Happy International Women’s Month MURMUR // Issue 17 March 2019
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Illustration: Chelsea Waites
Editors: Olivia Havercroft, Nicole Peeters Huw Spencer, Tom Waring & George Odysseos Design: Lisa Lorenz Print: Team Trident Press
Mancunian illustrator Chelsea’s work honours the everyday using humour as a catalyst: It’s okay to laugh at yourself or to just enjoy the small things!
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L I S T E N FRI 01 03 Dream Nails @ Eagle Inn
Fresh Punk hailing from London: Powerful, loud and proud but unfortunately sold out! If someone’s selling their ticket for this heat wave of diamonds, glitter and glass shards (from the broken ceiling)... go grab it! £7 (SOLD OUT), 7.30 - 11pm
SAT 02 03 Caoilfhionn Rose Glove // ocean1212w @ Partisan Collective
Folk, Punk and Noise don’t go together? This power line-up shall prove you imbeciles wrong! Having listened in beforehand we are already bewitched and over-the-moon to see this energetic bundle of women, womxn and non-binary people take the stage and your hearts by storm. £5/FREE, 7.30 - 10.30pm
SAT 02 03 MCR Collective: Black Angels @ The White Hotel
Manchester Collective will be performing »Black Angels«, a work that sounds eerie as hell (literally). It was written by avant-garde composer George Crumb in the time of the
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08/03: International Women’s Day! This International Women’s Day, get educated, and get radical. Our feminism includes trans women and women of colour: why not support the following Manchester organisations that are truly intersectional: All Hands on Deck, Sidney Street Cafe, Partisan Collective. And, join or support the organisations in Manchester that help women every day: Manchester Women’s Aid, The Pankhurst Centre, Rape Crisis, Manchester Action on Street Health and Every Month Manchester. More generally, women’s health is chronically ignored and misunderstood still in 2019. If you ‘feel women’s pain’, consider supporting organisations that help solve it: Endometriosis UK and the Chronic Urinary Tract Campaign help the hundreds of thousands of women who suffer in silence for years.
Vietnam War and is to be performed with electric string instruments, crystal glasses, and two suspended tam-tam gongs. Special guests include Several Wives and John Bence. £8/10, 8 - 11.59pm
TUE 05 03 Andrew Cheetham, Pat Thomas & David Birchall @ The Peer Hat
Up-and-coming selectors Curious Ear present improvised and experimental music. This month’s event includes incredible keys player Pat Thomas, making his first visit to Manc-town
in over 5 years in trio with David Birchall & Andrew Cheetham. £6, 8.30 - 10.30pm
SAT 09 03 Handle @ The Talleyrand
Post-punk band (Handle), drone guitar music (Otis Jordan) and solo saxophone (Sonny Bliss) all accompany the visual exhibition »The Women Who Said Yes« at the Talleyrand, exploring the strange and inspiring stories of the first women candidates for the UK parliament. £5, 7 - 11pm
WED 13 03 Lydia Lunch sings »Suicide« ft. Marc Hurtado @ The White Hotel
Power lady/jack-of-all-trades Lydia Lunch and director/producer Marc Hurtado both have a long history with »Suicide« and Alan Vega. They’ve now joined forces to perform songs of »Suicide« and show a screening of »Infinite Dreamers«, a »Suicide« documentary directed by Hurtado. Described as »a kind of sonic »Blitzkrieg« and a visual shamanic ceremony«, this night is promising to be epic! £13, 7.30 - 11pm
SAT 16 03 The Cool Green House / The Shifters @ Fuel Cafe Bar
With songs such as »Pyramid Scheme« and »Work/Life Gym Etc«, Australian post-punk band The Shifters sing scrappy but catchy songs about the banality of life. Unpretentious but certainly not deadbeat! Support comes from The Cool Green House, a new project from Manchester/ London that is certainly worth keeping an ear out for! Repetitive melodies with sharp, ironic lyrics that are reminiscent of bands like Wire and the Fall. £7, 8 - 11pm
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SUN 31 03 Jan Jelinek + Support @ Soup Kitchen
Krautrock fans! Halt! For the first time in his 20+ year career the one and only Jan Jelinek, creator of »Loop Finding Jazz Records«, will grace this town with his legendary avantgarde tunes. Ready for some organic tunes and masterful deconstruction? £10/12/15, 7 - 11pm
D A N C E FRI 01 03 Micronexus & Mama Racho @ Partisan Collective
DONATIONS/£5, 11.59pm - 4am Queer techno rave anyone? Micronexus offers an inclusive, safer space welcoming all queer folk and their close allies to robot dance all prejudice away. Up the stairs and into the starry skies - pay as you feel! Mama who? Mama Racho take over Partisan’s basement and invite you to indulge in live tunes offered to you by one of MCR’s hottest live musicians. After the band has pumped you up properly keep on dancing to the Mama Racho Soundsystem: Funk, Afro-Disco, Post Punk,... expect a bag full of chocolatey golden treasures!
