MAGIC MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL

Magic Mountain

This is our idea of North: trashed gutties and clarted push bikes, ancient rock and future landscapes, torch light, dawn light, lighting fires (both real and metaphorical), peaking speakers, speaking peaks - Magic Mountain.

Ray Aggs

A multiinstrumentalist and songwriter based in Glasgow. Aggs, a prolific specialist in euphoric post-punk, has achieved international acclaim with collaborative touring projects Trash Kit, Shopping and Sacred Paws. Creating zines and co-ordinating workshops that encourage women, non-binary people, and people of colour to form bands, Aggs has galvanised the DIY scene in the UK. Aggs released a solo album on Lost Map records as part of their Visitations residency in 2019 and self released //Tape 1// in 2020. Both releases showcase Aggs’ signature hybrid post-punk/highlife inspirations stripped down to new minimal extremes. Pulsating, electronic beats, coolly-recited lyrical mantras and spindly guitar lines abound in this life affirming music that speaks directly to your heart.

Clarissa Connelly

Born in Fife, Scotland, as a child Clarissa relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark, whose cultural landscape has continued to fuel her creativity. Over many years she’s explored the sacred sites, mythology, and music of Nordic culture, finding enduring inspiration in the Celtic tradition. While she’s maintained an active role in the thriving local music scene, a global audience has awakened to her sound. She first gained international attention with Tech Duinn (2018), an hypnotic EP named after a spiritual gateway in Celtic myth. For her most recent album, The Voyager (2021), Clarissa physically walked the Scandinavian landscape, channelling melodies from ancient pre-Christian sites. She also developed an app (Vandringen) which allowed others to virtually join-in and musically respond to these sites. The album received global acclaim and was awarded the prestigious Nordic Music Prize. Both more intimate and cosmic in scope than its predecessors, World of Work (her debut album for Warp) draws inspiration from visionary literature, dreams, and meditative walks. While The Voyager explored the sacred history of the Nordic landscape, World of Work explores the metaphysical landscape of the soul. The listener is invited on an inner journey that is by turns hushed and ecstatic.

Norman&Corrie

A musician born on a kitchen floor in the Shetland Islands. Now in Glasgow living and working somewhere between the worlds of Jazz, Electronic and Folk music with an emphasis on Saxophone, Keys and production. In between the kitchen floor in Shetland and the current Glasgow tenement, Norman has released 2 albums. The most recent release ‘For All Your Needs’ warps Shetland’s Norse culture and traditional fiddle music into something truly unique and ingeniously reimagined for modern ears. Willmore is one of the most active artists in the burgeoning Glasgow Jazz scene frequently collaborating with artists like Fergus McCreadie Large Ensemble, Corto.Alto, Terra Kin and India Blue as well as artists from the folk world like Peatbog Faeries, Beth Orton and Lau.

Harry Gorski-Brown

Harry is a musician based in Glasgow. Working in different mediums, he often performs electroacoustic music using voice, pipes and fiddle with a current focus on settings of traditional Gaelic songs from a long time ago. His most recent release, Durt Dronemaker After Dream Boats, marries small pipes with processed sound work. The record is interspersed with spoken fragments that allude, with a perhaps comedic tone to a dark interpretation of the natural world. His current ventures include NOISE POCKET a collaborative project with Paddy Hog, Josiah & Ludwig, a Cryptic commission with Annabelle Playe.

Jenny Graham

Jenny Graham from Inverness is an endurance rider, adventurer, author, filmmaker, presenter and public speaker. In 2018 she became the fastest woman to cycle around the world solo and self-supported. She's a self confessed endurance loving, earth hugging, fist pumping dirt bag, and can confirm an absolute hoot! Graham has travelled the world with Global Cycling Network, run community engagement projects with the adventure syndicate and featured in numerous podcasts and film projects - check out her Round-The-World podcast for some insight into her missions.

Scott Douglas Gordon

Scott Douglas Gordon is an electronic musician with an ever evolving output. His current practices exist within the realms of chaos theory. Randomised interaction with improvised “instruments” are followed down rabbit holes. The resulting sonics are thrilling journeys into an ever-expanding unknown. There is a sense that the music could continue without its creator - like a garden gone to seed.

Rough stuff fellowship archive

Max makes books about mountains, cycling and adventure, often digging into archives to do so. In 2016 he founded Isola Press, which has published Bunker Research, The Rough-Stuff Fellowship Archive and, most recently Mountain Style: British Outdoor Clothing 1953-2000 and Lost Summers and Half-Forgotten Afternoons: a Mint Sauce collection, featuring 35 years of comic strips about Jo Burt’s mountain-biking sheep. For other publishers he has written books including Higher Calling: road cycling’s obsession with mountains (Yellow Jersey, 2017) and A Cold Spell: a human history of ice.

The Adventure Syndicate

A collective of women who ride bikes and organise inclusive events to encourage others to do the same. Disillusioned by the ultra-commercial, sanitised and male dominated nature of bike-packing races, the collective organise events based on their dirty, elemental halcyon days. Their mission - to diversify the sport and connect people with the values they feel should be at the heart of riding and racing bicycles: community, challenge, environment, inclusivity and, most importantly, fun.

Junglehussi

Junglehussi, also known as Matthew Arthur Williams, is a Glasgow based DJ, photographer and artist. A rising star championed by the likes of Optimo, he holds down a regular residency at La Cheetah and radio spots on Clydebuilt and Buena Vida. Dancehall and ragga roots shine through, but his vibrant sets brim with influence and spirit. Expect techno, dancehall, R & B and anything in between, best dress tae sweat.

