15 minute factory gets the royal treatment

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Queen of Hoxton – Sunday 18th July – 1pm to midnight

£3 Advance wegottickets.com / £4 facebook confirmed / £5 on the door

www.15minutefactory.com

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15 minute factory – London’s favourite music and performance party – is leaving its workhouse past behind and heading to the Queen of Hoxton for an all-day Summer session.

Expect the best new music and outrageous performance art in stunning surroundings with 50 artists spread across 3 floors, a roof terrace complete with ukeaoke pergola, one-to-one encounters, a barbecue and a cornucopia of cupcakes.

With a line-up of live music, film, djs, vjs, roaming performers, interactive installation, performance art, stand-up and acoustic bliss, Sunday never sounded so good.

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Full Programme
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Basement – Live Music
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2:00 – 3:00 Young and the Damned – Latin infused pop with sex appeal

3:00 – 3:30 Jack Majik – ‘pop promoting freethought through a fairytale theme’

3:30 – 4:20 Maya Levy – ‘quirky singer songwriter with a theatrical folk-pop style’

4:20 – 5:10 K Anderson – ‘lesbian music by a boy’

5:30 – 6:20 The Budda Cakes – ‘Vintage Future meets Electro-Accordion and 1984 Walkman’

6:20 – 7:10 Hyrst – ‘chimes with thugs, beats with drones, and mantras with the space of what cannot be said…’

7:10 – 7:30 Abstinence and Sensibility – Revolutions Video art with live soundtrack

7:30 – 8:00 Steph West – ‘harpist with a love of dancing rhythms, vivid chords and a free flowing melody’

8:00 – 8:50 Island Line – ‘beautiful, sunshine folk’ Huw Stephens, Radio 1

8:55 – 9:45 Fiona Bevan – Soulful and eccentric’ The Guardian

9:45 – 10:30 Katy Carr – ‘hear these siren songs and you’ll be smitten’ Whisperin and Hollerin

10:30 – 12:00 DJ Amila – minimal techno

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Ground Floor – Performance
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2:00 – 2:30 Film – Elizabeth H. Hurt, Katharine Fry and Infinite Dance Company

2:30 – 3:30 PrimaVolta – Avant Brutalist Euro Disco

3:30 – 4:00 Dagmara Bilon – Breathing Image is a like a painting that comes alive

4:00 – 4:30 Two’s A Crowd (Phil Burton & Craig Cameron-Fisher) – Bright Sparks – a new twist on the comedy double act

Sally Wyatt – The Army Girl & Mrs Elliot never dance away the heartache when you can laugh at the pain

Two’s A Crowd – In a league of their own

4:30 – 5:00 Infinite Dance Company – Size Zero Infinite Dance Company confront ‘Size Zero’

Two’s A Crowd – Commercial Break

5:30 – 5:45 Film – Elizabeth H. Hurt, Katharine Fry and Infinite Dance Company

Two’s A Crowd – Poem 1

5:45 – 6:30 Adam Elliott – The Sandman – be transported back to your childhood by this interactive performance

Dummy Company – Glossia – …and other less definable acts of ventriloquism

6:30 – 7:10 nomo – In-flict – two women to intrude on visual/spatial boundaries

Two’s A Crowd – Chairs

7:10 – 7:30 Stavroula Kounadea – Cow – a witty performance on the common ground between women and cattle

7:30 – 8:00 Sally Wyatt – The Army Girl & Mrs Elliot never dance away the heartache when you can laugh at the pain

Lucy Thane – A Sailor went to Sea to See – The Seven Seas Wherever I Go

8:00 – 8:30 Two’s A Crowd – Showroom shocker

Kesha Krutskikh – A Watched Pot two playful characters in looped time

9:00 – 10:00 Francesca Millican-Slater Instructions for Heartbreak – Come, Break Your Heart; it’s easy when you know how

Two’s A Crowd – Poem 2

The Lithium Laughter Show – laughter is an orgasm triggered when sense has intercourse with nonsense

Two’s A Crowd – Video Nasty

10:00 – 10:20 Nic Chalmers – Between My Face and the Wall – immersive one-woman show

10:20 – 10:40 Lorraine Smith – Beloved of Henry interactive performance piece with live cello by Sophie Rivlin

10:40 – 11:00 Jamie Lewis Hadley – this rose made of leather – Don’t try this at home (contains bloodwork / body fluid)

11:00 – 12:00 PrimaVolta – Avant Brutalist Euro Disco!

