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Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
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15/03/2010

'MUSEUMS' launches

next Monday 22nd MARCH at BEAT UNHAPPENING at TROF in Fallowfield. We are so excited about this 'product' and cannot wait for you all to experience it.  As detailed in the poster below, We will also be screening 'BEAUTIFUL LOSERS', and selling cakes to raise money for street children in Zimbabwe. David Bailey will also be presenting selected items from his shop 'GOOD GRIEF!' 

  • BEAUTIFUL LOSERS was made by Aaron Rose of the Alleged Gallery/Press and details the lives, working methods and ideology of some of our favourite artists like e.g. Chris Johanson, Jo Jackson, Mike Mills, Harmony Korine, Ed Templeton, Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen. It  documents how, collectively and individually, these outsiders, skaters and misfits came to art and how art came to them and how it is in fact inseparable from their lives. It is truly inspiring for any Do-It-Yourself-type people and we are excited to present Manchester's first public screening.
  • MUSEUMS is the long-awaited and painstakingly,lovingly assembled follow-up to 'We Are Young And We are Trying'. It consists of:
 a 50-something page hand-bound art book with contributions from Ken Cole, Erin Gilkes, Jess Higgins ,Lucy Jones, Sonia Leuschen, Alex Pierce, Mr. Red, Jack Teagle & Chelsea Wong;
a brand new 32-page comic from Dave Bailey;
3 screen-printed posters by Tim Lahan;
And a compilation tape we made of exclusive jams from our favourite bands on the planet: Assassins 88, Beachniks, Dunes, Former Bullies, Girls Names, Golden Grrls, Irma Vep, La La Vasquez, Mazes, Nisennenmondai, Picastro, Piece War, Reading Rainbow, Rollin Hunt, Sad Horse, Sic Alps, Silk Flowers, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Veronica Falls, Waiters and Yellow Fever.


  • Good Grief! is the best shop in Manchester- even better than that weird new place on High Street with the caged bird and vintage guitars and dirt bikes. Proprietor Dave Bailey will be bringing the choicest cuts from his collection to try and persuade you to buy with his new sales pitch.



























Click on the poster to enlarge and read the small-print.

23/02/2009

WHAT DO GOOD THINGS COME IN...

if bad things come in threes? Taking this week as an example we will try and solve this mystery.

TONIGHT: Chris Corsano  returns to Greater Manchester for the first time in what seems like a long time to play at Islington Mill. This is something we've tried to hook up a few times over the years and we are glad that GOLDEN LAB have. Promises much, it's always a great show (1). Another great show, in our humble opinion, is 'HEROES' which returns to our screens tonight with chapter 4 or 'fugitives'. S'exciting yes, but they'll repeat it muchos so you should still go to see CC tonight. (2)

TOMORROW: Champions League returns (or begins for real, or gets exciting--depending on your viewpoint)(3) and MAD MEN (4) is on too.

WEDNESDAY: more CL(4.5) and also we take on 'START RUNNING' at SAND BAR. We are 'screening' a rare and special film entitled 'the JOKE' by James O. Incandenza. This is a silent and b+w movie(5) which will benefit from a live and improvised score from J.COLLIN(6) (thewholevoyald.blogspot.com), the boats(7) and more(8).

THURSDAY: BEAT UNHAPPENING is happening at the DEAF INSTITUTE from 8pm. Legendary Punk VIC GODARD brings his SUBWAY SECT for a rare and special performance(9). Sweet records played (10) and projections shown (11). FREE MIX CD's (12) and more.

FRIDAY: probably something good somewhere(12.5).

SATURDAY: Kaffequeria Cruise ship/cabaret-type party at Islington Mill (13.5)

Based on the 'facts' presented above, we conclude that good things  sometimes come in  thirteen and a halves but that more research is necessary to get anywhere near a real breakthrough. Anyone willing to fund such research should get in touch via email: comfortableonatightrope@googlemail.com Putting 'what do good things come in?' as the 'subject'.

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Also, the answer, despite the idiom, is not 'small packages'. We do not believe the 'size' of a 'package' has any bearing on the quality or value within said package. We are non-size-discriminative. 
We are leaning towards thinking that the answer is probably quite a lot closer to 3 than we'd previously imagined on account of the fact that 'good things' and 'bad things' are, while subjective, still pretty evenly balanced for most people