Mnemonic City: Moving Streets
Part of the series Mnemonic City, Moving Streets is the latest exhibition of Magma Collective. Ridley Road Market has been the starting point for a three-month derive that ended up in a two-day exhibition and live performances at Doomed Gallery. The market has been the magnifier to explore relationships, trade, city spaces and the point...
Dead Hedge Trio – Cutting it Up
Dead Hedge Trio, Mello Mello Jazz Cafe, Tuesday 26th 2013 Spring, unfortunately has not yet reached north-west England yet a sweaty, hot-under-the-collar temperature was achieved earlier this week at Mello Mello by Dead Hedge Trio and their guest artist Mimi Amore. Although only on their third residency at this fantastic, grassroots venue the group...
The Nutcracker; Never a Dull Moment
The Nutcracker: Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Thursday 10th January, 2013. It’s a Christmas classic, but the Scottish Ballet’s take on this distinctive and memorable show is just as fresh as ever, and an enjoyable feast for all eyes to behold. Enchanting and beautiful, we’re taken on a winter wonderland journey as the story of The Nutcracker...
SuperEverything: A live cinema examination of Malaysia by @Lightsurgeons
Touring the UK this spring is SuperEverything* by leading audio-visual artists The Light Surgeons. This is a cross disciplinary, live cinema performance, commissioned by the British Council. It has has been created in collaboration with some of Malaysia’s most high profile artists and musicians, who will be joined by on the tour members of the acclaimed...
Avantgarde Music: Fifth CoCart Music Festival, Poland @CoCA_Torun
For the 22nd-23rd March 2013 you are invited to the fifth edition of the CoCArt Music Festival in Torun, Poland! Unique in this part of Europe, the festival integrates the latest trends in the field of contemporary music avantgarde with visual multimedia art projects. It’s a real celebration of electronic and electroacoustic music, gathering artists...
Cloud Eye Control @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Los Angeles based theatre group Cloud Eye Control have developed 3 short theatre pieces that involve animation, motion graphics and innovative use of projection and shadow. This is the American troupes first trip to the UK and it is part of the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. The first performance...
‘The Weave’: Album Review
Venture down a dark, city centre back street in Liverpool on certain nights and you may hear the distant sound of a singing, high trumpet emanating from some low lit local bar or pub: invariably this will be the sound of Martin Smith and his group. For numerous years the improvising trumpeter and now composer...
Double-Fly, The Way to Go! Sounds like a Real Name – Shanghai
Since their creation in 2008, Double Fly Art Center (hereafter referred to as “Double Fly”) has created all sorts of videos. These have seemed very absurd, with a sense of the amateur, coarse and slightly decadent. In early works such as “Double Fly robs a bank” or ” So You Think You Can Dance “,...
Stealing Sheep + Support (Homecoming Xmas Gig), The Kazimier, 14th December 2012
It was a chilly evening to be outside waiting too long, but that was where this writer found himself on the gig night; warned of a possible sell-out night, arriving early was the best course of action in order to secure a ticket – foolishly on reflection as one could have been bought online in...
