Jer Reid

Taiko! Painted X-Ray on Friday night at The Old Hairdressers for @1point5months . Amazing to be playing with Alison & @yumi_celia again and with @rfa_1.5 and @anomali23 Tickets on the door. Pay what you can afford. NOTAFLOF. Check the hastiest of 'promo shots' ...

This Friday - next 1.5 Months event at The Old Hairdressers. Taikko. Ambient solo vocals. Soon flute performance.

Short notice posting about the next get together of Music & Dance Improvisation called The Meet! that I'm doing with Christine Devaney of Curious Seed. Tickets are pay what you can afford. This time the session will take place in Edinburgh - at The Den - the Curious Seed studio. Sat 25th of April. 1 - 5pm Any questions please message me. /e/the-meet-sound-movement-improvisation-session-tickets-1987310017760

Tuesday next week. All ages, pay what you can afford (£0-£15), early evening performance of Collective Endeavours: the music/ dance improvisation group now in its 16th year! This time the players are Beth Edwards, Aya Kobayashi, Jer Reid and Alex South. 6pm Doors. 6:20pm Company warm up including those audience members who want to take part (no pressure). 6:30-7:10pm Performance. Any questions just ask!

🎸Coming up on Sunday the 8th of March at 2pm at GTAC in Glasgow! 2 x 2 + 4 Improvised duets and a quartet Jer Reid Penny Chivas Alma Sua Stevie Jones 🚪Pay what you can afford on the door We are sorry that GTAC is up several flights of stairs. 🎥 Footage from our last gig in GTAC, here playing can be found Alasdair Quietzsch, Armin Sturm, Stevie Jones, Jer Reid, Penny Chivas and Alma Sua. #glasgow #peoplemakeglasgow #instantcomposition #glasgowimprov #danceandmusic #gtac #glasgowmusic

Coming up on Sunday the 8th of March at 2pm at GTAC in Glasgow! 2 X 2 + 4 Improvised duets and quartet Penny Chivas Stevie Jones Jer Reid @gruffwit Alma Sua @almasuasua Pay what you can afford on the door or via eventbrite with tickets coming soon. We are sorry that GTAC is not an accessible venue as there are 4 flights of stairs without a lift. Footage from time earlier this year with Miriam Nicholls @mim_da_mova of Dusty Feet Dance Collective @dustyfeetdance and Penny Chivas and Luiz Guibessi @luizgubeissi in Araluen Art Gallery @araluenartscentre , Central Australia. Project part-funded by Arts NT, with support from GUTS Dance, Duprada Dance Company and Araluen Arts Centre. Filmed by Alison Nicholls.

Rescheduled from last year music/ dance improvisation all ages mattinee at GTAC (Glasgow Theatre and Arts Collective at Water Row). I'm really looking forward to playing with Penny Chivas, Alma Sua and Stevie Jones.

Glasgow, I know, there's hunners of stuff on this weekend. Here's my part on Sunday at the The Glad Cafe. A screening/ celebration of Cloudberry MacLean's Low Rent film; a workshop on land rights; and a gig that I'm playing with Claquer (me and Lisa Fannen) & Rose Dagul on a bill with Harry Gorski-Brown and Lainey Demsey. Here's Rose and Lisa in GTAC last night. Pay what you can afford. Tickets: /e/low-rent-film-workshop-music-tickets-1980184089918

Exploring our relationship with both land reclamation and land itself. Book tickets separately for film, workshop & live music - now also w/ @rose_dagul 🌹 Ticket link in @lastlyatnight bio 🦊12pm - 1:15pm Film🌱 Low Rent | Dir. Cloudberry MacLean | 1hr 15mins | Scotland | 2024 Low Rent spans the year I spent secretly living in a hut I built on my allotment in Edinburgh back in 2005. It follows the full cycle of the seasons and captures moments such as early dawn from the hut doorway, a fox running with a scavenged egg in her mouth and trees bending with fruit. In its course I explore questions that continue to preoccupy me about land ownership in Scotland, class, poverty, colonialism and how the violence of capitalism and the joy of life meet in our bodies. With a unique score created by Jer Reid drawing from live improvisation by Jer Reid (guitar) & @UnaMacglone (double bass). Content note: references to colonialism and chattel slavery. 🍎2pm - 5pm Workshop❤️ Land back now! ...but how? Many of us know the current set up isn't fair with 432 owners holding 50% of Scottish land and an area half the size of Wales given over to private bloodsports, in the form of grouse moors. This workshop encourages us to explore our relationship with both land reclamation and land itself. It aims to be a place of learning that is equally as fruitful for those of us who are new to land reclamation and people who have given land struggles plenty of thought. It will: •⁠ ⁠Share strands of relevant history as well as concrete examples of successful land reclamation. •⁠ ⁠⁠Aspire to integrate a focus on our current situation in Scotland with a commitment to decolonisation* and reparations from the global north to the global south. *A process of acknowledging and actively striving to undo the suffering and damage caused by past and current processes of colonisation. 🎶💫7:30pm - 11pm Live Music🦇🎶 Lainey Dempsey, @harrygorskibrown Gorski-Brown, Claquer - @lisafannen & @gruffwit - w/ @rose_dagul

