Creatives of Colour Festival: Kapil Seshasayee + Intibint
Creatives of Colour Festival presents: Kapil Sehasayee + Intibint at the Glad Cafe, followed by a DJ set from Arusa Qureshi.
Thinking Culture | School of Culture & Creative Arts | Global Majority Network | College of Arts & Humanities
Date: Friday 09 May 2025 - Saturday 10 May 2025
Time: 20:00 - 0:00
Venue: Glad Cafe
Category: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events
Speaker: Kapil Seshasayee + Intibint
Creatives of Colour Festival: Kapil Seshasayee + Intibint
Glad Cafe, Friday May 9, 2025
Part of the Creatives of Colour Festival, May 8-10, 2025.
Join us at the Glad Cafe for a celebratory gig of two groundbreaking Glasgow-based artists, Kapil Seshasayee and Intibint, followed by a DJ set from Arusa Qureshi.
Tickets: £15 full price / £12 concession.
Pay what you can / no one turned away for lack of funds - please email scca-thinking-culture@glasgow.ac.uk for this option.
Set Times
8.00pm - Doors
8.30pm - Intibint
9.10pm - Break
9.30pm - Kapil Seshasayee
10.30pm - DJ set: Arusa Qureshi
12.00am - Bar closes
Kapil Seshasayee
British-Tamil artist Kapil Seshasayee tells the stories other artists are afraid to tell with a guitar style all his own - combining Carnatic Indian classical music, R'n'B and jazz fusion.
Singles released from his most recent LP “Laal” have featured at Rolling Stone India, BBC Radio4, Bandcamp, The Quietus, The Hindu, BBC Radio6 Music, BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Asian Network.
"Laal" is a concept album about the influence of Bollywood and Indian cinema - platforming conversations around censorship, nationalism and caste which aren’t discussed often in mainstream media circles. Kapil also hopes to celebrate unsung heroes of the Indian film industry with singles from the album such as the director of queer film “The Pink Mirror” - Sridhar Rangayan.
Kapil has showcased songs from "Laal" across SXSW, South Asian festival Dialled in, Latitude Festival, The Roundhouse and venues such as the Concorde 2 in Brighton alongside artists such as Tinariwen, Talvin Singh and Raghu Dixit.
Highly sought after for session work due to his idiosyncratic guitar playing - Kapil has amassed a number of high profile collaborations and commissions including a rework of a Ravi Shankar composition to commemorate his 100th birthday for BBC Asian Network, a collaborative single with rap legend LIL B and performances in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall alongside Billy Bragg and members of legendary Scottish acts Mogwai / Belle & Sebastian.
Intibint
Intibint (meaning "You are a girl") is the moniker of Glasgow-based Yemeni artist Noha. Whilst studying for her masters at SOAS she began to revisit songwriting and performing after a long break from music. As a result of her deep dive into music and songs, Noha debuted her first single "Myself", and later in 2021 an EP titled "What Are You Willing to Do" which introduced her own production, with the tracks "You & Me" and "Telling my Mother". Her work is primarily electronic imbibed with inspiration by Yemeni sounds, exploring themes straddling both the personal and the collective. Her latest tracks Sunflower and Ymn Alsa3eed are symbols of Intibint’s journey both personally and musically, showing the breadth of her production skills and sonically innovative sound.
Arusa Qureshi
Arusa Qureshi is a writer, editor and music programmer based in Edinburgh. She is the current Editor of Fest and the former Editor of The List and writes mostly about music, most recently Flip the Script – a book about women in UK hip hop, published by 404 Ink. Her work has appeared in the Scotsman, Clash, the Guardian, GoldFlakePaint, Time Out, the Quietus, NME and more. She chairs the board of the Scottish Music Centre, sits on the board of the Music Venue Trust and is the co-curator of the award-winning Amplifi series at Edinburgh's Queens Hall.