MURMUR // Issue 21 // July 2019
Manchester’s monthly newsletter
MURMUR
issue twenty-one // July 2019
Editors: Olivia Havercroft, Nicole Peeters Huw Spencer, Tom Waring & George Odysseos Design: Lisa Lorenz Print: Team Trident Press
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L I S T E N FRI 05 07 - SUN 07 07 SK1 Festival @ Stockport Old Town
Our friends at SK1 Records are hosting their very own arts and music festival! Taking place over 3 days across various venues (St Mary’s Church, The Space, SK1 Records, Rare Mags and Plant Shop), Stockport’s old town will be getting a radical makeover. Big names on the bill include SYNKRO, Ancestral Voices, Pearl City, Denis Jones and Andy Votel. £5/25, Times Vary
SAT 06 07 Daniel O’Sullivan & The Dream Lyons // Kelly Jones // Richard Youngs // The Nõ Show @ 70 Tib Street (YumYum)
DIY is at the core of this show, presented by Anywhere Out of the World. See the haunted, gauzy sounds of Daniel O’Sullivan with the Dream Lyon octet, the sea-fresh tones of Kelly Jones, and the mystical post punk autodidact Richard Youngs. Supported by The Nõ Show. £5, 7 - 11pm
Illustration: Josh Wayles
TUES 09 07 Tombed Visions: OMA & ZIM ZUM @ The Peer Hat
McLean-twin-powered synthy techno beats bring you start-of-the-week energy paired with spoken word by the local powerhouse legend that is Lauren Bolger. There will be sax, there will be sass, there will be ZimZum support. Tomb-tastic and not to be missed. £4, 7.30 - 10.30pm
THU 11 07 Prangers // Hermit // I’m 6 // John Powell Jones & DJs @ The Peer Hat Absolute Fiction present a night of experimental sounds and spoken word. The line-up is looking great with Prangers, a brand new brooding duo who mix found sounds with spoken word; Hermit - a project of siblings Leo and Stephen Hermitt who will be having a dialogue through vocal and percussion; and noisy no wave collective I’m 6. The cherry on top: a new video installation by John Powell Jones and an exuberant DJ set by the curators. £5 (donation), 7.30pm
SAT 20 07 MIFFF’d All Day Spectacle @ The Peer Hat
We couldn’t describe this event more poetically than in the organisers’ own words: »Our City, is its people: is fluid, is majestic, is ugly, is terrifying. During the three weeks of International Festivities, we offer the opportunity to lift the stone from the soil and expose the beautiful, crawling monstrosity, that is Underground Manchester.« Check out this line-up: Celestial North, Chelsea Hare, Yossarians, Aldous RH, The Jungfraus - and more! £6/8, 2pm - 3am
D A N C E SAT 06 07 Aficionado @ Plant Shop
Get warmed up for summer (and KMA) with sounds between monsteras and mini palm trees by the legends of Manchester’s 90s vanguards of UK Balearic. Expect a genre-flexi-safe mix from Ambient to Acid in the most charming hillside shop of Stockport. FREE, 7 - 11pm
SAT 06 07 First Light: Piksel @ Barbecue Chorlton
For those who don’t want to venture to Stockport: Genre-defying electronic music and live visuals in a coffee shop? Yes, please! More of that especially when producer and sound artist Piksel is dishing out a live set. Expect leftfield gazing techno and at this wholesome venue. £5, 8pm 1am
SAT 06 07 Kiss Me Again 3rd Birthday w/Anz @ Soup Kitchen
That’s right! Manchester’s much loved LGBT+ club night staple Kiss Me Again has been filling the Soup basement with love and positive vibes for three years now! Let your hair down with the wondrous Anz and soak up the energy to share it all out again with the friendly party crowd. £6, 11pm - 4am
SAT 13 07 Deptford Northern Soul Club present Colin Curtis @ YES
Having lived, danced and DJ’d through the eras of Northern Soul, jazz-funk jazz -dance and house, few can claim to have shaped UK dance music more than Colin Curtis. Join Deptford Northern Soul Club at YES for a chance to see THE tastemaker at work. £5/10, £15 OTD; 11pm - 4am
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D O WED 03 07 diffuse: FUSE x Do That Thing @ The Yard
Take the chance and collectively explore the creative sector in Manchester and its issues with diversity and inclusion, featuring talks and workshops where you will be able to discuss how to improve the art community in this city. £3, 6 - 9pm
TUE 02 07 Shy Bairns X David Lynch Zine Workshop @HOME
In case you missed the big banners in town: David Lynch will be taking over the galleries and theatres of HOME for the duration of the Manchester International Festival. Aiming to create a zine inspired by his work, art and curator collective Shy Bairns are hosting a workshop to honour the weird and surreal world of Lynch’s films. £5/7, 6.30 - 9.30pm
THURS 04 07 All Hands On Deck: Record Sale Special @ Common
Manchester’s eclectic DJ collective All Hands On Deck are throwing a second hand record sale with listening station, stalls hosted by local DJs and collective members selling round and rectangular bits and bobs at low coin range. All Hands On Deck is a DJ collective for all women (trans, intersex and cis) and all nonbinary, agender and gender variant people. FREE, 7 - 10pm
