BOOK YER ANE FEST XII
Friday 30th November – Sunday 2nd December 2018
Abertay Student Centre + Conroy’s Basement
Dundee, Scotland

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This year has been insane and, as such, it’s crazy to think we’re just over a month away from BOOK YER ANE FEST XII. Crazy, but true. This year marks ten years of Book Yer Ane Fest and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support over the last ten years.

The inaugural Book Yer Ane Fest was held on November 15th 2008 in the back room of Mucky Mulligan’s in Perth with a Joey Terrifying and a whole bunch of our friends. To think that things have evolved to the point where it is a five-day, three-city celebration of DIY punk culture in solidarity with some of our community’s most vitally-needed services is something that continually blows our collective minds and, personally, isn’t something that I care to dwell on for too long, for fear of being overwhelmed by it all.

We as a collective always endeavour to do our best to bring interested, compelling and satisfying line-ups to Book Yer Ane Fest. While acknowledging that we fall short of our ideals every day, through our collective action we aim to promote positive engagement, critical analysis and good times. While perhaps naive, our aim really is to spread joy. We hope that we manage to achieve this and that everyone has the best of times over Book Yer Ane Fest weekend. This is something that we spend our whole year working towards, our Wrestlemania, and, given how busy things have been this year, both “professionally” and “personally’, we’re looking forward to this year as much if not more than we have done in previous years.

Abertay Student Centre is fully accessible with lift access to all levels and gender neutral bathrooms. It is with regret that Conroy’s Basement is not fully accessible due to the stairs and being situated in a basement. We apologise to our friends for whom this may provide difficulties, however, our bathrooms are gender-neutral. We thank Abertay Student Centre for their support in this endeavour.

It’s been some ride. Thank you all for everything.

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This year, we’re very proud to be working in solidarity with the following groups;

ADDACTION DUNDEE
DUNDEE FOODBANK
DUNDEE REFUFEE SUPPORT
ROYAL LIFE SAVING SOCIETY
YOUNG MINDS UK

We are also very pleased to welcome our friends to the PUNK ROCK FLEA MARKET; Food Not Bombs Dundee, Artificial Womb. C. Gull, Leftfest, Vegan Actions North East, Sustrans, Debauchery Lee Designs, Radical Rebel DIY, Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, TNS Records, Roaming Vegan Baker, Team Beard Records, Gordon MacKenzie Photography, Samaritans, Shout Louder, The Curator Podcast and loads more, including the world famous BOOK YER ANE TOMBOLA.

We’d also like to extend our deepest thanks to our friends Audiowave Soundhire, Dundee Music Studios and Rainbow Music for their support and graft in providing PA equipment, backline and labour over the weekend, we couldn’t do this without you. Much love and respect!

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DAY SPLITS

Please be aware that the actual timetable of sets won’t be published until Book Yer Ane Fest weekend itself. We’d encourage everyone to get down early and support all of the bands. We promise you won’t be disappointed!

Thursday 29th November 2018

PRE-BOOK YER ANE FEST @ BLOC, GLASGOW. 8.30pm, free entry

CANADIAN RIFLE; rad Chicago punk rock on Dead Broke Rekerds
THE AFFECT HEURISTIC; Radical international melodic skate punk
MEAN CAESAR; Nae messin’ gruff melodic punk from London on Little Rocket Records
QUESTION THE MARK; Welsh gravel punks fresh back from Fest to rip it up.

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Friday 30th November 2018

REGISTRATION / WEEKEND TICKET COLLECTION at CONROY’S BASEMENT.
Featuring SPECIAL GUESTS.
4-6pm, 18+. Grab your weekend wristbands and get pumped.

MAIN SHOW at ABERTAY STUDENT CENTRE.
Doors at 6pm.
£10 single day tickets on doors.
£6 unwaged single day tickets on doors.
£15 single day solidarity tickets available on doors.
14+ w/ adult.

CANADIAN RIFLE; rad Chicago punk rock on Dead Broke Rekerds
DEAD OR AMERICAN (Reunion); First Dundee show in over a decade
UNIFORMS; The Dead Prez of East Coast Cowpunk bring Reasons To Breathe
THE TWISTETTES; Radical electro-punk dance party guaranteed to bring the grooves
QUESTION THE MARK; Welsh gravel punks fresh back from Fest to rip it up
PAPER RIFLES; Righteous fury-filled skyscraping indie punk rock from Edinburgh
THE OVERBITES; The shape of latter-day cowpunk to come
HOUDINI SAID NO; Bombastic high-energy metallic punk rock party machine
THE BLOOD RED MOON; Disturbing cinematic orchestral instrumental post-rock

LATE SHOW at CONROY’S BASEMENT
Featuring ?????????
Doors at midnight, 18+.
Guaranteed entry with Earlybird Weekend Ticket.
Capacity is 100. One in, one out thereafter.

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Saturday 1st December 2018

HARDCORE ZEN at CONROY’S BASEMENT
Guided meditation and hardcore punk.
Doors at 11am, 18+.

MAIN SHOW at ABERTAY STUDENT CENTRE
Doors at 12 noon, 14+ w/ adult.
£15 single day tickets available on doors.
£10 unwaged single day tickets available.
£20 single day solidarity donations tickets also available on doors.

