FIRE ON THE LIFEBOAT

I'm currently entering into a dialogue with the artist Graeme Walker for his latest month-long perfomance entitled Quarantine. More details about the project, and the dialogue itself (which will continue throughout the duration of Quarantine) can be found on his website Ex Interioribus Libertas.

Graeme recently became his own country.

Dan Green and I shall be performing twisted jazz elegies and drones and loop and static and am radio as Over Kodiak. Rory, in Prague, will be sorely missed. Here's the line-up:

 

NARC. Fest launch party!

 

 

The Cumberland Arms, Byker, Monday 4th June, £4

Featuring...

Over Kodiak - www.myspace.com/overkodiak

Rebecca Jones - www.myspace.com/rebeccajanejones

A Book Burning Diet - www.myspace.com/abookburningdiet

John Egdell - www.myspace.com/johnegdell

Jeans goes POP! - www.myspace.com/jeansgoespop

Simma - www.myspace.com/simmamusic

AND Yourcodenameis:milo DJ's and pub quiz masters!! Come down and win some great prizes!

Show starts at 7pm!

As a preview for NARC. Fest in conjunction with the Ouseburn Festival!

The Ouseburn Festival is an annual community entertainment event held across the Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle.

NARC. Magazine is proud to be hosting the musical side of the festival on Saturday 21st July. The festival will ecompass six venues across the region, with an eclectic mixture of music, art, visuals and poetry and all events are free to attend.

 

 

Confirmed details for June 17th; I shall be reading poetry.

 

banoffee pie SUMMER FESTIVAL

is to be held on SUNDAY 17th JUNE (Father's Day!!)

the bands

THE SPIES
J BIRD & ELSIE
FREERUNNER
THE FLAMING MOES
SAUGAL MASSIE
FREAKFLAG
THESE MONSTERS
MARIPOSA
SDF
RYAN IS FUN

the singersongwriters

BETH JEANS-HOUGHTON

LEE X HALEY

BRIDIE JACKSON

RICHARD DAWSON

the artistic activities

GlueGroup gallery

life.work.art

Adam Thomas & friends poetry

razamataz lorry excitement

Jeepers Peepers burlesque girls

Penny Whipworth
Chelsea Bangs!
Dee Clover
'Brass Knuckle' Betty

DJ Sweetie Amour

the stalls

50ft Long Horse t-shirts

Kat & Bethan's stall

Record Swap for charity

Badges

Sweets

Icecreams

Frozen Bananas

Face Painting

BBQ

 

A wealth of new comment over at Rangy at the moment if you've been missing him.

I'm promoting this gig in June along with one other, details to follow...

 

Tuesday 12th June

The Cumberland Arms

CHRIST.

RANDOM NUMBER

CATHODE

Understated, warm melodies from live vintage keyboards, drones and atmospherics from reel to reel tape players, phenomenal live drums, and specially commissioned new visuals from an groundbreaking artist. Fresh from his Japanese tour, Christ. (Benbecula Records, ex Boards Of Canada) will be performing tracks from his critically acclaimed new album “Blue Shift Emissions”. www.myspace.com/christhyperact

Random Number (Rock Action, ex Hood) is the foremost purveyor of Northern Wrongbeat, a backcountry electronica that explores glitch, tone and symphony. Machinist and beat driven, yet familiarly organic, his laptop makes a furious, emotive noise that draws comparisons, compliments and crowds, but no equals.  www.myspace.com/randomnumbermusic

Cathode is Newcastle’s Steve Jefferis (Expanding Records, Static Caravan, Warm Digits). Expect the precise electronics, driving pop textures and sine-wave action at the edge of audibility that has marked Steve out as one of the finest electronica artists working in the UK to date.  www.myspace.com/cathodeonline

£5 on the door. 8pm 

 

 

A symposium featuring speakers on Will Oldham! More than worth investigating if you live in the North East. Details are as follows:

Music, Philosophy and the Vernacular II

Day Symposium

Saturday 12th May

CETL Seminar Room, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University

10.00 John Mowitt, 'Facing the Radio'

11.30 Pete Dale, 'What is the Shape of an Event?'

12.00 Lunch

1.00 Lars Iyer & William Large, 'Ethics and Sincerity in the Music of
Will Oldham'

3.00 break

3.30 Thomas Wall, 'This'

4.30 roundtable involving all speakers and participants

5.30 End

John Mowitt is the author of several books, including *Percussion:
Drumming, Beating, Striking* (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002).
Peter Dale is working on a Ph.D. on a comparative study of punk and folk
music at ICMUS. William Large is the author of *Emmanuel Levinas and
Maurice Blanchot: Ethics and the Ambiguity of Writing*, and Thomas Wall
of *Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot and Agamben*.

Two new Over Kodiak dates have been confirmed. Over Kodiak are myself, Daniel Green (Nachmi, Cleft Richard, Cabinet) and Rory Dickenson (Nachmi, OCDC, Tiny Grimes) and are the flagship band for our Glosses fur die Masses record label. We have neither flags or a ship.

The dates are both in conjunction with the Ouseburn Festival and all or one of us will definitely be playing some or both of these two dates:

June 4th - Cumberland Arms, Newcastle - Ouseburn Festival Press Launch

July 21st - The Ouseburn Valley - Ouseburn Festival  

Under my drones and tapes guise Preslav Literary School, I'll be playing this month's Analogue Discharge show at The Telegraph on Friday 18th May.

 

Having entered early retirement, the Alphabets are pursuing solo projects. Clara's writing gets better and better and better, while Graeme continues to innovate in Rotterdam with his muso-cal project When No Means Yes.

In the next issue of The Creative - "a magazine to enable University of Sunderland students to display their original poetry, prose, and articles relating to creativity" - I will be the featured guest writer. This is following my lecture at the beginning of the year entitled The Seawater Journals in which I presented poetry and music in response to this quotation by John Kinsella in which he describes the remit of radical pastoral poetry:

Functionality, modernity, the "awareness" of artifice in the creation of pastoral texts, the consideration of movement between urban and rural spaces - both conceptual and physical - and, fundamentally, the relationship of lyrical language and the position of the observer, the lyrical I, to the rural.

 

 

The featured poem in the magazine will be "The Mudlarks".