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✽ Grandmaster Flash Widely regarded as the man who invented the genre, the Bronx
hip hop legend gets behind the decks for DJ sets. 99 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, Thu 21 Aug (free); Audio, Glasgow, Fri 22 Aug.
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✽ Doune the Rabbit Hole Errors, The Cosmic Dead, Heatsick, RM Hubbert, Ela Orleans and many more fall down the magical rabbit hole at this Stirlingshire weekend music festival. Cardross Estate, Fri 22–Sun 24 Aug.
✽ The Last Big Weekend So many good names to mark the end of East End Social – Nozinja (Shangaan Electro, pictured right), Fuck Buttons, James Murphy, James Holden, HudMo, Mogwai and plenty more. See previews, pages 50 and 69. Richmond Park, Glasgow, Sat 30 & Sun 31 Aug.
✽ Gruff Rhys Solo gig from the Super Furries and Neon Neon singer, who just
wrote American Interior. Part psychedelic- travelogue, part tour diary, and pure nuts, it’s his story of a 22-year-old Snowdonian who went to the US in search of a Welsh-speaking Native American tribe. O2 ABC, Glasgow, Fri 5 Sep.
✽ Honeyblood Hometown date for the scuzzy-pop girls, Stina and Shona, on their
headline UK tour. CCA, Glasgow, Sat 13 Sep.
✽ David Thomas Broughton Unsettling and mesmerising in equal parts, Leeds’
DTB sits at the crossroads of slapstick clown, folk troubadour and performance artist. Electric Circus, Edinburgh, Sun 14 Sep.
✽ Azealia Banks A rescheduled gig from one of the most exciting new female voices
in hip hop, or the biggest gob on Twitter, depending on where you stand on Yung Rapunxel. See preview, page 69. O2 Academy, Glasgow, Sun 15 Sep.
FRAGMENTS OF GOLD Drum and bass legend Goldie goes classical I t’s an unexpected fusion of tweed blazers
visual art (he’s exhibited work in Berlin, Ibiza and the London Underground), but is now passionate about bridging the gap between electronic and classical music.
Goldie composed his music for Fragments of Gold electronically before Dr Matthew Cheung Salisbury (pictured, above), music lecturer, at University College Oxford (Cheung described the process as ‘when the don met the DJ’), arranged and adapted it for a special live acoustic performance. The concert will be accompanied by a talk from Goldie and an audience Q&A session. ‘It’s an absolute honour to be involved in such an exciting project at Glasgow Cathedral, a wonderful and iconic venue, and to hear my composition performed by fantastic musicians from all over Scotland,’ says Goldie. Amen to that. (Claire Sawers)
Fragments of Gold, Glasgow Cathedral, Sat 30 Aug.
and gold grills, where medieval chants meet clubland, but that’s where you will currently find Goldie, the drum and bass producer turned composer for his latest project, Fragments of Gold.
Goldie, or Clifford Joseph Price to give him his Sunday name, has been working since 2012 on a music and art collaboration inspired by the ‘Hawick Missal Fragment’, a section of a missal – a book containing the texts and chants for a mass – discovered five years ago in Hawick. Goldie, whose mum is Glaswegian, has written a composition inspired by it to be performed by Scottish musicians in Glasgow Cathedral. Goldie became famous in the late 90s as a D&B producer, but clearly doesn’t enjoy resting on his laurels, having dabbled in acting (a Bond movie, Snatch and an appearance on Eastenders are now on his CV), ballroom dancing (2010’s Strictly Come Dancing), then
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