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Amongst the constellation of delights that make up our rapidly impending Edinburgh show, we're honoured to be hosting the premiere of Karaoke, the new film by underground London film-maker Garry Sykes. It's also the film debut of Alice Saint, starlet in the making and the newest addition to the WTCD,TD collective.
More about the film and showing:
KARAOKE (Garry Sykes, UK, 2008, 35 mins)This is a world premiere, these karaoke songs. Starring Tom Moore and introducing beautiful new starlet Alice Saint to the eyes of the world, these songs they sing tell who they are, were, and who they're becoming. Karaoke is a no wave musical, a video portrait and above all a romantic picture. Karaoke is compromise, obsession and addiction. Karaoke is change, determined spirit and love.
Showing in the Forest's church hall at 8pm on Saturday 23rd August 2008, undoubtedly preceded by glitzy champagne reception and red carpet greetings...
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Watch out for GIRLS WHO FIGHT more online info coming soon, maybe a myspace, maybe an online version...watch this space! (and hopefully, the guardian)
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bzzzzz. Get your jumpleads at the ready, for we're just finishing preparation for this weekend's installment of the monthly Escape series, featuring an array of electrical delights. Thursday night, 8pm onwards, Escape.
We're also starting plotting for the August edition, taking place earlier than usual on the 14th as we're then off to Edinburgh for our annual 4-day extravaganza at the Forest Café. We're planning Escape #4 as an informal festival-preview-cum-open-mic night, so let us know if you'd like to be involved in some way.
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http://www.five.noise.org.uk/
five is an ongoing exercise in enumeration, operated by a small group of WTCD artists. It's recently been rekindled after an extended hiatus, so keep your eyes peeled for a plethora of new series.
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Mimi's first solo show in Hong Kong.
Come check it out if you're in the area! And check the work on show on the exhibition blog! (also find details for the show)
Mimi will be in TimeOut HK (out 16th July), featured in the "In The Studio" artist interview column. Look out for it! Details and links coming soon.
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WTCDTD presents a night of the inconsiderate and the irresponsible, the grotesque and the joyful……
Dwelling in the fissures between meaning and gibberish, intention and chance, Egg (MC) Muffin stage a duel: a cacophony of disembodied voices struggles against a battery of drums.
Bambikill tumbles though mists of dark psychedelic folk, tied to her drummer.
Ignatz Aaron Hoch of The Frankenorphans preaches his sermons of salvage and scrap to the unconvertible.
Jade Watts plays a set of decadent goth ukulele.
plus Ignatz Aaron Hoch, Celestia Chunk and H spin scatological pop records.
plus Simone Weil returns from the grave to compeer and hold a raffle with the best selection of prizes you could possibly hope for (free tickets for the needy).
Escape Bar
214-216 Railton Road
London SE24
Thursday 19th June, 8pm - 1am
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Long-time What They Could Do associates Albumen Records have just added two new releases to their growing catalogue: alb010 and alb011. Two artists from their roster are also playing our second night at Escape, Herne Hill, with a full lineup to be announced very shortly...
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As a follow-up to (and in the spirit of) Mike Knowlden's "Waste Proposal Unit" here is a picture of the basil cuttings we bought from Norwich Market on the day of the event (14th May), which still survive in a glass of water on the windowsill back in London. The bunch of basil cost us £1, and has been used to cook for fifty two people in a gallery, and now continues to provide us with basil over a fortnight later.
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NEWS JUST IN: Excited to have just confirmed our first act for the closing party of this summer's What They Could Do extravaganza, back with our comrades at the Forest Café: the invincible Babyshaker is to return, wreaking devastation and mayhem in his path. August 23rd. Much much more news soon!
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Platnik is the musical spawn of me and the endlessly skilled Mimi. Though her current living situation (approximately 9,648km east of here) makes recording difficult at the moment, we've just finished roughly mastering our 6-track debut EP, which lurches around the graveyards of rave, drone and post-rock, in the murgy fog of an undead comedown.
It's available online in its entirety --
>>> FEAR OF ELECTRONS <<<
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Go here and buy stuff!!
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Accompanying information, images and source code are now available for Subtext, an installation that I have developed over the past months in response to a commission from the North-based SoundNetwork. They asked me to create a piece based around the network traffic of the temporary local network they constructed for the Autonomous Village of Futuresonic08. Ironically, given that their focus is firmly upon sound and music, my piece ended up being completely silent.
