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On the threshold: songs and poems for a Covid-safe Christmas

December 6, 2020 by Fay Young 6 Comments

Covid has closed the doors at least for now.  But, there’s death-defying joy in Michael Marra’s song, a lockdown escape to be played loud and long.  Here’s Frida Kahlo cutting an intoxicatingly exotic dash dancing to Perdido among the locals in the singer’s favourite bar.  

Voices for humanity: Max Richter’s quiet protest

December 5, 2020 by Gordon Munro Leave a Comment

Screenshot, from Max Richter's Mercy, official music video by Yulia Mahr

‘If we get back to public performance in time the piece is tailor made to open next year’s Edinburgh International Festival – at its source is the same inspiration that reached out a hand to the vanquished of the Second World War and also led to the creation of the first festival in 1947. It would be apt too given that Max Richter studied at Edinburgh University’.

Songs for our time

December 5, 2020 by Abi Rooley-Towle Leave a Comment

Prayer flags image by lwtt93 CC.by 2.0

From Scotland to Canada, four musicians and an artist came together during lockdown to create a song to raise funds for Medecins Sans Frontieres, to help the worlds most vulnerable people.

In praise of the album: #SAYAward

September 19, 2020 by Craig Angus Leave a Comment

Why make an album now? Craig Angus celebrates the longform and the Scottish Album of the Year for upholding it.

Pop Matters – in and out of lockdown

June 12, 2020 by Craig Angus Leave a Comment

Craig Angus explores the lines between pop, politics and using art to both escape from, and make sense of a fractured world. Meet the makers of Pop Matters workshops: Maria Sledmere and Conner Milleken

Katie Lynch: Ventures in lockdown

May 30, 2020 by Craig Angus Leave a Comment

Katie Lynch and Douglas Hill: St Martins photo credit Douglas Hill

“The arts, like everything, have absolutely fallen victim to capitalism. The ‘product’ of artists ripped from them while people in charge decide its value.”

We’re all islanders in a pandemic

May 30, 2020 by Fay Young 2 Comments

Screenshot of Giles Perring broadcasting his event to the world from the Isle of Jura studio

In retrospect it seems eerily prophetic. Those faces framed in small screens, distant voices interconnecting in the ether. Yet that’s not really it. What interests Giles Perring is something simpler, but more profound than a Zoom event.

Declan Welsh: Ventures in lockdown

May 16, 2020 by Craig Angus Leave a Comment

‘Feeling helpless, isolated, scared, alone, trapped, nostalgic, missing people, missing the pub: these are all feelings we will always feel. Except for maybe the pub bit. My songwriting tends to be really misty eyed over that communal drinking with friends thing anyway. Now that’s gone into overdrive.’

Introducing Ventures in Lockdown

May 2, 2020 by Craig Angus 4 Comments

Craig Angus of Savage Mansion

Covid-19 has stopped live music in its tracks. No gigs. No tours. No plans. What is it like to be a musician in lockdown? Writer/Musician Craig Angus opens our new series by asking himself.

Love in the time of COVID19

March 29, 2020 by Abi Rooley-Towle 1 Comment

‘We will need to be the Phoenix that rises from the flames – may our plumage be kindness, astuteness, carefulness and long-sightedness. These would be golden feathers indeed.’

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