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Now Then Manchester: July 2015

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Tuesday, 28 July 2015. Competition: Manchester Jazz Festival. The 20th annual edition of Manchester Jazz Festival. Launches this week with its ever-impressive array of time signatures and styles, continuing from Friday 31 July through to Sunday 9 August. While limelight stealers include the Robert Glasper Trio. And the Mercury Prize nominees Gogo Penguin. Elsewhere, there’s a strong local presence, both old and new, with the likes of Charlie Cooper and The CCs. And Lamb double bassist Jon Thorne. Making ...

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Now Then Manchester: May 2015

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Sunday, 24 May 2015. Review: I’ll Be Your Mirror by Una Baines and Keith McDougall. The pat response to hearing about a new graphic novel about The Fall frontman Mark E Smith would be to say that it shouldn't be too hard to do – he's already a cartoon. Decades of self-mythologising, abetted by journalists happy to colour the outline in familiar shades: a face squiggled with lines and a fag hanging out of the gob, gnomic pronouncements and scathing put-downs, drink and drugs and rows. Hopefully there'll b...

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Now Then Manchester: December 2014

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Monday, 22 December 2014. Beth Orton to lead February Wall of Sounds residency. Beth Orton has been named as the latest Wall of Sounds programme leader at Band on the Wall and applications are now open to female musicians, composers and vocalists from across the UK to join the week-long intensive residency. I am thrilled to be asked to support and take part in this exciting and important project," she said. "Getting the chance to mentor, or simply the opportunity to stand as witness to the diverse, a...

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Now Then Manchester: MIF Acoustic Stage @ Albert Sq, 04.07.15

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Friday, 10 July 2015. MIF Acoustic Stage @ Albert Sq, 04.07.15. The denizens of Manchester are enjoying these weekend festivals. Following the popularity of Manchester Day, it’s no surprise to find that Albert Square was thronged for the opening weekend of Manchester International Festival. In glorious sunshine illuminating the festival tent, balcony bar and acoustic stage, it's not just the food stallholders and ice-cream sellers who have smiles on their faces. Words and photos: Ged Camera. NB - if you'...

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Pygmy Kingdom (Comics &c. by Robert Brown): July 2012

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Monday, 30 July 2012. Devon Knows I'm Excited. In my bid to exhibit at as many different comic conventions as often as I can afford and/or be bothered to, I'll be heading ' dawn sawf' again,. Hawking my rags in historic Exeter at the. On 23rd September, which is taking place in the Rougemont Thistle Hotel. 169; Fantasy Events. I've never attended this con, and so it'll be yet another fresh experience. (Considering my day-job in intelligence, I'm a bit lax with recon.) Mike Allwood of. Eat, Sleep, Sniff.

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Pygmy Kingdom (Comics &c. by Robert Brown): August 2012

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Monday, 13 August 2012. Music to Watch Pigs Fly. Since 2007, I've been a member of the band Decadence in Berlin, playing bass (and occasionally guitar), shouting and songwriting alongside my pal Graham and sister Lucy. Since Lucy and I moved to Manchester, the act's settled into a largely dormant state, getting together only for one performance up here, and another in Telford to 'promote' the release of our retrospective tape cassette album, Setbacks. Released by Graham's record label, Distorted Tapes.

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Pygmy Kingdom (Comics &c. by Robert Brown): September 2014

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Wednesday, 24 September 2014. I'm making headway on the story to feature in Killjoy. L) Laying out diary text on pencils, in progress; (r) Pages from Killjoy #3 in various stages of completion. Also, a new review of Killjoy. Was recently published on the Small Press Comics Review. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Eat, Sleep, Sniff.

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Pygmy Kingdom (Comics &c. by Robert Brown): Comics

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My failed entry for the 2010 Graphic Short Story Prize (run by the Observer and Jonathan Cape). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Eat, Sleep, Sniff.

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Pygmy Kingdom (Comics &c. by Robert Brown): January 2015

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Tuesday, 6 January 2015. They Call Me The Believer. In four-weeks-on-Saturday (i.e. 7th February), I'll be exhibiting at the True Believers Comic Festival in my erstwhile home, Cheltenham, where I'll also be sojourning for the weekend and experiencing many frightful flashbacks of embarrassing events of my university days. I'll be sitting behind table G15 (see floorplan above, on which my stall's location is marked with inimitable clarity); my old uni coursemate Michelle 'WolfSkullJack' Harvey.

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Tombola and Aunties with Eirini and Angelina Kartsaki. An impromptu improvisation in my sister's workshop space in Berlin. Remains of a costume, a stool and some numbers. And of course, a lifelong rivalry about love and what happens when one stays behind. I have been interested in duets and musicality recently. I have worked with my sister (above), her name is Angelina Kartsaki. I have worked with the spectacular Joe Kelleher, you can find our most recent duet here. And with the wonderful Emma Bennett.