David Birchall – Page 17

Preparations for guitar/speaker

Did some interesting exploration this afternoon developing ideas for prepared speaker and guitar music. Hopefully this will result in a longer piece of music to be recorded in the near future.

Primate Halloween

Primate Engineer live debut sat 30th: zeke on voice and i on guitar!

Noise Upstairs pics 14th Oct

pictures from Noise Upstairs last night, full set here all taken by Paul Green. Definitely can’t keep my feet still!

Track recorded with Dan Weaver

recorded @ Union House Todmorden, sept 2010 Dave Birchall & Dan Weaver using electric guitar, double bass, box of bits and assorted objects

A sample shot from a few sets of pictures up from Frakture on flickr of the St. Lukes All dayer and Centrifuge 6. Next Centrifuge event is 25th November @ Kro Bar in Manchester. Above you can see the long suffering Ibanez having a dramatic gesture carried out on it in the foreground, Shaun BlezzardContinue reading “Pictures from Centrifuge 6”

Catatumbo in Manchester

Saturday 6th November Catatumbo Ingrid Laubrock: saxophones Ingrid Laubrock is a founder member of the F-IRE collective, currently resident in New York she has worked with Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler and Polar Bear amongst others. “darkly beautiful and breathtakingly inventive” All About Jazz Olie Brice: double bass A mainstay on the London improvising scene hasContinue reading “Catatumbo in Manchester”

John Tchicai & Tony Marsh 1st October @ Carlton Club, Manchester

THIS FRIDAY! 86 BUS FROM PICCADILLY MAP HERE support from trio of : Rich Harrison: percussion (Spaceheads) Dave Birchall: guitar (Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra) Pascal Nichols: percussion (Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides)

ONE

A couple of shots taken by Huw Wahl from rehearsals of ONE the piece dancer Bekke Platt and I have been working on the last few months. Performances this Saturday 2nd @ Greenroom, Manchester and Monday 4th @ Contact, Manchester.

live guitar action

from solo set @ Nip and Tipple, Whalley Range, Manchester on 13th September. Also playing at a couple of gigs this coming week: Thursday 23rd September ‘Centrifuge 6’ @ Kro Bar, Manchester Sunday 26th September ‘St Lukes All Dayer’ @ St. Lukes Church, Liverpool Then following Friday 1st October really excited to be promoting thisContinue reading “live guitar action”