23narchy in the UK

£5 Wristband

Manchester city centre

Sat 5th December

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Come join the fun!

In the spirit of New York’s Come Out and Play and London’s Hide & Seek we are proud to announce Larkin’ About on Saturday 5th December 2009 - the first of its kind in Manchester.

From noon until midnight and using greenroom as a base the cities streets will become a playground for social games and playful experiences with pervasive games designed for one to 300 players. There will also be a programme of games at greenroom in the Bar, the performance-space and the workspace.

“Now a fast-growing new movement is pushing the concept of computer game design a step further - into the actual world. If you see men and women dashing through the streets at night pursued by sinister, black-clad figures, or a cluster of people receiving instructions from GPS-enabled phones, chances are you’ve witnessed an example of the recent theatrical phenomenon “pervasive gaming”.” Guardian.co.uk

Wristbands are £5 for the whole day, games have been designed and tested all over the country at Sandpit events by a dedicated team and published on ludocity.org a site for social forms of play that take place in public spaces, such as city streets, parks and public buildings. Other games come from designers in the North West who have jumped at the chance of getting involved.

The day will climax with a flashmob which will be kept a complete secret to all but a few until it unfolds somewhere where it is least expected!

Larkin’ About – 5th December noon until midnight, greenroom, £5 – get involved!

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This year In The City - the UK’s international music convention - launches the new all-signing, some-dancing, open to the public ITC Live - bringing 150 bands over 3 days to the streets of Manchester.

The legendary ITC Unsigned section of ITC Live has now been announced, and features 32 of the best new bands around as chosen by the esteemed ITC A&R panel. ITC Unsigned will take place in venues on Peter Street, Manchester - in stumbling distance from ITC HQ at The Midland.

In addition to these bands, showcases confirmed include NME Radar, BBC Introducing, Gold Dust, SJM Concerts, Now Wave, Big Scary Monsters, The Art Of Agency, Swn, Front Magazine, Love Music Hate Racism, High Voltage, Same Teens, Future Sounds, Drowned in Sound, Rock Sound, Fierce Panda, Sentric and Murkage.

We are delighted to announce the next wave of bands confirmed to play at In The City 2009. They include: Rogues, Apples, The Northwestern, My Tiger My Timing, Ezra Bang & The Hot Machine, Unicorn Kid, Lion Club, Brute Chorus, Twin Atlantic, Jamie Ley, Fangs, Bright Light Bright Light, Pocketknife, Shaair + Func, Islet, Minnaars, Wu Lyf, The Jessie Rose Trip, Citadels, Panama Kings, Cordelier Club, All Forgotten, The Plight, Outcry Collective, Kirsty Almeida, Esther O'Connor, Ship To Shore, Brides, Deaf Havana, The Tides, The Moi Non Plus, Wonderswan, The Federals, Dirty Goods, Envy, INvasion, Tigers That Talked, Cuba Cuba and limited free entry to see Groove Armada at The Warehouse Project.

Bands already confirmed include: Frightened Rabbit, Televised Crimewave, Esben and the Witch, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Bicycle Theives, Crystal Fighters, The Drums, Clues, Hatcham Social, Munch Munch, NewIslands, Underground Heroes, Sharks, Telegraphs, Spycatcher, Cate Le Bon, Simon Lynge, Asakusa Jinta, The New 1920, Attack Attack, Twin Atlantic, Bear Driver, Me Vs Hero, Saving Aimee, Young Guns, Futures, Wall St Riots, Taxi! Taxi!, The Molotovs, Goldheart Assembly, Capital, The Neat, The Sport, MAY68, Young British Artists, Visitor, Tek One, Cars On Fire, Wounds, Swound!, Wild Palms, LR Rockets with more added every day.

And all this for the early bird price of £20 plus booking fee. 

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*Access to venues is subject to capacity and lineups are subject to change.

Some good events going on here. I've already booked for Richard Wiseman's seance on Halloween.

Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism

Saturday 26 September 2009 - Sunday 10 January 2010

Manchester Art Gallery

Tickets: £6 (concessions £4) Under 18s and Friends free.

Our major new exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see outstanding works by women artists including Frida Kahlo and Lee Miller from public and private collections around the globe.

Women played a huge, but at the time not fully recognised, part in the Surrealist movement. Only recently has an appreciation grown of how crucial women’s contributions were in this movement. Artists such as Meret Oppenheim, Frida Kahlo, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington and Francesca Woodman are heroines and role models to a whole generation of women – not just artists.

Angels of Anarchy is the first major group exhibition of 20th century women Surrealist artists ever to be held in Europe. Featuring over 100 well known and rarely seen artworks in a variety of media including painting, print-making, sculpture, photography and film, this exhibition will extend and enhance the understanding of these artists’ radical and sometimes still shocking work.

Manchester Art Gallery is the only UK venue for the exhibition, offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the work of so many women Surrealists displayed together.

Free entry for Friends

Manchester Art Gallery Friends get free entry to the exhibition and can visit as many times as they wish. Also, join now and get 50% off lunch in our cafe. With membership starting for as little as £2 a month, find out more about the benefits of Friends membership.

Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism is supported by the North West Regional Development Agency.

But I will definitely be seeing this.

Everyday Dreams: Surrealist Art & Culture

Starts Wed 7 Oct, 18:30 – 20:30, 8 weeks

This course will focus on the most influential 20th century art movement, Surrealism. In its quest to seek out the marvellous in the everyday, Surrealism did not restrict itself to being an art movement; on the contrary it was influential on, and heavily involved with a variety of visual cultures, ranging from film and photography to fashion and advertising. This course will explore these surrealist manifestations and will cover an international range of well-known and less famous Surrealist artists.

