To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission

Sunday 19 July 2009

Featuring live performances from:

BITING TONGUES (Factory Records)
MAYMING
PADDY STEER (Homelife/ Red Deer Club Records)
LA77 (Timbreland Records)
THE MATT HALSALL Space Jazz Trio
MASSONIX (Skam Records)

The Mercury Seven DJ Team feat:
GRAHAM MASSEY
KELVIN BROWN (Eyes Down/Electric Chair)
JOHN McCREADY
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Islington Mill
James Street
Salford
M3 5HW

5.00/8.00 GBP

In order to celebrate 40 years since man first stepped off the earth and onto the moon, we bring you a space cabaret. Numerous musicians will perform one-off interpretations of the space pioneers and visual artists from across the country will transform Islington Mill into a journey through the start. In addition there will be a Lunar Module Ceremony, in which various model makers have been invited to reconstruct “The Eagle”. But will she fly?

Details are as follows:

BITING TONGUES – back from their own 30 years in deep space. You sent them out there – now hear a full mission report.

A COMPLETE HISTORY OF SPACE MUSIC

Various artists will address the music of the space pioneers:

- May Ming reinterpret Les Baxter’s Music Out of the Moon (chosen as Neil Armstrong’s personal cassette on the Apollo 11 mission)
- Paddy Steer recalibrates music from Joe Meek’s “I Hear a New World”
- LA77 rewires Dick Hyman's "Moon gas"
- Matt Halsall plugs in his trumpet for some Classic Space Jazz
- Ken Hollings connects suburbia to outer space in his lecture "Welcome to Mars"
- Massonix will perform "Pulsars", a suite for radio waves from the Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope

LUNAR MODULE CEREMONY

We have invited various model makers to reconstruct "The Eagle". But will she fly? "You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue!"

The Mercury Seven a DJ team brought together from a rigorous selection process of clinical, endurance and psychological testing. Who will be first in orbit: Kelvin Brown, Graham Massey, John McCready, LA77? Only four survived.

RECLAIM THE MOON

Aware of the fact that NASA's free footage has been used to death in trippy visuals from the 1960s through to the present day, we will celebrate its overuse by using it to death. It's all we've got left!

Visuals by Soup Collective – Royal College of Art Moving Image Collective

Conspiracists and doubters: we provide a room for your turgid debates (the anechoic chamber at Salford University).

Labels: Biting_Tongues, Graham_Massey

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