Islington Mill Studios

Friday 16th May

9pm - 3am

£9adv 

NO AGE // EX-MODELS // ATLAS SOUND // SOILED MATTRESS & THE SPRINGS

An all out American rock invasion brought you by Pineapple Folk, featuring a powerful line-up of the some finest noises emanating out of the U S of A in a long while.

Leading the charge are no wave noise merchants and recent Sub Pop recruits, No Age, with weighty back-up coming in the form of similarly hailed experimentalers Ex-Models as well as Atlas Sound the solo show of Bradford Cox, one fifth of Deerhunter; a man creating quite a stir with his increasingly acclaimed new record 'Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel'. Propping up the bill, as someone has to, is Upset the Rythym released Soiled Mattress & The Springs.

No Age myspace 

Ex Models myspace

Atlas Sound myspace

Soiled Mattress & The Springs myspace

Pineapple Folk

Tickets available on wegottickets 

SAT 17th MAY

In what seems to be becoming the year of the cancellation, we're very sorry to say that the SCORCES gig has been cancelled.

A member of Christina Carter's family has been taken ill and she has had to make a speedy return to the US to be with her relatives. 

Apologies to anyone who had booked tickets or planned on coming down 

Exhibition continuing from 10th May – 14th June 2008

Bureau Gallery returns with a new program starting with The Established, Paul Needham’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

The exhibition features new works and takes its title from the realisation of one of a series of ideas generated during the artist’s two-month research and production residency at Bureau in 2007.

The Established was made during Needham’s time in residence at Bureau, in response to the physicality of the gallery space. The work plays upon the idea of a contradiction between an understanding of objects and actions, particularly in relation to sculpture.

The exhibition also features two newly commissioned works A Reply To A Rejoinder and A Last Untimely Manifesto. Created especially for the exhibition, these works draw and expand on ideas and research initiated during his residency period.

Weds May 21st 

8pm

Admission £9

Gisèle Vienne / Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper is one of the greatest punk novelists, perhaps our finest modern exponent of the scandalous and the visceral in literature. Now based in Paris, he has collaborated for several years with the rising star of French theatre, Gisèle Vienne on a series of controversial productions.

Their latest partnership explores Dennis Cooper’s classic novella Jerk, a poetic, rebarbative book about a serial killer who learns puppetry while in prison, and writes a puppet show that reconstructs the murders he committed.

After the interval, Dennis Cooper will be talking about his work and reading anew short story from his forthcoming collection.

Followed by a DJ set from Kev Beard, much loved icon of Homoelectric and
one half of hirsute experimentalists The Beards.

Tickets can be booked via www.queerupnorth.com or at Quaytickets 0870 428 0785.

Saturday May 24th 

8pm

Admission £8

Singing songs about Syd Barrett and sounding like overexcited school children playing Jonathan Richman covers, The Television Personalities were always a band that would find it hard to fit in. After hearing ’Part Time Punks’ for the first time you’d either rush out and buy yourself a guitar or you’d never listen to music again.

Their first album, ’And Don’t The kids Just Love It’, epitomised the late 70’s DIY punk attitude with a simplicity and directness that revealed Dan Treacy as a writer of fragile, idiosyncratic and deeply personal songs, providing a focus for the rest of the TVPS output.

This, a rare Manchester date for the TVPS, will see them with their current line-up of: Dan Treacy (Guitar/ Vocals), Texas Bob Juarez (Guitar), Mike Stone (Bass) and Kev Mann (Drums).

Support comes from shouty sci-fi surf popsters The Container Drivers www.myspace.com/containerdrivers and the short, sharp jangle-pop of Amida www.myspace.com/amidaband.

Tickets are available here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/29308