Wonderful set of photos here by Jen from the Munster date I did with Chakai House early in July. The gig took place inside part of an incredible building on the “B” side of the harbour there. The “A” side has already been redeveloped in to a Salford Quays style thing but for the minuteContinue reading “Munster”
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Purrculation
Contact mic cat purring with live processing. Part of some experiments for workshops at the end of the week at Wythenshawe Hall. http://davidbirchall.bandcamp.com/album/purrculation
QRD interviews with Guitarists
This released today a long term project by silbermedia> It interviews with a wide range of guitar players known and unknown myself included. Also a compilation of musics. http://silbermedia.com/qrd/guitarist-ebook.shtml
Huddersfield Bicycle Orchestras!
Been working the last couple of weeks on a really exciting project for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival to coincide with the Tour De France’s Grand Depart from Yorkshire in July. You can see various stages of production on one of our newly developed instrumentsContinue reading “Huddersfield Bicycle Orchestras!”
Fat Out Festival this weekend in Salford
Really excited about a couple of plays on the Sunday of this great looking festival. I’ll be jamming for an hour form 8pm with others as part of the Gizeh Records epic continuous 50 human 5 hour session on the floor and then at 11pm I’ll be performing on the Tombed Visions stage inContinue reading “Fat Out Festival this weekend in Salford”
Spitting Feathers Review
Nice review in French here of Spitting Feather’s CDr with Olie Brice and Philip Marks. Some plans afoot to do some stuff with this group later in the year. http://grisli.canalblog.com/archives/2014/05/21/29911392.html David Birchall (guitare), Olie Brice (contrebasse) et Phillip Marks (batterie membre de Bark!) démontrent en une heure un goût pour une improvisation aérée. Que taillentContinue reading “Spitting Feathers Review”
Tour with Phil Minton & Luke Poot
Really looking forward to a brief trio of solo dates opening up for Phil and Luke’s duo at the end of the month. Saturday 26th April Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg + Adam Bohman Phil Minton + Luke Poot David Birchall The Noize Choir @ Mining Institute, Newcastle £5.50/£7 https://www.facebook.com/events/375557265915317 Sunday 27th April Phil Minton +Continue reading “Tour with Phil Minton & Luke Poot”
Desmadrados gig this Saturday
and a new LP coming soon; hear it hair:
Guitar & Walkman
Result of some experiments earlier in the week working with 2 input signals from guitar and walkman.
Guitar Lessons
I am currently have space available for new students! I am a guitarist based in Stretford offering guitar lessons from my home studio or my workspace near Gorton train stattion. I have played for 18 years and taught guitar for the last 5 years. I have a PGDE in post 16 education and have taughtContinue reading “Guitar Lessons”