It is not uncommon in Manchester to find different kinds of performers side by side on the same night. You might see a performance poet followed by a singer-songwriter at Fuel in Withington, or a burlesque dancer upstaged by a six-piece blues band at Islington Mill. Rarely, though, does a night come along that aims to fuse different media and with such interesting and successful results as Video Jam at Antwerp Mansions.
Howard Brenton’s stage adaptation of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell’s classic novel regarded as a seminal piece of working-class literature, comes to the stage this week at the University of Salford.
On 19 December Manchester’s own Dub Phizix and Skeptical released Marka. With it’s hypnotic, creepy minimalism and atmospheric groove, it’s clocked up nearly 400,000 hits on youtube and become an instant favourite for drum and bass fans everywhere. Last week, MULE magazine caught up with Dub Phizix to see what he made of all the hype…
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Upcoming Events
Feb 2012
Just Do It documentary screening February 8, 2012 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm @ Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building, Lecture Theatre 5
QC2012: Outspoken February 8, 2012 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm @ Contact Theatre, Devas Street (off Oxford Road), M15 6JA