CANDO FM is Barrow's Community Radio Station, broadcasting out of the Mall. You can listen on 106.3fm and and 107.3fm Ulverston. Deborah Henry presents a great music show called All Things Festival on Wednesdays and Fridays from 6 till 7 and last week she let me and Shaun Blezard aka Aoire in to talk about Reverb, our work in progress and to play some examples of what you might hear at our Full Of Noises Show on August 9 in Barrow. Here's the recording. Any heavy breathing is me having charged up Duke Street in time to arrive late.
Deborah has already been a big part of Reverb, she lent the Hash n Thrash Stick for the exhibition, and pointed me at Bill Clark who gave the exhibition airtime earlier in the year, many thanks to Bill for that. There are other points of intersection here too: Deborah founded a men's mental health charity in Barrow, while Shaun is Safer Communities Co-ordinator for Every Life Matters and has been a trustee for MIND in Furness. They talk of people from the music scenes they shared who aren't around any more, and of the process of dealing with their absence. The conversation here touches on the ability of recordings to capture a precious voice or the atmosphere of a time, to evoke and invoke the essence of a moment, and on the fragility both of cassette tape and our own memories as we age. Radio Conversations like this help to publicise the work, obviously, but the best ones also give you a bit of space to relax, and to think and talk about what the work is about, to laugh at the daftness of something, to reflect on your reasons for doing it, and maybe sharpen an idea in real time. This is work in progress after all; it was nice to sit and talk about the process with someone who gets it and shares the history that informs so much of Shaun's work.
Listen here..https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PC53S7kmIv65-PcP7Y9rUSuAPKnuNeCd/view?usp=sharing
Thanks Debs, and Cando. More about Cando and its excellent work within this community here....https://candofm.co.uk/about/
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