Yuck 'n Yum's Annual General Karaoke

Yuck ‘n’ Yum is a Dundee based art zine production team who have been in business for nigh on half a decade and have created some 11 issues of their celebrated publication. A modest black and white affair that marries text with image, the zine has in the past included work by Alex Hetherington and Kevin McPhee.

Like any big business, Yuck ‘n Yum have a responsibility to their shareholders and the public in general. It’s time they illustrate their net profits, evidence their capital accumulations, and acknowledge their gaping fiscal gap at their Annual General Karaoke (AGK).

Held on 18 September at City Chambers, Dundee, the AGK, unlike ordinary karaoke events, encourages each participant to produce a video that will accompany their undoubtedly dismal crooning. Guest speakers include Richie Cummings who will be recreating the intro to Cheers in Dundee’s very own Art Bar, while FEAR WASABI take on the Pixies’ Debaser. Keynote speakers will include Rachel MacLean and the artist collective Now Now.

What else the event might have in store is a carefully guarded secret but the organisers offer £300 and a mini residency at the Hannah Maclure Centre as a prize for the best contribution. What is more, and as if you needed any more encouragement, buses have been chartered from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen to take participants and spectators to the event.

Let’s hope to see videos with a painfully literal correlation between word and image alongside its antithesis, stupendously abstract suggestions of mood and atmosphere with little or no reference to lyrical content. Perhaps someone will even have the gumption to perform a wee dance routine to an instrumental number.

Far from a song and dance about nothing – Yuck ‘n Yum mean business.