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I’m a singer/songwriter and bouzouki player from Fife in Scotland. With the folk group Rua I recorded the album 'Scottish Music' (1986) and toured in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. As a solo performer I toured with the Proclaimers as support on their Sunshine on Leith tour (1988). Also played bouzouki on the album 'The Roke' by Colin Blakey (then of the Waterboys) in 1988. I opened for artists such as Christy Moore and Townes Van Zandt and played festivals including Reading, Celtic Connections, the Berlin Festival of Political Song and many more.  
Have released several solo albums: 'Capture an Image' (1991), 'Prussian Blue' (1996), 'Star in the Morning' (2005). I was also a member of the Belfast group The Corncrakes, releasing the album 'Ingo and the Bouncy Castle' in 2011. My songs have had extensive play on BBC Radio Scotland and Radio Ulster.

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Colin Dardis is a neurodivergent writer, editor and sound artist from Northern Ireland. His most recent book is All This Light In Which To See The Dead: Pandemic Journals 2020-21 (Rancid Idols Productions, 2022).

His work, largely influenced by his experiences with depression and Asperger's, has been published widely throughout Ireland, the UK and USA, and shortlisted for the Erbacce Prize, Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing, and Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Award, amongst others. 

Previous collections include Endless Flower (Rancid Idols Productions, 2021) The Dogs of Humanity (Fly on the Wall Press, 2019, shortlisted for Best Poetry Pamphlet, Saboteur Awards 2020), and the x of y (Eyewear, 2018). The latest sound release from his DARDIS sound project is THING (4-way split album, attenuation circuit, 2022)

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