manchester
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The Joe Moss Archive
The Smiths outside the back of the Crazy Face building, 70 Portland Street, Manchester. 1983. Some Smiths artefacts. Hand in Glove invoice. Receipt from the Hacienda, 24th November 1983. Invoice to the Hacienda from July 83. Dead flowers for Morrissey to swing. Andy’s gear The Smiths stage gear Contract for the BBC David Jensen show… Continue reading
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Weightless
A lost and refound song from 2016 that John Hyatt and I made, as the Rossendale Faerie Band. weightless Praise the working class mother, silhouetted by the moon. Video remixed from Clive Oppenheimer’s Living Earth, and a little sample from the sad and beautiful Irish film An Cailín Ciúin. Continue reading
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They Made the Stars Invisible
and other songs Music made from 2020 to 2023 by Gods and Aliens: the legendary John Hyatt with the Assassins of Youth ensemble, Sporty Vicious Fury Assassin and Baby Rotten Eager Assassin and the shady others, or did he say otters? Image – Strange Days by John Hyatt They Made the Stars Invisible. Video remixed… Continue reading
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Beautiful Things
Duration Paintings from the late 1990s, some details of which were used as record sleeves in the early 2000s. This painting was used for the sleeve art for Haven’s 2nd release, Beautiful Thing.July 2021. Tar paint and emulsion on paper, started 1998, it’s still breathing and moving. https://www.discogs.com/master/135209-Haven-Beautiful-Thing The vibe with the original haven art… Continue reading
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Worrier on the Edge of Town.
It was cold on the edge of 1984. Dread swamped around frayed hems, an ominous puddle stagnating as the year loomed closer, then subsiding as the new year broke and that dumfungled vision of a jackboot future forever stalled, mired at the sluice gates neath the ruined towers on the edge of town. The young… Continue reading
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Deirdre of the sorrows.
So it came to pass as the prophecy told, cast in the seeds of Cathbad’s toil, that three heroes would be shamed and exiled, the land and it’s people sundered and riven as warriors fought for the hand of our Deirdre of the sorrows. Of those three warriors, known as Ken, Mike and Samir, only… Continue reading
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M4SK 22
M4sk 22 was a collaborative art project started in 2010 by Simon Woolham and myself, with music and music videos at the heart of it but working in and across many fields and environments with different artist collaborators and arts organisations. The work was non profit and situationist in principle and was performed, screened, exhibited… Continue reading
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