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Wednesday, 30 May 2007
Quarantine
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.
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Friday, 25 May 2007
Narc-Fest Launch
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.
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Banoffee Pie Festival
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
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007
Manatee, Rangy
A wealth of new comment over at Rangy at the moment if you've been missing him.
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Sunday, 13 May 2007
Christ. gig
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
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Wednesday, 09 May 2007
Music, Philosophy and the Vernacular II
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 IIDay 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*.
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Tuesday, 08 May 2007
Over Kodiak
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
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Analogue Discharge
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.
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Friday, 04 May 2007
Exploding Alphabets
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.
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007
The Creative
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".
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Bearbones
A while ago I did a show for Bearbones Radio with the irrepressible, irreplacable Richard Dawson. Check out both online, as both are beacons for the talent of the North East.
The podcast of our show is archived on the site.
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elimae
A fragment of the poem "As We Enter" is due to be published in the May edition of elimae which can be found online from May 16th.
elimae, pronounced el-ee-may, and standing for electronic literary magazine, was founded by Deron Bauman in 1996 and publishes essays, fiction, interviews, poetry and reviews.
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Preslav Literary School discography
The Preslav Literary School album "Autumn Bricolage" has finally found packaging and a release on Glosses Fur Die Masses Records. The CD-R is highly limited and features a hand-painted outer sleeve as well as hand-made inlay booklets. Contact for purchase (RRP £5), hagglers welcome.
Tracks are also available for free download (for those allergic to hands) on the PLS myspace and on the lable myspace.
Preslav Literary School's performance at Tripswitches on March 20th 2007 has also been mastered (thanks to Alan and John for inviting and recording) and released as a limited edition CD-R on Glosses Fur Die Masses Records with photographic inlays. Contact for purchase (RRP £3).
Two tracks are now available on the myspace player, 'Good Advice' and 'The Third Function Of Dialogue'. Both are available for free download. The third EP track, 'Daylight Never Seemed To Appear' is on the label myspace.
It's open season.
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Yard
"Yard", a short story, has been self published by Sunmast Pamphlets using the font Garamond. Enquiries as to its availability to circletide AT gmail.com.
The short story has a glaring grammatical error which cannot fail to be noticed. Discounts available to those who say nothing.
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Blog function
The function of this blog is going to change somewhat from here on in, as I update it to relay information about forthcoming performances, publications and other matters of disinterest. Hopefully it might function as some kind of interactive biography.
Archives of the fictions FIRE ON THE LIFEBOAT - AN EMERGENCY JOURNAL can be found from Aug 2006 backwards on the sidebar to the right of your screen.
Archives of THESE FOUR WALLS still exist.
An new biography can be found in the about me section up on the left.
Other than that, it's as you were.
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