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The Herald Scotland
7 days ago
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- The Herald Scotland
Head along to the Lughnasadh Music and Art Festival
Head to Forgan Arts Centre for an afternoon and evening of live music and family friendly art activities in the centre's lush grounds. Following the success of last year's festival, Lughnasadh returns with an even bigger line-up featuring Scottish Album of the Year Award winners Kathryn Joseph and Sacred Paws; Mercury Prize nominee BBC Introducing Scottish Act of the Year Becky Sikasa and many others. Kathryn Joseph (Image: Kathryn Joseph) The Garden 1-30 August. Entry free. Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1BP. Artist Sian Davey and her son Luke spent three years transforming her garden into an immersive wildflower haven during which time their garden wall became a community space for shared stories. Inviting others in, they managed to capture moments of reflection, love and connection which lead to the birth of The Garden - a place for heartbreak, joy and everything in between. Coburg House Summer Open Studios 1-3 August. Entry free. Coburg House Art Studios, 15 Coburg Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6ET. This summer Coburg House [[Art]] Studios marks a major milestone - 20 years since it opened its doors to the public for its renowned biannual Open Studios events. Coburg House is home to over 70 artists, designers and makers and across its four floors of working studios, visitors can discover a thriving hub of creativity that has become one of Scotland's leading artist collectives. Andy Goldsworthy - Fifty Years 26 July-2 November. Entry free. Scottish National Gallery, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL. Taking over the upper and lower galleries in the Royal Scottish Academy building for the summer is Andy Goldsworthy's Fifty Years exhibition. There's over 200 works such as photographs, sculptures and expansive installations as well as several major new works that have been created onsite specifically for this exhibition. Into the Wild 26-27 July. Entry free. Leith Makers, 105 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 8NP. Featuring work from three Edinburgh-based artists, this exhibition explores the natural, mystical and dark aspects of the world around us. Dani's work explores the relationships animals have with their natural environment while Dee's work imagines creatures tasked with curating natural spaces and keeping their inhabitants happy and healthy. Jim on the other hand is influenced by the darker, more feral parts of nature. Switch Track 26 July-9 August. Entry free. Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, 164 Renfrew Street, G3 6RQ. Victoria Morton – Switch Track (Image: Victoria Morton) The period between 1995 to 2025 represents 30 years of painting since artist Victoria Morton graduated from The Glasgow School of Art, with this exhibition featuring a selection of works from that spell. It carefully draws upon sketchbook materials, paintings and mixed media works from different points in time. There's painting, sculptural assemblages, photography and sound work which covers the variety of Morton's practice. Shifting Surfaces 28 July-11 October. Entry free. Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LT. Immerse yourself in the inspirations and collaborations between Victoria Crowe and Dovecot Studios and mark a major milestone in the career of one of Scotland's most distinguished contemporary artists. Journey through a rich relationship of texture and textiles while overlooking Dovecot's studio where these masterpieces were created. Millais In Perthshire 26 July-30 April 2027. Entry free. Perth Art Gallery, 78 George Street, Perth, PH1 5LB. New for 2025, this exhibition is a private collection of rarely seen artworks and personal belongings of prominent Victorian artist John Everett Millais and his Perth-born wife Euphemia 'Effie' Chalmers Gray. As part of a long-term loan from the artist's great grandson, this display explores the profound connections between Millais and Perthshire, a landscape that inspired several of his most celebrated works. We are the Witches, We are, Hear 1-30 August. Entry free. The House of Smalls, 103 Henderson Row, Stockbridge, EH3 5BB. Discover textile artwork from 70 female artists who aim to use their craft to challenge, disturb and disrupt. Running throughout the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the exhibition explores the concept of the witch as female divinity, female ferocity and female transgression. Eden 26 July-11 August. Entry free. The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, Glasgow, G1 5HZ. Rooted in the language of nature, Michelle Campbell's work uses the natural world as a source and platform to navigate and express her own experience of the world. The exhibition charts the meeting points between mind and matter, feeling and form, chaos and clarity and invites viewers to enter not only into the natural imagery but into a way of seeing, and sensing that is fluid, raw and vivid.
