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27/04/2009

SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY takes place this SUNDAY



at various venues on and around Chapel Street, Salford. Tickets are still available HERE.

If you click on the poster above you can see the various line-ups for each of the nine stages. The program of each alone is probably worth the admission alone. It's the second time we've been involved and also probably the most wide-ranging bill so far. Since the poster was painted (by Mount Pleasant), we've added two more bands so that our stage-times now read:
 
  FORMER BULLIES           9.30pm        

 SIR YES SIR                    8.15pm        

 TEEN SHEIKHS      7.15pm        

 FIRST TIME FLYER         6.15pm  

 LA LA VASQUEZ          5.15pm      

 LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS 4.15pm   

In between the bands records will be played by BEAT UNHAPPENING & FRIENDS including Sean Vinylment.

It is imperative that you arrive early as LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS (pictured at the top of the page) are genuinely unmissable. 

13/04/2009

'ALLY OOP' is the name of the second BEAT UNHAPPENING MIX

It can be downloaded for FREE HERE!


Sorry for the delay, among other things we've been to the Ray Johnson exhibition. The photographs you see above detail the flyer and free catalogue respectively. The exhibition featured work from before and during his time at Black Mountain College and right up until his untimely death.

As before email comfortableonatightrope@googlemail.com for tracklist or if you'd like to be sent a cdr with a cover.

MIX no. 3 will be presented on Thursday at the Trembling Bells edition of Beat Unhappening

05/04/2009

POSTER, NEWS, EPHEMERA...




David Bailey made this poster for next weeks TREMBLING BELLS and RAY RUMOURS & the NO-EYED DEERS! As it states this takes place on THURSDAY 16th APRIL at THE DEAF INSTITUTE. Tickets can be bought HERE. Both have excellent new records out which you can buy or download or ignore. We urge you strongly to buy them though and they both have beautiful watercolour paintings on their covers. The Ray Rumours one is painted by Francois and contains a booklet with more inside. Don't know who painted the Trembling Bells one but it's hang-on-your-wall-worthy.

TREMBLING BELLS are an avant-supergroup led by Alex Neilson (who has played the drums with JANDEK, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Six Organs of Admittance, Josephine Foster, Alasdair Roberts etc etc) and featuring members of Pendulums, Lucky Luke and Motor Ghost. Their debut LP 'CARBETH' is released by Honest Jons which is maybe a bigger vouch than we can offer. Full on medieval punk/folk.

RAY RUMOURS & THE NO-EYED DEERS is a long running project of Ros from Electrelane and now of Trash Kit. You can buy her records here.

There will also be artist projections and zines on sale, free mix cds and BEAT UNHAPPENING DJ's.

YES!

SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY tickets are on sale HERE and you should buy one sooner than later on account of it always sells out and we do not want you to miss it. Again we are fortunate enough to be hosted by SALFORD RESTORATION OFFICE who are way too busy to clean out their office and have new murals painted and work a bar for the day and yet that is exactly what they will do because they care and hopefully they know we care and that we intend to make it worth more than their while. All of the bands playing are very special to us, some are knew in our lives: LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS, PRO TEEN SHEIKHS. Some we've loved forever: FORMER BULLIES(who are rocking new members and have basically invented a new genre), SIR YES SIR. And one that falls venn-like into both categories (you'll see ) FIRST TIME FLYER.

Also Ariel Pink brings his HAUNTED GRAFFITI back to Manchester for the first time since '06 to play FUTURESONIC and we are going to play records there. There is a link to tickets on the top right (or NE) of this page. There is also a Philip Glass concert as part of futuresonic. Among other minimalist righteousness P.G scored 'KOYAANISQATSI', a very important and beautiful film we recomend fully.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

We've listened at least 6 times to this David Foster Wallace reading from the Lannan archive. It's half an hour and consists of (what seem to be) fragments from the unfinished and unpublished novel 'THE PALE KING' and 'INCARNATIONS OF BURNED CHILDREN' from 'Oblivion'.

Also been falling asleep (literally and not in a bad way) to the NEW YORKER FICTION podcasts, which are basically a radical a veritable who's who then and now of short literary fiction.

WE ARE YOUNG AND WE ARE TRYING is now available to buy, did we mention that it is AMAZING and that we are proud beyond proud to have our contributions housed in such a fine place.


One More Thing: THESE ARE TWO OF THE SIDES OF BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE



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BEAT UNHAPPENING MIX no. 2 will be downloadable tomorrow!