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Electrospective  Manchester District Music Archive has teamed up with electrofunkroots to bring a marathon celebration of Manchester's 1980s Electro-Funk and B-Boy scene to Islington Mill on Saturday 30 August 2008 from 4pm to 3am.

The event, led by pioneering DJ and producer Greg Wilson, will explore the impact of this seminal underground movement through films, talks and music.

Greg will be hosting Q&As with key figures from the era, including Hewan Clarke, Colin Curtis, Chad Jackson and Mike Shaft, followed by the first ever public screening of Tim 'Bones' Forde's life-affirming film, 'The Birth of the British B-Boy', a 40-minute documentary about Manchester's legendary breakdance troupe Broken Glass Street Crew.

The event will climax with a club night from 10pm-3am, featuring some of the scene's most important DJs and dancers.

Daytime: Free admission from 4pm
Club night: Ticket only after 10pm

Tickets are on sale now from:

www.quaytickets.com (0870 428 0785), Vinyl Exchange, Piccadilly Records and Fat City.

We're kind of nearly getting there at last....We've spent some time back in the studio this month going over the final mixes of tracks for the album 'Deletia'. It's all coming together really well now although we're up against it trying to meet our planned release date - but so it goes!  :) Thought I'd upload something new from the album anyway and see what people think. This is a brand new track called 'Army Of Two'. It'll be the last song on the album.....and is quite short and gentle sounding compared to a lot of the stuff we've posted previously so thought it might make a nice change! The songs we've put down for the album itself are quite diverse, but hopefully this'll give some idea of the range of sounds we're going for anyway...Gavin did an excellent job producing this - thankfully he really knew what we were trying to achieve with the ending - which is always a good thing ;) Hope you like it anyway!

Shortwave Fade - Army of two

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A quick reminder once again to all you London folks that we'll be at Storm in Leicester Square this Friday night. We've never played the venue before but it should be a blast anyway - come along if you can!

x

Storm flyer

Today is the last day of term for many schools in the UK, so I thought I'd Google the word "Summer" and see what the best video it came up with was,,,, Not entirely appropriate,  but The Cure with The Last Day of Summer is a good song...

So, what's happening then? Well the tour is underway and going rather smashingly well! We somehow managed to get our first national radio airplay on Tony Fentons show on Today FM last Friday and celebrated until the wee hours of 7.30am, rock 'n' roll, so will be in touch very soon asking you lovely lot to help us blag another play or two, although 'im not sure my liver or head could handle the celebrations afterwards!! Favourite gig so far has been at Sarsfields (Bagfull of Songs) in Drogheda and not just because we won a raffle prize of a collection of Cds (including a Metal Hammer Cd) which will keep us awake on our travels in 'The Flash' (pet name for the Renault clio) but mainly for the great crowd, great atmosphere and great music which was all organised by Tom, so a big thanks goes out to him and everyone else that joined in, including Mr Gary Stewart for jumping on the drums for an impromptu accompaniment!

On the 'Superman' side of things we are bringing the digital release date in Ireland forward a week to the 08.08.08! Oooh-er! Just because we seem to enjoy making life more difficult for ourselves on a regular basis these days and also because of it's apparent lucky and magical powers, well if it's lucky in China then that's good enough for me! So, all you Superhero wannabees out there (myself included) you'll have the chance to download the Ep a week earlier than previously planned. But even better than that, gig goers can get their supermitts on a CD at the following gigs...

23 Jul 2008     Roundys Bar , Tralee
27 Jul 2008     Ballyknockan Music Festival , Nr. Blessington
29 Jul 2008     The Sky & The Ground (Wexford Song Club)
30 Jul 2008     de Barras (Sitting Room Sessions) , Clonakilty, Co. Cork
31 Jul 2008     Deburgos (Underground acoustic) , Galway
1 Aug 2008     Whelans (supporting Chaplin) , Dublin
5 Aug 2008     Kenny’s Village Inn (The White Horse Sessions) , Lahinch
7 Aug 2008     The Bailey (The Black Light Sessions) , Enniscorthy
9 Aug 2008     Passion Fruit Theatre , Athlone
10 Aug 2008     An Uair Draiochta (106.4FM)
15 Aug 2008     The Clarence , Sligo
20 Aug 2008     Whelans (supporting Niall Colfer)
22 Aug 2008     McGinnitys Bar, Cavan

Lastly but not leastly, a few podcasts worth a mention. The first being on East Leeds FM which features a recording of the new song 'Real To Me', see here www.elfm.co.uk/2008/05/odi/  and a new podcast called Road Crew Radio (www.roadcrewcomic.com) hosted by the designer of the villainess picture on myspace (www.myspace.com.odimusic). Also worth a mention is a recent article in the Arran Voice which can be read here... 

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=50210237&albumID=1256899&imageID=36036970

Right that's enough of that for now,I’ll be asking ye to use your supermagical powers of persuasion to help us get some more radio play in the next few weeks so if you’ve got any hints or tips on who to pester then let us know!

Slan go foil!

Odi xxx

Popurls provides a neat overview of all that's popular on the internet, blog postings, flickr photos, YouTube videos they're all there. If your favourite isn't it is customizable too.

I promised Ann I'd look for something interesting to scan over the weekend, I think this will fit the bill, it's from November 1963...

Batman #159

Trev has now posted his piece on Delia Derbyshire on the Hobo Vox site.
In 1969 Delia and Brian Hodgson at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop worked on John Peel's voice for a Top Gear compilation LP, this was the result...

Delia Derbyshire with Brian Hodgson - John Peel's Voice [64 kbps]

http://www.vimeo.com/1223566

We now have an online store selling music and clothing. There is some free content in the form of downloads which we will try to keep updated.

Using the Bizmo store means more styles and sizes will be available than we could provide if we handled manufacturing orders and distribution ourselves.