Saturday 7 June 2025, 7.30pm
Joanne Robertson is a musician, painter and poet. Joanne collaborates regularly with her friends, most recently with Dean Blunt on ‘Black Metal 2’, and Sidsel Meineche Hansen on ‘Alien Baby’. She moved to Glasgow in 2018, after having lived in London. Her painting and music both form from improvisatory moments of expression. ‘Blue Car’, is a collection of songs from her archive of unreleased solo recordings, similar to ‘Painting Stupid Girls’, these tracks attempt to record the moment, and where she was at emotionally that day, similar to diary entries. The dates she wrote these songs is unknown, they span roughly a ten year period.
Jordan Playfair is a guitarist, lyricist, and composer whose work blends elements of folk, metal, and blues. His current focus is on exploring the textural possibilities of the guitar within the structure of a song. His debut album ‘Something Inside So Wrong’ was released in 2024 and features a collection of home-recorded compositions drawn from his archive, utilising guitar, electronics and voice.
Samara + Riot is a newly formed duo— an omen. Riot’s words bleed with Samara’s melodies and beats through soft intensity.
Samara Langham is a dancer and choreographer, and also makes music. She is interested in things essential and intangible.
riot is an Essex bred mod, artist and frontman of the emerging art rock band Riot and The Ether. riot’s work centres the fictionalisation of self, sonic storybooks and magical realism. riot’s poetry often operates within this ‘ditsy’ liminal space as she grows in refusal to linguistic sensibilities.
aloisius is an improvisation-based artist, dj & curator, and the founder of the gesamtkunstwerk life is beautiful.