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Interactive Installation – by appointment only
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Holly Revell – Light-Painting Photo Booth – come be painted with light

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Film
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Rania Bellou – In Praise of My Shadow – animated video projection in loop

Elizabeth Holly Hurt – In a Sickly Light – surreal music film/installation of collected dream accounts

Katharine Fry – Coldbath Square – someone gently tapping, entreating at my door

Marcus Orlandi – Triptych 1976 – solitary moment of drinking becomes a play on Francis Bacon’s famous triptychs

Infinite Dance Company – selection of dance on film shorts

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Artwork
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Dorka – collages and illustrations – feminine fashion related art with 1950s enchantment

Didi Mae Hand – photography – young film-grain photographer of the exotic

Holly Revell – photography – prints from Light-Painting Photo Booth

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Roaming – Interactive Encounters
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Katharine Fry, Pallvee Jalpota and Jung Eun Yoo MC – your personal guides to 15 minute factory

Claire Blundell Jones – Game of Death – board game meets board room in tales of snakes, suicide and success

MJ Clay – Boogie Box – A jukebox with a dancing twist, find your perfect partner to tap your toe to

Oliver Hymans – Mind-F*ck-Mobile-Caberet

Tom Sykes – tall magician without cloak with cards

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Rooftop
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Cake Stand
Arts 4 Human Rights – a grassroots not-for-profit raising money for community workshops

Rooftop Pergola

3:30 – 4:30 House Band – Velvet Underground and sing-a-long classicsperformed by local Ukulele ensemble

5:00 – 5:45 Steph West – ‘harpist with a love of dancing rhythms, vivid chords and a free flowing melody’

6:00 – 8:00 House Band – Velvet Underground and sing-a-long classicsperformed by local Ukulele ensemble

… and surprise guests

Performance

4:30 – 4:45 Verena Langloh
5:45 – 6:00 interactive performance
9:00 – 9:15 don’t forget your swimming trunks

9:30 – 10:00 Kesha Krutskikh – A Watched Pot two playful characters in looped time

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The Big Chill

Global Local @ Micro –  The Big Chill.

The Magpie’s Nest Folk Day + Cut A Shine Barn Dance

Sunday 8^th August 2010

14:25 Ruth Theodore

15:40 Katy Carr

16:40 Cut A Shine

17:50 Urban Folk Quartet

18:40 Plaster of Paris

19:40 Pepino

20:40 Katy Carr

22:00 Kidnap Alice

23:00 Wagon Tales

00:20 Urban Folk Quartet

01:30 Cut A Shine Ceilidh

03:00 Penny Metal

Biographies + Web Links

The Magpie’s Nest BBC Radio 2 Best Folk Club of the Year 2010
www.themagpiesnest.co.uk

Cut A Shine Barn Dance
www.cutashine.co.uk

Global Local
www.globallocal.co.uk

Global Local supports and promotes the most cutting edge, up and coming acts at top UK Festivals and venues across the country. From Roma to Rumba, Folk to Gypsy, Global Local artists represent the myriad of 21st Century styles that exist in the UK today: remixed, not rehashed.

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Ruth Theodore – Please see attached Promo PDF as well as below
http://myspace.com/ruththeodore

Ruth Theodore is one of those rare talents, for whom creative  writing is almost as natural as breathing. Descriptive yet cryptic,  honest, tragic, witty and occasionally heart breaking, her deliberate turn of phrase is that of a skilled writer in command of (and having fun with) the idea of contemporary songwriting.

