Biting Tongues Live

at Islington Mill Studios, Salford

Line-up:

Ken Hollings, Howard Walmsley, Graham Massey, Colin Seddon, Eddie Sherwood

DR X - Another version of events - spoken word/electronics/film piece by BTAL, Futuresonic 2006, Manchester Musuem Of Science & Industry, Castlefield, Manchester, England

BTAL are Ken Hollings /Howard Walmsley/Graham Massey.

BTAL stands for Biting Tongues Arts Lab.

Note this is 12 midday -a lunch time event on saturday as part of Futuresonic

"Dr X is a spoken word / video / electronic music performance evoking the feel of an illustrated surreal science lecture. The piece takes as its starting point, a fragment of the lost 1930s horror film, Dr X, and expands it into an essay on the dawn of the age of electricity in 1930's New York. Ken Hollings, Graham Massey and Howard Walmsley, the three members of BTAL (Biting Tongues Arts Lab) have collaborated together since 1979. Ken Hollings is a writer and broadcaster, Howard Walmsley is a film director/producer/musician, Graham Massey is an international recording artist remixer and producer credits include his own bands 808state, Toolshed and Homelife along side collaborations as diverse as Bjork to Robbie Williams, Brian Eno to Quincy Jones."

Biting Tongues film event at the Greenroom, 54-56 Whitworth Street West, Manchester, England

(A proposed film event at MCRs Greenroom on 24th June 2005, centered around Howard Walmsley's new film - provisionaly titled "Earthquake Land". Other shorts will include Howard and Ken Holling's recent "Abduction", together with a new live performance piece by Ken and Graham, based on the life of Martin Denny who died recently.)

Showcase Screening of new video production by director Howard Walmsley, with supporting live performance including a sound-text piece by Graham Massey and Ken Hollings and a psychogeographic experiment by broadcaster and MAP founder Bob Dickenson

This will be the first public screening of this stylised docu-drama which offers a satirical look at the regeneration of Manchester. The film charts a fractured narrative - as the quakes continue, the lives of the characters become less stable.

The cast includes Manchester comedy scene regulars Jonathan Mayor, Noel Kelly, Patrick Gallagher and Roland Gent. 808 State frontman Graham Massey provides the specially commissioned soundtrack.

Members of Toolshed/Homelife/Biting Tongues will be involved as Ego In Exotica Sum,reconstructing the Martin Denny Group of the late 50s
Paddy Steer ..Bass
Graham Massey ..Vibraphone/Xylophone
Steve Brown (he of cinematic Orchestra and others) Piano
Howard Jacobs exotic Percusion
Icarus Wilson Wright .Exotic percusion

Crispy Ambulance/Biting Tongues at the ICA, London

Ikon Presents the UK Premiere of WALL OF SURF featuring Biting Tongues, Cornerhouse, Oxford Road, Manchester and afterwards at FAC51, The Hacienda, Manchester (The Gay Traitor Bar)

Biting Tongues at Band On The Wall, Swan Street, Manchester

Biting Tongues at Band On The Wall, Swan Street, Manchester

Biting Tongues at Corbiere's, Half Moon Street, Off St Ann's Square, Manchester

Biting Tongues, Villa Blanca, Diogenes, The Netherlands

Biting Tongues at Band On The Wall, Swan Street, Manchester

Biting Tongues at Boars Head Hotel, Market Place, Stockport

Biting Tongues present their fab show, "How To Eat With Your Hands", live at The Millstone

Biting Tongues at Band On The Wall, Manchester

Biting Tongues at Manchester Polytechnic, Cavendish Street, Manchester (supporting Gang of Four)

Biting Tongues at Library Theatre, Manchester (with Nico and John Cooper Clarke)

Mooch Inc. Presents: 'A Car Factory In Your Lap' at Covent Garden Community Centre (7 Dials), 27 Shelton Street, London WC2

(features Biting Tongues, Peking Opera, The Big Combo and Match Me Sidney)

Biting Tongues at Band On The Wall, Swan Street, Manchester

Biting Tongues at Band On The Wall, Swan Street, Manchester

The Joy Of Mooching!: Biting Tongues/Eric Random/Household Name at the ICA, London

Walking Heat : Ken Hollings and Howard Walmsley at the Milkweg, Amsterdam

Walking Heat : Ken Hollings and Howard Walmsley at the B2 Galley, London

Biting Tongues/Sulphur Of Lions at The Beet Bop Club, 42 Gloucester Road Avenue, London, NW1 (near Camden Town)

23 Skidoo/ Biting Tongues at The Mooch Club, Wardour Street, London

Biting Tongues at the Cypress Tavern, Princess Street, Manchester

Biting Tongues/Angular Sect/The Melton Moments at Braintree Working Men's Club

Reviewed here

Biting Tongues at The Beach Club, Manchester

(Flyer as uploaded by 'Doctor' at the MDMA Archive)

The Beach Surgeon at The Cyprus Tavern, Princess Street, Manchester

Biting Tongues at The Cyprus Tavern, Princess Street, Manchester

Biting Tongues/The Fall/John Hurst at The Beach Club, Manchester

(Second flyer as uploaded by 'Doctor' at the MDMA Archive)