Chronic Boom comes to Ed Fringe!
hello everyone
some quick news
the chronic boom tour is nearly over! just newcastle (tonight), birmingham (tomorrow), and liverpool (next week) left. the tour has been an absolute blast. its my first tour and i wasnt sure if anyone would show up, but you did, and the shows have been a lot of fun. big love to all the pod fans, ibd legends, and general sound folk that have come along.
however
we have decided to do a mini (mini) fringe run, in edinburgh in august. shows will of course be at monkey barrel comedy, the best venue at the fringe. its being produced by berks nest, who i first heard of when they produced a show for a man called richard gadd. not sure what happened to him.
we’re doing a cool thing where me, christopher macarthur boyd and stephen buchanan are perfoming last years shows over the first week. my dates are 4th/7th/10th august. if you havnt seen the other boys shows, i’d get on that too.
as the entire run sold out last year, we’re expecting tickets to go fairly quickly
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finally, if you’ll indulge me, some cultural highlights
Music -
Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties
if you follow me on social media you’ll have seen me posting about this. i’ve had this album on repeat since it dropped. its an americana big band album with an emo lead singer. (???) a concept album written in character, and part 3 of a trilogy. a wild ride. and they even have a song about St Lukes in Glasgow
books -
Klara and The Sun Kazio Ishiguro
the third book of his i’ve read after The Remains of The Day and Never Let Me Go - and this seems to be a mixture of the two. a naive narrator in a dystopian future. its so sweet, and *cringe reference* but black mirror-esque. the less you know about the plot going in the better.
Film -
Perfect Days
this is on Mubi and is a slow and sweet film about a japanese toilet attendant. lots of lou reed on the soundtrack. if you’re not into that then i have nothing left to offer you. directed by wim wenders, who made paris/texas, one of my all time faves.
ok thats everything i will email you again in a few months kthanksloveyouebye