Dark-edged spoken word, lively talk about concrete buildings and live music for dancing to architecture. With performance from Mira Aroyo (aka Ladytron), live discussion with John Grindrod and Gillian Darley (live version of Monstrosities Mon Amour ). Hosted by Travis Elborough & Stonecirclesampler
Doors: 2pm
Tickets: £10 advance, £12 on the door
Concrete Atlantis presents: Sumer is icumen in a Roundabout Way
Matinee from 2pm
Mira Aroyo [Ladytron] - spoken word performance
Monstrosities Mon Amour podcast live - John Grindrod & Very Special Guest Gillian Darley
OPAL X & MICROCORPS [live ambient set]
Plus on video old school Essex electro-pop
Hosted by Travis Elborough & Stonecirclesampler
Monstrosities Mon Amour is a podcast celebrating places and things more usually slagged off or easily dismissed. In each episode writer and geek John Grindrod is ambushed by a guest, stowed away in the boot of their Austin Maxi, and driven to a place of their choosing, somewhere that needs its reputation defending. Along the way they will also tackle other smaller ‘monsters’ – objects, songs, films, fashions, design styles – and enjoy the mission of rehabilitating them too. In this special live edition John will be joined on stage by the architectural historian Gillian Darley.
Opal X & MICROCORPS is a collaboration between the London based electronic musician Astrud Steehouder, who fuses a sound that is equally inspired by early Mute, Sähkö and American noise metal, and the artist and musician Alexander Tucker (Grumbling Fur, Imbogodom) whose latest work explores the hinterlands of electronics, cello and voice.
Mira Aroyo is the Bulgarian-born British musician and geneticist who was the co-founder of dark-edged electronic pop act Ladytron but will be channelling her interest in architecture and J G Ballard in a spoken word performance piece.