Yes- the first Scree Reading Series will take place this Friday, 13th April 3-6pm at Elvis Shakespeare, FREE. Featuring three of our long standing Scree contributors, including the very elusive Hugo Undershin. The cherry blossoms fall on happy ears.
All aboard the good ship SCREE.
Scree four is now on sale. Contributors include: Graeme Smith, Rodney Relax, Pete McConville, Elsbeth Pancrazi, Julie Johnstone, Ross McClure, Lila Matsumoto, and Iain Morrison. Also comes with a split ep by i like ceareal, my friend and freakfoot & gangleshanks. The cover has been beautifully designed by Rachel Caunt. The issue is £2 and can be purchased online here, or at the Armchair Bookshop (West Port) and Elvis Shakespeare (Leith Walk).
‘SCthREE’ is now on sale- our stockists in Edinburgh: Armchair Books (West Port) and Elvis Shakespeare (Leith Walk). You can also buy it online- please go to the ‘Procure’ page.
This issue features the words of:
Rodney Relax
Sandra Alland
Samantha Walton
Greg Thomas
Richie McCaffery
Ian Brand
Jim Ferguson
Lila Matsumoto
And visual work by:
Greg Thomas
Alec Cheer
Graphic Surgery
nick-e melville
And music by:
The Douglas Firs
Field Mouse
Traps and Cages
iliop
Cheer
tomthenoisemonger
The Family Simpson
To find out more about any of our contributors, please visit the ‘Contributor’ page on this website.
SCREE three will be launched at the Edinburgh Zine & Small Press Fair at the Forest Cafe on Sunday August 7. Following this date it will be available at Armchair Books (West Port) and Elvis Shakespeare (Leith Walk).
The theme of 
this issue is Construction. In light of the earthquake and subsequent events in Japan, the idea of construction is germane: the way in which we build civilisations in the image of permanence, investing our establishments (buildings, systems, beliefs) with a stubborn sense of invincibility. Yet can we ever live cowering? We construct edifices and name things in order to survive, hold parades and rituals -meaningfully or not- to live our days- often greedily and selfishly- in abeyance of a certain end.
Yet perhaps a more optimistic interpretation of Construction lies in the possibility of existing within systems which encourages arenas of commonality. Hannah Arendt writes, ‘To live together in this world means that a world of things is between those who have it in common, as a table is located between those who sit around it; the world, like every in-between, relates and separates men at the same time.’*
This magazine is a hopeful construction, which acknowledges words, pictures, and music as technologies, as textual,visual, and aural organisations of consciousness- and not consciousness itself. The magazine doesn’t want to take for granted the permanence of structures, but nonetheless hopes to promote thoughtful ‘structuring’ with words, images, and sound. Arendt again: ‘The reification which occurs in writing something down… is of course related to the thought which preceded it, but what actually makes the though a reality and fabricates things of thought is the same workmanship which, through the primordial instrument of human hands, builds the other durable things of the human artifice.’
The contribution list for this issue is shaping up nicely: Greg Thomas is doing the cover art, and inside contributors include Sandra Alland, Ian Brand, Rodney Relax, Richie McCaffery, Jim Ferguson, Posie Rider, nick-e melville, and many others. The issue will be coming out on May 10. Please let me know if you’d like to receive it- it will probably cost £2, but I will let you know in due course.
* all Arendt quotations come from her book The Human Condition.
It’s time! After a summer’s hibernation, the second issue of Scree is ready for its coming out party. Everyone is invited to Old St. Paul on Wednesday September 15th for an evening of celebration with music performance, poetry reading, cake, and dancing. Doors are 7.30pm and it’s £5. Hope to see you there.
To help with the printing costs of Scree Two, we’re having a benefit concert on Wednesday August 11th, 7.30pm at Henry’s Cellar Bar. It’s £5 at the door with all proceeds going to Scree. See this page for more information.
Exciting: Fledgeling (Stuart Simpson) has designed the cover of the next Scree, due to be out in September.
Here is the link to Stu’s blog about it. Many thanks Stu.
It’s been half a year now since Scree One was birthed. The first issue is now fully distributed, but if you’d like a copy, send a message and I will print-on-demand. Here is a review by Flapjack Sally of the issue.
