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September 2009 Biting Tongues - A Factory Night (and then again)- Plan K - Brussells - Belgium - 12th December 2009
Biting Tongues live @ A Factory Night, Plan K, Brussels - Belgium. A CERTAIN RATIO |
July 2009 Biting Tongues - Moonlanding Party - Islington Mill - 19th July 2009
MOON LANDING PARTY @ ISLINGTON MILL 19TH JULY To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission .. .. BITING TONGUES – back from their own 30 years in deep space You sent them out there –now hear a full mission report .. .. A COMPLETE HISTORY OF SPACE MUSIC We have invited various artists to address the music of the space pioneers. May Ming reinterpret Les Baxter’s Music Out of the Moon (chosen as Neil Armstrong’s personal cassette on the Apollo 11 mission) Paddy Steer recalibrates music from Joe Meek’s “I Hear a New World” LA77 rewires Dick Hyman s “Moon gas” Matt Halsall plugs in his trumpet for some Classic Space Jazz Ken Hollings connects suburbia to outer space in his lecture “Welcome to Mars” Massonix will perform “Pulsars”, a suite for radio waves from the Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope .. .. LUNAR MODULE CEREMONY We have invited various model makers to reconstruct “The Eagle”. But will she fly? “You ve got a bunch of guys about to turn blue!” The Mercury Seven a DJ team brought together from a rigorous selection process of clinical, endurance and psychological testing. Who will be first in orbit: Kelvin Brown, Graham Massey, John Mc Cready, LA77? Only four survived. .. .. RECLAIM THE MOON Aware of the fact that NASA’s free footage has been used to death in trippy visuals from the 1960s through to the present day, we will celebrate its overuse by using it to death. It’s all we’ve got left! .. .. Visuals by Soup Collective –Royal College of Art Moving Image Collective Conspiracists and doubters: we provide a room for your turgid debates (the anechoic chamber at Salford University). |
June 2009 Biting Tongues - Lonely Creatures - BIG VaudeVille, Manchester Green Room, Friday 19th June 2009
Lonely Creatures: Six Short Films by Howard Walmsley and Ken Hollings. Featuring live deconstructed soundtrack by Howard Walmsley Graham Massey and Ken Hollings with intense interventions by Hot Bone. Lonely Creatures: Six Short Films by Howard Walmsley and Ken Hollings. A Spanish tale of romance that drifts alarmingly away from its starting point; a Japanese scientist obsessed with notions of unrequited love; an announcer struggling to recap the increasingly complicated plot of an old television serial – welcome to the world of the Lonely Creatures. Eternally doomed to disappointment, these are voices we only ever get to overhear. Caught up in telephone conversations, muttering to themselves or simply repeating the words written by others, the Lonely Creatures remain exposed and vulnerable even when no one is listening to them – and yet somehow they keep on going.
The above image is a screen grab taken from 'Lonely Creatures 5': the one audience participation moment scheduled to take place during the entire evening. Taken from Ken Holling's blog. |
March 2009 Biting Tongues - Dragman Film Just posted on YouTube is a short movie that Howard Walmsley filmed in Beijing with calligraphy students from a local art college. The storyboard was based on an old text I wrote for Biting Tongues which was never recorded but featured in some of our live performances. It was originally written for three voices but has a certain fragmented intensity when delivered by only one. Howard had always thought the individual lines of the text could be read like panels from a comic book, and so he storyboarded a set of scenes that have expanded on this effect. To me, the shift from the comic-book format, which had a huge influence on my development as a writer, to that of the music video makes total sense – the cropping and chopping of texts and images in the former is reflected in the tightly edited rhythms of the latter. Each image hits you and goes, only to be replaced by the next. The soundtrack was assembled last summer, and a mix of it has been on the Biting Tongues MySpace page for a while: produced by Graham Massey, it features the original line-up and is the first studio recording we have done together in a very long time. Reading aloud a text written so many years before is a little like receiving a message from a previous incarnation. You suddenly become another person. ‘And you ask: who is speaking?’ The lines delivered by the girl in the video aren’t on the original track, I'm sorry to say, but I hope she will be included on any future mixes. My thanks to her and to all the other students who took part in the filming – I don’t think any words of mine have ever been interpreted with such enthusiasm or concentration.
Taken from Ken Holling's blog. |
Janaury 2009 Factory Box Set - Includes "Compressor"
Released on 19th January via Warner Music UK, is a Factory Box Set that includes Biting Tongues' "Compressor". Factory Records - Communications 1978-92 Tracks: 4:52 Biting Tongues - Compressor Notes: "Compressor" is from the single, "Compressor" (FAC 188, released in 1986 on 12" Single). Buy From : Amazon UK (Box Set) |
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