SAT 02 03 80 Decibels @ Partisan
80 Decibels is an inclusive electronic music afternoon tailored for parents, carers and their kids. Guardians often find themselves excluded from club events due to licensing issues, care commitments and uncomfortable sound levels. 80 Decibels offers a soft alternative with soft dance floor for kids, dressing up box, and quiet zones to fill this gap. 80 decibels is the safe volume level for young babies not to damage their hearing. noon - 5pm £5/FREE members/children
FRI 08 03 Psychedelic DiscoTech: Leah Floyeurs @ Carlton Club
Heal yourself at the heart of Whalley Range - music icon Nico lived there! - in the local that might as well be your grandma’s Western movie shrine. Brisbanite by origin Londoner by choice Floyeurs, aka Susan MacDonalds, has been mixing tunes since the early 90s, techno loving and genre bending with ease. Early start! Yeahy! £8, 8.30pm - 1am
FRI 08 03 FRIENDZONE #2 & Horticulture @ Partisan £5, 11.59pm - 4am
Friendzone is Partisan’s new pop music basement party - feat. 00s nostalgia, inc. Sugababes, TLC, Misteeq and much much more! This one is an International Women’s Day special - feat. all women artists and DJs! For all Loft and Cosmic Slop lovers: follow the winding stairs to Partisan’s second floor and visit the inaugural Horticulture. Expect deep and comforting sounds to caress your soul. A gently invigorating oasis of plants, baklava, coffee and cushions. All profits of the night will be donated to The Gaskell Garden Project.
FRI 08 03 Drøne/DIYD present : »øde« @ The Peer Hat
»øde« is a new DIY night fusing dark & sinister electronic music with atmospheric visuals. The line-up includes Cremation Lily, knifedoutofexistence, éntha, Zim Zum and STomacK, spanning genres from ambient to noise, drone and post-rock. £8, 8pm - 3.30am
FRI 29 03 RebeccaNeverBecky: Sistas’ Sista! @ YES
Rave farewell to International Women’s Month March and swing your booties to some delicious RnB, celebrating femmes, friends and all your favourite (self-identifying as) female heroes. The door folk will have a special treat for you if you show up wearing pink! What might it be? Find out and break free. £7, 11pm - 4am
D O FRI 01 03 Don’t Criminalize The Homeless @ Methodist Hall
Join Greater Manchester Housing Action and Tenants Union in a discussion on how to fight the City Council’s plans to implement a Public Space Protection Order threatening the rights of the homeless community in Manchester. FREE, 6 - 8pm
SAT 02 03 Pitch Bend Sampler Hack @ Rogue Artists’ Space
Hack a pre-made ISD1820 sampler chip board to sample live & pitch bend
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away! Hack the module to utilise it in your own music set ups. The cost of this workshop includes a small premade PCB and various components worth £15. £25, 1 - 3.30pm
WED 06 03 Slow Flow Yoga @ MMU Link Gallery
Part of the Save Ryebank Fields exhibition this free yoga lesson aims to take us out of our stressful daily routine and back into nature. Ryebank Fields, a derelict playing field, has transformed into a thriving biotope of great diversity. MMU are looking to get planning permission for the land and aim to sell it off to developers. This is yoga as a form of protest. FREE, noon - 1pm
FRI 08 03 »Studying Gender in the Wake of #MeToo«: Mini Conference and Activism Day @ Uni of MCR
#MeToo sent waves across the world in 2018. Now, students at the UoM are attempting to document this, and create long-lasting change in the academic sphere and beyond. Anyone with an interest in gender can attend this conference, which brings together PhD students, early career researchers, and activists from a variety of backgrounds who focus on the politics of gender in the wake of #MeToo. FREE, 9am - 6pm
WED 13 03 Beagle Beer School: Sour Edition @ The Beagle
Are you one of those weirdos who recently really got into sour beers? Right on! Us too! Let’s buddy up and find out EVERYTHING about the world of sourness! A ticket gets you five thirds of master class sour delights and tons of knowledge. All proceeds go to the charities the Horsefall and Mustard Tree. £5, 7 - 9pm
FRI 22 03 Fancy Pants Fancy Party @ The Portico Library
In 1836, a grand fancy ball was held at the Portico Library that was so big the library had to expand to the nearby Assembly Rooms and Theatre Royal. Now 183 years later, the Portico are throwing another party to end their current costume exhibition »Fancy Pants« with a bang. Come and wear your own crazy costumes and party like it’s… 1836! £5, 7 - 9pm
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A R T MON 04 03 - 08 03 Save Ryebank Fields @ MMU Link Gallery
MMU’s suffering from an ethically sore tooth. Ryebank Fields, a rich and important part of the city’s green belt, is under threat of being flattened by investors. Manchester City Council had originally passed on the area to MMU who now want to gain capital from selling off the land. Students of the School of Art combine art and the political in this engaging exhibition. FREE, Vernissage 6pm