Bravest Boat, Mono, Glasgow 2013 © Greg Neate neate photo that was a highlight from my time in Glasgow. A framed print of this was in my photography exhibitions, We All Look Good in Black & White, and remains on display at home. I used to refer to this group by the musician’s names (l-r); Jer Reid, Rafe Fitzpatrick, Georgie McGeowan & Stevie Jones but a post on Jer Reid’s website confirms this was Bravest Boat. Photo shared with @gruffwit , who - after the gig @monoglasgow - said that he sensed that I was calmly close by with camera. #bravestboat #jerreid #momoglasgow #gruffwit #wealllookgoodinblackandwhite

Exploring our relationship with both land reclamation and land itself. Book tickets separately for film, workshop & live music. Ticket link in @lastlyatnight bio 🦊12pm - 1:15pm Film🌱 Low Rent | Dir. Cloudberry MacLean | 1hr 15mins | Scotland | 2024 Low Rent spans the year I spent secretly living in a hut I built on my allotment in Edinburgh back in 2005. It follows the full cycle of the seasons and captures moments such as early dawn from the hut doorway, a fox running with a scavenged egg in her mouth and trees bending with fruit. In its course I explore questions that continue to preoccupy me about land ownership in Scotland, class, poverty, colonialism and how the violence of capitalism and the joy of life meet in our bodies. With a unique score created by Jer Reid drawing from live improvisation by Jer Reid (guitar) & Una MacGlone (double bass). Content note: references to colonialism and chattel slavery. 🍎2pm - 5pm Workshop❤️ Land back now! ...but how? Many of us know the current set up isn't fair with 432 owners holding 50% of Scottish land and an area half the size of Wales given over to private bloodsports, in the form of grouse moors. This workshop encourages us to explore our relationship with both land reclamation and land itself. It aims to be a place of learning that is equally as fruitful for those of us who are new to land reclamation and people who have given land struggles plenty of thought. It will: •⁠ ⁠Share strands of relevant history as well as concrete examples of successful land reclamation. •⁠ ⁠⁠Aspire to integrate a focus on our current situation in Scotland with a commitment to decolonisation* and reparations from the global north to the global south. *A process of acknowledging and actively striving to undo the suffering and damage caused by past and current processes of colonisation. 🎶💫7:30pm - 11pm Live Music🦇🎶 Lainey Dempsey, Harry Gorski-Brown, Claquer (Lisa Fannen & Jer Reid)

As we settle in for the winter am cooking up something for the other side of it - early doors of spring with @lisafannen and @gruffwit It's a day into evening event (join when u can) w/ tickets coming January. 🧩SUNDAY 8 FEBRUARY 🌱 Day - a screening of Low Rent & connected workshop. Night - music, movement and words that resonate out of the land. 🦜1pm Low Rent | Dir. Cloudberry MacLean | 1hr 15mins | Scotland | 2024 Low Rent spans the year I spent secretly living in a hut I built on my allotment in Edinburgh back in 2005. It follows the full cycle of the seasons and captures moments such as early dawn from the hut doorway, a fox running with a scavenged egg in her mouth and trees bending with fruit. In its course I explore questions that continue to preoccupy me about land ownership in Scotland, class, poverty, colonialism and how the violence of capitalism and the joy of life meet in our bodies. With a unique score created by Jer Reid drawing from live improvisation by Jer Reid (guitar) & Una MacGlone (double bass). 🦠3pm - workshop connected to Low Rent that further explores our relationships to land. (more info to come) 🍏7:30pm - 🍎Claquer is a duo of Jer Reid & Lisa Fannen, doing guitar, loops, sound layers, spoken word, sometimes movement. “guitar spoken words yesterday at Occii was brilliant: crystal clear language, both in voice and music, politically involved and humanly resonant. Touched.” (Isabelle Vigier) 🔥Lainey Dempsey - Lainey is a singer and songwriter from Glasgow . She has a long held interest in unaccompanied traditional singing and over the past few years has been invited to sing across Ireland, Scotland and the rest of the UK. ​Her first album 'Letle Telt' was self-released in May 2023 & is in the most part a collection of stories. Many historical, some mythical, almost all have a strong female voice either in the writing or the telling. Many of the songs were recorded around a campfire in the Highlands of Scotland. Half were found in antique song books and are rarely sung today if at all. The other half are new compositions and have been inspired by tales of Scottish history & lore.