Her musical arrangements are equally crucial. Citing Leo Kottke as an early influence, the playfully named Sisyphean Rock ‘n’ Roll illustrates Ruth’s ability to tell the most sophisticated of stories using only a guitar. In contrast, songs like False Alarm, Eris, and Taradiddle Scuttlebum have layered, dynamic arrangements demonstrating Ruth’s refusal to rely on accompaniment as simple backdrop, with each part playing a role in the story. Ruth’s confidence in creative writing is obvious throughout the record.

White Holes Of Mole Hills is the compelling and anticipated second album by Ruth Theodore, one of the UK’s most creative New Folk artists. Nine entirely original pieces of characterful storytelling delivered with the utmost care and attention, bringing Ruth’s wholly considered writing to life.

White Holes Of Mole Hills guides us through a collection of very different ideas, yet with clear consistency in repeated themes; scale and perspective, the ethereal vastness, water, life and death.

Although often cryptic, it is a very revealing and honest set, reflecting Ruth’s world with both dark and light – an individual who lives and writes on the waters of East London, with limited light and unlimited imagination. This fragile, original, and humble record is released on River Rat

Records, February 15th 2010.

“Beneath the self-conscious eccentricity there’s a

Written, performed and produced by: serious musician.” – The Observer

“This is story telling at it’s neatest, but messy in

design and complicated in spectre.” – Maverick

Ruth Theodore

With:

Liz Mitchell / Haruna Komatsu: Clarinet

Clarissa Carlyon: Cello / Melodica

James Hurst: Bass Guitar

Thomas Oldfield: Drums

www.ruththeodore.com

myspace.com/ruththeodore

www.riverratrecords.com

Label: info@riverratrecords.com

UK Press & Radio: will@willmccarthy.com

Distributed by Proper Music Distribution

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Katy Carr

Katy Carr is a London based performer and songwriter who sings, plays a vintage wurlitzer electronic piano, ukulele and banjolele with her group ‘The Aviators.’ She has self released three albums on her label Deluce Recordings. ‘Screwing Lies,’ 2001 and ‘Passion Play’ 2003 and ‘Coquette’ 2009 which has received no less than 4/5 star reviews in the mainstream and music press during with a 5/5 star review from Music Critic, ‘Quite simply a masterpiece’.

Katy’s music is inspired by themes, stories and characters from 1940s Britain, France and Poland. Boasting a wide variety of performances from The Royal Opera House to Glastonbury music festival together with regular appearances on BBC radio, this eccentric and eclectic performer delivers her self -penned folk songs, with verve and humour.  Expect the gentle tone of a Spitfire Mk 1 as it soars with balletic grace in the skies above and maybe the roaring of a 1936 Mercedes-Benz 500K racing around the Berliner Ring in the midday heat….

‘Exquisite, original and lovely.’ 4/5 PSYCHOLOGIES

‘This album ‘Coquette,’ is a scrapbook of characters, places and stories from deep inside Katy Carr’s imagination and it has been a mesmerising experience to glimpse into her world.’ 5/5 Music Critic

‘Katy Carr celebrates the “beautiful feminine energy” of wartime icons Gracie Fields, Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers, evoking their resilience, beauty and eroticism in the most haunting and uncanny ways.’ 4/5 Daily Express

For more information please visit www.katycarr.com or email info@katycarr.com

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Cut A Shine Barn Dance
www.cutashine.co.uk

Cut A Shine are a London based troupe of traditional musicians, dynamic dancers and crazy callers determined to spread the word that the Hoe Down is a’happening. From Hoxton to Humberside, from Amnesty International to Bestival, Cut A Shine are putting ceili back on the map – whether at sell out dances in London or the top summer festivals. This “Anarchic Hillbilly Barn Dancing Squad” will bring a rip-roaring, thigh-slapping, pavement-stomping, exhilarating, heart thumping, blood pumping barn dance creation to your event. Whilst the banjo and the fiddle set the tone, the callers instruct any audience through do-si-do’s and strip the willows, until all are involved!

