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SUMMERHALL CLOSING PARTY Heatsick and Optimo DJs kiss the Fringe goodbye S ummerhall, Optimo DJ Johnny Wilkes, who makes music under the alter ego of Naum Gabo.
formerly a veterinary hospital, is now an excellent, if shambolic, hub of weird performance, experimental art and outdoor drinking. It opened the festival in sublime, high-energy style with a live set of trance-inducing dancefloor euphoria from (best live band in Scotland right now?) Golden Teacher and a cassette-DJ set from Brian Shimkovitz, the man behind the Brooklyn blog, Awesome Tapes from Africa. Keeping the good vibes coming, Braw Gigs (Summerhall’s music entertainment commander-in-chief) is throwing a closing party, featuring Berlin-based producer, Heatsick (pictured), with a live set from
Heatsick, real name Steven Warwick, played the Glasgow Art School back in April, a part sound installation, part club experiment, helped along by yoga mats, lavender room spray, green-tea cocktails and fortune cookies. His cyclical-tropical beats tickled the room into a grinning, sweaty frenzy, so his farewell set to the Fringe should hopefully go with a similar party bang. (Claire Sawers) Summerhall, 560 1581, 24 Aug, 11pm, £10.
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HITLIST THE BEST ROCK, POP, JAZZ & FOLK
✽ Neutral Milk Hotel Reformed experimental indie rockers from Athens,
Georgia who became cult favourites in their absence. Corn Exchange, 14 Aug, 7pm, £25.85.
✽ LuckyMe Festival Party Sneaky Pete’s, 225 1757, 17 Aug, 11pm, £10. See
preview, Clubs, page 94.
✽ Kronos Quartet Two concerts from the US string quartet – Beyond Zero, a
response in music and film to WWI; then Philip Glass’ String Quartet No 6 and Clint Mansell’s music from Requiem for a Dream. Festival Theatre, 473 2000, 18 Aug, 8pm, £15–£35; Usher Hall, 473 2000, 19 Aug, 8pm, £10–£34.
✽ Grandmaster Flash Widely regarded as the man who invented the genre, the Bronx hip hop legend is behind the decks. 99 Hanover Street, 225 8200, 21 Aug, 9pm, free.
✽ Josephine Foster The Colorado-born psych-folkie varies her style between fireside
narratives, warbling myths and Morriconean ballads. Summerhall, 560 1581, 22 Aug, 10pm, £10 (£8).
✽ Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony Samuel Pisar, a survivor of both Auschwitz
and Dachau, delivers a personal narration to accompany Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony. See feature, page 70. Usher Hall, 473 2000, 24 Aug, 7.30pm, £12—£44.
560 1581, 24 Aug, 11pm, £10.
✽ Heatsick See preview, left. Summerhall, ✽ Yann Seznec’s Currents See preview, Visual Art, page 90. Installation,
Easter Road, until 31 Aug, 10am–6pm, free; performance, Trinity Apse, 31 Aug, 6pm, free; artist talk, Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 555 7100, 26 Aug, 6.30pm, free.
✽ Sandakan Threnody A composition by EIF director Jonathan Mills, performed by
the BBC SSO Orchestra alongside Glagolitic Mass, by Janácek. See feature, page 71. Usher Hall, 473 2000, 30 Aug, 8pm, £12–£44.
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