SAT 06 07 Bicycle Repair Clinic @ Partisan Collective
Learn how to sort out your bike with help from Teegs and Hell in the multi-facetted basement of Partisan. Donations are welcome, but no-one will be turned away due to lack of funds, Partisan members can join the course for free. Donation £3/5, 12 - 4pm
SUN 14 07 Loot Art Market @ Common
Browse (and buy) some lovely ceramics, art prints, jewellery made by local talent at the cosiest Sunday hangout of the NQ. FREE, 4 - 8pm
SAT 20 07 0161 Community Summer Family Funday @ Oldham Central Library
Anti-fascist network and community 0161 host a family friendly summer
party at Oldham Central Library with football, boxing, face painting, graffiti, games and craft workshops. Get connected with other social justice enthusiasts and get to know your neighbors whilst kicking or knitting about. FREE, 10am - 5pm
THUR 25 07 Girl Gang MCR: Speed Mate-ing @ The Old Bank, NOMA
Looking for new pals in Manchester? Girl Gang Manchester have gone above and beyond to cut out all the small talk funny business. Expect games, challenges and nudges that will bring out the true you (and all the others’ true thems!) but more importantly to keep you secure and while allowing enough freedom for fun. Speed Mate-ing is open to people of all ages, genders, sexualities, races, classes, and backgrounds. £5/7, 6.30 - 8.45pm
SAT 27 07 Partisan’s 2nd Birthday @ Partisan Collective
How fast have the last two years gone by!? Join Partisan Collective to celebrate their second birthday with an all-day party: DJs keeping your boogie trotters busy in the basement, pingpong, curry, pot luck + Italian wood-fired pizza to fuel your afternoon, and bands (!!!) all day upstairs. What a way to enjoy being alive with the best of our community. FREE/£5 for non-members, Midday - Midnight
WED 31 07 <Unfound> Roadshow @ Federation House
Tech community (or curious) this one’s for you: in their talks and events series Unfound, hosts Cat Ainsworth and Annie Legge will shed light on alternative start-up pathways and show us how to make the digital economy work for a fairer, more inclusive, and sustainable society. FREE, 6.30 - 9pm
A R T WED 03 - WED 17 There Has To Be Order @ Working Man Gallery
At the probably best, secret living room gallery in Pendelton (and Manchester) Piotr Flandro dissects the German stereotype »Ordnung muss sein.« (»There has to be order.«) In paintings and sculptures Flandro explores the relationship between humankind, industry and labour,
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mixing mediums and random materials (some would regard as waste!). FREE, vernissage 7 - 11pm
THU 11 07 - SAT 03 08 Buffer Zones @ Paradise Works
This immersive exhibition invites the audience to make their way through barricades, borders and partitions. The work of thirteen artists displayed, reflects on the themes of borders, separation and physical space. FREE, vernissage 6 - 9pm
MON 15 07 Interjectional Exercises @ Portico Library
Rowland Hill present her new live work taking inspiration from British Sign Language, spoken word and physical gesture. Interjectional Exercises is based on her earlier work Visible Speech - created and performed collaboratively with members of Manchester Deaf Centre in response to a text of the same name she found at The Portico. FREE, 6.30 - 8.30pm
FRI 19 - SAT 20 07 A Place Lived @ Hardman Square
Maddi Nicholson’s sculptures invite the workers and visitors of Spinningfields to remember those who shaped the city and this place in particular in the 19th century. Her sculptures remind us of the life that happened in this now thriving financial district. FREE 5 - 6.30pm (FRI) & 2 - 5pm (SAT)
W A T C H WED 03 07 The Economics of Corbynism @ Irish World Heritage Centre
Let’s have a play with some thought experiments. What if Socialism was the status quo in the UK today? What if activists had a vital part in the countries economy? What if Socialism has turned a different corner? Join James McDonnell in his wanderings and wonderings on Corbynomics. Utopias. FREE, 7 - 9pm
THURS 04 07 Generation Revolution @ Manchester Central Library
200 years after the Peterloo Massacre the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre show the documentary Generation Revolution portraying the lives of black and brown activists in London determined to shake up the social and political system. FREE, 5.30 - 8pm
SUN 14 07 Knock Down The House @ ARMR Store Unit 3
Ardwick Labour bring you the gripping documentary Knock Down The House - right to the heart of Ardwick! The film tells the real stories of four female Democrats who ran for Congress in the 2018 United States elections. After the viewing stay for a discussion of key themes covered in the film. FREE, 3 - 6pm
TUES 23 07 Aidstravaganza @ Partisan
