Newsboost Archival Deer Farm
25 May 201224 May 2012
*BSP Olympic-ly live in the Lakes.
*Festival additions in Norfolk and Ireland.
*Thameside trout-sexing workshop with Cabaret Voltaire this Friday.
The swifts are abroad, devil squeakers some call them. At Watchet, up on
the north Somerset coast, people have been spotted hunting eels with dogs.
To add to all the open-air transaction, BSP have joined up for some more
festivals this summer. Here’s a roundup of new and recently announced BSP
engagements:
Fri 1 June – Krankenhaus, Brighton, UK
Weds 13 June – Doc Fest, The Crucible, Sheffield, UK (sold out)
Sat 15 June – BFI, London, UK (sold out)
Thurs 21 June – Olympic event, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Fri 29 June – The Hopfarm Music Festival, Paddock Wood, Kent, UK
Sat 21 July – Truck Festival, Steventon, Oxfordshire, UK
Fri 3 Aug – Krankenhaus North @ The Ruby Lounge, Manchester, UK
Sat 4 Aug – Y-Not? Festival, Pikehall, Matlock, Derbyshire, UK
Sun 5 Aug – Indiependence Festival, Deer Farm, Mitchelstown, Cork, Ireland
Fri 24 Aug – Voewood Festival, near Sheringham, Norfolk, UK
Fri 14 Sept – No.6 Festival, Portmeirion, Gwynedd, north Wales, UK
There are some tickets remaining for Krankenhaus 6, which is set to be
Singles Night – with a BSP set drawing on the band’s substantial array of
singles and EPs. The night will also feature Keith Allen’s Olympic rock
opera and the Brighton & Hove City Brass Band. K6 will be the last of BSP’s
Brighton Kranken-nachts, before they take the club far up into the northern
bandit country in August
Tickets for Krankenhaus 6 are available from the Resident and Rounder
record shops in Brighton and on-line from We Got Tickets:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/145380
At Sheffield Doc Fest and at the BFI in London, BSP will be playing live – adding a live soundtrack to the new archical documentary film From the Sea
To The Land Beyond. Both these film nights are sold out, but some tickets
remain for a screening of the BSP-soundtracked film Out Of The Present at
the BFI, also on 15 June. PLEASE NOTE that BSP will NOT be playing their
Out Of The Present soundtrack live at this BFI screening:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/events/sonic_cinema_out_of_the_present
We have just been told that a limited number of reduced-price Out Of The
Present tickets are now being made available to the BSP audience. Details
are a little vague, but it seems the best thing to do is phone the BFI box
office and ask for Out Of The Present reduced-price tickets, quoting
“British Sea Power”:
BFI Southbank Box Office: 020 7928 3232
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/events/sonic_cinema_out_of_the_present
Unfortunately, there may be a booking fee.
The Bowness event is a big Olympic glug-in, sure to see many kiddies high
on complimentary pop and Samsung whizzle-woggles. But it is all FREE OF
CHARGE and BSP could not say no to booming out over the waters of
Windermere in their native Cumbria. BSP are set to play a 10-minute
step-aerobics medley to coincide with the arrival of the Olympic torch. BSP
are also set to play a separate 25-minute set to conclude the musical part
of the evening. With, apparently, a potential audience of 10,000, could
this be the optimum sports/rock fusion since Right Said Fred kicked opened
the 2008 World Cup in front of the Brandenburg Gate? Other scheduled
attractions at Bowness include Katy B.
Finally, BSP’s old comrades at the rock-and-nature website Caught By The
River are hosting a wonderfully varied event at London’s Southbank this
Friday.
Friday 25 May
Caught By The River Variety Show
The Purcell Room
Southbank Centre
London
Official BSP archivist Roy Wilkinson will be reading from his BSP-themed
memoir Do It For Your Mum, with live flute accompaniment. The night will
also feature The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess and a live set from Diagrams – among other attractions, including the celebrated nature writer Robert
Macfarlane reading from his forthcoming book The Old Ways, with a live
bespoke soundtrack of field recordings from BBC nature sound-recordist and
ex-Cabaret Voltaire man Chris Watson.
Tickets can be booked here:
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/tickets/the-caught-by-the-river-variety-show-64713
Again, we are told there is now a limited number of bargain tix for the BSP
massif. To get after these, please phone the box office and quote the below
magic code words:
Caught By The River/PUR/25 May
Code: CAUGHT
Ticket Office: 0844 875 0073
With thanks.
Yours,
The Secretary