Sunday, 30 March 2008

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NOTHING TO SEE HERE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Monday, 14 January 2008

AV Festival 08

 

 

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Exciting movements over at AV Festival 08 including european premiere of John Cage's Variations VII...

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Sunday, 13 January 2008

Photography

 

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Some photographs of journeys and ends and the middle sections that get forgotten.

 Photo on the lifeboat...

  

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Saturday, 12 January 2008

New Year Performances

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Preslav Literary School will be make the following early year appearances:

 

SUN 20th JAN - Winter Weekend, Cumberland Arms, Newcastle

FRI 1st FEB - Side Cafe, Newcastle

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Tuesday, 11 December 2007

AV Festival 08

Keep informed of all the goings on in the country's most exciting digital art & new media audio visual festival.

There's an awe-inspiring line-up with too many world premieres and must-sees to comprehend.

 

Feb 28 - Mar 08, 2008. 

 

www.avfestival.co.uk 

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Sunday, 30 September 2007

Ex Interioribus Liberatas

And while I'm at, Graeme Walker's new mind maps have to be explored to be believed. He's prolific and has the capacity to grow a grand beard.

Daniel Green is shinning up musical drainpipes with Laish.

OCDC, fresh from Civic duties, has tapes 'n' tapes 'n' tapes for you to buy, sell and trade. 

  

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No Old Work

Graeme has fashioned a new site. Hurray for Graeme and his site-fashioning.

Exploding Alphabets through here! 

 

 

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Dott 07

2 weeks to go.

www.dott07.com

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Monday, 17 September 2007

Colpitts Christmas Party

Just confirmed - the Exploding Alphabets founders Graeme Walker, Clara May Warden and myself will be the main act at the Colpitts Christmas party on December 14th.

Colpitts Poetry, which takes its name from the Colpitts pub where the readings began in 1975, has brought over three hundred quality poetry events to the city during the last thirty years. Colpitts Poetry readings take place at Alington House, 4 North Bailey, Durham (just beyond Owengate which goes up to the Cathedral).

See their website at http://www.colpittspoetry.co.uk.

And while I think about it, Morden Tower (where Exploding Alphabets was a regular event) has a new site too: http://www.mordentower.org/

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Sunday, 16 September 2007

Publish! at Gallery Glue

Two performances of different types from me at this programme of events:


[As part of 'PUBLISH!' (15th Sept-14th Oct, preview Fri 14th Sept 6-8pm), Gallery Glue 192a, Heaton Rd, Heaton NE6 5HP.]

September

Tues 18th, 8pm
Preslav Literary School
In a one-off performance, Preslav Literary School will present a live installation of dictaphone tape manipulations and improvised sound to accompany one hour of spontaneous typewriter prose, the results of which will be hung in the gallery and lit by various mixed and spliced film works by visual artist HAL9000.

October

Thurs 4th, 7pm
A National Poetry Day Celebration
An informal evening of poetry.  Readers include Susannah Pickering, Elizabeth Whyman, Adam Thomas, Sophie Baker and Aaron J Wells.  Spontaneous readings welcomed on the night!

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Friday, 29 June 2007

Therapy

Graeme Walker's fantastic new installation/performance Therapy currently resides within the Waygood Studios in Byker. The private view featured improvised music from myself, Graeme and Daniel Green. Photographs from the performance to appear soon. I also wrote the exhibition guide, to the dismay of art critics everywhere.

 

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Tuesday, 19 June 2007

dott07

I have a new job. I'd just like to take this opportunity to mention that nothing I've ever said or done reflects reflects the views of my new employer. Ahem.

Dott07 is a year-long project attempting to explore new ways in which design can help to make everyday life better. It takes the form of long term community projects, design showcases and a two-week long festival in October.

From what I've been able to gather in my first week here it's going to be a very busy few months for me and the design community in the north east.

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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

medium_l_fcbba05ee7c71033ba30556e68785545.jpgDan 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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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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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 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*.

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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

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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Wednesday, 12 July 2006

Don't fix it.

On returning to an empty home:

The letter of apology and the broken object, removed.

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Tuesday, 04 July 2006

Been doing.

Absence makes the heart grow fat, like a pig.

I have been;

i)    Editing NOISE blog.
ii)    Making fierce music.
iii)    Organising EA.
iv)    Looking like a dork whilst self-publishing in Hull.

Good, then.

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Friday, 16 June 2006

Guestimate.

Fire On the Lifeboat is currently guest-editing NOISEblog, the dialogic face of NOISE festival - a virtual showcase for young creative talent. Visit for hackneyed opinion, excessive use of hyperlinks and promotion of online talent.

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Friday, 26 May 2006

Documents project.

Fire On The Lifeboat's musical, diabetic brother can be found at the myspace site of Document: a sound project.

 UPDATE: Myspace is currently undergoing maintenance and may be unpredictable.

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Friday, 05 May 2006

Results in

Name Description Votes Polled %Ward Poll Majority
Muhammad Akhtar Ali Liberal Democrats 994  38.5   
Vivien Ellen commonly known as Viv Browne British National Party 157  6.1   
Peter Roy Hilton Green Party 172  6.7   
Joyce McCarty The Labour Party Candidate 1031  39.9  37 
Jacqueline Mary McNally The Conservative Party Candidate 227  8.8   

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Saturday, 03 December 2005

Words worth.

Interrupted broadband access has made online access sporadic and uninteresting; hence a distance comes between me and the burning lifeboat. I have been writing though, in secret, that is to say invisible to public domain.

 

Relaying events must be my priority, and all are founded here with a mind full of poetry. Exploding Alphabets is next week, the last of the year, and it requires my attention. Previous outings have been concerned with event-management rather than craft – this must change.

 

Words and atmosphere are conjoined, the creation of one is conducive to another and so this piece is marked as an impetus, a catalyst, a reference to deeds and sentences to come.

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Friday, 21 October 2005

Ch-ch-ch-changes.

Changed blog template, previous one had cramp, silly tiny central column.

Hopefully this one is clearer and with nicer colours too.

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Sunday, 16 October 2005

Goat in the machine.

[Technical problems last few days, which seemed to have changed my colour schemes and dispensed with a few peripheral details (photos, my name and email, a creative urge, the small matter of the fucking words I spent time writing), so apologies if your visits here have been punctuated with the white screen of internet death.]

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Wednesday, 28 September 2005

I thought you'd finished.

I had but...

 

No way, no statement of intent. Simply inconsequential journaling which is more of the same (irrelevant, immodest) but less of the same (showcasing, showboating, showstopping) with some representing of discourses, mapping of dialogics and descriptions of people falling over in the street.

 

[To those of you nubile to my bile: enthusiastists, plagiarists and charlatans may find what is quaintly known as an archive (actually a years worth of unfocussed idiocy) at These Four Walls. There are links to worthy recipients and lists of literary projects and journals.]

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