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English Journey: Re-Imagined at the Barbican

admin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:00:02 +0000

Updated 23/10/2011

A podcast of the event is now available here.

At the Barbican on 22/10/2011

Feat. Iain Sinclair, Alan Moore, Shirley Collins & more

Link to the event: http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=12536

A 21st century happening inspired by JB Priestley’s survey of a troubled 1930s England.

Readings, performance, music and film intersect, complement and argue, including highlights from sold out events at Aldeburgh Music & AV Festival in Newcastle, plus a new London-centric summoning under the influence of Sinclair‘s latest book Ghost Milk, featuring the Lea Valley area and the Olympics as well as the Barbican itself.

Graham Dolphin

‘s mutating video backdrops, glimpses from the corner of the eye. Shirley Collins (folk music historian, silenced angel singer) reads John Clare. Found sounds & lost souls. Straw bears & sunken villages. Stones vs bricks. Flutes and strings and Border pipes. Hurdy-gurdy heavy metal. Beware the Morris man’s stare!Moore‘s third mind dialogues at the conjugation of two epic paintings by J.W. Turner & John Martin. Tom Picard, lost poet of the Borders cuts up Get Carter and a Viking funeral. Sinclair’s latest alchemical stewings, East London’s “gonzo Samuel Pepys” has things to tell you that others would sooner you didn’t hear… Calling Time on the Grand Project!

Readings by Iain Sinclair, Alan Moore, Tom Picard, Shirley Collins

Music by FM Einheit, Susan Stenger, Simon Fisher-Turner,Andy May, Steve Tyler

Video Projections by Graham Dolphin, Susan Stenger, FM Einheit

Urban wonderings: Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair at the Cheltenham Science Festival 2011

admin — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:30:39 +0000

“Humans shape the environment in which they live, but the environment also shapes human mood and emotions. If your environment is grey and dull then you might feel a little bit grey and dull but if, like Iain Sinclair, your urban wanderings come alive with history and myths and stories, you enter a world that is more vibrant and alive. Join him and Guest Director Alan Moore to explore psychogeography.”

Link to website: http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/find-events/science/s72-urban-wonderings-alan-moore-and-iain-sinclair

It’s dark in London

admin — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:50:10 +0000

Coming out in Apr. 2012, a new book containing works of various writers and artists:

It’s Dark in London

“London Noir in graphic form.”

It’s Dark in London features the work of Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, David McKean, Ilya, Carol Swain, Dix, Melinda Gebbie – in tandem with the stories of London writers like Iain Sinclair, Graeme Gordon, Christopher Petit and Stella Duffy. This fusion produces a portrait of London that captures the city’s fundamental essence as an exquisite mixture of lofty towers and gutter sleaze, of suburban gentility and urban depravity, of private vices and public philanthropy.

Featuring:

ALAN MOORE –Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell,
NEIL GAIMAN – The Sandman, Stardust, American Gods
DAVE MCKEAN – Hellblazer, The Sandman, Cages
STELLA DUFFY – Martha Grace, State of Happiness
JONATHAN EDWARDS – Deadline, Tank Girl
JOSH APPIGNANESI – Song of Songs, The Infidel
DIX – Roll Up! Roll Up!
MELINDA GEBBIE – Lost Girls, Tomorrow Stories
ILYA – Skidmarks, The Clay Dreaming
CHRIS HOGG – Killer Fly, Holy Cross
STEWART HOME – Killer Fly, Holy Cross
GRAEME GORDON – Bayswater Bodycount
CHRISTOPHER PETIT – Robinson, The Falconer
WOODROW PHOENIX – Rumble Strip, The Sumo Family
ALEXEI SAYLE – Stalin Ate My Homework
IAIN SINCLAIR – Scarlet Tracings, Downriver
YANA STAJNO – ‘Ten Plastic Roses’, Timeshare
CAROL SWAIN– Invasion of the Mind Sappers, Foodboy
CHRIS WEBSTER – Malus, Wormwood
CARL FLINT – Sonic the Comic
GARRY MARSHAL – Axis Mundi, Missionary Man
WARREN PLEECE – True Faith, The Invisibles

Hackney Dissenting Academy [CANCELLED]

admin — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:00:19 +0000

19/10/2010
Due to unforseene cicrcumstances Sunday’s Hackney Dissenting Academy has regretable been cancelled.
Full refunds to ticket holders are being made today (19th October)
We apologise for the inconvenience

Venue and more info: http://www.villageunderground.co.uk/events/hackney-dissenting-academy

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146197438755980

PS: The Paul Smith show on 24th October is at 54 Holywell Laner. Iain

The Guardian on Alan Moore (24/07/2010)

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:07:19 +0000

“Unearthing the truth about Watchmen genius Alan Moore”

“He may no longer be writing an opera with Gorillaz, but for his next trick, the magician, psychedelic adventurer and occasional comics creator has a different musical project up his sleeve”

Read the article