Events: Lick The Wall

Performance, poetry and music
Saturday September 18th. Part of InTheCity 2004. Green Room theatre £4.

An evening of cabaret presenting Chloe Poems, Comme Des stars, The Lovers, Ben Ware, Harmonious, Furs V's Steel, Robin Nature Bold & Bandism and Valerie.
Hosted by Twinkle with DJ Jayne Compton. Photographs clicks here

Following on from the last lick the wall’s sell out success comes a night pack of entertainment for In The City, Europe’s largest International music conference. All theatre seats will be removed to make way for a cabaret style tables and chairs setting, doors will open at 8.30pm and the first act will be at 9.30pm.

Background
Switchflicker represents a continued exploration of art-based collaborations with the music scene, bringing new and exciting work to a popular audience, fusing the creative practise between Manchester’s renowned music industry, musicians and spoken word artists.

Chloe Poems, described by The Independent as “all the pugnaciousness of a prize fighter”, and by Gay Times as “a massive rising star of enormous talent”, - outrage has rarely been so perfectly crafted and delivered by such a deliciously gingham-clad glove. More >>

The French duo The Lovers are now performing their « minimalist and Franglaise peculiar little Pop songs with an Electronic twist » in the UK , France , The Netherlands and Belgium.

Comme des Stars bring Piaf to life in a thrilling performance with the power to make your heart ache and your soul soar. Prepare to be transported back to the café society of 1930s Paris, with its unique atmosphere of gleeful revelry with a twist of tragedy. What follows is a roller coaster ride through the history of French song, taking in such greats as Gainsbourg, Aznavour and Bardot. Hugely entertaining, watching Comme des Stars is like tasting the edge of a world.

Valerie – Disinterested in the local music scene and excited by bands filtering over from the U.S…Our three heroes decide to form Valerie. Life as they knew it would never be the same again. The band named themselves after Valerie Solanas, the would be assassin of Andy Warhol and author of the feminist S.C.U.M Manifesto. Solanas is seen as a crackpot by many, as are Jo, Vix and Elvis, but the band were inspired by the way she acted upon her beliefs no matter how extreme and with little support. Valerie's sound is very much a product of their inspirations - punk, riot girl, lo fi, no fi, d.i.y, pop and lately even signs of a naive hip hop.

The avant-garde neo-dandy Robin Nature-Bold & Band(ism) are to set to break into heavenly delights with their idiosyncratic psychedelic punk-folk. "They're like a cross between Billy Childish & Rolf Harris" claims Flux Magazine Editor Lee Taylor, other claims include, "Robin Nature-Bold is the love child of Peter Sellers, Andy Warhol and Andy Kauffman after a game of soggy biscuit of which Valerie Solanas ate, then vomited into the croch of Janis Joplin (the story does go on, apparently end's up in some photographic developing fluid)".

More info on InTheCity www.inthcity.co.uk and www.greenroomarts.org