28th May VOM (Glasgow) Rhythmic sub-bass churn, twisted and devastating guitar battery/mangle. LOUD, ROCKING head music that is at once disgusting and deeply compelling. http://www.myspace.com/vommusik PYRAMIDION (Glasgow) Hypnotic pysch jams from members of Moon Unit, Nackt Insecten… http://soundcloud.com/pyramidion ANDREW CHEETHAM & DAVID BIRCHALL (Manchester) Free rock drone improv drum and guitar duo https://davidmbirchall.wordpress.com/ @ Gullivers,Continue reading “28th May”
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Beck Marks Birchall live from “the living room”
Some splendid shots from Joincey of Saturdays swiftly rearranged gig; church to living room in one quick move: turned out very well in the end.
Open Eye Duo
Some snaps of Monday’s Open Eye gig @ Sandbar
26th March 2011
Tubers Music Presents: Aural Detritus (Brighton/Bristol) Simon Whetham: Laptop & Field Recordings Daniel Jones: Turntable & Contact Mics Paul Khimasia Morgan: Objects & Abrasion Grew Quartet (Lancaster/Manchester/Sheffield) Stephen Grew: Piano Mick Beck: Saxophone Phil Marks: Percussion David Birchall: Guitar @ St. Margarets Church, Rufford Road/Whalley Road, Whalley Range, Manchester, M16 8pm £5 waged/£4 unwaged
guitar & trumpet
Nice little recording here from Frakture of a duo with Phil Lucking on Trumpet from last Centrifuge do at Kro Bar.
Two gigs for February
A couple of gigs coming up via our newly named “Tubers Music” collective… Friday 4th February PRIMATE ARENA Tel Aviv-based freeform happening transplanted into Manchester for one night only. Expect sets from hosts Eran Sachs and Alex Drool as well as collaborations with local improvisers. Loads of info here on the Cafe Oto website. “PRIMATEContinue reading “Two gigs for February”
Birchall/Harrison
Brand new edits from some of the ongoing sessions I’ve been doing recently with Rich Harrison on dishwasher/percussion/drumset. Recorded in The Milkroom @ Hotspur House and edited by Rich.
Akemi Arts Festival
Compilation of footage from Akemi Festival @ Contact Theatre in October where Bekke and I showed our piece ONE. Some snatches of the performance in this but most of the sound is from the music I wrote for the piece. Hopefully there’ll be more developments of this piece in the new year.
Catatumbo Poster
A splendid reaction on the streets of Whalley Range to the Catatumbo poster. This one features what I think is a correction of some overspacing and a kiss from pink lipstick. Saturday 6th November Catatumbo Ingrid Laubrock: saxophones Ingrid Laubrock is a founder member of the F-IRE collective, currently resident in New York she hasContinue reading “Catatumbo Poster”
Pictures of ONE
Shot of Bekke Platt from our collaborative piece ONE. This shot is from the Greenroom performance for the Emergency Festival on the 2nd October, more pictures here. Should be some film and more pictures coming through from this and the contact performance at some point…
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