Music

'The Golden Void by Hawkwind always lifts me outside of myself'

Luke Sutherland is a musician and author. Raised in Orkney and Perthshire he was a founder member of 1990s Glasgow post-rock group Long Fin Killie and then formed Bows with Danish singer Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen. He has performed with Mogwai and is currently a member of experimental band Rev Magnetic. His debut novel, Jelly Roll, was nominated for the 1998 Whitbread Prize and his autobiographical 2004 novella, Venus As A Boy, was later adapted by the National Theatre of Scotland. On May 11, in a live performance at Edinburgh’s Cameo Cinema as part of this year’s Folk Film Gathering, he will premiere his new soundtrack for Ukrainian filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko’s iconic 1930 masterpiece Earth, alongside fellow Scottish musician Seamy Wu (3.15pm).