Let’s get our voices heard until there is a cure for all those affected by HIV and AIDS. Healthcare movements across Manchester bring you panel discussions, performance art and a film screening of »United in Anger« addressing the privatisation of the NHS, the fight for PREP & other burning issues. FREE, 7 - 11pm
W O R D MON 01 07 FLIM NITE: Fight Club @ 3 Minute Theatre
We are sad to print this but this will be the last FLIM event at 3MT before it closes its doors forever. You know the genius gist: A movie (Fight Club) chewed and remodelled beautifully with tongues and bodies and the movements and words that come out of it. Give them an honourable sendoff and keep supporting our local independent venues. £3-10,7.30-10pm
TUE 02 07 Underwater @ Whiskey Jar
In these three short plays, jellyfish fight turtles, killer whales discuss veganism, and prawns tickle people... The characters challenge the viewer to search for sense, to look in the dark,... to go underwater. Come join the dive if you dare! £7, 6 - 7.30pm
THURS 04 07 Look Who’s Talking @ Portico
Amharic-speaking Mancs interpret Ethiopian artist Robel Temesgen’s made-up tabloid headlines to the English-speaking audience reversing language dynamics and revealing the power structures behind print media. FREE, 6 - 8pm
MON 08 07 Over, Burnett & Tookey: Carcanet Triple Launch @ Anthony Burgess Institute
Join Carcanet Press to launch three new poetry titles: the urban patchwork of Helen Tookey’s City of Departures, Jeremy Over’s Fur Coats in Tahiti, an Edwardian dictionary realised for the 21st century and Lucy Burnett’s playful philosophy Tripping Over Clouds. Listen, absorb, discuss. FREE, 7 - 10pm
MON 08 - SAT 13 07 The Salford Docker @ The Lighthouse
Meet the dockers and their families of Salford of the 1950s and 70 and see how their realities changed with de-industrialisation, regeneration and austerity politics. Salford Community Theatre work with local actors exploring Salford’s history embracing past and current social hot spots. £10, 7 - 10pm/4 - 7pm (Sat)
TUES 09 07 Burgess & Modernism @ Anthony Burgess Foundation
What were Burgess’ mod-pleasures? And how did they shape him as an author? The exhibition opening coincides with the re-launch of Burgess’ biographies on D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce. Pop down for an informal discussion and see where all the Burgess-ness takes the night. FREE, 6 - 8.30pm
WED 10 07 How Do You Launch An Indie Magazine? @ The Modernist HQ
Indie-mag experts The Modernist bring you the voices of Girlfans, Proper, Ethos and Siege who will talk about how to get your magazine off the ground, how to produce it, and how to fund it. £6/8, 6 - 8pm
TUES 16 07 A Movement in Power @ The English Lounge
People, get ready! Or not? Christine Berry will take the stage to speak about the identity crisis of Labour, how radical change can help to free society from the shackles of inequality and austerity examining the past. FREE, 6 - 7.30pm
THURS 18 07 A Sting In The Tale #4 @ FUEL
Come experience the second ever performance of The Master Thief and the Three Princes by both Iris Skipworth and Colin Rowan. Expect giants, ghosts and many a close brush with death tales from the British Isles. £5/7, 7.30pm - late
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THU 25 07 Rewriting the North: Fiona Mozley and Andrew Michael Hurley @ Portico Library
How are writers (re)imagining the North of England in literature today? Fiona Mozley (Elmet) and Andrew Michael Hurley discuss the role of place and their connection to the Northern landscape in their work. The event is part of the Rewriting the North series in the lead up to the Portico Prize, aka the »Booker of the North«. FREE, 6 - 8.30pm
SUN 28 07 Northwest Zine Fest 2019 @ People’s History Museum
The annual Northwest Zine Fair has struck upon us, bringing together zine makers, creatives and activists for a day of workshops, talks and stalls. We recommend checking out the DIY podcasting workshop with Brown Girls Do It, zine making with Tender Hands Press, and the Document it Yourself: Developing a DIY Archiving Manifesto workshop, which is all about DIY archives, what their importance is and who looks after them. FREE, 11am - 4pm
MURMUR EATS The Creameries 406 Wilbraham Rd M21 0UB
The Creameries eschews the brusque scandi aesthetic of soon-to-be yore. Instead, it provides something a little bit different, something that is truly missing from Manchester. As you enter, you’re hit with tables of blistering salty oily gorgeous focaccia (I’m still dreaming of this bread) and piles of stunning fruit and veg; dark, muted colours and heavy plants line the walls, with little nooks to sit in, opening up to a bright rainforest at the back. The Creameries seriously care about local, seasonal produce and good, innovative food, and they also seriously care about community: providing not only a wonderful welcome and genuine chat, but also holding local events for all ages. It’s just outstanding in every way, go (and get twice as much focaccia than you think you’ll need).
Tues & Weds 8am – 3pm Thurs & Fri 8am – 11pm Sat & Sun 9am – 11pm