Friday, 27 March 2009
adventures ahead
The great LRM CCTV cabaret aka subvurt surveillance is go go go..... 14th April at the Britons Protection... full line up to be announced Monday.... in the meantime if you have any films, music or pertinant rants on the subject to share please get in touch.... also if anyone fancies designing a flyer that would be ace.... we are also planning a very special may day bank holiday festival including the great urban fox hunt (no foxes will be involved so keep calm and carry on please) and a very special secret gig by one of my favourite ever musicans...so erm sorry i've been tardy with the blog but lots happening behind the scenes as they say....love and defiance becuase an open mind, questioning authority, resisting paranoia and showing interest in the urban environment does not make you a terrorist... M
Sunday, 22 March 2009
Blackburn's historic stance on the art of loitering
Stumbled upon while working in Blackburn. What an invitation! Hope it inspires an outing...
Best wishes from Germany,
Kaspar
Monday, 2 March 2009
filling the void
Yesterday was one of the silliest and most profoundly fun derives we've had for a long time.
Prior to an amble up the leaking canal we circumnavigated Ilva, a haunting monument to capitalist folly. We then went underground to the cavernous car park where The LRM orchestra made its debut performance. All put in sterling work but particular praise must go to Sally on improvised percussion and Sean who actually knows how to play a tune. Inspiration to pick up random instruments came from a similar performance by The Tsunami Victims Orchestra at Proflux lat year.
Yesterday's show to nobody was about revelling in the racket and utilising the empty space. We played for about an hour before a very nice man in a high vis jacket came and told us we had to move or he would get in trouble with his boss. We did of course acquiesce as the LRM are polite and law abiding at all times; we know our rights and vigorously assert them whilst pointing and laughing at absurd bureaucracy but we are never ever 
rude and don't outstay 
our 
welcome.
rude and don't outstay 
our 
welcome. That bloke in the yellow jacket is surely a contender for the most boring job ever - guarding an empty shell. (or is it? why are the lights all ablaze and the bunker kept serviced and ready for action?)
Friday, 27 February 2009
March 1st - get lost in space with the lrm
Dear friends, fellow loiterers and miscellaneous ne’er-do-wells
I hope this finds you where you want to be. Apologies for my tardiness in telling you about March’s wander, February is a trickster of a month and I have been distracted hunting for the first signs of Spring. The LRM will of course be convening to celebrate First Sunday, This Sunday March 1st and it would be splendid if you could join us.
The theme of the walk will be space; we’ll be exploring the gaps between solididity and the absence that lurks at the heart of the city. This feels particularly apt now as the false nirvana created by capitalism crumbles and shop windows begin increasingly to reflect and reveal nowt but a hollow shell.
The LRM celebrate the beauty in the mundane and derelict and reclaim the places regeneration forgot (or chose to ignore). We’ll be looking at nothing and thus discovering everything….
Space is somewhere to play and build the city of our dreams. Absence can make the heart scream louder and the imagination soar. Don’t be scared of the void; look closer, jump in. When we loose something we didn’t realise was precious the space can be bigger than the thing that was there. Opportunity is everywhere; an abundance of flora and fauna thrive where shoppers fear to tread and the biodiversity of emptiness is breathtaking. Some may see weeds the LRM find treasure….
We’ll be meeting 1pm outside Ilva (Great Ancoats Street, opposite the oxymoronic retail ‘park’) If you haven’t been to Ilva recently you’re in for a treat – it’s a giant empty ghost shop guarded by a lone fake plastic tree. Alongside are seats and a large permanently vacant car park which looks perfect for loitering in (although I suspect we won’t be staying still for long) We’ll probably meander along Piccadilly basin to commune with its winged residents and decipher how paradise got its name
There are bound to be some pleasing echoes and secret performance spaces so please bring any small musical instruments you may have – kazoos, tambourines, flutes, that kind of thing. I have a vision of an impromptu LRM orchestra and a noise making device may be useful if you stumble upon a vortex, black hole or rip in the space time continuum. Who knows what’s lurking at the periphery….
As usual we’ll finish with our favourite beverages and a bit of a natter. If you need any more information (although the route is of course unwritten and our intentions goodhearted but sketchy) or if don’t fancy hanging around a car park on your own waiting to see what happens and want to meet en route please call the LRM hotline 07974929589
In other news we have a splendid line-up of bands, films and sundry wonderful entertainment lined up for our Subverting Surveillance night. What we lack thus far are a date and venue; if you have any suggestions please do holler. We need somewhere accessible, cheap and with good beer please. Plans are also afoot for a May Bank holiday extravaganza full of shenanigans including Manchester’s first urban fox hunt (with, naturally, unnatural non-foxes. No animals will be harmed) More details coming soon….
