MURMUR issue two December 2017
Manchester’s monthly newsletter
MURMUR
issue two // December 2017
Illustration: Danielle Rhoda Insta: @danielle_rhoda
Editors: Olivia Havercroft Nicole Peeters Design: Lisa Lorenz
»Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal.« Angels with Filthy Souls
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Welcome to MURMUR: Your alternative guide to Manchester’s independent, radical & inclusive events
9 December Top of the Hill Xmas Special: w/ Fruit Tones + The 99 Degree & many more £3/£5 @ The Whiskey Jar 8 bands, 1 day, 3 quid! 3.30pm - 10.30pm
L I S T E N 1 December »Mass« album launch: dbh w/ Dead Rat Orchestra £5 @ Gullivers NQ Feel the warming
beams of Dan’s Med Sun during this very special evening introducing multi-instrumentalist dbh’s third album launch. Promise, it’ll be just like you’re beamed to the Canary Islands. 8pm - 11pm
1 December Locean/Beige Palace/ Lesbian Plebian/Zimzum £3.50
Hazy and immersive Locean, comprised of some of Manchester’s finest musicians, headline this hypnotic cacophony of musicians. @ FUEL 7.30pm - 10.30pm
2 December Swing & Shout Xmas Party: Baghdaddies, Galivantes, Lazlo Baby @ The Old Abbey Taphouse £8 Leave the gun bring on the Balkan. If this line-up isn’t groovy, I don’t know what is! 7pm - 3am
5 December Dentcha: Arrows of Love @ Aatma £5/£6 The last show of their Product tour! Expect honey & blood, sweat & tears. Get ready for some serious rough and ready dancing to these punk legends. 7.30 - 11.30pm
6 December Alex Cameron £10 @ Gorilla »‘Cause in my dreams I miss
you, and I wake up to reality’s bliss« 7.30pm - 10.30pm
11 December Francis Lung’s XMAS Party with Keep Dancing Inc + Painted Nails £6 @ Soup Kitchen Melodic jangly
FEATURE DANIELLE RHODA
Francis Lung plays something old and something new, alongside the dreamy Keep Dancing Inc and Painted Nails’ debut Manchester show. 7 - 10.15pm
»I’m an illustrator/ animator who is passionate about experimenting with different media. Currently I’m working on an observational series, reworking everday life stories. You can find me on instagram @danielle_rhoda.«
15 December Very Sickmas: ILL album preview w/ Nun Habit, Pink Kink DJ set £5 @ The Kings Arms The ultimate
20 December Xmas Cult Party w/ The Spengle Bells £6 @ Soup Kitchen Basement 7 - 11pm
16 December Nice Time Club & Khaos Industries present: We Wish You a DIY Chrimbus w/ Garden Centre, Porridge Radio, Unpaid Intern, Skellingtons, New Fever, Wurms £5/£4 unwaged/no
D A N C E
alternative Christmas party for people who prefer Halloween 8pm ‘til late
one turned away due to lack of funds @ Partisan Collective I <3 Garden Centre, happy erratic lofi nostalgia, who play with angsty Porridge Radio, creative tsunami Skellingtons, and the name I wish I had thought of, Unpaid Intern, alongside others. All profits raised go to Greater Manchester Housing Action. 5.30pm - 1am
19 December Richard Dawson + Irma Vep (Full Band) live! £14 @ Band On The Wall Two
extraordinary voices. Breaking your heart, crushing bones, telling tales of the everyday and forever. Get your tickets quick. This will be an absolute sell out. 7.30 - 10.30pm
Enjoy musical entertainment from Cult Party and Spengler, meet for the last time before you’re driving home for Christmas and cherish that sweet feeling of when your pants still fit. Merry Cult-mas ya’ll.
1 December Drunk At Vogue: £10 The Last EVER Party @ Texture Dress in your finest white disco outfit. No tears, just dance! 11.30pm - 4 am
2 December Wet Play £5 Drenchness @ The White Hotel
Last Wet Play of the year! Don’t forget your towels! midnight - 8am
9 December Minimal Wave Showcase w/ Veronika Vasicka @ The White Hotel £15 P13 & TWH welcome NYC’s Veronica Vasicka, and her seminal Minimal Wave and Cititrax imprints. A rare duel label showcase, with Oliver Ho & Broken English Club debut to Manchester. midnight - 6am
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16 December Discolypso Clubnight @ Band on the Wall 11pm - 3am Chrimbolypso at Discolypso! Nigerian and Ghanaian afrobeat with American afro-latin music and Caribbean disco boogie sounds. £6.50/£8.50
16 December Heads Up x AlgaRhythms x Euphony £5 @ Soup Kitchen All good things come in threes. Happy tunes for pals. 11pm
31 December You really are spoilt for choice, friends. It’s NYE again! But don’t worry, murmur has got your back. Here are our favourite picks for the night: Partisan Collective NYE
19 Cheetham Hill Rd / M4 4FY 8pm - 6 am / donation Come and celebrate with the best collective in town, with bands ‘til 11pm: Factory Acts, Errant Monks & The Whatevers & DJs ‘til the break of dawn. Not to be missed: w/ Chekov, Nick Kagame, Adam H, acidhousedeathsquad
Keep It Unreal NYE
Band on the Wall / 10pm - 4am / £25 The original Manchester residency in its 18th year! Scruff & MC Kwasi will be seeing in 2018 with a 6 hour session of jazz, soul, hip hop, funk, disco, deep house, reggae, afrobeat, latin, electro, techno, new wave and plenty of goodies that don’t fit into any category.
