MURMUR issue zero October 2017
Manchester’s monthly newsletter
MURMUR
Editors: Olivia Havercroft Nicole Peeters Lisa Lorenz
issue zero // October 2017
»Can you hear my heartbeat?«
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Welcome to MURMUR: Your guide to Manchester’s alternative, radical & inclusive events
L I S T E N 2 October @The White Hotel Tim Hecker, 6.43pm til late.
Los Angeles “fuzz-wash mastermind” Tim Hecker comes to the White Hotel to play you “pagan music that dances on the ashes of a burnt church” in complete darkness. £16.50
6 October @Fuel Fukc_boi / Tsinder Ash / Ruby Tingle / Nummo Twin, 7pm
12 October @ Gorilla The Melvins, 7pm.
Punk crashes into the heaviest of metal. “The eccentric, unstoppable force that has influenced generations of underground rockers”, including Nirvana’s very own Kurt Cobain. £26
15 October @ Soup Kitchen. Laurel Halo, 7.30pm
20 October @ Band on the Wall Ibeyi, 7pm
10 October @ Albert Hall Slowdive + Blanck Mass
11 October @ HOME UpClose: Aziz Ibrahim From Lahore to Longsight, 7.30pm
Aziz Abraham, the artist synonymous with the “Asian Blues” aesthetic, comes to HOME to perform his album Lahore to Longsight, which “charts the journey of Aziz’s father from a divided India to Pakistan to Manchester and the path to self-identity and acceptance, for a son torn between vastly different cultures”. £13/£6 student
20 October @ The Deaf Institute Priests + Downtown Boys, 7pm
15 October @ The Peer Hat Dignan Porch & Gorgeous Bully, 7.30pm - 11pm
16 October @ The Eagle Inn Flat Worms feat. members of Thee Oh Sees, Sic Alps + Kevin Morby 8pm til late.
Walk into a wall of noise with Slowdive. Immersive, woozy music from one of the 90s shoegaze greats. 7pm. £22.50
Fiercely avant-garde, unexpected, and all-around wonderful, St Vincent tours her latest album; heavy on the electro and “all about sex and drugs and sadness”. £29.25
In Priests’ own words: “The state of the world is troubling to say the least, and deeply disturbing to say the most”. Punk + funk + jazz + pop combine to create the existential weight of a “lifetime fighting”. £13
6 October @ The Whiskey Jar Rosey PM // Inland Taipan // Solis // Astles, 7pm til late.
Rosey PM headline at the Whiskey Jar + support. Dreamy and magical. £5
18 October @ O2 Apollo St. Vincent, 7pm
“Heavy, mutilated strains of electronic music with inf luence from the sounds of Detroit, UK and Germany – Laurel Halo’s music is shapeshifting, moody and ecstatic”. £10
“Beginning life as the no-fi home recording project of lead singer Joseph Walsh, South London’s Dignan Porch have developed a sound that is laden with huge pop hooks, bone dry melancholia and skewed takes on everyday life”. Their music is both melodic and haunting. £6
Hot beats harsh noise. FREE
Illustration: Saffa Khan www.safka.co.uk info@safka.co.uk
Punk rock feat. some of the garage giants Thee Oh Sees. Tickets are sold out so if you can get hold of one you’re in for a treat.
17 October @ The Peer Hat Fake Laugh + Eton Mess, 8pm
Listing his inf luences as The Beatles, Fake Laugh comes to Manchester to enchant us with his charming indiepop with jangly melodies. £6
17 October @ Manchester Academy The Breeders, 7.30pm
Kim Deal’s post-Pixies project will blow you away on their first UK tour in 3 years. Come to experience pure feminist power. £22
Ibeyi are a French-Cuban duo consisting of twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz. Together the twins sing and combine modern pop, hip-hop and electronic inf luences with the traditional sounds of their Yoruba culture. A murmur favourite. £15
21 October @ Soup Kitchen. MOTHER ‘GodLikeSplash’AlbumLaunch
MOTHER are pushing boundaries in the psych world, with mystical tranquility building into immersive electronic drone and shine. Elusive and mysterious, fun and freeing: each gig a once-in-a-lifetime event. £5
FEATURE SAFFA KHAN Say hello to Saffa! Born in Pakistan in 1994 she is currently based in Manchester. Her work takes may forms including illustration, print making and self publishing. In her practice Saffa explores culture, identity, sexuality, faith & mental health.
