BE EMBROILED

is the name of our new Beat Unhappening mix. It's number 6ix in a series and is long overdue. You can stream it or download it for free below. Also long overdue (as in we meant to do i ages ago) is our guest dj slot at Stop Making Sense at Common on Thursday. We are very much looking forward to it.

'BE EMBROILED' Beat Unhappening Mix no.6 by BEATUNHAPPENING

SUFFERING JUKEBOX

is a brand new record label that will be one of your favourites by year's end. This is for sure. They've already dropped a brand new Mazes single which, we reckon, is their best yet and the tape of the year so far- Colleen Green's 'milo goes to compton'- like if the Ramones Rock 'n' Roll High School was actually good and there was a band  like Dum Dum Girls doing bong-hits with the Runaways while Molly Ringwald spins pink candyfloss for when they get hungry and they made a tape one afternoon.
Next on the agenda is a Former Bullies 7" (featuring songs from the sold-out 'Greetings' tape) and there's  something from Brown Brogues incoming too. Here's a song from each of the bands on the roster (two from coleen green), they've been rad enough to share for free.
  Suffering Jukecast by Suffering Jukebox

Suffering Jukebox is also a club night on Thursdays at the Deaf Institute. This week we'll be providing the hands that drop the needle. Requests?

The David Foster Wallace Audio Project is Amazing

and now houses, for your convenience, the long out of print audio-book of 'Brief Interviews With Hideous Men' read by the late author himself. 

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men was first published in 1999 and consists of 23 pieces of short fiction including the 'Examples of the Porousness of Certain Borders' series and the titular 'interviews'. As a collection it presents a deep and heavy meditation on what it is to be a human in contemporary society. It is one of the boldest and most radical books we've ever read. The experiments in form (which are wild and various) always serve the story and not the writer's ego and the 'interview' format totally showcases the deftness and versatility of his voice. The 'interviews' offer unflinching portraits of the  variously flawed men of the title with the detail and precision of a sociological study and the emotional impact of a Lukas Moodysson film.

Download it for free H E R E , listen and be changed, be better.

As is standard audiobook protocol, some of the stories from the print-edition are not included.

The book was adapted for the stage and is now a motion picture. The trailer for which is presented below

'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.

Waiters tapes hit phase two

We're onto Laetitia's batch of mini-masterpieces- 5 paintings with collage cut into 25 different tape covers before being hand- stamped. If you were to order the WAITERS tape 'HATERS' now, it is one of these that you shall receive. Do not snooze, these will not stick around for long. Also all orders shipped in the next few days will come with one of these for free. 

Its a cd with one song from each of our first four releases, all of which are still available by clicking one of the images to the right-----> Former Bullies  'Greetings' is very nearly sold out. Later in the week we will be able to announce the next few releases scheduled as well as one more 'last-ever' gig.

TOMORROW NIGHT! FREE!

THIS GUY:

plus 

IRMA VEP

&

MARBLEKRUSHER

'CANNED MUSIC'

is the name of the first 'official' BEAT UNHAPPENING* mix.

It contains 18 songs and runs to 57 minutes.

There are threads and themes galore and but no overarching concept beyond 'we love this music and we would like you to hear it'.

You can download it for FREE here.

Or else email comfortableonatightrope@googlemail.com and we will send you a real physical copy on a CDR.

Also email for tracklisting or any questions that may arise from listening. Or if you would like us to play records at your wedding, clubnight, cafe, bar, festival etc.

* Beat Unhappening is the name of our new monthly club night which takes place at The Deaf Institute.