Thanks to everyone who came down to the live radio session for Diesel last week… and all those who tuned in…
(Photo: Jo Apps)
More news/gigs soon…
Leo
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Radio Bookish…
Posted on 3 June, 2009
Remember, remember, there’s a live appearance tomorrow!
However, if you can’t make it, the Simon Bookish band will be appearing live on Friday on Diesel U Music Radio (online, worldwide)…
Listen live here, Friday from 8pm…
Leo
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Bookish Live this Thursday
Posted on 30 May, 2009
Thursday 4th June
Coronary Crumpage @ The Montague Arms
Line-up:
Simon Bookish
Alice and the Cool Dudes
Joni Davis
289 Queens Road
SE15 2PA
8pm till late
£6/£4 with flyer
Do come! This will be the only Simon Bookish live appearance in June. For those of you who haven’t been, the Montague Arms is a brilliant, eccentric venue, and Coronary Crumpage is simply the best thing you’re likely to attend South of the River… plus, Alice Grant’s new music is inspirational…
Leo
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Golden Space City… review
Posted on 18 May, 2009
Waldemar Januszsak reviewed the installation for the Sunday Times yesterday:
“…The results are startling, shocking, distressing, unforgettable… Close the book on the 2009 Turner prize. Grayson should be a shoo-in…”
And if you can, do go and see it here:
The Golden Space City of God
13 May–28 June 2009
Gallery open Wed–Sun 12–6pm
Matt’s Gallery
42–44 Copperfield Road
London
E3 4RR
Leo
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Exhibition opens this week!
Posted on 11 May, 2009
Richard Grayson’s ‘Golden Space City of God’, a video installation featuring a 45-minute score for unaccompanied chorus (written by me), opens this week at Matt’s Gallery, London.
It looks completely amazing, and is this week’s Guardian’s exhibition pick-of-the-week…
See it here:
Matt’s Gallery
42–44 Copperfield Road
London E3
13 May–28 June 2009
The gallery is open Wednesday – Sunday 12–6pm.
Leo
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Spotify
Posted on 4 May, 2009
If you’re hungry for music and live in Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Spain or the UK, chances are you’re already excited about the new-ish streaming music service Spotify.
The last Simon Bookish album is now available to stream from Spotify - follow the link below:
Simon Bookish - Everything/Everything.
Simon Bookish supports innovative use of new technology!
However, why not consider buying a nice Vinyl copy too, from your local independent record shop, so you have something excellent to look at whilst listening?
Leo
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Gig Documentation
Posted on 26 April, 2009
Hi All,
Hope those of you in the UK are enjoying the sun (and not sitting indoors with the internet?) and those of you further away are having some fun too…
Here’s a very nice review of the Simon Bookish show at the Vortex the other week on Music OMH…
…Everything sounds crisp, urgent and driving; close to the sound of the original album, though even more mesmerising in a live setting… it becomes abundantly clear that his provocative modernist poetics would work just as well on the page as on the stage…
…and some great photos shot by Rowan H - thanks!
Leo
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Bookish Live this Friday
Posted on 8 April, 2009
DEATHRAY TREBUCHAY + SIMON BOOKISH
VORTEX JAZZ CLUB
10th April 2009
11 Gillett Square
London
N16 8JH
Onstage 9 p.m.
Ticket hotline: 0207 254 4097
£12
Only London gig for ages and ages and ages, come!
Leo
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Radio 3 - Late Junction
Posted on 4 April, 2009
Thanks to Fiona Talkington for playing ‘Colophon’ from the new album on the brilliant Radio 3 show ‘Late Junction’ last Wednesday…
Listen again on the BBC iPlayer - 15:24 into the show…
Leo
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Golden Space City of God - Texas - London
Posted on 30 March, 2009
The Golden Space City of God is a high definition large scale video installation featuring a 26 member choir singing a new choral work commissioned from Leo Chadburn. The libretto is drawn from texts on the website of heterodox religious cult: ‘The Family’ (Formerly the Children of God) that combine elements from the Book of Revelation combined with Science Fiction imagery to describe the events leading up to the end of the world.
I have had the great pleasure of writing the score for this 45 minute video installation in collaboration with artist Richard Grayson. After a considerable effort, the piece is now showing at the ArtPace gallery in San Antonio, Texas, before opening in London in May.
Details:
Golden Space City of God
Showing at…
Artpace
445 North Main Avenue
San Antonio
Texas, USA
March 19th - May 17th 2009
Matt’s Gallery
42–44 Copperfield Road
London, England
May 13th - 28th June 2009
More information on Richard Grayson’s site here.
Leo
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