THU 07 03 Europia Art Collective Launch @ Old Bank Residency
Europia Arts Collective is an initiative by European immigrants to gather together and support European artists - especially now, in the wake of Brexit. Seven artists from different European backgrounds display their work at the Old Bank Residency on Hanover Street. FREE, 6 - 9pm
FRI 08 03 - 11 03 The Women Who Said »Yes!« @ The Talleyrand
Coinciding with International Women’s Day, this exhibition explores the stories of the first 17 women who stood for Parliament in the December 1918 UK General Election. Learn everything about MCR’s very own Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, who ran for Labour in Rusholme, and join the exhibition launch party on the 8th of March. FREE, various times
WED 13 03 Meraki Sessions 0.5 @ Atmosphere Kitchen & Bar
Wholesome and inspiring all senses. We first attended a Meraki session back in 2017 at the Wonder Inn where they transformed the space into a kaleidoscope of movement, sound and colour. Our hot tip, join the dance improv session in the end of the night! FREE, 7.30 - 11pm
FRI 22 03 - 24 03 Tuesdays at Tesco’s @ The Talleyrand
Tuesdays at Tesco’s tells the story of Pauline who used to be called Paul. Helping her dad with his weekly shopping on Tuesdays, she is having a hard time feeling accepted. This sometimes tragic, sometimes comic monologue was written by French
playwright Emmanuel Darley and is now brought to life again in Levenshulme by director Sue Womersley and Samantha Kentell as Pauline. £8, 8 - 10pm
W A T C H SAT 02 03 Take/Hold @ Whitworth
Society is making us feel weird about how we look and it has to stop! Take/Hold is taking a stance towards improving the body image and giving back self-confidence. The documentary Embrace follows Taryn Brumfitt in her endeavours to improve young people’s body image by practicing yoga and mindfulness in a loud and busy world. Also check out the Take/Hold pop-up exhibition by local creatives responding to the theme body image. All proceeds go to local organisation Girls Out Loud, Teen Yoga Foundation and The Body Image Movement. £10, 2 - 5pm
MON 04 03 IndieFlicks @ YES
In March IndieFlicks is showcasing a selection of five shorts from France and Britain. Afterwards, you get a chance to discuss the films with the filmmakers! IndieFlicks runs the first Monday of every month! £6, 7.30 - 10.30pm
WED 06 03 Paris Was A Woman Born A Rebel (short) @ Partisan
Queer Cinema Collective are a group of queer women in MCR who have set up an inclusive DIY space to screen films. Join them to watch Paris Was a Woman - a film about the French queer female literary community. Allez les femmes, allez Queer Cinema Collective! £4, 6.45 - 9.45pm
Mon 10 03 Above the Line: Lady Bird & Boyhood @ YES
Above the Line, Manchester’s free curated film night, showcase the two stand-out coming-of-age films of the past few years. If you’ve ever dated a pretentious teenage boy, or had an intense female friendship, and want to relive that in excruciating detail, Lady Bird is for you. FREE, 5 - 10pm
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W O R D THU 07 03 Tally-Ho : All Female! @ The Talleyrand
A not-so-serious evening for lovers of words, comedy and everything in between in a series of performances from talent across Manchester. On this particular night, all performers are female and will respond to the themes of The Women Who Said ‘Yes’! exhibition. All proceeds go to Manchester Action on Street Health. £5, 7.30 -10.30pm
THU 07 03 Speaking Desire: Saskia Vogel & Kate Feld @ Secret Location NQ
Join writers Saskia Vogel and Kate Feld for an intimate conversation about sex, the self and the turbulent social debate around women and desire. Join the discussion about love, alternative lifestyles, and subversive desire. The secret Northern Quarter location will be disclosed to ticket holders on the day. Price includes a cocktail! £16, 6.30 - 8pm
THU 14 03 Writers at MMU: Wild Bodies w/ Fiona Benson & Seán Hewitt @ 70 Oxford Street Poetry by Fiona Benson and Seán Hewitt! Benson just released her new collection »Vertigo & Ghost« with (dark) poems on violence and female sexuality. Hewitt finds solace in nature in his debut pamphlet »Lantern«. FREE, 6.30 - 8.30pm
SOCIAL SPOTLIGHT: DON’T CRAMP MY STYLE Don’t Cramp My Style is an artsbased platform tackling the taboo and stigma around menstrual health. Founder Freya Slack wants to raise awareness of period poverty and discrimination of the ones experiencing periods. Don’t Cramp My Style is transinclusionary, it educates about menstruation and disability, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Female Genital Mutilation, and much, much more. Keep your eyes peeled for DCMS’s educational zines distributed in the public toilets of MCR; freely accessible to all, just like sanitary products should be! Follow @dontcrampmystyle & donate sanitary products directly to charity The Red Box Project.