Richard Youngs (b. 1966, Cambridge, England) is a musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. In a career spanning more than 40 years, his diverse and prolific output defies the existence of any definitive biography or discography.
Primarily recognised as a solo artist and writer of extended song, he is also an active cross-genre collaborator. Recent work includes "deep wallpaper" music with Daniel O'Sullivan, and the potentially global site-specific Here Is A Big Place project with Raymond MacDonald.
Initially a rare live performer, he now embraces the stage.
Born in Cambridge and raised in the Fens, Richard Youngs began making music at the start of the seventies. His early work centred on the family piano. When this was sold in the late seventies, however, the classical guitar and cassette recorder became his instruments of choice, along with anything at hand that made a sound. From then on he has played any number of roles with bands such as Astral Social Club, Concrete Hedge, No Deserts, Jandek and Future Pilot A.K.A. Recent collaborative work with Andrew Paine, Heatsick, Kawabata Makoto and John Clyde-Evans also show him as a highly social musician.
His catalogue of releases wanders into all kinds of zones over a vast array of albums on various labels including his No Fans imprint: they include accapella, guitars, pipes or electronics and come out of solitude and in partnership with atmospheres that range from fragmental folk to all-out fuzz.
Katie Gerardine O'Neill
Katie Gerardine O'Neill is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin. O'Neill holds a Photography B.A. from T.U.D (2012). She is best known for her audio-visual installations, sound art, theatrical performance, and video.
Her work seeks to probe the workings of the human psyche and acts as a mode of disruption, troubling and at times providing relief from the physical and emotional restrictions that isolate and alienate the modern individual.
O’Neill’s uses art as a means of radical self-expression and resistance.