A Busy Friday
Friday was a bit of a busy day (I think I’ve only just recovered). Here’s what happened:
After having sat up into the wee hours watching the election, at lunchtime I headed over to the foyer of the BFI Southbank, to see my piece ‘Snow’ performed excellently by Trinity’s Contemporary Music Group. There was a nice crowd, and it was great to see the four shortlisted pieces for the Runswick Prize performed again (as it happens, I didn’t win the final, which took place last week). While I was there, I wandered into the BFI shop, which turns out to be an excellent place to go if you’re at all interested in film and criticism thereof. Check it out!
Upon getting home, I kept myself busy by sending the master CD and artwork for the forthcoming Happy Mammoth EP off for printing. This promises to be a rather nice looking object, and the run of 500 which we’ve ordered should be arriving in the next week or so, at which point we’ll be sending/selling them off to all and sundry. Very exciting stuff.
By this point I was beginning to suffer from my late night vigil, but there was no time for rest before I was off to see the aforementioned Transitions show at Laban’s Bonnie Bird theatre. Having seen the show several times now, I can vouch for the fact that it gets even better every time, and has yet to bore me in the slightest. The company are only partway through their tour, and will be all over the UK (as well as a couple of international dates) over the next month or so; I urge you to check them out if you get the chance (tour dates here).
Finally, I spent much of the last week or so working on a Second Line track, which i finished on Wednesday (OK, so this isn’t strictly part of my busy Friday, live with it). The track is a Dubfunk remix of Caribou‘s ‘Sun’, though it doesn’t bear much relation to the original (which you can listen to here). Stream it below:
That’s all for now. More to come soon on Mothers Against Noise podcasts and interviews, Mammoth gigs and lots of other bits and bobs.
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