Issue 106 / Dec 2019/Jan 2020
December 2019/January 2020 double issue of Bido Lito! magazine. Featuring: BEIJA FLO, ASOK, LO FIVE, SIMON HUGHES, CONVENIENCE GALLERY, BEAK>, STUDIO ELECTROPHONIQUE, ALEX TELEKO, SHE DREW THE GUN, IMTIAZ DHARKER and much more.
December 2019/January 2020 double issue of Bido Lito! magazine. Featuring: BEIJA FLO, ASOK, LO FIVE, SIMON HUGHES, CONVENIENCE GALLERY, BEAK>, STUDIO ELECTROPHONIQUE, ALEX TELEKO, SHE DREW THE GUN, IMTIAZ DHARKER and much more.
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New Music + Creative Culture<br />
Liverpool<br />
<strong>Issue</strong> <strong>106</strong> / <strong>Dec</strong> <strong>2019</strong>/<strong>Jan</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Cover Photography<br />
Robin Clewley<br />
Words<br />
Elliot Ryder, Cath Holland, Christopher Torpey, Julia<br />
Johnson, Neil Grant, Simon Hughes, Sam Turner,<br />
Paul Fitzgerald, Bethany Garrett, Laura Brown, Chris<br />
Brown, Damon Fairclough, Rhys Buchanan, Matthew<br />
Hogarth, Anouska Liat, Joel Durksen, Sophie Shields,<br />
Daniel Ponzini, Georgia Turnbull, Rhys Thomas, Jennie<br />
Macaulay, Glyn Akroyd, David Weir, Nina Franklin,<br />
James Zaremba, Matthew Thomas Smith, Imtiaz<br />
Dharker.<br />
Photography, Illustration and Layout<br />
Mark McKellier, Robin Clewley, Keith Ainsworth,<br />
Antony Mo, Lo Five, Mr Marbles, Daniel Patlán, Ryan<br />
Lee Turton, Luke Parry, Lucia Matušíková, Lauren Avery,<br />
Lucy Roberts, Jemma Timberlake, Niloo Sharifi, Tomas<br />
Adam, Stuart Moulding, Mook Loxley, Glyn Akroyd,<br />
Brian Sayle, John Johnson, Nicholas Daly.<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
The end of the decade doesn’t feel too different to when<br />
it began. Protest. Helplessness. Reality.<br />
Of all the changes brought about by David<br />
Cameron and Nick Clegg in five bitter years, raising<br />
tuition fees is probably the least<br />
devastating when you weigh the receipts<br />
up against the body count. But, for me,<br />
it was the first moment in my life where<br />
I’d been directly affected by a democracy<br />
I wasn’t old enough to influence. A<br />
democracy where I’d eventually be<br />
granted four votes on a national scale<br />
before the decade was out. Three of<br />
which I’d be on the losing side. The fourth<br />
is still in the phase of protest. It’ll switch<br />
to helplessness on the evening of 12th<br />
<strong>Dec</strong>ember. The early hours that follow<br />
deliver the reality.<br />
Being told that I would be the first<br />
cohort to pay tripled tuition fees was the<br />
most forcible lesson I’d had of ‘getting<br />
what you’re given’. It was a mantra that<br />
typified much of those first five years of<br />
the decade. Tuition fees were just the first<br />
incision, the entry point before many vital organs of society were<br />
removed. So many more were to get what they were given, not<br />
what they deserved. All with much more severe consequences<br />
than carrying inflated university debt. Many protested. We<br />
looked on helpless. Then we saw the reality. Austerity bred the<br />
chaos that unravelled in the five years that followed. When you<br />
push a community to breaking point it will start to point fingers<br />
within. Then the irreparable damage is done.<br />
FEATURES<br />
“Bravery will always<br />
have a home in<br />
Bido Lito! for the<br />
decade to come”<br />
Bravery is the key. It’s the source of power the assumes<br />
control without reason. For 10 years, Bido Lito! has been a<br />
chronicle of bravery, platforming/celebrating/holding up those<br />
who choose to assert themselves through music and art. Those<br />
who’ve taken control of their situation,<br />
those who’ve completely lost themselves<br />
in it. It takes an unrivalled bravery to<br />
formulate a public facing expression of<br />
protest, of helplessness, of reality, of<br />
escape.<br />
This issue, like the 105 that have<br />
run through the decade, is packed full of<br />
bravery. Bravery is Beija Flo’s expression<br />
of physicality and the world that exists<br />
beyond the limitation of form. Bravery<br />
is ASOK following emotive intuition;<br />
equally for Lo Five in the spiritual sense.<br />
As noted by Simon Hughes, bravery<br />
is taking ownership of addiction and<br />
seeing that circumstances can be<br />
reversed. This in particular is something<br />
to take note of when feeling the strains<br />
of the political climate, the world beyond<br />
the socialist bubble of Liverpool.<br />
Bravery is taking back control of language, of image, of<br />
expression. Taking it away from those who’ve weaponised its<br />
use. Bravery will always have a home in Bido Lito! for the decade<br />
to come. This won’t change. But, on 12th <strong>Dec</strong>ember? Let’s hope<br />
it’s a time for real change. !<br />
Editor<br />
Elliot Ryder / @elliot_ryder<br />
Photo by Robin Clewley<br />
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16 / BEIJA FLO<br />
Beija Flo’s experimental artistry is boldly laid bare in her new<br />
material; Cath Holland learns more about its subtle contours.<br />
20 / ASOK<br />
Breathless breakbeats and warped techno that drip with the<br />
energy of club walls; ASOK on the notion of making music in the<br />
moment.<br />
22 / ART AS CONVENIENCE<br />
Since opening at Birkenhead Market in June, Convenience Gallery<br />
has been working to rub away the divide between the everyday<br />
and the artist.<br />
26 / THERE SHE GOES AGAIN<br />
Social history writer and football journalist Simon Hughes looks<br />
back at Liverpool’s progression over the last 10 years.<br />
REGULARS<br />
14 / NEWS<br />
34 / SPOTLIGHT<br />
40 / PREVIEWS<br />
24 / GEOGRAPHY OF THE ABYSS<br />
Electronicist Lo Five navigates us through the terrain of his latest<br />
album, a world conjured from meditation and internal discovery.<br />
30 / A DECADE OF<br />
EXCLAMATION<br />
A selection of Bido Lito! writers pick out some of the most<br />
important cultural moments to have taken place in Liverpool over<br />
the past decade.<br />
37 / BEAK><br />
Constantly sharpening the edges of their three-sided setup,<br />
these masters of sonic immersion know how to keep it sounding<br />
fresh.<br />
39 / STUDIO ELECTROPHONIQUE<br />
“The intention for my music was to make it underthought:<br />
straight from my brain to the machine. I wanted to do it in the<br />
now”<br />
42 / REVIEWS<br />
52 / ARTISTIC LICENCE<br />
54 / THE FINAL SAY