Neu! Reekie!
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Avant-garde spoken word, film and music fusion night describing itself as 'playing host to the sinister and the sanguine'.
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Brought to you by writers Michael Pedersen and Kevin Williamson, Neu! Reekie! is a medley of spoken word, film, animation, performance and music – now seen to be Scotland’s best attended mixed-arts night and ‘a key piece of mother Caledonia’s cultural puzzle’. Each night features two musical acts, two spoken words acts and many mighty animations. Although, our aesthetic has been known to spiral out into table sculptures, live portraits, lightshows and a Raffle of the Absurd.
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Neu! Reekie! - Summerhall, Edinburgh, Fri 26 Oct
13 Nov 2012
The Spoken Word meets music and film night is candlelit for a Hallowe'en special
Conjure in your mind a darkened hall lit by candles: where poets chant about their parents in spirituous rhythms, atmospheric animated shorts include a vintage Loony Tunes cartoon and live music flits from mesmerising folk to a mythic Russian sea…
Ten collaborative music, theatre and film projects from Scotland
7 Nov 2012
Including Speed of Light, Pass the Spoon and Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Pass the Spoon. It sounded like an unlikely dish, with ingredients including off-beat artist David Shrigley (who wrote the libreto), modernist composer David Fennessy and Magnetic North director Nicholas Bone working with the Red Note Ensemble, but when…
Spoken word and live literary events in Scotland
2 Nov 2012
An overview of live literary events including Inky Fingers, Unbound and Neu! Reekie!
Where once the poetry slam was the Scots wordsmith’s destination of choice for public verbosity, there are now a growing number of spoken word readings at everything from book festivals to DIY venues. Aspiring writers are quickly catching on to a…
Edinburgh performance night Neu! Reekie! becomes record label
18 Jul 2012
Neu! Reekie! Records releases Jesus, Baby! feat Davy Henderson
Over the past 18 months, Neu! Reekie!’s monthly Friday nights of what used to be called alternative entertainment have captured Edinburgh’s off-piste underground in a way not seen since Rebel Inc lit-zine first broke cover in the early 1990s. Now Neu!
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