Scotsman
16-06-2025
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- Scotsman
Kathryn Joseph confirms late night Edinburgh International Festival show in support of new album 'We Were Made Prey'
Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Kathryn Joseph has announced a very special late night show at The Hub on August 9 as part of this year's Edinburgh International Festival, in support of her new album 'WE WERE MADE PREY.', out now via Rock Action Records. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Since winning the Scottish Album Of The Year award in 2015 for her debut record, Kathryn Joseph's music has evolved from intimate and delicate to something altogether more intense, skilfully combining raw emotion with piano, keyboards and electronic elements. Joined by longtime collaborator Lomond Campbell, Joseph ventures into darker, more experimental territory, marking a pivotal shift in her artistry. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Returning to the Edinburgh International Festival on August 9 after her acclaimed 2021 performance, she invites fans into a space where vulnerability and beauty collide in profoundly moving music. Kathryn Joseph New album WE WERE MADE PREY. dances on the knife-edge: of action versus inaction, of want versus wanting, of self-fulfilment versus shame. Continuing her creative partnership withproducer Lomond Campbell, recording took place in the remote Black Bay Studios on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides last winter. Joseph's fourth long-player is both a reaction to and reprieve for the animal within. Eleven songs that accept her whole being, with all its hunger, lust and rage, and its devastating tenderness too. Through her hunt for answers to punishing choices, 'the kind that can absolutely f**k up your life,' the Glasgow-based singer-songwriter has come out the other side with something new to say. Joseph's pursuit of truth is the red thread that winds through each of her albums. It's there among the agonising beauty of bones you have thrown me and blood i have spilled, her Scottish Album of the Year Award-winning debut. It's there, too, in 2018's from when i wake the want is, sewn into the primal grief and grasping of the songs. And it made its presence felt again in 2022's for you who are the wronged, her powerful exploration of abuse in all its twisted shapes and guises, acclaimed for its 'luminous brand of minimalism' (Pitchfork) and as 'an outright masterpiece of emptiness and full-to-bursting-ness at the same time' (The Quietus). Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Joseph has also just announced a full UK headline tour for autumn 2025, taking in 12 dates across England to follow her Edinburgh International Festival appearance. In between, she will return to the road in support of labelmates (and bosses) Mogwai for a run of European shows in August-September. Lomond Campbell will be performing with Joseph at all shows.
Scotsman
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Kathryn Joseph confirms late night Edinburgh International Festival show in support of new album
Scottish singer-songwriter Kathryn Joseph has announced a very special late night show at The Hub on 9th August as part of this year's Edinburgh International Festival, in support of her new album 'We were made prey', out now via Rock Action Records. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Since winning the Scottish Album Of The Year award in 2015 for her debut record, Kathryn Joseph's music has evolved from intimate and delicate to something altogether more intense, skilfully combining raw emotion with piano, keyboards and electronic elements. Joined by longtime collaborator Lomond Campbell, Joseph ventures into darker, more experimental territory, marking a pivotal shift in her artistry. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Returning to the Edinburgh International Festival on 9th August after her acclaimed 2021 performance, she invites fans into a space where vulnerability and beauty collide in profoundly moving music. Kathryn Joseph New album We were made prey dances on the knife-edge: of action versus inaction, of want versus wanting, of self-fulfilment versus shame. Continuing her creative partnership withproducer Lomond Campbell, recording took place in the remote Black Bay Studios on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides last winter. Joseph's fourth long-player is both a reaction to and reprieve for the animal within. Eleven songs that accept her whole being, with all its hunger, lust and rage, and its devastating tenderness too. Through her hunt for answers to punishing choices, 'the kind that can absolutely f**k up your life,' the Glasgow-based singer-songwriter has come out the other side with something new to say. Joseph's pursuit of truth is the red thread that winds through each of her albums. It's there among the agonising beauty of bones you have thrown me and blood i have spilled, her Scottish Album of the Year Award-winning debut. It's there, too, in 2018's from when i wake the want is, sewn into the primal grief and grasping of the songs. And it made its presence felt again in 2022's for you who are the wronged, her powerful exploration of abuse in all its twisted shapes and guises, acclaimed for its 'luminous brand of minimalism' (Pitchfork) and as 'an outright masterpiece of emptiness and full-to-bursting-ness at the same time' (The Quietus). Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Joseph has also just announced a full UK headline tour for autumn 2025, taking in 12 dates across England to follow her Edinburgh International Festival appearance. In between, she will return to the road in support of labelmates (and bosses) Mogwai for a run of European shows in August-September. Lomond Campbell will be performing with Joseph at all shows. Check out for a full list of UK live shows and to buy tickets.
