Edinburgh Festival 2012

It has been a strange Edinburgh festival this year. Everyone needs to be an artist in the babble of shows and posters that is the EIF and the Fringe, which is now the main event and has become slick with stylized big productions. Most young people go to the comedy shows. My Theme this year was Love. Love knows our hearts desires, our mirrors. There are voices of hope in a world often torn asunder and we are full of wonder… surely? Tolstoy wrote of reverence, humility and love and he felt that the narrative was outside his control. Whatever else love is, it is always a mystery. I spend most of my time here at the Edinburgh Book Festival (more to follow). Fireworks end each night to mark the finale of the Edinburgh Tattoo.

Edinburgh Festival

Italy, Lake Garda & Verona

Black and White Music Photography

King Creoste

Old Fruitmarket

Oran Mor

Scottish National Orchestra

Metronomy

Metronomy were formed by Joseph Mount in 1999. The current band consists of Joseph Mount (composer, singer, keyboards and guitar), Anna Prior (drums and vocals), Oscar Cash (saxophone, backing vocals, guitars and keyboards) and Gbenga Adelekan (bass guitar and vocals). Their music consists of instrumental electronic music and more recently, with the release of Nights Out, vocal electronic pop music. Mount also releases remixes under the name Metronomy, and has remixed many artists including Gorillaz, Roots Manuva, Franz Ferdinand, Klaxons, Goldfrapp, The Young Knives, Zero 7, Ladytron, Kate Nash, Lady Gaga and Lykke Li.  Metronomy have released three albums of original material, Pip Paine (Pay The £5000 You Owe), Nights Out and The English Riviera which was released in April 2011.

Photos of Katie Sutherland 2009 to 2012

Photos of Katie Sutherland (once known as Pearl and the Puppets) from her gigs here in Glasgow from 2009 to 2012. She has a honey toned engrossing voice live - and in 2009 received attention for her songs.