“Hiss Heads” is an interview zine I put together. It contains interviews and pictures of homerecorders from UK’s North West. The material is the basis of my upcoming “Manchester Memories” installation.
I met Liz Murphy on a glamorous x-mas party at Rogue Studios. We talked about having a zine launch party in their project space. In the end I got three days {5th-7th of march} for the launch and a mini noise-fest.
I asked Nick Mitchell (Golden Lab’s CEO) to curate the first night. It was him who introduced me to most homerecorders when I got to MCR in October 2010.
Day one’s line up:
MY CARAPACE IS LEAKING
FLOAT RIVERER
SEX HANDS
FORMER BULLIES
PASCAL NICHOLS
Day two featured my two favorite noise acts. The CERAMIC HOBS who came down all the way from Blackpool and MCR’s SMEAR CAMPAIGN. And a guy called RATFANGS got in touch with me a week before. His set sounded like a soundtrack for a non existing 1960s spaghetti western cartoon series on tramadol. Great stuff.
Seven people playing eccentric noise music. I still can’t figure out how THE CERAMIC HOBS managed to get this magnificent sound. We didn’t have a professional PA, no monitor speakers. It was just great to see how well they work as a band. AAAAW FOOK ME! I really should have recorded those gigs. ‘Cause SMEAR CAMPAIGN’s set was quite wrong and unique too. I dunno what kind of an impression those pictures below or these words are giving you right now. ALL LIES!
Saturday’s line up:
RATFANGS
CERAMIC HOBS
SMEAR CAMPAIGN
I believe that sunday was the most exclusive, Hiss Head’s most private day. Gary Fisher couldn’t get off work, so I jumped in and read a post-post-post modern poem I found earlier that day. After showing off my edgy german accent, Elvis was on with a brief sound poetry performance. Poems and no-music made with a sampler and a mini guitar and a bontempi. Matt Dalby’s performance had some musical elements too. I really enjoyed the last 16 verses of his set, an interpretation of the folk ballad “Prince Heathen”. Now THAT is some grim stuff.
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The Final line up:
ME
YOUR ORANGE COAT
MATT DALBY
Cheers to everyone who performed, got involved or just came by to watch!
I took most of those pics myself. Some are taken by Debbie “Elvis” Sharp.
