Sorcerer’s Of Sound
20 September 2008 // Film/TV //Miscellany
by Simon Reynolds, from today’s Guardian This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Radiophonic Workshop, the BBC’s experimental unit for electronic sound. It also marks the 10th anniversary of the workshop’s death after a long period of decline. But almost as soon it was gone, it began to assume cult status. A Radiophonic ghost [...]
Letters From Arcadia
‘Carp Crunch Hits French Banks’ ja fags for the colonel for rounding up the gang, the great drain robbers of frensham still in their jail stripes. you nabbed the leader and stole the show. your eyes lit up this time, not the dog’s. i must try the seance rig myself, going to the seine with [...]
Remembering Norman Whitfield
18 September 2008 // Music //Remembrance
this one in from Rofey. the Temptations & James Jamerson produced by NW. Just ridiculously good.. 17-youre-my-everything-the-temptations-james
Caught By The Reaper – Norman Whitfield
17 September 2008 // Remembrance
Norman Whitfield, RIP
Cobra Mist
A New Film by Emily Richardson 16mm anamorphic, Running time: 6 min 45 sec Cobra Mist is an Animate Projects commission due to be broadcast on Channel 4 in September 2008 and screened at Aurora Festival, Norwich in November. Other screenings later this year include Arnolfini, Bristol; FACT , Liverpool and Tate Modern, London. A [...]
“Well Hello….”
16 September 2008 // Film/TV //Remembrance
“They say the only way to find truth is to deny oneself, but I would rather have a bash at it the luxury way. One’s hope of finding it is so small that it seems silly to go after it the hard way…” and so says Terry Thomas. This, his not unreasonable code of living, [...]
One Top Class Manager
13 September 2008 // Music //Remembrance
The notebooks of Joy Division’s manager 1978-1980 ’1 Top Class Manager’ is a collection of Rob Gretton’s working notebooks kept during his time as Joy Division’s manager. It condenses twenty-odd notebooks into one volume, and also contains posters, letters, invoices, diaries and studio notes, dating from August 1978 to late 1980. It is a full-colour, [...]
This Weekend
Hive at The Bluecoat, Liverpool
Letters From Arcadia
‘Flood Of Perch At Freezy Water’ DP Whilst you were finding your gypsy feet again on the banks of the Seine and catching lean carp as supposed to the Jerrybags that inhabit the pits in the back garden of the Palace of Versailles, I was out for the first trip of the autumn. Blue black [...]
Bill Drummond 17
Bill Drummond will be doing a Reading & Signing book tour to support the publication of the book 17 at a number of major cities in Scotland and England over a two week period in September. In Liverpool it will only be a signing. 17 September 19:00 Reading & Signing Waterstones, Deansgate, Manchester 18 September [...]
