March 2024
The Mole and I just got back from an incredible weekend in Naples, where it was a great pleasure to work with the production team there, largely based at RIOT Studio, a design agency located off of a gorgeous courtyard in the middle of the city, who have long been putting on very cool things in Napoli. Thank you to all of the speakers for their humbling and important talks (seriously, click that first link to check them out), and to the whole production team, with a special mention of Francesca N for the invitation and of Rossella C, for her essential help in getting You Are The Mole up and running with a LED wall of stupendous resolution and so bright! Sunglass intensities. A hopefully quite fancy film incoming, courtesy of a small army of well-drilled videographers at the event.
In other news: the lineup of artists for a little festival I’ve been organising to happen in Newcastle on the first three Sundays of May is confirmed! Click here to read more about the folks playing, and to get involved. Hopefully this is the first edition of a thing that will become an annual fixture in Newcastle, and in this first proof-of-concept version, there’s a nice mix of friends and collaborators current, past–and with a bit of luck, future, too–including Hyperdawn, Sarah Heneghan, Nina Guo and Ian Sankey, and Sam Baxter. And on the 12th, together with a core quartet of Northumberland Radical Fun group, I’ll be giving the first performance of material from the record I just finished up, called Action Vibration. Below you can hear a pre-mastered version of one of the tracks from the record, which we are still very much Learning How to Play in Real Life (coming to a label perhaps not-so-near-you in perhaps the not-so-near-future; there is some figuring out to do). Come down to the festival, which is called Significant Other! It will be fun, relaxed, and also interesting. Elder Beer in Heaton, the venue for all three shows, also stocks some incredible beverages you’ll be hard-pushed to find anywhere else in (this part of) the country…
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