Experimental pop master Adam Stafford makes his third trip to the Rio Centre for Newport Sound – a “DIY music, spoken word and visual art community show with a friendly, welcoming atmosphere.”
The best of Scottish alternative music and local published writers perform to a discerning crowd and it usually sells out the small capacity of 110 with spontaneous dance floor option and DJ in between acts.
Stafford, a musician and filmmaker from Falkirk, formerly of the group Y’all is Fantasy Island, issued two experimental a capella albums, “Awnings” and “Miniature Porcelain Horse Emporium” in 2009 before releasing his debut studio set “Build a Harbour Immediately” in 2011.
He followed with two more experimental pop albums and also composed and performed original music for Alan Bissett’s one-man show ‘What The Falkirk’.
His film work include short “The Shutdown” (2009) written by Scottish author and playwright Alan Bissett, the video for The Twilight Sad’s single “Seven Years of Letters” (2010), and “No Hope For Men Below” (2013), a poetic reinterpretation of The Redding Pit Disaster of Falkirk 1923, written in Broad Scots by local poet and author Janet Paisley.
He is currently trying to write a horror film set in 1993, about a maintenance train driver who infiltrates a Norse Black Metal cult in the rural North of Scotland.
Dominic Venditozzi of Newport Sound said: “It’s thrilling to welcome Adam Stafford for his third trip to the Rio. It’s been a good while since we had his Falkirk sunshine up here in NE Fife.”
*Adam Stafford at Newport Sound, Rio Centre, Newport, June 30
