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lhose clever l'dinburgh l ound boys have done it again. lheir latest music- meets art installation is a hands-on delight, making exert the most tone deal teel like musical geniuses. Visitors to Newhayen's [ dinburgh Sculpture Workshop can pla\ With 12 cute and guirk\ cardboard boxes labelled 'Hawrck Balls'. 'M\ster\' Jumping Beans' and ‘Assorted Ambience'. When dragged oyer glass. they produce sound ettects that can be layered up or singled out. allowmg \‘ISliOlS to make sweet. sweet music With endless combinations. FOund recorded the samples in the workshop
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b; ss guitar, glockerispiell With the industrial lband saw. reversing lorklitt truck. extractor lanl to create a lo ti sound. With hi tech stuff hidden behind the scenes. Dr Simon Kirby designed the software after seeing the iPhone keypad.
‘Normally computer interfaces look technical. synthetic and oil putting. We wanted something i£t(‘il|(.‘ and sirriple, lt's hallway between a musical instrument and a composition.
lh s show is inventive. touchy leely and tun go play. (Claire Sawers)
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OH FOR CHRIST SAKE I LIKE SHORTCAKE FEATURING
THE TWILIGHT SAD
Jock indie rock extravanagza
The name of this indie night is trying to tell us we should expect something Scottish. But nothing as twee or nail as a tartan tin of all-butter lingers. Instead, the lineup showcases tour ol Scotland's most promising and pioneering acts. First up are Mouse [at Mouse. who proudly use the Scots dialect and thick Heilan' accents against electropop beats and gentle acoustic tolk harmonies. Dumb Instrument, a tusmn ol cheeky Ayrshire wrt and beautifully soothing lil/Z-lOlk
ditties. are followed by the Jittery pop rock of Glaswegian 'next-tng-things'. Popup. But ‘the band most likely to' are The Twilight Sad. topping the bill wrth their melancholy. soaring soonds. l he tour-piece from Glasgow have been touring the States wrth debut album, Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters. generally making muSic industry people get their knickers in a knot over their polished nOise. a swelling. distorted blend of theremins. guitars and sonic experirnentalism. (Claire Sawersl
I Bannermans, 226 0000, 79 Aug. 8pm, ET.
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Music @Assembly Sounds too good to miss!
House of the Holy Afro ‘...an invigorating celebration of the riches
and the cultures this country has to offer.’
Pretoria News
The Magnets
‘Singing from the Gods” whit
Evening News, Aug 2007.
Yellow Hands
‘Yellow Hands is great entertainment. It only culture was always so much tun!’
Hamburger Abendbiott
Songbird
‘lovely songs well sung and performed
by a great singer’
the Scotsman
Havana Rumba
‘Cuba'in all its blatantly sexy, sweating, booty- shaking glory’
Belly of Drunken Piano
The music of Tom Waits
‘Electritying’ - Variety * * * * the Herald, Aug 2007
Full programme available online NOW www.assemblyfestival.com Bookings 013i 623 3030
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