The group operates in an as yet undefined area between intuiative ritualised musical theatrical performance and shared collective improvising around musical and lyrical themes developed by all members of the group. There are various aims and objectives.
To function as an accepted method of therapy for members to express and explore ideas and behaviours in forms that would be unacceptable outside the realms of performance.
As a theoretical machinery that allows the musicians and audience to interrogate their own ideas of the boundaries and interrelations between sound, music, tone, vibration, movement, theatre, performance, spectacle, art, and catharsis.
As an ongoing process of instrument building, adaptation and reclaimation from that which is not specifically an instrument but with which sound can be made. This use of scrap, discarded and recycled objects rebuilt as instruments locates a utilitarian power with the players and for anyone who wants to imagine and construct their own instruments.
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"As for the Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra (drums, bass, vocals, overhead projector, post-it notes, CDRS and bicycle), it is beside the point to analyse with hindsight. Unrelentingly experimental, their performance was visual and theatrcial as much musical, embodying an almost Dadaist approach to spontaneous creativity which was child-like in its exuberance, playfulness and wandering sense of purpose"
Student Direct
"The bicycle parts are brought out next; this is, naturally, The Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra who also feature a drummer whose head is entirely wrapped in bandages and a man in an orange cat mask who is crawling around the floor. Even the open minded patrons of Wotgodforgot are sitting a little too far back for their frontman (of sorts), who commands that we stand up and step forward - we do, and are rewarded by having trails of old audio tape wrapped around us. Their sound is oddly like that of industrial futurists such as Faust, only more primitive, more organic - pre-industrial, perhaps? The bicycle rig proves to be a versatile instrument; its spokes bowed for odd metallic drones and mudguards beaten as percussion; Cat Mask Man hammers at a bass and throws himself around as if the ground beneath his feet is too hot to stand on. On the street below the balcony, passers by are looking up with that "what the fuck?" expression normally found in sci-fi blockbusters round about the time the mothership first appears overhead."
Manchester Music
Just to say that if your free on Sat 12th to come down to our xmas party at The Kings Arms in Salford for a knees up with all of us from BandsOnTours and at Good Die Young. We have some great bands on and many others just coming for the show so it is a good chance to network also. See you soon!
The discount flyer is below but if you let me know if your coming I will put you on the door
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This Thursday 30/07 we welcome you to join us and celebrate the release
of our new album, Panic. Free copies of the album will be available on
the night plus music from BOBBIE PERU, STRAY LIGHT and MONSTER ISLAND
with FNF DJs all night.
Come and watch Le Tour with others to make the nail biting atmosphere of the final two stages even more intense!!
I have persuaded the Lass O Gowrie pub to let us use the upstairs bar to watch Le Tour on
Saturday 25th July for the Ventoux Stage
And on
Sunday 24th July for the final stage to Champs Elysess
Come to the pub from noon til 5pm on both days to watch the action LIVE and socialise with other cycling fans too.
It will be free to come in and the Lass will have their usual supply of fine CAMRA award winning ale selection and food to keep you going throughout.
On Saturday, after the race has finished we shall go for a 40-50 mile **twilight ride** from the pub out to Cheshire and up the Wizard. Not quite the Ventoux but a hill with a great view. Meet at 5pm outside the pub
**In order for me to know which room to use I need you to RSVP to info@ibikemcr.org.uk if you are coming on either or both days. (there are different rooms with different capacities and it will be a right arse if we have to change to the bigger room half way through, but the atmos might be a bit lost if we're in a huge room with only a few of us, so please let me know ASAP)**
oh and, not only can we all watch the tense and WELL exciting last stages but we can play the new drinking game I invented: every time sean kelly says "certaintly" we drink a shot! ace.
Described as: 'like Soulfly if Trent Reznor were part of the band,' their debut album "There's No Profit in Truth", mixes the pent up frustration of acts such as Rage Against The Machine with the raging, highly charged riffs of classic Machine Head. Good, honest, politically aware and highly charged Metal at its best...
Evan Parker - saxophones Stephen Grew - piano Phillip Marks - percussion
An all too rare appearance in Manchester by one of the great masters of the saxophone... Evan Parker has been at the forefront of improvised and experimental music for over forty years, with a unique and innovative approach to his instrument that has been hugely influential. A master of extended techniques like circular breathing and multiphonics, he's made over 200 albums with artists like Derek Bailey, Scott Walker, Robert Wyatt, Spring Heel Jack, Michael Nyman, Spiritualized, Cecil Taylor, John Stevens, Gavin Bryars, Brotherhood of Breath, Basil Kirchin, Peter Brotzmann, Han Bennink, Tony Oxley, Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Globe Unity Orchestra, Stan Tracey, Chris Corsano, Jah Wobble, Sainkho Namtchylak, Vic Reeves, Thurston Moore etc etc.....
He is joined by Stephen Grew on piano and Phillip Marks on percussion who have been making their own contributions to the world of adventurous improvisation for over 20 years. Those of you who saw them at last years Manchester Jazz Festival will know just how good they are...
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