Major MURMUR update… Oh yes, after a 4-year hiatus, we’re back!! 🙌
We hope you’ll continue to support us as your go-to guide to Manchester’s independent, inclusive and radical events.
We’re back a little bit smaller but more compact. Our presence on social media will be limited - we’re all about the analogue after all. We’re a printed event listing exactly because we want to cut through the digital noise.
Pick up our November edition in venues in the Northern Quarter and others around #Manchester and #Stockport, and don’t hesitate to message us if you want to have your event or artwork featured, or if you have a question for our resident Agony Aunt 🔥
We hope you’ll enjoy the new Murmur!
Much love,
Olivia, Lisa & Nicole
Pictures:
1) The Murmur logo
2) November’s Murmur hot off the press
3) Our October resurrection
4) Some previous Murmur covers, 2017-2020
This Monday Old Bank Moving Image Network meet via Zoom and twoseven.xyz for a constructive peer-to-peer crit session. If your practice is based on video or moving image get in touch via [email protected] to join the session and show your work in progress.
Partisan's famous All-Day Party is moving online. Expect a fine selection of local DJs bringing you tunes to lighten up your mood. Dance again with your pals! It may be just via video call but strong feelings will travel far and wide. Stay safe and if you can: donate <3
#safeourscene #manchester #alldayparty #staysafe
This afternoon join the virtual tour of the Portico Library exploring Colonisation & Resistance through James Cook's travel journals, documents and maps from their archives. .uk/what-it-is from 5:30pm to 7pm
Join the Zoom introduction at 6pm to The Portico Library's newest exhibition, 'What it is to be here: Colonisation and resistance'.
MIRA has gone digital to keep promoting the work of great creatives in these challenging times, and has invited the selected artists to share a film that will be available on the internet for a limited period of time.
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Go to @nuriaenpersona to watch the live Q&A.
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- 'Ending' by Joe Whitmore /409688767 - pass: ystar
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'to be In the World and to be Out of it' by Izzy Bolt https://bit.ly/3eOKSkT // available until Friday night.
TONIGHT (from midnight): Tune into Reform Radio’s 24 hour broadcast to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day! 24 international DJs and artists have been selected to represent the global underground music scene, including the likes of Abel from Amsterdam’s Red Light Records, Iranian multidisciplinary artist Ash Koosha and Logic1000 from Australia.
Check schedule and times via
Majestic, icicle cool sample layerings from American sound artist and producer Gately will waltz into your subconscious and eat you whole. Keep your tickets, this event has been post-poned!
The dive that nourishes tired souls, cures your blue collar blues, and resurrects poor artists creative stamina with a mixed bag of exotica, rhythm and blues, surf and dance floor obscurities on 45rpm. Listen to their Spotify playlist and have a boogie in your house (2m distance)
Postponed: Widening the clubbing lense to all aspects that make the night life the holistic experience it is, Limbo Live multiply the dimensions of your regular Saturday night out. Limbo keeps on bringing you the best underground radio, stay tuned and keep your eyes peeled for online content.
Dear murmur followers
We miss you and hope you are all ok.
We are working on something that will help keep us connected over the next few weeks or months.
We want to help you get your work out there. If you are a freelancer who would like a shout out, if you’re a restaurant who is delivering and want people to know, if you are a musician who is live streaming your gigs, if you’re a teacher who wants to design an online course, if you are a writer who wants to showcase their writing, if you’re a shop who wants to send your goods out - get in touch and we can help.
We’re also compiling a list of safe and self-isolation compliant volunteering opportunities for you all if you’d like to help others in the city. Let us know if you need some support.
Stay strong and safe -
murmur
Tomorrow evening Manchester Collective's string quartett take hostage of light. One hundred minutes layered with existential doubt, last words whispered on the cross, terror of political oppression - and re-emerge into the mists of Salford. £8
Italo delights arrive in synth-chariots carrying queen Giovanna, I-F and Red Laser mogul Il Bosco. Techno bumps sneak in with Conor Thomas from the other room. Light spectacle provision is served up by the one and only Flasher. £15