Patagonia Worn wear truck

Patagonia’s Worn Wear Program was created in 2013 as a way to encourage people to take good care of their gear. The Worn Wear truck is a mobile repair shop complete with an industrial sewing machine and will be stationed at the festival all weekend. Bring along your hammered garmz and get 'em fixed for free, regardless of the brand.

Highland Zine bothy

The Highland Zine Bothy launched in June 2024. It holds a collection of over 300 zines housed in a heather thatched shed in Inverness. The Zine Bothy has been brought to life with the aim of celebrating zine activity with the local community, by archiving and showcasing publications from the Highlands and beyond. To date H.Z.B has hosted over 10 zine-making workshops, open days and an inclusive cataloguing training session with their Glasgow namesake.

Hamish Frost

Hamish is one of Europe’s most talented mountain and adventure photographers. His ability to move quickly on technical ground, and skills as a climber allow him to produce exciting images in inhospitable places. He puts his energy into helping improve visible diversity in the outdoors and making climbing a welcoming space for members of the LGBTQ community. His recent film with Berghaus offers an intimate and deeply personal account of his journey as a queer man working in the outdoors. Hamish is currently working on a book on Scottish mixed climbing.

Black Lodge Press

CJ Reay is a Cumbrian artist based in Yorkshire. For the past 10 years he has run Black Lodge Press - a publishing press and print project combining punk zines, risograph printing and radical politics.

Craig Gallacher

Multi-talented designer Craig Gallacher has produced a wide variety of projects from site-specific installation to radio plays. These include A Concert in a Coire - a gig in Coire Lagan and a swathe of events for the Glasgow Film Festival. Music and mountains seem to always be at the core of what he does. As a DJ, he held down long-time residencies in Glasgow and Dundee and organised parties with 12th Isle. He ran cult label Esk - responsible for the critically acclaimed Resono project and a rake of experimental Scottish artists. A prolific hill runner, his knowledge of mountain subculture is only surpassed by his musical.

Col Gordon

Col Gordon lives and works on his family’s farm in the Scottish Highlands. In 2021 he narrated and co-produced “Landed,” a much lauded podcast which investigated the past, present and future of the smaller scale farming model through the lens of colonialism. He has spent over a decade working with heritage grains, researching, growing and baking. This forms a part of his vision to revive and implement productive, viable and sustainable agricultural systems.

Kirsty Pallas

Kirsty Pallas is a mountaineering instructor, climber, mountain and gravel biker, and full-time provider of good vibes. Through her role at Mountaineering Scotland, and within the wider outdoor industry, she works towards making the outdoors a more inclusive and welcoming space for people from all backgrounds, but only between telling you about her dog, Moss.

Torque

Nomadic artisan route-setting lads will be concocting a complete set of new routes and the now legendary Magic Mountain climbing comp, expect big rocks, wild moves and toilet plungers.

Food and drink

Local legends of street food Allan and Jackie from the Hungry Gull will be with us all weekend, dawn tae dusk serving up hot and tasty treats. Expect hearty vegan and veggie fare, perfect to fuel your sends.

FESTIVAL RUNNING ORDER

Friday

06:00 - 18:00 The Bongly

16:00 - 18:00 Check in / Third Ridge

16:00 - 19:00 Fidjit exhibition / Third Ridge upstairs

16:00 - 19:00 Highland Zine Bothy / Birch Roastery

16:00 - 19:00 Izzy Law, Shinty; Past, Present and Future / Archive Centre

16:00 - 19:00 Prey, a film by Beth Chalmers / Inside Out

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner / Gathering Hall

20:00 - 20:30 Brìghde Chaimbeul, Where the Veil is Thin

21:00 - 22:00 Ray Aggs

22:00 - 23:00 Clarissa Connelly

Saturday

08:00 - 09:00 Yoga / Studio 1

09:00 - 10:00 Breakfast / Third Ridge

10:00 - 11:00 Bike mending workshop / Third Ridge 

10:00 - 11:00 Kirsty Pallas / Studio 2

11:00 - 12:00 Hamish Frost / Studio 2

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch / Gathering Hall

13:00 - 15:00 Cosmic Toads climbing comp / Third Ridge

13:00 - 14:00 H’min Bam screening / Studio 2

15:00 - 17:00 Print Power workshop / Studios 1 & 2*

17:30 - 18:30 Jenny Graham / Gathering Hall

18:30 - 19:30 Dinner / Gathering Hall

19:30 - 20:00 Daniel Cullen

20:00 - 21:00 Harry Gorski Brown

21:00 - 22:00 Norman & Corrie

22:00 - 23:00 Scott Douglas Gordon (Oto Hiax) & Craig Gallacher DJ

23:00 - 01:00 JungleHussi DJ

Sunday

09:00 - 10:00 Breakfast / Third Ridge

10:00 - 11:00 Trax and Field / Third Ridge

10:00 - 11:00 Caboose screening / Studio 2

10:00 - 12:00 Will Hempstead / Studio 1

11:00 - 12:00 Max Leonard RSF Archive / Studio 2

11:00 - 12:00 Group Swim / Scorrybreac slip (wetsuits provided)

12:00 - 13:00 Col Gordon / Studio 2

12:00 - 13:00 Dropstitch / Las

13:00 - 13:30 Lunch / Third Ridge

13:30 - 14:30 Twa Double Doubles - A visual album by Douglas Tyrrell / Las

14:30 - 15:30 Adventure Syndicate / Las

16:00 - 17:00 Scott Douglas Gordon live / Portree Sailing Club, dress for outside

*Zine making workshop with Highland Zine bothy, Scottish Mountain press, Lizzie wood & Lesley Sharpe