FIRE ON THE LIFEBOAT

Preslav Literary School plays live on Resonance FM as part of the AV Festival 08.

Saturday 08 March

12noon to 1pm
Works for radio
LIVE radiophonic performance for multiple dictaphones by Adam Thomas. Plus Fari Bradley’s Audio Works For Paper. 

10pm to 11.15pm
Works for radio
Radiophonic performance for multiple dictaphones by Adam Thomas; Fari Bradley plays mima; Chris Weaver’s lunch at the Sage; Speedreading Middlesbrough (various artists). New works for radio specially made at mima and beyond for AV08: Broadcast. 

Listen live on 87.7FM in the Tees Valley, 104.4FM across London or via www.avfestival.co.uk/onair & www.resonancefm.com 

Preslav Literary School will be playing at the fantastically named Stray Signals festival.

It takes place at The Cumberland Arms, Byker on Sunday 17th February

Visit >here< for more details.

There's also an Analogue Discharge gig in the pipeline, probably end of March. 

New Preslav Literary School fragment up on the myspace player, ripe for download.

Next live show - Fri 1st February at the Side Cafe, Newcastle. 

Preslav Literary School will be playing at next year's Winter Weekend. Expect War of the Worlds, tribal voices, toy keyboards and country guitar licks.

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Now entering its 4th year, the Winter Weekend at The Cumberland Arms has always been a real signpost towards the musical direction that the new year will take. Unveiling new collaborations, debuting fresh material and launching the careers of local and national artists has always been the speciality of this action-packed weekend, and Winter Weekend 08 is no different.

As always, the Saturday pays homage to the folk, roots and blues music so engrained within the pub’s unique musical heritage, with a hand-picked blend of regional names.

Sunday moves towards an eclectic line-up of innovative and engaging acts including Guessmen, Semi-Squared, Laish, Mushi Mushi and more to be confirmed. 

Glosses for die Masses Records has new releases out. Some are available on CD-R, some on dowload. All can be read about and extracts listened to at www.myspace.comglossesfurdiemasses .

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Glosses fur die Masses Records:

Glosses fur die Masses is an independent record label that releases D.I.Y., hand-made CD-Rs to an unsuspecting public. Glosses fur die Masses has no musical remit.

Releases:

GFDM001: Over Kodiak - Noijen Falsies (Oct 2006)

(Live, one-take improvisations of jazz and blues elegies occasionally overwhelmed by sourced feedback and static traumas) Limited edition hand-made CD-R.

GFDM002: Preslav Literary School - Autumn Bricolage (Nov 2006)

(Soundscapist compositions set in English parkland) Free download available through myspace. Limited edition hand-made CD-R also available.

GFDM003: Preslav Literary School - Live At Tripswitches (April 2007)

(Live spoken-word and arabic classicalisms, ruptured by Casiotone) Free download available through myspace. Limited edition hand-made CD-R also available.

GFDM004: Sweet Veal - Vagitarian (April 2007)

(Robot monologues and delightfully dreary dictats on the socialisation of the middle classes) Download only.

GFDM005: When No Means Yes - Verge (Expected July 2007)

(Ropes, bell towers, ciders and sunsets from folk historian and antiquarian soundmaker) Hand-made CD-R, download available.

GFDM006: Over Kodiak - Live at Tripswiches (2007)

(Three men and some dictaphones) CD-R and download only.

GFDM007: OCDC - Ghost Tapes (2007)

(Haunted textures, dark matter and repeated death moans) Ltd edition tape.

GFDM008: Laish - The Sea Summons (August 2007)

(Debut album, post-Nachmi come down. Acoustic odes of movement and change, lyrical and direct, with bouts of experimentalism) Ltd edition CD-R with home made sleeve.

GFDM009: Laish - Tan hits and trinkets EP (December 2007)

(Four songs and two bits with an exploration of room. Scrape and hiss and creak and sigh. A new Spanish guitar and a sense of purpose. Humble and endearing. ) Ltd CDR.

*** Please contact us via myspace to receive more information regarding CD ordering and downloads.

Send any demos to Glosses Fur Die Masses, 38 Gladstone Place, Brighton, BN2 3QD

July 2nd, The Cumberland Arms 

Nachmi, Newcastle's finest purveyors of folk-blasted alt.pop and other genres play a farewell gig at their spiritual home. I'll be there with my tapes, still desperately trying to get in the band.

The wonderful sounds of Graeme Walker and his percussive, melodic cranium will soon be available on Glosses Fur Die Masses (home of Preslav Literary School, OCDC, Over Kodiak and more!). It's his third album recorded under the When No Means Yes nom-de-plume and we're very excited. As a result we've invited Graeme to join Over Kodiak for our special Ouseburn Festival gig on 21st July.

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