Thanks, as ever, to all who contribute, contradict and inspire the LRM
Love and daffodils
Morag
I hope this finds you where you want to be. Apologies for my tardiness in telling you about March’s wander, February is a trickster of a month and I have been distracted hunting for the first signs of Spring. The LRM will of course be convening to celebrate First Sunday, This Sunday March 1st and it would be splendid if you could join us.
The theme of the walk will be space; we’ll be exploring the gaps between solididity and the absence that lurks at the heart of the city. This feels particularly apt now as the false nirvana created by capitalism crumbles and shop windows begin increasingly to reflect and reveal nowt but a hollow shell.
The LRM celebrate the beauty in the mundane and derelict and reclaim the places regeneration forgot (or chose to ignore). We’ll be looking at nothing and thus discovering everything….
Space is somewhere to play and build the city of our dreams. Absence can make the heart scream louder and the imagination soar. Don’t be scared of the void; look closer, jump in. When we loose something we didn’t realise was precious the space can be bigger than the thing that was there. Opportunity is everywhere; an abundance of flora and fauna thrive where shoppers fear to tread and the biodiversity of emptiness is breathtaking. Some may see weeds the LRM find treasure….
We’ll be meeting 1pm outside Ilva (Great Ancoats Street, opposite the oxymoronic retail ‘park’) If you haven’t been to Ilva recently you’re in for a treat – it’s a giant empty ghost shop guarded by a lone fake plastic tree. Alongside are seats and a large permanently vacant car park which looks perfect for loitering in (although I suspect we won’t be staying still for long) We’ll probably meander along Piccadilly basin to commune with its winged residents and decipher how paradise got its name
There are bound to be some pleasing echoes and secret performance spaces so please bring any small musical instruments you may have – kazoos, tambourines, flutes, that kind of thing. I have a vision of an impromptu LRM orchestra and a noise making device may be useful if you stumble upon a vortex, black hole or rip in the space time continuum. Who knows what’s lurking at the periphery….
As usual we’ll finish with our favourite beverages and a bit of a natter. If you need any more information (although the route is of course unwritten and our intentions goodhearted but sketchy) or if don’t fancy hanging around a car park on your own waiting to see what happens and want to meet en route please call the LRM hotline 07974929589
In other news we have a splendid line-up of bands, films and sundry wonderful entertainment lined up for our Subverting Surveillance night. What we lack thus far are a date and venue; if you have any suggestions please do holler. We need somewhere accessible, cheap and with good beer please. Plans are also afoot for a May Bank holiday extravaganza full of shenanigans including Manchester’s first urban fox hunt (with, naturally, unnatural non-foxes. No animals will be harmed) More details coming soon….
Thanks, as ever, to all who contribute, contradict and inspire the LRM
Love and daffodils
Morag
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
the sound of the city and its six rivers
An invitation from our friends at Single Cell records to join them for "A shamelessly scrawling, psycho-geographic scramble, from lo-fi acoustic folk to beat-driven 10 piece heavy funk orchestras, touching all points in between."
Six Rivers album launch, 7.30pm-2.00am Thursday 19th February 2009, at the Ruby Lounge, 26 High St Manchester M4 1QB, tickets £4/5.
There will be live music from Single Cell artists Caulbearers, Mel Uye Parker, I-Mitri, You and Boo, Julie E Gordon, Badger The Hermit, Brocken Bow, Invertor and Andrew Mucha
Contact 0776 138 4271 join them on Facebook or at: http://www.singlecell.co.uk/
Single Cell's 14 track, debut compilation, Six Rivers, is availablefrom 19th February 2009, as a free download or a limited edition,hand-made CD album. For excepts just follow this link: http://www.singlecell.co.uk/index_clone.html. They've spent the last week assembling the Six Rivers albums with recycled CD sleeves from Portland Oregon, photography from subterranean Manchester and graphic design from Wigan. album is available from this Thursday at our launch night for a one off, special knock down price of £5!
Six Rivers album launch, 7.30pm-2.00am Thursday 19th February 2009, at the Ruby Lounge, 26 High St Manchester M4 1QB, tickets £4/5.
There will be live music from Single Cell artists Caulbearers, Mel Uye Parker, I-Mitri, You and Boo, Julie E Gordon, Badger The Hermit, Brocken Bow, Invertor and Andrew Mucha
Contact 0776 138 4271 join them on Facebook or at: http://www.singlecell.co.uk/
Single Cell's 14 track, debut compilation, Six Rivers, is availablefrom 19th February 2009, as a free download or a limited edition,hand-made CD album. For excepts just follow this link: http://www.singlecell.co.uk/index_clone.html. They've spent the last week assembling the Six Rivers albums with recycled CD sleeves from Portland Oregon, photography from subterranean Manchester and graphic design from Wigan. album is available from this Thursday at our launch night for a one off, special knock down price of £5!
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