I will be playing alongside Esperi, Noiserv and Finn Lemarinel at a very special, intimate show in Glasgow on Friday 10th September.

I can't recommend seeing these guys enough, especially in the very intimate surroundings that we have planned. Add the fact that there will be some amazing food courtesy of Miss Halina Rifai and you've got what will hopefully be a very memorable evening for everyone.

Tickets are very limited and are available (alongside a 4 song downloadable EP) from here. Venue details and timings will be sent out after purchase.

Two more festival appearances confirmed for October.

Eastern Promises

First up is Eastern Promises in Glasgow on Saturday 2nd October at Platform in Easterhouse. Platform is a great example of how to do a local community hub properly. They always have a wide selection of international dance, music and theatre going on with an emphasis on getting the local community involved. I have been wanting to do a show there for quite a while, and given the line up that has been put together for this two day event, am thrilled to be a part of it.

Tickets cost £10 per night or £15 for both.
A specially run bus for each night leaves Mono at 6:30pm, returning after the last band and costs £4.

Friday 1st October
Josephine Foster and The Victor Herrero Band
Rachel Grimes
Nils Frahm
Wounded Knee

Saturday 2nd October
King Creosote
Human Don't Be Angry (Malcolm Middleton)
RM Hubbert
FOUND

Full ticketing details can be found here.

Le Weekend

Set in Stirling's excellent Tollbooth Theatre, Le Weekend is a four day festival celebrating experimental music, art and film. Again, this is an event that I have wanted to be involved with for a long time so I'm very excited to be invited along.

Thursday 14th October
Critical Mass - Mats Gustaffson & Agusti Fernandez
Sten Sandell's Hammond Organ Trio with Johan Berthling & Paal Nilsson-Love
RM Hubbert
The Room

Friday 15th October
Murcof & Francesco Tristano
Piano Tapes – Bill Wells & Stefan Schneider
Andreas Sonderstrum
The Broad Street Witch Composers Project

Saturday 16th October
Smegma
Los Angeles Free Music Society Big Band
Peter Nicholson – Songs
Oceans of Silver & Blood – Mark Wastell & Joachim Nordwall
New String Theory – Rhodri Davies, Lina Lapelyte & Angharad Davies
Claudia Molitor
Marilyn Crispell
Raymond MacDonald
The Music of Alvin Lucier 1
Film Screening 1 & 2

Sunday 17th October
John Butcher & Gerry Hemingway
Tom Recchion Airway
John Duncan
Film Screening – Weekend by Jean Luc Goddard

Full line up and ticketing details can be found here.

I am insanely excited to announce that I will be doing two shows at Haarfest in Anstruther on the 18th and 19th August.

Haarfest is a week long festival organised by The Fence Collective featuring King Creosote, Adem, Silver Columns, Pictish Trail, Kid Canaveral, Admiral Fallow, Smackvan, Sarah Banjo and many others.

There will also be a lot of daytime events happening covering art, craft and song workshops, organised walks and beach clean, a 'potted sports' afternoon, art installations, films and impromptu appearances by the National Theatre Scotland.

Wednesday's show will be in the Hew Scott Hall alongside Sarah Banjo, OnTheFly, Seamus Fogarty & Eagleowl.

Thursday's show is an outdoor unamplified set in Caiplie Caves.

Tickets for the week are £50, individual nights are £12.50 and can be purchased here.

First off, apologies for the lack of updates recently. Life has a funny habit of overtaking me sometimes.

New release

I'm very pleased to announce the release of a collaboration between myself and The Unwinding Hours. It is a cover of Spirit Ditch by Sparklehorse that was done for The Steinberg Principle's ongoing series of Sparklehorse, Vic Chesnutt and Elliott Smith covers in aid of Depression Alliance UK.

Mark Linkous was always an inspiration to me as someone that managed to channel his darker moments through music, something that I tend to do myself. His death affected me, first with sadness and a little bit of panic, but also with resolve.

It was an absolute pleasure to work with Craig and Iain. I hope that I get the chance to do so again.

You can download Spirit Ditch from Bandcamp here.

Upcoming shows

I have a load of very exciting shows coming up over the rest of the year. Here are the ones that are confirmed so far. There should be some more announced over the next few weeks.