UNBOUND: Electric Lit Orchestra

Writers’ Bloc are modern day champions of the Scottish literary tradition the fantastique, and offer weird and wonderful tales intermingled with music for an experience of hidden nightclubs, soul trades, celestial harmonies and ram raids. This is a clip of their event, filmed live during an Unbound session at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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Friday 13 December

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