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Ryan Frame - Working Class Pubs of Edinburgh and Leith
14th May 2019 8:00 pm - 15th May 2019 12:30 am
programme/artist information
A long form piece capturing the sounds of some of the last remaining working class / old man pubs in Edinburgh and Leith. It’s an attempt at documenting this type of pub before they are all inevitably turned into cocktail, gin or gastro pubs (particularly the city centre ones). To do this, I used my Iphone to record myself drinking a pint of Tennents in seven pubs around Edinburgh and Leith:
For reference, I visited the following pubs:
Kings Arms – Tollcross Mathers Bar – West end Central Bar – Leith The strathie – Leith Middletons – Easter road The artisan – Abbeyhill
The hoppy – Meadowbank
Ryan Frame is an office worker and experimental field recording artist. Based in Edinburgh, his recordings from the city’s pubs, streets and buses are all captured on his iphone or iPod. He performs live as noise disco, supplementing field recordings with improvised electronics, radio static, drum machines and samples. He is one half (along with Doog Cameron) of semi retired straight to CD-R late night guitar, techno and nonsense duo, John’s Indie Disco and never played live before covers band, Arab Crap. His work has been aired on Borealis, Radiophrenia and Wave Farm and he has performed live in various pub basements in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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