The coming week

This week I begin to film my presence on the screen.
Having run through the films so far, I am getting the feeling I should play a lesser role and let the interviewees present the narrative for me.
My script will involve me as the anchor between the interviews, steering the narrative direction and setting up the phases of the film, the characters from the archive and introducing the material from the archive.

Interviews

Two more great and very interesting interviews this week.
Many thanks to Robin Rimbaud and David Toop.

Interviews

Two more successful interviews conducted today. Huge thanks to DJ Sugar Lips and The Right Honourable Mercedes Sutherland-Nash.

Interviews

All interviews now set up. 2 tomorrow and 2 more on Wednesday.
That keeps me on schedule for having the interviews completed in September.
Now I need to get the direct-to-camera pieces composed.

Interviews

David Toop and Scanner confirmed for recording their interviews next Wednesday, the 26th.

Interviews

Thanks a-plenty to Dusty Rutherford, Electra Fortune and Ray Russell for their insightful help this weekend. Some amazing information about the Albion Accord.

Show details

After months of uncertainty, we finally received the news we were to have our final show in the old nursery. Of course, it was locked so we couldn't see it.
I got the feeling from the presentations that we were all going to have to seriously reign-in our ambitions. The new gallery is smaller than the previous one, and we are all, naturally, ambitious.
I'm going to have to think hard about this. The final show is not really about having an exhibition, it sounds like it should be, but it ain't really. It's about cooperation, compromise, loop-jumping, keeping quiet and fitting in.
I may pursue Mark Jackson's idea about presenting all the archive elsewhere and making it, I suppose more enigmatic.
Not really sure even about the performance aspect.
A bit of a dulling day, one way and another.

Brakewell Runnerby

Amongst the sound poetry, photographs and paintings of this reclusive man I found a photograph of his studio that he called The Hut.

Spike Wilson & The Albions on Facebook

Spike Wilson & The Albions on Facebook.
Set this one up over the weekend. may need to tweek it a bit.

The Albions on Flickr

A new Flickr account has been set up for presenting images from the archive and other visual material.
Click here to go to it.

Spike Wilson archive

One of the first parts of the archive I worked on was digitising some of the scores of cassette tapes of the work of Spike wilson. Here are a couple from the SoundCloud page I set up for his work.

Striped Air (Cleaned Up) by spikewilson