Bob Drake

BOB DRAKE will perform his irredeemably eccentric, but strangely brilliant songs that skip blithely across genre borders and hail from across his 30-year solo oeuvre. He’ll be playing electric guitar and singing about astronomy, anthropomorphic animals, wonders of antiquity, holy wells, uncanny happenings and more.

Perpetually reinventing himself, his evocative musings and inventive instrumentations come together to create a numinous otherworld like no other. A world full of twists and turns and a geometry that doesn't quite add up. A world built upon a breath-taking amalgam of broken rules and unimaginable musical logic. Adventurous, enlightening, and FUN!

GEORGE BURT

A rare opportunity to see George Burt performing a solo set of free improvised guitar pieces.

As an experimental free improvising guitarist and a founder member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra (GIO), George Burt has played in a huge range of settings, and worked with Evan Parker, Keith Rowe, Fred Frith and others. Together with Raymond MacDonald, they have been composing innovative jazz-flavoured music in Scotland for years, releasing albums with Lol Coxhill and Keith Tippett.

George Burt goes to explore areas of music where composition and improvisation are not easily defined or separated. From jazz-tinted pieces to more abstract and impressionistic pieces, he sculpts into sounds the seascapes of Scottish islands, prehistoric rocks and silences under the sea wind.