Aurelie / Mogwai Live at the Canteen 19/11/08

Amidst howling winds, fierce blizzards and malfunctioning fire alarms, Aurelie performed at the Canteen in Barrow-in-Furness last Saturday, completing a lineup that included Canadian ambient doom-metal duo Nadja, Manchester's Spokes and a DJ Set from Mogwai.

Above: Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite and Barry Burns get their hands on Aurelie's recent Barrow AFC drone opera An Unorthodox 1-2 and artist John Hall's book, The Al Mobility Story. The Scottish band are no strangers to mixing art with football having contributed the soundtrack to video artist Douglas Gordon's Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait in 2006

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BAFC Night at the Canteen Cinema Room 13/11/08

Work from the Barrow AFC Digital Residency received a second showing last Thursday at the Canteen Cinema Room on Barrow Island. The evening included presentations of research materials and documentation from throughout the project as well as film screenings, a 'Bluebirds' DJ set and live performances.

Francis O' Donnell Smith's video installation based around an interview with life-long BAFC fan Geoff Payne screened to a live accompaniment from Glenn Boulter, Damian Rose and project organiser John Hall that reworked material from the spoken word and music piece An Unorthodox 1-2. This was followed by a live set of Bluebirds inspired music and video projections from Damian performing as Mondo Bongo. Each set was interspersed with scenes from two silent films from 1920's Germany (both amongst the first football feature films ever produced).

Tracks from the Bluebirds DJ set:
Jandek - Blue Blue World
Sun City Girls - Blue Mambo
Captain Beefheart - Dirty Blue Gene
Cocteau Twins - Bluebell Knoll
Gastr Del Sol - Blues Subtitled 'No Sense of Wonder'
Mayo Thompson - Good Brisk Blues
Neil Young - Birds / Danger Bird
Diamanda Galas - Birds of Death
Smog - Blood Red Bird
Public Image - No Birds
The Residents - Birds in the Trees

Aurelie Live at the Gateway

Francis O Donnell Smith, Dave Dhonau and Euan Rodger perform live at Leicester Gateway as part of the Arena Contemporaary Art Festival, 25/11/08.

Aurelie at the Norwich Festival of Literature

Dave Dhonau and Ola Szmidt perform with poet Lydia Towsey in Norwich 24/11/08.