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27 October @ Partisan Collective Synthesis #2: Punk / Electronic
Body-positive gig with music over two f loors, prepare yourself for immersive decor, craft stalls, and a variety of music provided by some of the best female practitioners around! Come to Partisan and be yourself in a identityrestricting world. Suggested donation £4
28 October @ Gorilla Ibibio Sound Machine
Fronted by Nigerian singer Eno Williams, Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West-African funk & disco. £15
D A N C E 6 October @ Mantra Warehouse Space Cassette, 10pm til 4am
Manchester’s best sci-fi rave. Find yourself in an 8-bit future in a world of obsolete technologies. £14
7 October @ Soup Kitchen Kiss Me Again #14 w/AnnabelFraser
A monthly LGBT+ night dedicated to “bringing a broad spectrum of sounds and good times to queerdos and everyone else”. Music from techno to post punk to New York disco. £5
@ Solomons Cafe Bar Outer Inner Space #2 13 October
The second coming of Outer Inner Space will bring noise and rhythms from all five corners of the globe. Selectahs Eno Inwang and Matt Dunnett will be playing Brazilian, African, Latin, jazz and Asian infused heat until 2am. £2
13 October @ The White Hotel Limbo Radio: 1st Birthday Samo DJ
Come and celebrate one year of Limbo Radio, Manchester’s underground radio platform offering genre-hopping boundary-free DJing. Join people from Manchester’s community to celebrate what we can make when we put our minds and hearts to something. £8
@ The White Hotel CLUB Pelicon: w/ UMFANG, Minimal Violence, Sybil 14 October
The best in feminist techno. UMFANG has done tireless work to promote women and gendernonconforming talent, who are seriously underrepresented in the electronic music scene. Cme and dance to the finest beats and support the unsupported. £15
14 October @ Texture MCR Moondance Menagerie
A club night hosted by Girl Gang Manchester, bringing together all the many creatures of the night in a swirl of sequins, performance, dancing shoes and gifts from the goddesses. £8/£9 on the door
31 October @ Band on the Wall Orchestra Baobab / Gorilla
West Africa’s most iconic dance-band. A decade on from their last album and almost half a century since their formation, Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab return with a timeless set of classic swaying tunes fusing Afro-Cuban rhythms and African tradition. £18
D O 5 October @ Projekts Skate Park Girls Skate Night
Come and shred and celebrate women taking over the skate park space. Girls Skate Night provides a safe and supportive space for women skaters and a community of like-minded women. FREE/Donation
7 October @ Royal Mills Manchester Vintage Furniture Flea & Street Food Market Come and find some classic designs/ kitsch homeware bargains, and drink and eat as you do it! FREE
15 October @ Partisan Collective Partisan Open House #1
Partisan is a space for independent, community led, DIY and cultural based projects in Manchester. Partisan’s Open House is a social for members and people interested in joining Partisan. Go along to find out all the groups and organisations that Partisan gives a home to. FREE
25 October @ Texture MCR Speed Mate-ing #5 w/ Girl Gang Manchester
Ever wished there was a tinder for friends? Girl Gang Manchester invite you to a speed session so inclusive that you’ll step outside of usual comfort zone without even realising. £6/£4
22 October @ Gullivers NQ Clothes Swap!
Body-positive swap for people of all genders hosted by the fantastic Thirsty Girls Collective! Bring 3 items and pay £3 for entry.
A R T 4 October @ Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Spaces LEGROOM & Psykick Dancehall present: Henry Andersen / Amy Voris & Cath Cullinane / Rob Lye
LEGROOM explores the field of dance and movement within the context of other art forms. Join them on October 4 with various artists who explore minimalism, light, electronica and spoken-word. £5
7 - 8 October @ The Whitworth Bound Art Book Fair 2017
A celebration of books, through artists’ talks, workshops and exhibitions. FREE
11 October @ PLY DM17 - THEN THERE WAS US: A Letter From Home
THEN THERE WAS US gathers 26 young creatives from across the globe to each create a letter from the alphabet. Each artist’s chosen letter will be designed by taking inspiration from something surrounding them in the place they call home. FREE
14 October @ Portico Library Gut Healing: live performance
An immersive all-female participatory work inf luenced by her ongoing research into the relationships between women’s voices and the abolition of slavery. A diverse selection of participants redirect their voices into The Portico Library, where in 1807, the all-white, all-male membership discussed the abolition of slavery and signed petitions on either side of the debate. £6
20 - 22 October @ MOSI Upper Campfield Market The Manchester Print Fair
Bringing together people to celebrate print in all its forms. FREE
26 October Museums at Night by Manchester After Hours
