Ultrachip
2 Days Of Live Chipmusic, Visuals & Workshops
August 19 & August 20, 8pm

Ultrachip returns for two more days of live chiptune & chip-related happenings, featuring local, national & international artists. It’s all going down in Edinburgh at the Forest Cafe, and it’s entirely free to attend.

The event runs 8pm - 3am both nights, plus there are afternoon events on the Saturday.

More details here.

Terminal Fuckery
Dance Party
August 18, 8pm

DANCE PARTY!!YOWSAH!!!YOWSAH!!!YOWSA​H!!!DANCE PARTY

It’s a postmodern continuum of the African griot culture cultivated for thousands of years through ancient civilisations and manifested within such other magnificent oral and musical traditions as African American folk songs and spirituals, gospel hymns, the Mississippi Delta blues, ragtime, big band swing, be-bop jazz, beatnik poetry, early rhyth…m and blues, honky-tonk, zydeco, rock’n’roll, go-go, funk, reggae, soca, calypso, ska, polka, flamenco, salsa, merengue, bossa nova, bluegrass, tejano, fusion, death metal, industrial, glam, jungle, show-tunes, campfire sing-a-longs, tubercolosis cough, synchronised quaffing, gypsy muzak, yodelling, hobo harmonica music, techno-samba, porn soundtracks, gay german disco, Tourette’s syndrome, snoring, conversations with God and armpit fart noises.

Lucky 7 Ska Club
August 20, 11pm
Bristo Hall

FREE!! yes a FREE ‘Lucky 7’ night…ska, two-tone, rocksteady and early reggae!!

New Urban Frontier & Chimney Boys
August 22, 11pm
Bristo Hall

Politicised, punk-inspired, dub-loving, soul-singing, ska-swinging, seven-piece live band with a rapper!

Edinburgh’s resident fast-paced muzikal mash mash ‘New Urban Frontier’ are joined on stage by the riotously wonderful folk of the Chimney Boys, all the way from Kent. Get your feet moving, and come celebrate the end of the summer and the launch of our latest E.P. ‘Climbing The Walls Of Babylon’.

GOLDEN HOUR - The Final Act
August 24, 1pm - 3am
FREE

Here it is: the times for the last ever monthly Golden Hour at The Forest. Stay for the day and dance till the end. Or pop in for just an hour. Or stay out of our way. Whatever. We don’t care, this is the end. All times are subject to change, technical difficulties will be regular and you should expect and enjoy surprises. We’ll also have a poster exhibition and a chance to buy some of your favourite GH posters. See you there. Or not.

1.15 —- Tom Pow
1.30 —- Good music from Lake & Vanessa
1.50 —- Reel Festivals Film from Roxanna Pope

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2.10 —- William Letford
— poems from up high
2.25 —- Toby Mottershead
blues and booze from the Black Diamond Conductor. Hoot hoot!
2.45 —- film

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3.00 – Emily Ballou — Prize-winning poet and ace in the hole.
3.15 – Billy Liar — acoustic punk glory
3.25 – Luke Williams & Natasha Soobramanien
A Sonic Reading for Luke’s highly praised first novel — The Echo Chamber

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4.20 – Ericka Duffy — master of all.
4.35 – Cardboard Orchestra
live improvised electro from another room
5.10 – film

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5.30 – Anna Crowe — powerful poems with a gentle voice.
6.00 – Robin Grey — guitar, violin, accordion, love, barefeet, joy, music, happiness.
6.40 – film

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7.00 – Kirstin Innes — stories that wham, pow, bang.
7.15 – Jen and the Gents — Poppy loveliness which warms all the cold bits.
7.30 – film

DJ Dolphin boy — kicks into your eardrums

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8.00 —- John Glenday — poems like crazy shining diamonds
8.20 —- Little Big Band — crooning toones! — an easy listening mash-up.
8.40 – cartoon

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8.55 — Alan Bisset — His stories are all right. His hair is perfect.
9.10 — The Ghost of Joeseph Seal — yes, haunting.
9.30 — cartoon

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10.00 – Jane Flett — seamstress of most fetching stories and poems.
10.10 — Jonny Berliner — Joyus songs about crustacaens, exhaustion, and glucose.

11.30 —- Paper Cinema — A cast of hand-drawn marionettes are magically brought to life. This is what happens at the accidental meeting of inkblots, photocopies, cardboard, angle-poise lamps, the occasional table, video technology, a laptop and a banana box.

00.00 —- Jason Morton — Or is he? Stories or Disaster. We never know.

00.15 — Jed Milroy and Hailey Beavis — bring us up and break us down. Shake it till you make it.

HARD ROCK MONDAY
August 15, 7pm
FREE

Mother fuckers, the time has come for each and every one of you to decide whether you are going to be the problem or whether you are going to be the solution. You must choose.

It isn’t that hard, just hard rock.

We’ve got the maitres of mayhem, metal monster moshmeisters Monheim. And Spargelkraut, Edinburgh’s only German covers band. On the 1s and 2s, you can look forward to CyanBlack, G-Force, the Mortician and $-Dawg. If that wasn’t enough, Alex is greasing his hair clippers in preparation for giving the whole of Edinburgh a mullet. And to help you keep your strength up, 11 different nachos will be on sale all day. Not to mention the brewskis. Always the brewskis.

It’s time to move, it’s time to get down. It’s time to testify. You don’t even need a ticket to kick it.

[AWRY] PSYCHEGAELIC CÈILIDH
August 12, 7pm
Bristo Hall, Free

For the very last time [awry] will be holding a psychegaelic cèilidh in the Forest Hall with very special from ‘Uke Boogie’, ‘Jen & the Gents’ and ‘Akimbo Divine’…

The Occasional Flickers & Guests
August 12, 7pm
FREE

featuring:
The Occasional Flickers
The Japanese War Effort
plus screenings of ‘People On Sunday’ (1930) and ‘The Red Balloon’ (1956)

PILOT 4
an open-mic scratch quiz art gig radio show from Flatrate.
8 til late, Sunday 14th August

It involves installations, games, comedy, music making, experiments and banter. Then we make it all into a podcast and put it on the Internet. It’s a bit like making a radio show in a rowdy bar instead of a studio. Actually, that’s exactly what it’s like. Also it’s free. Microphones, instruments, games, a bar and totally real actual celebrity guests will be provided.

You can read what The List had to say about it here (http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/35708-pilot/) and you can listen to old editions of the podcast here (http://soundcloud.com/flatratestate/tracks).

If you”re thinking of popping down to perform and promote your show, or you just fancy a blether ahead of time then email colin@flatratestate.com