Doors: 7:00pm
Admission: £7.50 in advance / £10 on the door
We are very happy to present a double bill of horror themed content from People Like Us (aka Vicki Bennett) - legendary figure the field of sampling / appropriation and regular host on the Horse Hospital’s beloved WFMU, alongside Gwilly Edmondez known widely as the many faceted godfather of Wild Pop, founding member of Radioactive Sparrow and one half of YEAH YOU.
PEOPLE LIKE US
Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been working across the field of audio-visual collage, and is recognised as an influential and pioneering figure in the still growing area of sampling, appropriation and cutting up of found footage and archives. Working under the name People Like Us, Vicki specialises in the manipulation and reworking of original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film and radio. People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at, amongst others, Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, The Barbican, Centro de Cultura Digital, Maxxi and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. She has an ongoing sound art radio show 'DO or DIY' on WFMU. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb. Nothing Can Turn Into A Void – a doc film about People Like Us has been screening in cinemas and festivals since Autumn 2015. Currently, Vicki is focussing on expanding a/v work for a multiscreen and multi-speakered environment with Recombinant Media Labs own Cinechamber, with 10 screen work "Gone, Gone Beyond". Also a new People Like Us live performance (and sometimes stand alone movie) "The Mirror" premiered at FACT, Liverpool in Spring 2018 and now tours as a live performance (Europe), and stand alone movie (US). October 2018 sees the release of a new CD/online album also called The Mirror.
GWILLY EDMONDEZ
Gwilly Edmondez represents a coagulation of multiple character strands derived out of one private/public individual whose corporeal manifestation carries it through live shows, albums, videos and numerous collaborations in improvised music. Born in Lake Fear, Pen-Y-Bont, Gwilly has released numerous albums in different formats; as a performer he has worked with (among many others) Heaving Stews, Valerie Pearson, Karl D’Silva, Tony Gage, Richard Bowers, Rhodri Davies, Faye MacCalman, Posset, THF Drenching, Odie Ji Ghast, Brown Torpedo, Wrest, People Like Us, Tobias Illingworth, Pat Thomas, Lauren Kinsella and James Joys.
http://ubu.com/sound/edmondez.html
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Gwilly_Edmondez
https://vimeo.com/feltbeak
Other incarnations include Radioactive Sparrow co-founder Bill Bargefoot, MYKL JAXN out of YEAH YOU and the writer/composer/artist Gustav Thomas which is probably his real name. In all guises he is a purveyor of reaLFake Wild Pop, tearing open the terrified quotidian regimes of colonized consciousness (through, and in, his own brain) in order to plunge intensities between the cracks exposed. This doesn’t actually, necessarily, work - per se - but it’s the in engagement of attempts where the drama takes place.