Date: Friday 11 November 2011
Venue: National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street,
Edinburgh
Admission: £6, £5 Concession and
Members (Age 18+ only)
Time: 18:30-22:30
Supported by The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, the first of the
new
RBS Museum Lates events will give visitors the chance to
explore the galleries, relax with food, drink, DJs, live music and
even a silent disco in the
Imagine Gallery, which is more normally a daytime space for
children.
The beautiful, soaring
Grand Gallery will be the hub of the event, with pop-up bars
and music throughout, featuring Edinburgh based experimental pop
act Found with support from Glasgow based Ben Butler
and Mousepad and Hip-hop producer and DJ S-type. MC
and DJ for the evening will be BBC Radio 1 DJ Ally McRae, who
recently took over from Vic Galloway as host of Introducing …
in Scotland.
The Museum reopened to the public in July
following a £47 million transformation, and the new galleries will
be open, covering themes such as the Natural World, World Cultures,
Discoveries and Science and Technology.
The RBS Museum Lates event will give
people the chance to see objects in this setting and enjoy some of
the interactive displays more usually occupied by children during
the day, from Formula One racing to comparing your weight to
various animals. There will be some surprises in the galleries as
the evening progresses, including some close up creepy crawly
encounters and plenty of opportunities to get creative.
Participants will be encouraged to get busy on
the night with their phones and cameras, tweeting pictures,
live-blogging and talking about the event.
Stephen Allen, Head of Learning and Programmes
at National Museums Scotland said:
The Museum is an amazing, unique place at any time of the day,
and so we’re confident that people will have an amazing and unique
night. We know that our visitors keen to see the Museum in a more
informal and social context – having fun in a museum isn’t just for
children but for adults too. The line-up is sure to bring in
new audiences and tickets are already selling really well
Andrew Wilson, Head of Group Communications at
RBS said:
RBS Museum Lates is a superb way for us to play our part in
supporting an outstanding Scottish institution. The programme
will inspire more people to learn about Scotland's
history and its contribution to the world. We love the whole
venture and are privileged to help make it happen.
This is the first in the series of
RBS Museum Lates, which will be held quarterly in the
Museum. Future Lates will be themed with the next in the
series coinciding with the
Fascinating Mummies exhibition in February.
The event runs from 6.30 to 10.30pm, and
tickets are on sale now at www.nms.ac.uk/lates
Notes to editors
Performer biogs
FOUND
FOUND is the brainchild of art college buddies: Ziggy Campbell
(lead vocals, guitar), Tommy Perman (bass guitar, synth) and Kev
Sim (electronics, percussion). The band create an unusual mix of
garage rock, melodic pop and glitchy electronica, which has just
lead to them signing a publishing deal with the highly respected
Domino
Records and record deal with Chemikal Underground.
FOUND began life as an experimental arts collective putting on
many weird and wonderful events in art galleries, warehouses and
even storage containers. They most recently hit the headlines this
summer with a limited edition 7” single version of their track
‘Anti Climb Paint’ which was made from chocolate, and also created
Cybraphon, the BAFTA-winning interactive mechanical band in a box
(http://cybraphon.com/) .
BEN BUTLER & MOUSEPAD
Ben Butler & Mousepad is
Joe Howe, from Glasgow, Scotland.
He has produced weird, complex, fun, synth-led
music under a bunch of aliases, including Gay Against You and
Germlin.
Recent times have seen Ben Butler &
Mousepad tour the United States with Deerhoof, release their first
album on London's LOAF and a 7" on Oslo's DODPOP label. Joe wrote
an album with Momus and worked on a synthesizer opera about Wendy
Carlos.
S_TYPE
One of Scotland’s hottest young remixers,
hip-hop producer and DJ S-type was recently signed to LuckyMe and
profiled in the Scotsman’s Radar section: http://radar.scotsman.com/viewpost.aspx?id=497
Ally MacRae
MC & DJ for the first RBS Museum
Lates event, Ally MacRae took over as host of BBC Radio 1’s
Introducing … in Scotland programme earlier this year:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x592r
Please note that National Museums Scotland (no ‘of’ or ‘the’) is
our corporate name. Our individual museums are called the National
Museum of Scotland, the National Museum of Flight, the National
Museum of Rural Life, the National Museum of Costume and the
National War Museum.
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Ends.
For more information or images, please
contact Susan Gray, Hannah Dolby or Bruce Blacklaw, Press Office,
Tel 0131 247 4165 or email b.blacklaw@nms.ac.uk