Where were we?
This work was getting underway while the Play One Of Your Own Exhibition was up, and in recent weeks we've been drawing a few threads together and comparing notes, and planning the next few stages.
Do people still do blogs?
Lets assume for now that they do, and lets allow this one to be a space for bits of updates and headsups on events, and for chewing over the ideas behind the work,which involves me (John Hall) Shaun Blezard, Jim Alexander, Alex Blackmore Geoff Cox and chums looking at what we are calling music's Material Extensions, ...posters, records, souvenirs and ephemera...the satellites and space junk of independent DIY pop culture and how they affect us. As well as zooming in and out from the material in the Play Summat We Know book and the Play One Of Your Own exhibition, we'll look outside Barrow too, and hopefully find something universal.
We'll be looking at independent pop culture's role in animating town centres, at its means of production and its relationship to personal and civic histories.
The images here are a sample of the work in progress; as we go on we'll look at things more specifically and there'll be announcements of events as they come up.
The first of these is at Full Of Noises in Barrow on August 9th where meself and Aoire aka Shaun Blezard will deliver a mixture of deepmined cassette samples, music and text drawing on the relationships between souvenirs, recordings, tape and memory...there'll be a vinyl release of this some of this material later in the project. Details below, More to follow.
https://www.fonfestival.org/event/concert-aoire/
Elsewhere, Alex Blackmore has been at work on his edition of collectables, based on photos of past music scene tribes loaned by friends. Jim and me are working together on an animated versh of what remains of a recording that was rescued using inadequate file-recovery ware, I've been silk screening editions of t-shirts and record shop bags, our schools project with Sacred Heart in Barrow has produced some video and sculpture about dancing, which will be absorbed into our wider project. More work around dance is planned, and hopefully some further visual arts sessions. And next week me and Geoff will be meeting with ex- Blaize guitarist Polly Wilkinson who I met during the exhibition run ,to begin work on a written piece around a few conversations about diaries and accidental memorabilia..
So, performances and events, publications, broadcasts, print editions, records... kitchen table stuff, lathe cuts, and other hardcopy material...
..and for anyone that missed it here's the pdf of Flypaper 12 that was out during the exhibition, with the interview with Steve Robson about Barrow's 1980's 'Zine and related matters. For those of you dont know what Flypaper is, its an occasional posterzine about pop culture and ritual and it will serve as a vehical for REVERBs written work.
Our thanks to our supporters for their contribution to this and earlier stages of REVERB.
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