A one-night only, city-wide social. Explore Manchester’s historic buildings and galleries in a different light, during the night. Come along for poetry and soundscapes, video jamming with engines, secret gigs amongst medieval book stacks, traditional Warli art, local record labels, and food and drink. FREE
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27 - 29 October @ MCR Central The Manchester Contemporary
“The only fair of critically engaged art of its kind outside London”. The Manchester Contemporary brings together the best galleries and up-andcoming artists across the North West. FREE
F I L M 1 - 31 October Cultivate Film Art Black History Month
Cultivate Film Art presents the best of cult and independent cinema. This October they celebrate Black History Month - check out their facebook for more details. FREE
2 October @ 3 Minute Theatre FLIM NITE presents “The Thing”
What would ‘The Thing’ (1982) look like distorted by theatremakers, poets, comedians, musicians and performers? Rather than showing the film, FLIM NITE interpret a clip of “The Thing” into something entirely new. £3 suggested donation
1-7 October @ HOME People, Places, and Things
An intoxicating play about rehab and surviving in the modern world. Following a critically-acclaimed, soldout season at the National Theatre and in London’s West End, People, Places & Things will tour the UK and is at HOME until October 7. £10-24
9 October @ HOME Raving Iran
An insight into the lives of two young men defying the Iranian regime with their love for music. £9/£7 students
31 October @ Texture MCR Screened: Rosemary’s Baby £5
On Halloween go and watch Roman Polanski’s critically acclaimed Horror about the story of a pregnant woman who suspects that an evil cult wants to take her baby for use in their rituals.
12 October @ CFCCA Rare Book Club: London Metropolitan Archives
Sally Bevan, Senior Archivist at the London Metropolitan Archives, discusses documents concerning the Chinese community in London since the eighteenth century. FREE
12 October @ Portico Library Slavery and Abolition in MCR
This talk discusses the importance of Manchester and its inhabitants to the abolition of slavery in both Britain and the United States. £6
18 October @ Lock 91 Manchester MCR Talks: The Madness of Happiness
Is our quest for happiness driving us mad? This talk looks at the facts, figures, science and practice of mental health. It also discusses perspectives from existential philosophy and existential psychotherapy, evolutionary psychology and the speaker’s own personal history. £12
23 October @ Texture MCR MCR Talks: Exploring the Mind of a Psychopath
How do you spot a psychopath? Why
are they important in our society? Are YOU a psychopath? Is your boyfriend a psychopath? Are we all psychopaths? Could my dog be a psychopath? (Never!) Neuroscientist Jennifer Rees answers these questions and discusses the science behind psychopathy in an interactive talk. £20
R E A D 1 - 5 October @ CASS ART Ayacucho! Semana Santa!
Combind Press invite you to participate in a reading of Ayacucho! Semana Santa! A poetic documentation of ethno-photographer Robert Starkey’s fifteen-day stay in Ayacucho, Peru. FREE
6-22 October various locations Manchester Literature Festival
L E A R N
Manchester Literary Festival showcases the best of literature from around the world. These are murmur’s highlights. Various prices.
3 October @ International Anthony Burgess Foundation Before You’re 30
11 October @ Waterstones Deansgate Ayòbámi Adébáyò & Chibundu Onuzo
Three inf luential speakers, speaking for 30 minutes each, on topics from architecture, art, design, the future, politics, etc. FREE
Two of Nigeria’s most exciting young authors read and discuss their novels. Part of MLF.
13 October @ MCR Central Library Reni Eddo-Lodge Part of MLF.
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - an urgent and powerful account of race in Britain.
16 October @ MCR Central Library Reading of Refugee Tales by Comma Press
Amid a global migration crisis, the Refugee Tales project was conceived as a way of giving voice to people who have been held in inde nite immigration detention. Part of MLF.
16 October @ The Castle Hotel The Other Room #71
Experimental poetry from MCR’s alternative literature scene. FREE
FEATURE P O O R PA L S CLUB Poor Pals Club is a space & biannual event that supports, celebrates & showcases work by struggling, emerging Northern creatives. PPC creates a supportive community space where like-minded young artists can socialise, skill-share & collaborate. Get involved with their print & DIY craf ts fair, slam poetr y & f ilm + animation screenings. They also help promote DIY events in the North! Drop them a line: ☞ poorpalsclub@gmail.com &/or follow them via social media ☞ @poorpalsclub
We hope you will love this cornucopia of events. Let us know if you enjoyed anything in particular! Get in touch if you’d like us to feature your own project for next month’s edition. Just a little note at the side: We, the editors of MURMUR, can take no responsibility for the words said and events spiralling from any of the listing. Please stay mindful, share the love and respect the ones around you. Until next month! Team
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