well Latitude ....some extraordinary moments - starting with -
Stand up for back up tape - Ross Sutherlands tightly constructed piece about
his grandfather was a form of time travel moving and clever enabling you have another way of
thinking about possible messages in the everyday. http://www.rosssutherland.co.uk/main/currently-touring/standby-for-tape-backup
Jemima Foxtrots weaving of spoken words with singing voice transported
you through time and space mixing the ancient with modern https://jemimafoxtrot.wordpress.com/
Anne Bean http://www.annebean.net/home
created with her people sounds with almost primeval magic that linked me to a set
by Max Cooper which was accompanied by incredible visuals that were about the very
beginnings of life https://vimeo.com/98435385
https://vimeo.com/113036062 https://vimeo.com/126355970
Mike Figgis telling it like it is - his thoughts on the culture
of the everyday with the mediocre in charge chimed well with Gary Indiana's
slot in the truly magnificent Station to Station - section 41 the devil of our
age where he talks of his suspicion of normal people - they are all liars and
complicit to be able to exist in the systems that have been constructed in
their likeness that we have to live in - they constrict creativity by their
looks and questions, controlled by their own fear they stomp out life - sound
familiar? http://stationtostation.com/
here's a link to a recent show of his - http://www.vice.com/read/gary-indiana-has-a-new-show
John Hopkins set was knob twiddling at its zenith - managed
to be at the front to get the full bass effect - open eye signal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q04ILDXe3QE
was grindingly endless and the digital hoola women were great. But if you want
an experience with sound try to get to see the heroic this machine won't kill
fascists but it might get you laid by the thoughtful, serious and I believe
quite marvellous Christopher Brett Bailey who is rapidly becoming somebody who
I think is essential in my creative landscape. http://christopherbrettbailey.com/this-machine-wont-kill-fascists-but-it-might-get-you-laid/
Obviously lots of other stuff drifts in and out - I seem to
gravitate away from the corporate industry of the monolithic indie music
establishment through the need for a
more connected experience in the intimate
surroundings of the cabaret tent - Dickie Beau and the Duckie crowd and the far
away forest with the forest fringe, live art development agency and the little
house. There is a sense of sincerity that you feel that makes one feel humble -
two to look out for - the wardrobe ensemble 1972 the future of sex http://www.thewardrobeensemble.com/
and unstable king with game - two pieces of theatre by young people - there is
hope...
finally if you want to have a huge thinking cry get to see fake it
till you make it by Bryony Kimmings (always brilliant I'm still laughing and maybe more importantly thinking from my last encounter credible likeable superstar role model) and Tim Grayburn - men
and mental health and a short film called Mute where the worlds population find
their voice in an unconventional way.......
