Saturday 5 July 2008 - For the Voice
Sunday 6 July 2008 - Imaginary landscape
Tattie Toes
Glasgow-based band Tattie Toes was formed in 2005 by bassist and vocalist Howie Reeve, puppeteer, accordionist and drummer Shane Connolly and Basque singer Nerea Bello. Reeve previously played bass for post-rock orientated outfits such as Shlebie and Maxton Grainger (with Chris Mack and Stevie Jones) and currently with Plates. Bello had previously collaborated with Connolly in German band Krakatit and had also sung for world music band Zuba, while Connolly’s many musical projects included playing in Johnson and an on-going collaboration with Jer Reid and Stevie Jones. The trio improvised together over nine months before inviting violinist Rafe Fitzpatrick (ex-Johnson and G Plan) to join them. Reeve explains, ‘Everyone writes their own parts, whilst remaining open to suggestion from the others. We craft the music as a four piece - rhythms, melodies and feeling, they're the criteria. We just attempt to make good music that's accessible, exciting and expressive.’ For Three Blows, Tattie Toes will perform an unorthodox and largely improvised set.
www.myspace.com/tattietoesCorrecto
Correcto frontman Danny Saunders describes the band as ‘a bit of a revolving door’ - as since they formed in Glasgow in 2003 the line-up has included curator Will Bradley, Franz Ferdinand’s Paul Thompson, and Patrick Doyle (The Royal We), Jake Lovatt (Uncle John & Whitelock and Colin Kearney (Bricolage). However, since the outset the two constants in Correcto’s spiky new-wave sound have been songwriter, singer and guitarist Saunders and guitarist Richard Wright. Both trained as artists –Wright is well known for his dazzling and often vast site-specific wall paintings, made using ‘the most direct and simple means possible’ – brushes and paint. Saunders is still involved in art as a producer/facilitator of installations, but attests, ‘I think music is the most exciting art form out there.’ Influences revealed on their eponymous debut album (released last year on Domino records) include the Kinks, Velvet Underground, Brian Eno, the Ramones, Creation, Bob Dylan, The Smiths, The Modern Lovers and PiL or, as Saunders puts it, ‘all the good stuff’. For Three Blows, Saunders and Wright will play a reworked acoustic set of Correcto songs.
http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/index.php?page=artists&artistID=255www.myspace.com/correcto
www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/r_wright/index.php
Richard Youngs
Richard Youngs was born in Cambridge, England, and has been based in Glasgow since the early 90's. Youngs has produced many prolific and diverse recordings, incorporating aspects of folk, experimental rock, improvisation and electronics. His extensive back catalogue of solo and collaborative work includes albums with Matthew Bower, Brian Lavelle, Neil Campbell, Stephen Todd, Makoto Kawabata, Alex Neilson, Andrew Paine/Ilk, Telstar Ponies and Simon Wickham-Smith/R!!!S!!! Youngs plays many instruments, often choosing the guitar, but he has been known to use the shakuhachi, theremin, oven tray, dulcimer, a home-made synthesizer (common on early recordings) and even a motorway bridge. He also released an album which was entirely a cappella. A Melody Maker review of his album Festival (1996), described him as ‘grand-meister of contemporary British improv, spiritual son of Eddie Prevost and Maddy Prior; gentle manipulator of English hymn-notics and religious incantations; protege, challenger and radicaliser of folk, blues, rock, minimalism and improvisation; translator for the sea and the rain and the sky; ambassador to war and peace, to love and anguish’. For Three Blows, Richard Youngs will perform an unaccompanied vocal set.
www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=youngsrichardwww.myspace.com/richardyoungsmusic
Mayo Thompson
American, born Houston, Texas, 1944, founded The Red Crayola with Frederick Bartheleme, 1966, first performing and recording for International Artists during the ‘psychedelic’ boom. Since, the band in one form or another have recorded more than twenty records and toured the USA, Europe and Japan.
He worked with Rough Trade Records in the late 1970s and again in the early 1980s. He produced a number of records with Geoff Travis during the ‘punk’ boom and, later, on his own. A short list: James Ulmer, The Fall, Stiff Little Fingers, The Raincoats, Scritti Politti, Cabaret Voltaire, Kleenex, Primal Scream, The Shop Assistants.
He played guitar in Pere Ubu 1980-1.
Over the years The Red Krayola project has involved many players known in their own right. To name a few: Gina Birch, Lora Logic, Epic Soundtracks, Allen Ravenstine, David Grubbs, John McEntire, Jim O’Rourke, Tom Watson, Sandy Yang, Elisa Randazzo, Albert Oehlen.
He has a long association with visual artists. He worked for Robert Rauschenberg. He collaborates with Art & Language, and has collaborated with Albert Oehlen. In 1994 he became an adjunct faculty member of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. In recent years he has lived in Edinburgh, where his wife, a molecular biologist, has had her laboratory.
For Three Blows, Thompson will play a solo set of songs, accompanying himself on guitar and pianoforte.
www.dragcity.com/mayo.html