The Sad Disco

After buying your ticket, email your song request (quoting your ticket number) to : saddisco.wav@gmail.com.

Deadline for song requests : April 15 2024

It's sad girl spring and it's time for a night of song and dance. 

An alternative club night for those of a dramatic temperament.

Do you know how some nights are reserved for lying on the floor of your bedroom listening to Lana Del Rey and silently weeping? The Sad Disco invites you to bring those tears along and share them with us. Bring us your broken hearts, your lonely longings, the fullness of your feelings. Send us your song requests, let us build this playlist together and dance the darkness away. 

Featuring a DJ set by Lady Lake and poetic performances from : 

ACE V!S!ON -

ACE V!S!ON’s lyrical prowess and thundering yet enchanting delivery leave an imprint on listeners whether delivered through witty raps, poignant poetry or subtle vocal musings, refined through years of creating in the Glasgow scene. Their multidisciplinary approach to performance has seen them recently become a published playwright, shared work at Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe, and is currently a recipient of Counterflows Music Space bursaries 2023–24. ACE’s thoughtful mastery of words brings a considered voice to the canvas of the group, literally painting pictures with a thousand words.

DEMI ANTER -

Demi Anter is a writer and actor originally from California, now based in London after many years in Berlin. An extensively touring spoken word artist, her appearances include Glastonbury Festival, the Scottish Storytelling Centre and Poetry Ireland. Her work has been published by Magma, Banshee, and Ninth Letter, among others. Her debut poetry collection Small Machine (Write Bloody UK) was called “Tender, visceral, beautifully vulnerable” by Musa Okwonga, and "Strikingly luminous and soothing” by Chanel Miller. People's Poetry Podcast has called her “The Ray Davies of Spoken Word.” Find out more at www.demianter.com.

ANNIE BRECHIN -

Annie Brechin is a Bi poet living, writing, and performing in Edinburgh, Scotland. Their work has been published in Magma, Poetry Wales, Stand, B O D Y, Ink Sweat & Tears, Paris Lit Up, and others. Their first collection, The Mouth of Eulalie, was published by Blue Diode in March 2022.

ROSS WILCOCK - 

Ross Wilcock is a Glasgow based poet and writer whose work explores themes of life as a disabled queer person living in an abled society. Love, growth and self worth play key components of his writing. Dabbling with folklore vibes and lyrical style. Ross’s work has been heard across the U.K. including Glasgow, edinburgh and Leeds.  

CARLY BROWN - 

Dr Carly Brown is an award-winning poet and fiction writer originally from Austin, Texas and now living in Edinburgh. She is the author of a bestselling children’s picture book, I Love St Andrews, and two poetry pamphlets. Known for her lively and witty spoken word poetry, Carly was Scotland’s National Champion of Slam Poetry (2013) and ranked fourth at the World Series of Slam Poetry in Paris. Her debut novella, All the Orphans in the Galaxy, was published in 2022 with Speculative Books and shortlisted for Best Novella in the 2023 Saboteur Awards.