Hame-ish
Entry Requirements: Over 18s only
Hame-ish shows feature music and poetry/spoken word acts who take turns to share songs and poems that speak to each other in some way, and invite you to coorie in and enjoy a night out that feels like a night in.
For this Hame-ish Campfire special you’ll be taken on a journey through nature via deep sea diving, sleepless nights, outer space adventures, and the occasional encounter with a witch.
See you round the campfire!
Find out more about acts Hame-ish Campfire:
A New International
From Glasgow to the world, lush, poetic, Scottish romanticism; a little bit of this and a whole lot of that, A New International are searching for a new pop music. Reference points for the unfamiliar include Scott Walker, Calexico, Beirut, Ennio Morricone and more.
“Jacques Brel meets Ennio Morricone in Barcelona, 1937, lyrics by George Orwell… dangerous, strange and heartbreakingly beautiful” – Ricky Ross
Singer/Songwriter Biff describes ANI’s ethos below – “I always loved the idea of a band that didn’t sound like a band: a band that sounded like, let’s say, a movie or a circus or a funeral or a riot; anything but another dreary band“.
Nuala Watt
Nuala Watt lives and works in Glasgow. Her poems have appeared in anthologies including Stairs and Whispers: D/Deaf and Disabled Writers Write Back (Nine Arches Press 2017), A Year of Scottish Poems (Pan Macmillan 2018) and To Mind Your Life: Poems for Nurses and Midwives (Polygon/Scottish Poetry Library 2021). Poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and on BBC Radio Scotland Sunday Morning. Recent work was featured in Atrium, Bad Lilies, Ink Sweat and Tears and Wordgathering. ‘Important Information Enclosed’ appears in the Poetry Archive’s Poetry Archive Now Worldview 2023 collection.
Current interests include visual impairment as a creative context and the relationship between disability and parenthood. Her collection The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish was published by Blue Diode in February 2024.
Caro Bridges
Caro Bridges is originally from the Fine City of Norwich, where she grew up surrounded by music playing a mixture of jazz guitar, orchestral clarinet, and singing in choirs. Since 2009, she has been writing and playing her own songs and working with her band, The River, a collection of old friends and new friends mainly gathered on Edinburgh's rich open mic scene. Releasing music since 2013, their most recent EP is Be Terrible, which came out in Autumn 2017. Sweet, dark, and earthy with a bit of crunch, Caro draws on indie, folk and jazz influences to create original and relatable songs. Caro also works as a community musician, and leads Edinburgh's community folk and roots choir Castle Chorus.
Rachel Amey
Rachel is a writer and spoken word performer who lives and works in Edinburgh. She has shared work at many events from the early days of The Traverse Theatre’s Monday Lizard to lockdown Zoom explorations for Campbell’s Ceilidh - including sets for the opening Lyceum Variety Night , Edinburgh Hogmanay’s Scot:Lands, Blue Metropolis Festival Montreal (in exchange with Edinburgh Book Festival), Stanza, Glasgow Merchant City Festival, Rally and Broad, Flint and Pitch, Leith Lates, Loud Poets and more.
Mairi-Claire Traynor
Mairi-Claire Traynor has many hats, including host and co-founder of Hame-ish, poet, performer, emerging theatre maker, and clown facilitator.
Her poetry is personal and surreal. She is fascinated by the eccentricities of real life.
She is currently developing her poetry play about the apparently fictional town of InverFayreSeat. The piece gives voice to the people of the town who tell of its rules, culture, secrets, and lies. Following a sharing of this in 2023, she is now exploring ways of presenting this that are immersive and incorporate stage and digital techniques.
Access Guide and Tickets for Personal Assistants
You can view/download The Glad Cafe's Access Guide here. If you require a ticket for a Personal Assistant/Gig Buddy (at no extra cost), please contact kim@thegladcafe.co.uk.