An evening of unspooled reels and misremembering featuring: in flickering images Burning Pool, in conversation visual artist and illustrator Gemma O’Brien and in listening mode Stonecirclesampler and Travis Elborough
Doors: 7pm
Tickets: £7 [or £14 including tape pre-order of ‘Memorex’ (Travis Elborough & Stonecirclersampler)]
The London-based electronic musician Luke J Murray aka Stonecirclesampler and the award-winning writer Travis Elborough have combined forces on a new collaboration to be released on the Tapeworm label under the title Memorex. The tape is available for pre-order alongside tickets for this event.
Come hear an exclusive playback/performance of the tape on the night. The artist Gemma O’Brien, who designed the cover, will be discussing the bodybuilding badlands and defunct record plants of her hometown of Hayes in Middlesex that inspired her work.
Also we are delighted to present a rare screening of Burning Pool, a hauntological portrait of post-industrial Sheffield that explores the idea of future ghosts inspired by the DIY ethic of the steel city’s music scene between 1979-81 and made by the musician/artists Ron Wright (formerly of legendary post-punk electronic funk pioneers Hula) and Neil Webb.
Pre-order a copy of the Memorex tape when you book for just £7 and collect on the night and receive a free Memorex badge.
Burning Pool is a 24min film by Ron Wright and Neil Webb, captured over 4 years, of Sheffield as a post-industrial city in transition. A lot of the buildings and landscapes are now gone or radically altered. The project was created as a response to the DIY ethic of the local music scene between 1979-81 that formed the Do It Thissen exhibition in Sheffield where both artists performed live and created an installation. It also explores the hauntological notion of “future ghosts”. Accordingly, the film is shot on i-Phone as an integral part of the aesthetic and the soundtrack features field recordings, samples and electronically manipulated sound. Ron and Neil have both exhibited internationally either individually or across a range of collaborations that include film, installation, music, sound art, and live performance.
Luke J Murray is a man of many musical aliases, releasing and performing variously as: Superior Grime London Blue DNB-like South Sand Dynamics Luke Marblex The In 2.5G Label White Dark Rainfall J Escape NCR London The From Cracks In Concrete 900Cold Liquid DJ Pulp Grime Murray The endorphin Old 0161 Conflicting 2 Solo Widens Damage Ambient Glow Electronics and Stonecirclesampler
Gemma O’Brien is a London-based fashion illustrator, painter and clothes-maker. A Central Saint Martin’s College of Art graduate, she studied Fashion Communication and Promotion. Her early career saw her work at Vivienne Westwood and Tank and she is currently represented by Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio Gallery. Gemma’s work is inspired by individuals who actively challenge convention both in the fashion world and the everyday, working in various media including ink, acrylic, watercolour, oil and thread.
Described by The Guardian as ‘one of the country’s finest pop culture historians’, Travis Elborough’s books include Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, The Long-Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records that inspired the BBC4 documentary When Albums Ruled the World, in which he also appeared, Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles and Atlas of Vanishing Places, winner of Edward Stanford Travel Book Award in 2020.