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Evidently Chickensounds: The John Cooper Clarke Project – Calling all bands and poets
Fat Northerner Records are working with a group of Manchester creatives to run a new project inspired by the work of John Cooper Clarke. The label is developing projects to re-work John Cooper Clarke’s poetry and music involving exceptional musicians and spoken word artists. These tracks will be recorded and released on a limited edition vinyl record in 2009, to celebrate 50 years of John Cooper Clarke.
So far we’ve got the following artists - Chas Smash (Madness), Roland Hartwell (The Icelandic Symphony Orchestra) and a UK grime artist, The Cribs, Reverend and The Makers, Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, The Mighty Boosh), Maximo Park, Denis Jones, Bone-Box, Shit Disco, The Longcut, Ladytron, Lil’ Fee (The Whip), Kings Have Long Arms, The Ironweed Project, Orphan Boy, Frazer King plus more.
Music for the Williamson Tunnel
A collection of the sound of Dripping water.
Artists Alan Dunn and Jeff Young have put together this audio Collection in response to the strange follies that are Liverpool’s Williamson Tunnels, where dripping water can be heard but rarely seen. The double-CD set explores artists’ uses of the sound of dripping water from 1916 to the present, and combines works of historical importance with newly composed pieces. Produced in a limited edition of 1,000, the Collection will be given away free of charge, primarily to Tunnel visitors.
A short tour of the Soundtrack for a Mersey Tunnel
On Monday 18th February I was delighted to be invited by artist Alan Dunn to take a short tour of the Queensway Tunnel to mark the launch of his project Soundtrack for a Mersey Tunnel. I had originally planned to conduct an audio interview with Alan and cut it into highlights of the tracks but never found the time.
Our tour guides were the ladies from the choir
InProcess:ing v1.2
an open forum for sharing creative coding and practice
a scheme by Madlab and Cybersonica
Thursday, 22nd April 7-10pm
Your Uncannily Magical Live Art Comedy Experience at Vinny's Flat
Cathy Butterworth & Antony Pickthall present...
Your Uncannily Magical Live Art Comedy Experience at Vinny's Flat
This Thursday 15th April, 8pm at the Bluecoat £3 (or £5 full priced tickets) or you can book for all 4 shows for just £9! (£14 full price tickets)
Don't miss it!
Free Radical Free Culture - Ogg Camp cometh
Dave Haslam - Close Up with Mark E Smith
‘Close Up’ at the greenroom, Manchester is an opportunity to get up close and personal with musicians, poets, artists and actors discussing their life and work in-conversation with DJ/writer Dave Haslam.
The first two events feature Kevin Rowland (Dexy’s Midnight Runners) and Mark E Smith (The Fall), two iconic frontmen with cult followings and uncompromised opinions.
TEDx comes to Lancaster
Next month the Storey Institute launches Lancaster's own series of TED Talks.
The topic will be ‘Creativity in Education’ and will feature Sir Ken Robinson and Elizabeth Gilbert.
TED -Technology, Entertainment, Design talks started from an annual conference in 1984 but since then, have proliferated across the globe.
Manchester Group show Neck of the Woods
Neck of the Woods is an exhibition investigating artists’ responses into the concept of community and how this is evolving.
Artists and practitioners join from throughout the UK and Internationally to challenge the audience’s preconceptions of community and how this can be explored within their own personal artistic practice.
Rebel Rants with Martin Bell
This week sees the launch of Writing on the Walls Rebel Rants series with Martin Bell appearing at the Bluecoat on the 27th January.
Rebel: An individual who resists authority or control
Rant: To speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way
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