RETURNING to this year's Edinburgh Fringe for a second successive season, the Flux New Music Festival will feature a welcome Scottish presence.
Making their first appearance in Auld Reekie for a decade, the Jesus and Mary Chain will head the list of native performers, their shows taking place at last year's Flux venue, the Jaffa Cake, on two nights: August 16 and 17.
Punk icon Siouxsie Sioux, accompanied by the Creatures, will close Flux on August 29 at the event's additional new venue, the Queen's Hall.
Other Flux Queen's Hall attractions include ambient throbsmiths Spiritualised and composer Steve Martland, collaborating on August 14 and 15; Antipodean country-blues-rock voodoo-growler Nick Cave (August 21 and 22), and New York art-jazz minimalist John Zorn.
Also at the Queen's Hall, there'll be a talk by Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and one-time leader of an infamous sixties hippie Californian anarcho-situationist troupe known as the Merry Pranksters.
Full details of all the events at the Jaffa Cake have yet to be finalised, but P J Harvey (August 25) and Yo La Tengo (August 23) head the list of those performers currently confirmed, while other Scottish performers there include the Nectarine No 9 (August 22) and the Bathers, Swiss Family Orbison, and the Pearlfishers (October 21).
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