Upcoming Gigs and Other News!

Hullo, and welcome to our website. I don't update this often enough. I think that's probably because, unlike our various other outlets online, this one doesn't ping me a notification every time one of you accidentally hits 'like' on one of the carefully crafted pieces of utter nonsense that make up our online output.

The next month or two promises to be a very active period for us.

We've got the following gigs coming up;

Buttermere Bash (ENG) - 31.06.25

Volxfesta - Bolzano/Bozen (ITA) - 14.06.25

Rudolstadt Festival (DE) - 04.07.2025

Kelburn Garden Party (SCO) - 06.07.2025

Buttermere is already sold out, so if you're in the UK and you want to come and see us you'll need to snap up one of the remaining tickets for Kelburn.

This is an amazing run of shows! It's fairly surreal for me to look at this list and see gigs in 4 different countries. Needless to say, we're looking forward to all of them immensely. A huge thanks to Ian S and Christina, who have worked very hard behind the scenes to make all of this happen.

Secondly, we've got a new single coming out. The exact release date isn't confirmed yet, but it'll be around the end of June/beginning of July.

The track we are releasing is called 'Brittlestar Galactica' - it's based around a tune composed by Helen, and is just one of a number of new tracks we've been sneaking into our sets over the past few months.

As well as being your first chance to hear our new material, this is also notable as being the first proper track we've self released since 2017.

All of our music in the intervening period has come out via Skye Records. Iain C - without whom our two albums to date wouldn't be out - has been incredibly helpful and we've learned a lot from him. Thanks man!

On a personal note I'd like to say thanks to everyone - including you guys - for your patience - it’s been a bust couple of years what with all of our gigs and life stuff.

After this run of gigs is over and the single is out, I'm planning to use the summer break from work to get my head down and concentrate on writing album #3.

- Calum

SUMMER'S GONE

GOOD GOD, that was a trip!

Thanks everyone, we really enjoyed our summer on the road. Big love to everyone who booked us, or came and dance - a special mention to our agent Ian Smith, who did a magnificent job this year.

We’re going to retreat into the studio for a couple of months now, working on some new material for what’s looking like a third album.

It’s going to be the first thing we’ve self-produced since 2017, which is really exciting. We’re in a very privileged position right now, in that we’re much more established as a live act than we’ve been before, but get to start with a blank slate musically too. We can’t wait to let you hear everything!

We’ll be making a couple of forays into playing live over the winter - notably at Cobalt Studios in Ouseburn on December 6th.

Keep watching our socials for news and updates :)

Calum

Gigs This Summer!

Hiya, we’ve got a whole bunch of gigs this summer, and we’re looking forward to them loads! Here’s a wee list for you just now.

For updates and more info, please check our instagram and facebook feeds.

Friday May 10th - Moniaive Folk Festival w/Airdan

Friday May 17th - Dunbar British Legion for Nightjar Sounds

Saturday May 25th - Knockengorroch Festival

Satuday June 1st - Blue Lagoon Festival, St David’s. Wales

Sunday June 9th - Black Agnes Festival, Battery, Dunbar

Saturday June 22nd - Midsummer Music, Gatehouse of Fleet

Saturday July 20th - Wackelstein Festival, Austria

Friday July 26th - Butefest, Isle of Bute

Friday August 3rd - Fringe by the Sea, North Berwick

Sunday August 11th - Location tba

Friday August 23rd - Solfest, Cumbria

UPCOMING DATES

Hiya! Here are some gigs we have coming up.

KIRKWALL SAILING CLUB - ORKNEY - SATURDAY OCTOBER 14th

We’re playing our first gig in Orkney! Our fluatist Helen - a proud Orcadian - is very happy about this, as we’re sure you can imagine.

We’re delighted to announce that the gig will be opened by local legens (and a favourite act of ours) Saltfishforty!

Tickets are available here; https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yoko-pwno-live-at-the-sailing-club-tickets-708790390137

EDINBURGH + GLASGOW DATES ANNOUNCED

This December we’re playing shows in Edinburgh and Glasgow with our pals Ostar Sound!

On Saturday the 2nd we play Edinburgh’s Bongo Club, then scoot down the M8 to play Glasgow’s Room2 on Friday the 8th.

Early bird tickets have sold out - they were available exclusively to our mailing list - so if you like cheap stuff scroll down and sign up for that.

Tickets - and more info - are available via https://linktr.ee/ostar_pwno_tix

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MERCEDES GLEITZE VIDEO - WATCH NOW

We have a video out today for the track ‘Mercedes Gleitze’ from our album ‘Part Machine’. You can watch it here! If you want to learn more, check out the text below.

Mercedes Gleitze was a real powerhouse - the first British woman to swim the channel, and a groundbreaking female athlete in an era when it wasn't exactly common.

Helen was inspired to pick up her flute and write this tune after reading her biography. She handed it over to the band, who added fiddles, banjo, drums and wobbly bass synth stabs to create an awesome mish-mash of trad music and drum and bass!

The song was released on our second album 'Part Machine' - out last year via Skye Records, but we felt it deserved a video of its own.

This was made by the amazing Glenda Rome, who's blown us all away with her enthusiasm and creative input.

The live footage is from our set at Fringe By The Sea 2022, and the underwater fiddling and whistle playing was filmed at the Eye Cave beach in Dunbar. The other swimming footage comes from the seas around Shapinsay, Orkney.