We are a young band playing traditional instruments (Fiddle, Banjo, Guitar, Double Bass and Bodhran), and have a troupe of dancers who accompany the show. We perform music and dance in the British tradition – Scottish, English, Irish but also some American. It’s an full audience participation show, with our dancers demonstrating dances the audience members then perform – so everyone becomes part of the tradition! We perform at all the major UK festivals, including Glastonbury, Thames Festival, Bestival etc, and last summer performed at a total of 22 festivals, bringing all ages, abilities and cultures into the show. We host monthly shows in London which always sell out, attracting 300 people a time to dance.

Www.cutashine.co.uk

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PZcz0ZdIE

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Urban Folk Quartet
www.myspace.com/theurbanfolkquartet

www.theurbanfolkquartet.com

The Urban Folk Quartet, launched in June 2009, played in the UK, Italy, Belgium and Spain in the first 3 months, headlining major festivals from the word go!

Born from the unique melting pot of the Birmingham Folk Music scene, The UFQ is virtuosic not just in feel and technical ability but in musical concept as well, it is a coming together of four of the most inspired and experienced young people working in World Music today. Members of the band have played with The Chieftains, The Albion Band, Feast of Fiddles, Carlos Nunez, The Destroyers, The Conservatoire Folk Ensemble, The Old Dance School, Chris While and Bellowhead amongst others.

Having been discovered in their teens by legendary artists The Albion Band and Carlos Nunez respectively, Joe and Paloma’s careers have in many ways taken parallel paths, both gaining much experience touring the world but not until now having time to form their own bands. In 2004 they performed their first fiddle duet together to great acclaim and so the seeds were sown.

Joe and Frank met at the Birmingham Conservatoire school of music in 1996 and realised then that they had a lot of common musical interests. Doubtless their conversations about folk and world music against the back drop of the fusion obsessed Birmingham scene would later become the foundations of The Urban Folk Quartet.

In the way that sometimes wonderful synchronicity does happen, just as the concept for The UFQ was developing, Tom was experimenting with a cajón based drum set up that was perfect for full percussion sounds as well as the more industrial noises of the city. While Paloma’s Galician roots were mixing with Frank’s obsession with the Oud and Joe’s ear for a good Rock groove, Tom had invented a set up that could underpin every one of those influences and ensure that The Urban Folk Quartet does have a truly unique sound.

The UFQ won the Spanish International Folk Competition on only their 4th gig and played to many sold out audiences on their 1st UK tour in November 2009. Their debut album is due for release March 2010.

The UFQ live performance is second to none, come and find out why this is the most talked about band on the scene today.

Joe Broughton – Fiddle, Guitar, Mandolin

Paloma Trigas – Fiddle

Frank Moon – Guitar, Oud, Vocals

Tom Chapman – Cajon, Percussion, Vocals

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Plaster of Paris
www.myspace.com/weareplasterofparis

Plaster of Paris deliver syncopated songs of love, lust and loss. Be charmed by mesmerising vocals, thrilled by raucous rhythmns and surprised by a bizarre and brilliant self-styled Kazoomaphone

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Pepino
www.myspace.com/pepinoband

With a history of mascots that boasts a rubber voodoo monkey and gender confused rabbit/beercan Pepino is a tragi-comic never-come-of-age band. Blythe Pepino sings out from behind her piano leading the band, consisting of violin, cello, double bass and drums, on a surreal and whimsical journey through theatrical rock ballads, sailor song and vaudevillian pop. There’s always something special prepared for the audience so keep your wits about you.

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Kidnap Alice
www.myspace.com/kidnapalice

A fresh new band from Hackney, London, mixing up ‘Bluegrass’ and ‘Old Time’ tunes with a modern twist, and giving some classics and originals the ‘Bluegrass treatment’. Soulful vocals and tight arrangements from a classic acoustic string band line up, the band bridge the gap between vintage RnB and Appalachian mountain music.

