Anatomy Number 4

Having finally made it to ANATOMY for their third edition - and enjoyed the mix of live art, comedy and film footage - I was considering what I can propose for their next edition. The theme is SILENCE / NOISE / SILENCE, it happens on Friday 8th March 2013 at the increasingly fashionable Summerhall, and by the time I came up with an idea (me being quiet, then shouting, then being quiet again), they'd announced the line up.

Making use of Summerhall's idiosyncratic space, an old lecture theatre that was once used for cutting up animals to teach young vets how to save them from sickness, Anatomy is one of the many nights that gives space to emerging artists - or veterans wanting to try something new - in a cabaret style format. The third edition was hosted by Ali Maloney and Harry Giles and was an intriguing mixture of electronic music (JL Williams and James Ironmonger as Opul), live art mayhem (Jamie Wardrop and Rebecca Morris), a dancer's bum (Uranus by Moreno Solinas) and film (Walk by Oli Benton and The Deadwood Stage). And, of course, a dark pantomime singalong from Eddy Dreadnought.

From first glance, the next programme is equally eclectic. Tom Harlow, who is a one man campaign to bring boylesque out of the sidelines: following the blazing charm of Cherry Loco, it seems Glasgow is becoming home to a more interesting male burlesque performer. Beautiful Art Feminist
by Phoebe Cottam is experimental cinema, while Will Pickvance is promising to do something interesting to a piano. 

This mixture of styles is both a throwback to the old music hall and a version of the way that the internet has begun to order content: it's also the best way to see new work, as everything rushes past and if one fails, the next may rescue the evening.


ANATOMY #4:

Silence/Noise/Silence

Friday 8th March
7.45 – 11pm
Summerhall, Edinburgh
£6