Scotsman
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Album reviews: Garbage Kathryn Joseph Jacob Alon
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Garbage: Let All That We Imagine Be The Light (BMG) ★★★ Kathryn Joseph: WE WERE MADE PREY. (Rock Action) ★★★★ Jacob Alon: In Limerence (Island/EMI) ★★★★ Mogwai: The Bombing of Pan Am 103 soundtrack (Rock Action) ★★★ The latest album from Garbage arrives sooner than the band anticipated, conceived while frontwoman Shirley Manson was recovering from the hip surgery that put a sudden halt to their No Gods No Masters world tour. In her physical and emotional vulnerability, she broke the habit of a lifetime and wrote some love songs. Nothing particularly romantic, you understand. Let All That We Imagine Be The Light is an album about practical love which chooses to confront and to hope. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Garbage | Joseph Cultice But it's still Garbage as we know it, so the album begins with a sleek electro rock song called There's No Future In Optimism, with Manson speak-singing of the instinct for fight or flight in the aftermath of disaster – in her case, the murder of George Floyd and an earthquake in her adopted home of Los Angeles. She follows this with the eloquent rage of Chinese Fire Horse directed at those foolish enough to suggest that Manson might consider hanging up her microphone. For complete clarity, she lets the last line 'I'm not done' hang in the air. She also challenges herself and others to channel rage to positive ends on the sultry ballad Radical and the propulsive Love to Give. Have We Met (The Void) evokes a John Carpenter-like world of neon LA cityscapes with its glacial gothic synths, banging arpeggios and droning fuzz bassline and there's a strong whiff of Ultravox and Gary Numan about the inexorable industrial stomp of R U Happy Now. But the album highlight is its endgame. Manson's healing lyrics for The Day That I Met God were written, rendered and recorded at home, delivered as if from a recovery diary with the holy revelation that 'I found God in Tramadol'. Kathryn Joseph | Marilena Vlachopoulou The recording of Kathryn Joseph's fourth album also didn't go entirely as expected. Arguably in keeping with its shouty upper case typography, WE WERE MADE PREY. makes a loud sound out of Joseph's intimate, eldritch songs, with producer Lomond Campbell adding big synth licks to her electric piano patterns on WOLF. and (relatively) commercial electro reverberations to recent single HARBOUR. ROADKILL. is a big, declamatory catharsis; in contrast, BEL (II). is a minimal campfire requiem for her friend Beldina Odenyo Onassis, aka Heir of the Cursed. There are also love odes for her son, daughter and dog and a trippy torch song in the vein of Portishead rounding out this sonically rich collection which stretches her quavery vocals as much as expands her noir balladry. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Jacob Alon | Contributed Jacob Alon is a confirmed fan of Joseph's ability to deliver dark matter with irreverent humour. This Dunfermline-born, Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter demonstrates their own ability to combine the sacred and profane on their beguiling debut album which explores the state of limerence – essentially being crazy in love/lust. Comparisons with Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley are not over-stretched. Alon possesses a bewitching, elastic voice accompanied by mesmeric acoustic picking and occasionally a sensation of brass or a martial drumbeat. Like Joseph, there is a dynamic mismatch between form and content in these fully formed songs. The soft waltz of August Moon belies its poetic account of a violent attack, Liquid Gold 25 is a shuffling ode to their favourite brand of poppers, while Sertraline is a delicate folk drone inspired by their anti-depressant medication. For the listener, this is all good medicine. Mogwai add to their soundtrack catalogue with a sensitive score for TV miniseries