TFEH laughs in the face of mundanity with a bill of Central Belt experimental excellence this May..
SHONA MACNAUGHTON.
Shona Macnaughton is absolutely hilarious, but she's not joking. TFEH excuses you for laughing, not least because we are as well, but the essential truths in her performance are of the upmost importance & urgency. As we guffaw ourselves giddy, the world burns brightly & Shona shows us the error of the ways in which we are obliged to live in order to exist under capitalism. Radical awkwardness for your entertainment. Tears of joy mix with the wept waters of anxiety in puddles on the gallery floor. Enough to repurpose as a tsunami's worth of resistance.
https://youtu.be/pL59wABB9xw?si=SQsz-RdVnYzbqQkq
SKULL JACKET.
All joking aside, Skull Jacket's Carl Holmes once told TFEH's Ali Robertson, in one of Ali's more melancholic moments, that "you don't have to be funny" and that advice, though seldom observed by Ali, resonated with warmth & wisdom. Skull Jacket ploughs fields of pure sound via analogue synthesiser & other Industrial Age electronics with the determination of one completely committed to the mission of dirge delivery. Funny thing is though, we liked the name Skull Jacket so much that we would've given him a gig even if he were taking the piss.
https://negativejerusalem.bandcamp.com/track/lbb-05
JUNIPER LAI & OFF BRAND.
Off Brand are a joke & they think that they're funny to boot, which is a hideous thing to behold, but their keen lugs cannae be faulted, so when they encountered Juniper Lai, who is usually a singer-songwriter by day, demonstrating her freely improvised vocal dexterity by night, they were excited to invite her to warble over their non-idiomatic noodling. Let's hope that the joke's not on Juniper!
https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/track/just-what-the-librarian-ordered
THURS 8TH MAY 2025.
Doors= 8pm. Cost= 10.
Fruitmarket, 45 Market St., Edinburgh, EH1 1DF.
Fruitmarket is fully accessible, with an elevator for those who require it.
We would much prefer if you bought tickets in advance for COVID safety reasons.
The only payments accepted at the door will be in CASH, as we are Steam Age galoots who are unable to process card transactions.
If youre short on funds but still want to come, let us know, and well make it happen.
Be responsible: If you have access to lateral flow tests, then please test yrselves before attending the gig, stay home if you get a positive result or feel unwell, and be considerate of folks in the venue by masking up when it seems appropriate, sanitising yr paws regularly, and generally not being a radge.
www.gianttank.bandcamp.com
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https://linktr.ee/gianttank