Now! That’s What I Call NY
FUEL / 8pm - 2am / £6 Accidental musicians, One Hit Wonder Disco and Girl Gang Manchester DJs to ship you down the rivers of reminiscence and NY resolutions.
Let’s Make This Precious
The Peer Hat / 10.30pm - 6am / £8 - 12 Dancing ‘til the early hours with The Orielles DJs.
New Year’s Eve at The Abbey
The Old Abbey Taphouse / 7pm - 4am / £10 with Galivantes & Friends Food, music, friends. What else do you need to bring on a good year. (Eat our pants, 2017!)
D O 2 December MCR & Salford Anarchist Bookfair 2017 followed by AU Collective w/ Crywank, Epic Problem @ Partisan 11am - late / FREE Subversive bookfair, followed by an all-ages gig. Check out penfight’s table and the riot grrrrrl punk rock Bristol band Kiss Me, Killer
2 December Partisan Christmas Auction and Party! @ Partisan
An auction of gifts, treats, experiences and more - kindly donated by individuals, organisations and businesses, to raise money for Partisan’s premises licence. Then, have a dance after at Partisan’s Christmas Party, with DJs, vegan mince pies, and more! £3 OTD (but nobody will be turned away due to lack of funds) 8.30pm - late
2 December Festive Atelier Carbooty @ ArtWork Atelier FREE
Carbooty will bring you a day of old and new Carbooty stall holders selling their arts, crafts, design and upcycled wares alongside food, drink, music. noon - 5pm
4 December Let’s Talk Homelessness: Lgbtq+ & Women’s Issues @ Manchester Academy FREE : Let’s Talk Homelessness explores
the experience of women and the LGBTQI+ groups on the streets. 7 - 9pm
6 December A Night With Gardenback For The Homeless + Special Guests £5 advance @ Salford Trinity Church 7-11pm
Fundraising event with psychedelic garage rock, up-and-coming Gardenback & others. 100% of the profits go to Lifeshare to help meet the needs of homeless people in Manchester & Salford.
7 December Christmas at the Mill 2017 @ Islington Mill FREE 4 - 9pm
Come for the shopping, stay for food, drinks and performances by the Northern Quarter Boys Choir & MTBA
10 December Odd Bod Art Market @ Common Shop independent this
Cringlemas & pick up some one of a kind snazzcore stocking fillers 4 - 8pm
14 December Funraising’s Artbox: Silent Art Auction & Afterparty @ Solomon’s Cafe + Indigo Withington £3 OTD
Join Funraising for a silent auction of some of the best local art at Solomon’s Cafe, in order to raise funds for the charity Mind. Afterwards, head to Indigo to dance to some experimental eclectic DJs. 5.30pm - late
17 December Microdosing: Xmas Social FREE The best Sunday chill
out zone in town: Chess, jazz, comfort zones, friend zones, shamanism zones, weird films. 6pm - late
A R T 2 December An assembly @ Legroom £5 suggested donation
An assembly are a group dedicated to contemporary music, installation, and performance. 7 - 11pm
7 December Thinking out loud on Black Artists and Modernism @ Manchester Art Gallery 6 - 7.30pm Part two of ‘thinking out loud’ on Black Artists and Modernism. FREE
7 December Thursday Lates: South Asian Modernists @ The Whitworth FREE Explore the works
of Pakistani and Indian modernists (S H Raza, Akbar Padamsee, Tyeb Mehta and many more) who exhibited at Victor Musgrave’s Gallery One space between 1953 and 1963. Followed by a panel discussion. 6 - 9pm
14 December Beacons: Pharos @ Caustic Coastal FREE A programme
of 3 exhibitions, talks, workshops & accompanying publication exploring our relationships with ourselves and each other within the framework of non-linear intergenerational time and feminist legacies. 6 - 9pm
Chisel Tip Zine One of the best zines created in MCR: music, politics, interviews, reviews, opinions; Chisel’s got it all. This time w/ Skinny Girl Diet, Special Interest & Priests. Issue 5 currently available at Piccadilly Records. Check @chiseltipzine on FB/Twitter to find a link to get your copy online for £1.
