Le Weekend 2007
25 - 27 May, Tolbooth, Stirling
Scotland’s trailblazer of experimental music celebrates its tenth birthday with a special line up of alluring alchemists of sound. The festival is now felt by many aficionados to be at the forefront of the experimental music festival scene.
The first live performance by the collaborators behind the sublime 2004 album, Pick Up Sticks, Bill Wells, Barbara Morgenstern, Stefan Schneider and Annie Whitehead are joined onstage by Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake to bring the festival’s opening night to a fitting climax.
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Phantom Orchard, the ongoing project of sound pioneers Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, grace the Le Weekend stage with their beautiful, almost graceful sound on Saturday evening. |
The tenth Le Weekend festival comes to a thunderous end with the titanic combative improvisational clash that will be The Thing + ZU.
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There are also three new commissions which include Kaffe Matthews Sonic Bed_Worldwide project creating Sonic Bed_Scotland and the first performance in this country by the hugely influential Nagisa Ni te. |
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'This is a very special year for the festival. The experimental scene in Scotland has flourished in the last five years or so and Le Weekend was there to start it all off, we see the festival as constantly moving forward with music as a positive force for change'.
Alasdair Campbell, Artistic Director |
All images courtesy Stirling Council and Le Weekend.
Le Weekend is funded by Stirling Council and the National Lottery through the Scottish Arts Council. |