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Mike Knowlden and Josh Pollen,
Serving free food at The Outpost Gallery, Norwich
menu:
Thai Red Vegetable Curry
Rice with Cashews, Raisins, Aubergines and Spices
Penne with Tomato Sauce
(see previous post for more info)
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Mimi's stunning, splurging portrait of Margaret Thatcher has been given a glossy full-page spread in this month's issue of Vice Magazine UK, part of a series of illustrations of the Iron Lady. Our own iron lady is currently on prodigously prolific form on her long-term sojourn to Hong Kong - see Mimi's blog...
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The first of our events at Herne Hill's Escape events was a blast - so much so that we're now excited to announce that they'll be continuing on a monthly basis over summer, and perhaps beyond. Nights will be individually curated on a rolling basis, with the next lineups to be announced shortly.
In the meantime, two other things happening this week:
Tomorrow evening (14 May) in the ballroom of Chelsea College, I'll be attending the debut performance of a dance piece by the experimental Madarms group, for which I've contributed movement-sensitive sound design. As they move through the space, the dancers' motions are translated into sound via a system of wireless accelerometers, which then affects their movement in a tiny positive feedback loop.
Saturday night (17 May), in the Old Peanut Factory (Dace Road, E3), our good friend and cohort One Million Houses is celebrating his birthday in monster style, with live acts including Ad Hoc. PARTY!
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I will be preparing and serving food at the Outpost Gallery, Norwich on Wednesday 14th May as part of the series of events Kaavous Clayton meets Martino Gamper. This food will be free to all, and will be based on the foods and ingredients that I discussed with the visitors to the Market of Ideas, an event in London earlier this year run by the research cluster Critical Practice. At the Outpost Gallery I will be cooking with Josh Pollen, who is a member of catering team Three Second Rule, and fellow WTCDTD contributor/curator.
This is a part of an ongoing project entitled Waste Proposal Unit, that approaches food wastage and its economics through culinary development.
Resources are developing at this page on Critical Practice's wiki.
If you are in Norwich on Wednesday, please come along for lunch, dinner or both!
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Roll House! Roll House! Wake up, it's the summer!
WTCD,TD are having a party in their own back yard, Escape Bar & Art in Herne Hill, and you, specifically, should be there.
There'll be fancy decor and incredible art on the walls, musicians with songs and hearts true, punks, cinematic marvels, curiosities of nature and spectacles to shock and amaze you and your lovely wife! Come one, come all!
Featuring:
THE CAPSIZED SMILES
- wandering minstrels of old. they travelled the world, fought spiders and demons, and returned with rock'n'roll in their hearts.
LES ENFANT BASTARD
Edinburgh's finest, occasionally angry, young man promoting his new EP.
AD-HOC
- some say he's more machine now than man. yet even as the machine erodes the humanity from his soul, something within him fights back anew, and wills the machine, and forces it to dance.
H
- a broken man with sweet soul songs to share.
FILM PROGRAMME
- underground treasures, fragments of lives and gazes.
PLUS:
what they could do, they did DJ's playing anything and everything.
visuals by the ludovico technique
& much more to be announced between now and the day of the show including a very special musical treat.
DETAILS:
Escape Bar
214-216 Railton Road
London SE24
Thursday 8th May, 8pm - 1am
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tonight at the V&A as part of the "Collaborators exhibition" the lovely Rachel Eddy will be modelling a costume by Emily Fletcher-Stuart. Anna, Kathryn and myself will be in attendance
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Tonight in Herne Hill, we're hosting an evening of readings from books of the reader's choice. Excerpts are to include:
Punk Manifesto
His Dark Materials
Cookie Mueller
Fucked-up Fairytales
The Fourth Dimension
Magic 8 Peep
Bring books, food, drinks and similar accoutrements, all are welcome to read and listen. Readings will start around 8pm; contact us for the address.
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I'm gutted to be missing (although delighted to be seeing Messiaen with my mama)it but Mike, Garry and Dan are aiming to see and be seen at this:
organised by the inimitable ed fornieles
come as a member of FACTORY
for directions and info click ANDY
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Kate is showing new work as part of Three Form, in the palacial surrounds of Chelsea's Old Town Hall over the next couple of days. Private view tonight, 5pm - 8pm.
Three Form brings together three dynamic and exciting Artists, showcasing new works of sculpture, drawing and painting for the first time in one fantastic venue.
Three Form aims to challenge and delight, with varied, engaging and thought provoking content we hope to leave the audience feeling moved and content with all this young generation of Artists has to offer.
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