The course will include a curator-led guided tour of the exhibition Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism at Manchester Art Gallery. (Please note that the entrance fee for the exhibition is not included in the course fee).

The course will be led by Dr Patricia Allmer, curator of Angels of Anarchy, author of René Magritte: Beyond Painting, and Research Fellow at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Beginners’ level – no prior knowledge required.

£60 full / £45 concessions

I'd LOVE to do this course, but wallet says no...

Four Factory Records

Available to buy/pre-order from Darla (US) and Cargo (UK)

The next album release by The Durutti Column is a 6-CD limited edition box set on Kooky Records entitled 'Four Factory Records'.

Comprising the first four albums recorded for Factory Records newly remastered from the original and newly-rediscovered tapes plus a disc of previously unreleased home and studio demos and a disc of live tracks from recorded in Brighton, Glasgow and London in 1982 and 1984.  All this plus a package of interviews with the key protagonists from the period including Vini Reilly, Bruce Mitchell, John Metcalfe, Keir Stewart and Tim Kellett.

Advance copies were available for sale at the Manchester International Festival shows 15-17 July 2009. It will be available in all good record shops (actual and virtual) and direct from Kooky Records from September 2009. The project will be a limited edition of 1175 copies.

 

Tracklisting

Disc one

The Return of The Durutti Column

Disc Two

LC

Disc Three

Another Setting

Disc Four

Without Mercy

Live Bonus Disc

Messidor - Night Moves, Glasgow 19/02/82
Party - Night Moves, Glasgow 19/02/82
Danny - Night Moves, Glasgow 19/02/82
Mercy Theme - London School of Economics 14/12/84
Mercy Dance - London School of Economics 14/12/84
Prayer - London School of Economics 14/12/84
The Beggar - London School of Economics 14/12/84
The Missing Boy - London School of Economics 14/12/84
For Belgian Friends - Brighton Zap Club 15/12/84
Self Portrait - Brighton Zap Club 15/12/84
Sketch for Summer - Brighton Zap Club 15/12/84

Demo/Studio Bonus Disc

Intervals - Home recording 1978
Katherine - Home recording 1978
Untitled - Home recording 1978
Conduct - Home recording 1978
In D - Issued on second pressing of Return of
The Act Commited - Graveyard Studio demo LC
Portrait for Frazier - Graveyard Studio demo LC
Detail for Paul - Graveyard Studio demo LC
Never Known - Graveyard Studio demo LC
Experiment in Fifth - Graveyard Studio demo LC
Untitled LC demo - Graveyard Studio demo LC
Never Known - Four Track home demo
Mavuchka - released in place of Messidor in some territories on LC

Credits

Albums re-mastered from the original tapes by Keir Stewart.

RETURN OF THE DURUTTI COLUMN All songs written by Vini Reilly. Produced by Martin Hannett. Recorded at Cargo, Rochdale. Engineered by John Brierley. Mixed at Strawberry Studios, Stockport.

LC All songs written by Vini Reilly. Produced by Vini Reilly and Stewart Pickering. Recorded and Mixed at Graveyard Studios, Prestwich. Engineered by Stewart Pickering.

ANOTHER SETTING All songs written by Vini Reilly. Recorded and mixed at Strawberry Studios, Stockport. Engineered by Chris Nagle.

WITHOUT MERCY All songs written by Vini Reilly. Produced by Anthony Wilson and Michael Johnson. Recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport. Engineered by Michael Johnson; assisted by Tim Dewey and Nigel Beverley. Mixed at Britannia Row, London.

DEMOS / STUDIO All songs written by Vini Reilly. Compiled and mastered from studio and home demos at Far Heath Studios by Angus Wallace and at Kooky by Phil Cleaver. Thanks to Mike Mitchell.

LIVE All songs written by Vini Reilly. Compiled and mastered from original cassette mixing desk dates at Kooky by Phil Cleaver. Special thanks to Bruce Mitchell for the source material.

Liner notes written, and interviews conducted, by John Cooper. Archival album photography by Carsten Fleck. Designed by Steven Hankinson. / Kooky acknowledgements: Special thanks to Bryn, Iain, John and Simon (the 'kooky thinktank'); Bruce Mitchell and Mike Mitchell for the live and demo material; Oli Wilson for assistance in providing the original masters; Emma and Alison. Extra special thanks to John Cooper, John Cox, Darren Crawford, Steven Hankinson and Kerry Wadsworth for making this happen very well very quickly.

Vini Reilly acknowledgements: Thank you for keeping the ship afloat Mr Bruce Mitchell Esq. (The Gonzo Drum Master), Mr Keir Stewart for enabling Vini to record and producing beyond the call of duty, Brosci (the 5th member of The Durutti Column), all of Bruce's family, all of my family, all of Poppy's family (contributions from Kate and Ruby), Michael Pitrick for hairstyle, Phil Cleaver and Emma, Alex McMurtrie, John Cooper, Gary at Sounds Great, Damian my doctor, Joanne Ingleby (dental care), my harvest mouse (Sa Ding Ding), Mr Anthony H Wilson and extended family, Alan Erasmus, Les Thompson (and Jill), Laurie Laptop, Mark Prendergast (for forthcoming book), John Lennard and Savanna, Howard Sharrock (the great entrepreneur and friend) and Bruce Mitchell most of all - my best friend and the most superb drummer on the planet.

I would like to live in Manchester. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable - Mark Twain