The Bombing of Pan Am 103, which slips unobtrusively from the elegiac tolling of Calling all units via the doomy shoegaze of Swiss Timers to the glacial sorrow of We Let You Down and lachrymose twanging guitar of Back Home to Giffnock, leaving most of the drama to the show itself. CLASSICAL Henry VIII On Tour (Delphian) ★★★★ Henry VIII On Tour might sound like a 1970s Rick Wakeman album. In fact, it's Henry himself from the 16th century, or rather a representation of the music and musicians that accompanied him on his regular sojourns to the provinces. As such, it's a delightful cocktail of the sacred and secular performed by Ensemble Pro Victoria under director Toby Ward, from two lute songs by William Cornysh (including the cutesy ditty Trolly Lolly), organ and harp solos played respectively by Aileen Henry and Magnus Williamson, to motets by Verdelot, More and Taverner and the intriguing Missa Christe Jesu by Lincolnshire composer William Rasar. The last adds Williamson's New Vocal Ensemble to the mix, revealing a work of bold textural scope and verse-anthem-like structure. Like the best albums it tells a compelling story: Henry, heard here in an artful lute number, even wrote his own music. Ken Walton FOLK Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Donald WG Lindsay: Two Boats Under the Moon (Own Label) ★★★★
The National
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The National
Female artists to headline ‘eclectic' festival offering
The second year of the event at Newport-on-Tay follows gigs from James Yorkston, Hamish Hawk and Pictish Trail, thanks to the efforts of local music collective Big Rock Records, a group of music aficionados celebrating Scottish independent music talent. The line up for this year's Lughnasadh is headlined by Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) award-winner Kathryn Joseph (below), along with fellow SAY award-winners Sacred Paws, Mercury Prize nominee and Heavy Music award finalists Dead Pony. Also appearing are Becky Sikasa, who was BBC Introducing Scottish Act of the Year 2025, Connor Liam Byrne and the Bad Kissers, with art activities curated by artist Ruby Pester. The family-friendly festival will take place in August in the gardens and grounds of Forgan Arts Centre which was bought by Community Asset Transfer in 2022. It is one of four festivals Forgan Arts Centre hosts annually to celebrate nature and the turning of the Celtic wheel. Alongside the line-up of some of Scotland's best musicians, there will be food and drinks from top Scottish independent producers. Kathryn Joseph said she couldn't wait to be back in a part of the country that she loves very much. READ MORE: Pro-Palestine activists protest against Israel at Eurovision opening ceremony 'I'm very happy and excited to be part of Lughnasadh Music and Arts festival in Newport-on-Tay and very happy to get to play our new record live with Lomond Campbell,' she said. Big Rock Records member Chris Mugan added: 'With so many fond memories from last year's joyous event, we're thrilled our Forgan pals have invited us back for more. We've worked hard to pull together a line-up that's even stronger, more eclectic and diverse. There's something for everyone and everyone's welcome.' Last year's inaugural Lughnasadh Festival was programmed in response to a request for more live music events at Forgan Arts Centre. The positive reception to the 2024 festival enabled the organisation expand the festival to welcome audiences from across Scotland to see some of the best homegrown new music around in a beautiful setting. Interim director at Forgan Arts Centre Teri Laing said: 'Lughnasadh is becoming a much-loved community event, and the centre, grounds and woodland are the ideal backdrop for soaking up some sounds and celebrating the end of summer.' Lughnasadh Festival, which will take place on August 2, is supported by North East Fife Area Committee. Forgan Arts Centre is supported by Northwood Charitable Trust, the North East Fife Area Committee and Fife Council.
