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A special one-day festival, supported by lost toys records, celebrating artists' music through live performances, film screenings and events. The festival is set across three uniquely constructed stages in the grounds of Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, and is curated by Andy Holden. Throughout the day you will have the chance to hear live music by some of the best artists in the country on two outdoor stages whist a program of films and live performances that explore music from a more documentary or anthropological perspective take place in the cinema space.
The artists' involved use a wide variety of improbable instruments and unlikely approaches, using ideas influenced as much by visual art as music. Martin Creed's music is an intense mix of minimalism, post-punk and conceptual art, the Owl Project combine wood-turning with electronic improvisation whilst the Bohman Brothers use a variety of found object such as wine glasses and cutlery with which to improvise. The structure of the festival rather than a gallery exhibition allows a multitude of different approaches to co-exist and be experienced live in an rich atmosphere of experimentation, with the audience given the freedom to choose which act to see or which film to watch.
The festival includes live music from Martin Creed and His Band, Bob and Roberta Smith's Apathy Band, Long Meg, Juneau Projects, Kaffe Matthews, Sue Tompkins, Owl Project, Die Kunst, Grubby Mitts, Joanne Robertson, Sam Belinfante, Bohman Brothers with Richard Thomas, The Errorists, Saydance, Babygrand, Johnny Parry, Ricky Leach, Aleksander Kolkowski, Rude Pravo and many others. DJ sets include Mark Leckey, Junior Aspirin Records, Mark Dean, and the Wire Sound-System.
The cinema space gathers together films by artists' who use, or examine, music and sound though moving image. This include works such as Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard's re-staging of the Cramps concert at the Napa Mental Institute, Sam Bellinfante's investigation into the hum in the landscape in Taos, New Mexico, Luke Fowler's documentary about Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra and Matt Stokes' film about the Punk scene in Austin. The film program also features a selection of films by Nico Vascellari, including Largo Morte - a film about bringing many of the inhabitants of his home town to the museum to watch his band play, and Nico and the Vacellari's - documentation of a performance in which Nico's family are required to hold up the stage set whilst he gives an intense vocal performance.
Other events around the grounds include Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether's Reverse Karaoke, Mark Essen's Record Exchange, An Endless Supply festival program, a stall of artists' records, and an UBUWeb sound-system.
The event is supported by Arts Council East, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Resonance 104.4FM and the Wire, with recording and interviews from the festival to be broadcast on the station during September. It will bring to a close Wysing Arts Centre's "Camp for Improbable Thinking", the final chapter of their "Year of the Improbable".
Saturday 11th September. 12pm until 12am.
Click here for more details and full line up
Festival Ticket only £15 BUY TICKET
Ticket including including coach from London £30 BUY TICKET
(Coaches are operated by Grey's of Ely and leave from St Pancras Road at 10am and leave Wysing at 12am)
Ticket with coach from Cambridge £22.50 BUY TICKET
(Coaches are operated by Grey's of Ely and leave from Cambridge Train Station at 11.30am and leave Wysing at 12am)
Limited camping tickets are also available for an additional £10 BUY TICKET
Under 12s are Free (workshops for children will run 12-5)
Alternatively tickets are on sale through the Cambridge Junction: BUY TICKETS Camping Tickets
More Info+directions: Wysing Arts Centre
contact: festival@losttoysrecords.com for inquiries
A special one-day festival, supported by lost toys records, celebrating artists' music through live performances, film screenings and events. The festival is set across three uniquely constructed stages in the grounds of Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, and is curated by Andy Holden. Throughout the day you will have the chance to hear live music by some of the best artists in the country on two outdoor stages whist a program of films and live performances that explore music from a more documentary or anthropological perspective take place in the cinema space.
The artists' involved use a wide variety of improbable instruments and unlikely approaches, using ideas influenced as much by visual art as music. Martin Creed's music is an intense mix of minimalism, post-punk and conceptual art, the Owl Project combine wood-turning with electronic improvisation whilst the Bohman Brothers use a variety of found object such as wine glasses and cutlery with which to improvise. The structure of the festival rather than a gallery exhibition allows a multitude of different approaches to co-exist and be experienced live in an rich atmosphere of experimentation, with the audience given the freedom to choose which act to see or which film to watch.
The festival includes live music from Martin Creed and His Band, Bob and Roberta Smith's Apathy Band, Long Meg, Juneau Projects, Kaffe Matthews, Sue Tompkins, Owl Project, Die Kunst, Grubby Mitts, Joanne Robertson, Sam Belinfante, Bohman Brothers with Richard Thomas, The Errorists, Saydance, Babygrand, Johnny Parry, Ricky Leach, Aleksander Kolkowski, Rude Pravo and many others. DJ sets include Mark Leckey, Junior Aspirin Records, Mark Dean, and the Wire Sound-System.
The cinema space gathers together films by artists' who use, or examine, music and sound though moving image. This include works such as Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard's re-staging of the Cramps concert at the Napa Mental Institute, Sam Bellinfante's investigation into the hum in the landscape in Taos, New Mexico, Luke Fowler's documentary about Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra and Matt Stokes' film about the Punk scene in Austin. The film program also features a selection of films by Nico Vascellari, including Largo Morte - a film about bringing many of the inhabitants of his home town to the museum to watch his band play, and Nico and the Vacellari's - documentation of a performance in which Nico's family are required to hold up the stage set whilst he gives an intense vocal performance.
Other events around the grounds include Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether's Reverse Karaoke, Mark Essen's Record Exchange, An Endless Supply festival program, a stall of artists' records, and an UBUWeb sound-system.
The event is supported by Arts Council East, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Resonance 104.4FM and the Wire, with recording and interviews from the festival to be broadcast on the station during September. It will bring to a close Wysing Arts Centre's "Camp for Improbable Thinking", the final chapter of their "Year of the Improbable".
Saturday 11th September. 12pm until 12am.
Click here for more details and full line up
Festival Ticket only £15 BUY TICKET
Ticket including including coach from London £30 BUY TICKET
(Coaches are operated by Grey's of Ely and leave from St Pancras Road at 10am and leave Wysing at 12am)
Ticket with coach from Cambridge £22.50 BUY TICKET
(Coaches are operated by Grey's of Ely and leave from Cambridge Train Station at 11.30am and leave Wysing at 12am)
Limited camping tickets are also available for an additional £10 BUY TICKET
Under 12s are Free (workshops for children will run 12-5)
Alternatively tickets are on sale through the Cambridge Junction: BUY TICKETS Camping Tickets
More Info+directions: Wysing Arts Centre
contact: festival@losttoysrecords.com for inquiries