The band had their debut festival performance at Glastonbury 2010, opening the Club DaDa stage for the Legendary Thursday Night Hoe Down. And, in true Glastonbury spirit, the band busked another 6 shows around the site including a super rowdy gig in the dug-out Piano Bar late Sunday night to close the weekend.

The band will be and have performed at the following events in 2010: Glastonbury Festival, The National Theatre Alternative Village Fete, LoveBox, Secret Garden Party, Camp Bestival, GreenMan, Feastival and Bestival.

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The Wagon Tales
www.myspace.com/thewagontales

The Wagon Tales – hot picking UK based Bluegrass and Americana band – with a cast of musicians that reads more like a Jules Holland show than an Old Opry! And boy, these guys can pick and sing!

Ben Somers – Multi instumentalist and son of Steve Somers plays bass and sings with The Wagon Tales by night and by day plays saxophone for the likes of Dizzee Rascal, The Gareth Lockrane big band, Manteca, The Fire-Eaters, Dr John and many more

Joe Auckland (Jocephus Calhoon Auckland) – Banjoist for the Wagon Tales can also be seen playing trumpet with Madness, treading the Ronnie Scott’s stage with Joe Stilgoe and be heard mincing around with Girls Aloud.

Kate Robinson – Fiddles with The Wagon Tales, The European Camarata, Susan Boyle and can be seen peddling her wares with most of the leading orchestras around the UK.

Marcus Bonfanti – A great artist in his own right. Can regularly be seen seen tearing it up with his fiery flatpicking and gravelly vocals. He and Ben met playing with American blues artist Earl Thomas.

Steve Somers – The Daddy! Another great artist in his own right. Steve has led a varied and interesting musical career having been sideman to Glen Campbell, Don Everly, been a member of folk/pop group The Settlers and has led many of his own groups. Now residing in France, Steve can often be seen clogging, playing guitar and singing with his son Ben and The Wagon Tales.

Katy Carr and the Aviators 3pm-3.45pm main stage
Katy Carr solo / duet 5.15 – 6pm Portavillion tent

Walthamstow Green Fair – next to the town hall – Aveling Park, Aveling Park Road, E17 5EJ

With the reclusive Mr. Carter, founder of 40 Winks, as the evening’s genial host and guide, guests will find themselves joyfully transported to a land of magical beauty, tantalising seduction and irresistible enchantment.

Guests will be tempted with pineapple and cardamom martinis and savoury delicacies, devised by the culinary masters of D&D London. They will also sample delectable treats from Paul A. Young, the talented and curious resident chocolatier. Gorgeous goody bags will be given to all brimming with gifts from Penahaligons, L’Occitane, Jo Malone and more.

After an evening of utter indulgence, wonder and amazement, guests will be transfixed by the melodious sounds of Katy Carr and her banjolele, before making their way in to the twilight.

Booking details: 020 7790 0259 or email: reservations@40winks.org

A former RAF pilot celebrating the “beautiful feminine energy” of old school glamour icons such as Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers, there may be a danger that Carr’s intriguing back story could distract from her actual music. Presenting herself as a kind of alt folk burlesque Vera Lynn, her wartime obsessions peppered across these 12 tracks, she performs an admirable balancing act between novelty and creativity.

Her third album hones the sound she’s been working on since the turn of the century, initially fronting a group winsomely called The Aviators. Each song appears as a self-contained short story, such as her tribute to Auschwitz survivors (Kommander’s Car) or star-crossed lovers escaping to a better life (Violetta).

If all this sounds a tad mannered or contrived, fret not. Carr’s choice of instrumentation on each of her vignettes perfectly suits the subject matter, especially the Berlin cabaret accordions and violins of the teasingly saucy Erotic Days. She may have built a fanciful world around her work, but there’s quality and substance lurking beneath the surface.

Reviewed by Terry Staunton
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8.00pm : Katy Carr supports Will Kevans on his UK tour to promote his new album at the Jam Cafe 12 Heathcote Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AA Tel:01159 483566 – PLEASE NOTE LAST MINUTE CHANGE OF ADDRESS@!!@!

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