CHEWING ON TINFOIL; Our oldest Irish punk pals play their first ever Book Yer Ane Fest!
AUSTIN LUCAS; Americana/country legend plays EXCLUSIVE SCOTTISH SHOW of EU Tour
FOREVER UNCLEAN; Well-heeled Danish melodic punks return for big-time sing-a-longs
REVENGE OF THE PSYCHOTRONIC MAN; DIY punks play their last ever Scottish show
BRATAKUS; Highland anarcho-punk riot bring the noise and vegan straight-edge fury
GET IT TOGETHER; Posi melodic hardcore crew return to bring the ruckus
THE BURNT TAPES; Greek punks from London return with their regret punk anthems
THE CUNDEEZ; None-more-oary Dundee legends bring legendary stomp to their first BYAF
MEAN CAESAR; Nae messin’ gruff melodic punk from London on Little Rocket Records
BABY CHAOS; Reunited 90s Glasgow alt-rockers’ first Dundee show in almost 20 years
WARSHY; Crazy Arm frontman brings solo project out on the road with Austin Lucas
QUEEQUEG’S COFFIN; Stomping soul-punk  from newest members of MTAT family
FRAGILE (Reunion); Fife melodic punks reunite to play first show and BYAF in ten years
GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY; Misery punk might ruin your life but improve your fest
AVAS; None-more-posi melodic hardcore PMA punk rock jamz to soothe your soul
PLEASE, BELIEVE; Intense east coast ecossemo celebrating ‘…In Potential”
THE AFFECT HEURISTIC; Radical international melodic skate punk
NICOLA MADILL; Majestic goth/neo-folk romanticism from one of Dundee’s finest talents
HOLY SNAKES; Acoustic soul/blues/punk from inspirational MTAT crew comrade
BIKE NOTES; Life-affirming smart melodic pop-punk from Walking Targets troops
REBECCA RADICAL; Fresh acoustic anarcho-pop-punk from newly-gig-active Fife punker
TIM HOLEHOUSE; Deep-south mutant hardcore blues road warrior
LOVERS TURN TO MONSTERS; Wistful lo-fi indie-pop daydreams and romantic poetry
Film; SO, WHICH BAND IS YOUR BOYFRIEND IN?

LATE SHOW at CONROY’S BASEMENT
KADDISH; “What World Was Still?” LP Release Show

Dundee ecossemo legends celebrate the release of their third LP.
A MTAT + Black Lake Records joint
Pre-order; http://bit.ly/2O5zaHS

With special guests
BOAK; The gnarliest grind band in all of UK hardcore return to decimate the basement

Doors at midnight, 18+.
Guaranteed entry with Earlybird Weekend Ticket.
Capacity is 100. One in, one out thereafter.

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Sunday 2nd December 2018

MAIN SHOW at ABERTAY STUDENT CENTRE
Doors at 12 noon, 14+ w/ adult.
£15 single day tickets available on doors.
£10 unwaged single day tickets available.
£20 single day solidarity donations tickets also available on doors.

ROUGHNECK RIOT; Full-blast Celtic punk legends play last Scottish show before hiatus
DREAM NAILS; London feminist punk witches destroy everything at first Scottish show
BABAR LUCK; The One World Warrior brings the spiritual soul to the punk rock party
FAIR DO’S; Brain-mangling melodic tech/skate/hardcore shredding the “Leopards” LP
TRAGICAL HISTORY TOUR BAND; Scottish country dancing on the “Aphorisms” trail
STONETHROWER; East coast ecossemo monoliths shake the foundations
FISTYMUFFS; Patriarchy-smashing anarcho-riot-grrl noise from Edinburgh
DIVIDE; Glasgow Hardcore legends celebrating over 20 years of mosh-based ruckus
CHERYM; Danceable radical indie pop-punk savageness from returning bittersweet Derry
THE CAIRNGORMS YOUNG TEAM; Lo-fi trip-hop existentialist blues exorcisms
TIM LOUD; Peripatetic country/folk/punk/pop genius on the road to “Salvation”
BILLY LIAR; Fresh back from a party in the USA, Scotland’s angriest returns
FIGHTS AND FIRES; Reunited midlands hardcore rock’n’roll punks back in Dundee
LOST AVENUE; Little Rocket punks putting “Fears” touring to rest after a year of graft
SEAS, STARRY; Introspective experimental post-rock majesty from Aberdoom
DELINQUENTS; Bell Street’s favourite indie punk band wrap a crazy year
IRON SYSTEM; Old school melodic hardcore fae Fife like yer granny used to make
LOU MCLEAN; Nae messin’ acoustic folk-pop jamz from Edinburgh’s sharpest tongue
BED OF WASPS; Raging slabs of blackened hardcore from the east coast’s gnarliest
GAY PANIC DEFENCE; Rabid powerviolence/grindcore/skramz from Fife’s sickest
VOLCANO X; Sunday Satanic rituals worshiping at the alter of the gods of heavy metal
HAYSTACK MONOLITH; Sci-fi lo-fi euphoric dance-poetry to celebrate our future glory
AJ SIMMONDS; Bracing honest raw acoustic punk from the deep south of England
DRAWS CREATURE MASK; Cinematic celestial post-hardcore/post-rock soundscapes.
Film; FOOLISH OPTIMISM

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Monday 3rd December 2018
POST-BOOK YER ANE FEST @ LEITH DEPOT, EDINBURGH
Doors at 7.30pm. Fiver tax.

DREAM NAILS; London feminist punk witches burn down the capital
PAPER RIFLES; Righteous fury-filled skyscraping indie punk rockers slay their hometown
FISTYMUFFS; Hometown Patriarchy-smashing anarcho-riot-grrl noise
TIM HOLEHOUSE; Deep-south mutant hardcore road warrior blues shamanism

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PLEASE NOTE; CARD SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
Timetables will be published at BOOK YER ANE FEST.

BE RADICAL, SPREAD JOY.

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