Issue 83 / November 2017

DANSETTE
Carl Roberts of melancholadelia
five-piece GINTIS sheds some
light on what the group were
listening to while working on their
long-awaited, double A-side,
Dennis/Oh My Little Malcontent,
produced by Bill Ryder-Jones.
The Loungs
Radiate
Fresh Hair Records
Sweet Tooth
The Bluecoat with the International Slavery Museum
host acclaimed vocalist and movement artist ELAINE
MITCHENER in November as she performs her
experimental piece Sweet Tooth at the arts centre. The
production, which combines text, improvisation and
movement explores the relationship between sugar and
the transatlantic slave trade. Mitchener spent five years
researching the subject and brought together a trio of
experimental musicians to produce Sweet Tooth which
uses archives from various resource centres and material,
such as inventories of more than 2,000 enslaved Africans
owned by sugar baron Samuel Taylor. The performance
will be followed by a symposium at the International
Slavery Museum titled Bluecoat 300: Charity, Philanthropy
and the Black Atlantic on 24th November.
Liverpool Print Fair
Sweet Tooth (Elaine Mitchener)
Beautiful World
Celebrating 20 years of commissioning contemporary
art across the city, LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL’s 2018
programme – titled Beautiful World, Where Are
You? – invites artists and audiences to consider
the uncertain social, political, economical and
environmental state of the world. The festival has
announced the first list of international artists,
including French New Wave filmmaker AGNÈS
VARDA and American composer and musician ARI
BENJAMIN MEYERS. The full list can be found at
biennial.com along with artist profiles and examples
of their work. Launching in July 2018 and taking
place over 15 weeks, Liverpool Biennial works with
leading artists to bring free exhibitions and events to
both city residents and its visitors.
Print Is Dead (Good)
Beautiful affordable art is the order of the day for LIVERPOOL PRINT FAIR,
which takes place at The Bluecoat on 4th November. The joint venture
from The Print Social and Bluecoat Print Studio will be a family friendly
event celebrating traditional print methods in various forms such as screen
printing, linocut, etching and woodcut. It’ll be a great opportunity to sort
your Christmas shopping by buying from a range of independent artists and
designers. There will also be a new exhibition from the Print Social featuring
various artists’ designs on the theme of Print Is Dead (Good). Get there
early to get one of 80 goodie bags which include a print and other bits from
sponsor Awesome Merchandise.
THE LOUNGS have basically been the band equivalent
of being our big brother. They are from St Helens and
make absolutely perfect alternative pop. They released
our last album (Idiot Guides And Plans) on their label. This
song contains the line “I love yer bones kid,” which is a
turn of phrase that I love so much I used it in Oh My Little
Malcontent.
Pavement
Brighten The
Corners
Domino
PAVEMENT have always been one of our favourite bands,
and are a common ground with Bill Ryder-Jones. In fact, I
was wearing a Pavement T-shirt the night I met him. This
album of theirs is my favourite as those wonky guitars and
off-kilter vocals are perfectly executed all the way through.
The guitar work on Dennis takes a lot of inspiration from
this record.
Grandaddy
The Crystal
Lake
V2 Records
Wirral New Music Collective
Fresh from a wildly successful, locked-out launch show (where
Queen Zee and The Sasstones, Jo Mary and Bill Nickson played to a
packed out room in Birkenhead), WIRRAL NEW MUSIC COLLECTIVE
launches the next phase of its aim to nurture and promote new music
on the peninsula. Working with the Beautiful Ideas Company, the
WNMC will be responsible for administering a small fund to support
the staging of music events in Wirral, in chunks of up to £500 a time.
Applications can be made via a simple form at WirralNMC.co.uk. Built
around a collective of musicians, record producers, graphic designers
and other experts, the new initiative plans to bring together Wirral’s
artistic community to start a new chapter in its rich musical legacy.
We actually formed back in school because of
GRANDADDY, and this song specifically. Dave and I saw
it on MTV2 one evening and immediately realised that not
being in Gintis was rubbish and not being obsessed with
Granddaddy was fucking stupid.
Gorky’s Zygotic
Mynci
20: Singles & EP’s
‘94-’96
XamVolo
I Xam What I Xam
Liverpool’s neo-soul saviour XAMVOLO will headline
the final Bido Lito! Social of the year, presented in
association with our pals at Outsiders Store. The
gig marks a big year for the magazine as well as
the Decca Records signee. To show our gratitude to
our readers and mark the opening of our outdoorsy
neighbours there will be a limited amount of FREE
tickets available at Outsiders Store on Slater Street
from 1st November. To get one all you need to do
is sign up to the Outsiders mailing list in person.
The District show on 30th November will also host
performances from last month’s cover star GAZELLE
and Spotlight artist SUBBLUE.
Castle Music
It’s so obvious that we are massively influenced by
GORKY’S and Euros [Childs] that it is very difficult to
pick a certain record. We are obsessed with Gorky’s but
oddly enough, so is every other musician/band that we
ever connect with or work with. I like 20 because of how
out-and-out bizarre it is, whilst remaining utterly joyous
and tuneful. I also feel like I know every lyric on this record,
despite large parts of it being in Welsh (which I cannot
speak, despite being from Wales).
Head to bidolito.co.uk to read (and listen to) more of Gintis’
selections. Dennis/Oh My Little Malcontent is out on 30th
October via Popty Ping Records.
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