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W A T C H 4 & 6 December Disability Film Season @ HOME £5 - £9 HOME presents Disability Film Season:
part of a programme of events planned for December to mark UK Disability History Month 2017. 5.50pm & 6pm
5 December MCR Antifascists Film Night @ Partisan Collective
MURMUR E A T S Lupo Manchester Exchange Quay
We are delighted to hear that Lupo have found a new space at The Boatshed, on Exchange Quay. Time to get back on that tiramisu, folks! @ lupo_caffeitaliano
Go and watch these two films, CARLOS: UN ANO SIN TI, UN ANO CONTIGO, and 161 > 88. Donations on the door, all money raised to go towards fighting fascism in Manchester and the North West. 7 -11pm
7 December The Beat Film Club @ FUEL presents Gil Scott-Heron & Woodstock £2/£3
A double bill showing footage of soul, jazz and spoken word legend Gil Scott-Heron in concert and the 1970 documentary film Woodstock! 7.30 pm
14 December Thursday Lates: My Recoverist Family FREE @ The Whitworth 6pm - 9pm Portraits of Recovery present the launch of My Recoverist Family, a film that follows
performance artist David Hoyle & a LGBT+ group from MCR , challenging existing narratives of hedonism, transcendence & recovery. Followed by a panel discussion.
W O R D 3 December Murmur #2 @ Common FREE Reading
series w/ some of Britain’s freshest and finest writing talent. Come down and help out our brother from another mother, sister from another mister. Featuring Sam Riviere, Jen Calleja Amy McCauley, Nick Ainsworth Stephanie Warner + Comfortable on a Tightrope DJs. 7pm - late
6 December The Other Room 72 @ The Castle Hotel FREE The Other
Room showcases experimental poetry in Manchester in the dark depths of Castle Hotel. This time with readings from Sharon Kivland, Redell Olsen and David Steans. 7pm - 10pm
20 December Get Lit! It’s Christmas! @ The Castle Hotel
Donations (all profits go to charity) Three of Manchester’s greatest live lit nights - Bad Language, First Draft and The Real Story - come together to bring you a night of live spoken word, music, comedy and festive vibes under the fairy lights at The Castle Hotel. 7.30pm - 10pm
R E A D 6 December FEMcr zine open meeting! @ MMU Student’s Union FREE
FEMcr; a cross-campus, student-led feminist zine is looking for feminists of any gender to get involved with the creation of a new free, radical, accessible and student-led zine. 6.30-8.30pm
6 December Literary Quiz £4/£10 @ International Anthony Burgess Foundation Test your knowledge
on anything ranging from Tolkien to Tolstoy at the Burgess Foundation Literary Quiz, and persuade your geekiest friends to come with! The quiz will draw a close to the #Burgess100 celebrations, a series of events marking 100 years since the birth of writer Anthony Burgess. 6.30 - 9.30pm
16 December Zine Club w/ Shy Bairns @ Partisan Collective FREE
Another amazing zine club! This month led by Shy Bairns, a multidisciplinary collective specialising in DIY arts publications (also very lovely people), Shy Bairns will be running a workshop using collage materials and the communal risograph. The aim? A collaborative zine loosely based around themes of community and local identity. Donations welcome. 3 - 6pm
Siop Shop Tib
Street, NQ
My GOD these doughnuts are good. From a classic raspberry jam, to a sophisticated vanilla, to the outrageous pistachio and chocolate glaze, I implore you to go and eat as many as you can. Siop Shop’s coffee is topnotch, the sandwiches chewy and fantastic, and have I ever eaten a better sausage roll? Never! All in wonderful surroundings with a Welsh-English bilingual theme and the most friendly and welcoming staff. Go, go, go! @ siopshop
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
MURMUR
xoxo
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L E A R N 9 December Wrapping Paper Printing Workshop @ Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art Two workshop sessions inspired by CFCCA’s current exhibition, Digital Matters. Explore expressive print and pattern in this taster workshop with printmaker Sally Gilford. £4 11am - 12.30pm & 1.30pm - 3pm
18 December MCR Talks: Neuroscience of Productivity £15 @ Texture MCR 7pm - 9.30pm
Workshop and Talk: expect increased attention span, improved memory, reduced procrastination & improved performance.
30 December MCR Debates: Capitalism is making us all very Anxious @ Partisan Collective Society, as an agreement between individuals, should exist for the wellbeing of its members. Is our current social form good for our mental health? Find out at Partisan. 4 - 6pm Donation
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