pal Records) and ‘Insects’ (2016, Song, by Toad Records), both of which received critical acclaim, including coverage from The List and The Scotsman, as well as national radio play on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, and 6Music.

Quotes:
"utterly captivating" - The Skinny
"a fantastical and beautiful work" - The List
"beautiful" - Roddy Hart, BBC Radio Scotland

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Shasta Hanif Ali is a writer and poet. Her writing delicately navigates the legacy of race and heritage; where themes of memory and language interlace and disrupt. Shasta’s writing has been published in the Association for Scottish Literature, Federation of Writers Scotland, and Sidhe Press among others. She has performed her poetry at the Edinburgh Lyceum, Push The Boat Out Festival, and Fringe of Colour. Recently Shasta was nominated as one of Edinburgh’s 100 trail blazing women past and present, and honoured in a mural which exhibited across Edinburgh.