Seven acts, a thing of seven equal heads, coming together in one place at one time, that of The Golden Lion, Todmorden, in West Yorkshire, on Thursday 7th February 2019, conspiring to bring you, the audience, some kind of one thing, that of an evening with Classwar Karaoke. All human life will be there; all we need is you / £5 admission
Classwar Karaoke is marked by short sets, maximum variety - as is our want. First up is the definitely ineffable The Alan Smithee Experience, comprised of David Gaffney and Adrian Slatcher, who are both writers interested in going beyond words in performance - a duo created in order to work with such ideas and approaches in a semi-improvised way live. In their performances to date, Gaffney and Slatcher have used guitar, melodica and analogue synthesizer, and embellished flash fiction and collage poetry with musical backing. This will be their 4th such appearance. Next will be the mysteriously sobriquet'd Jumble Hole Clough, which sounds like a band, but isn't, being in fact Colin Robinson solo, developed, he tells us, as a way of producing music influenced by the landscape, industry and experiences around Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. According to Kenneth Brown, what this amounts to is something like 'Oliver Postgate getting lost in a bramble patch in the hills above Hebden Bridge while on magic mushrooms'. Up next will be wordy Jon Large, who admits to nothing more than saying he will say a few words; followed closely by a showing of Paul Wilson's film, '041019??-25111977', itself concerned with words, in exploring the post-Brexit significance of the first Esperanto-English dictionary. Following will be the consistently different and ever-changing, Mimoids - that forever untried and untested combo, this time made up of Emrys Morgan, John Hyatt, Mark Johnson and Anthony Donovan, who respectively combine performance art, voice, soundscapes and foley, improvising, as always, at the same time but without direct interaction. Our penultimate act is the duo of Andrew Duncan and Chris Hancox, who claim to have been together since Duran Duran were at their peak, but don't sound anything like them. Hearing is believing; let's find out together. The evening ends with yet another duo, that of Hanslip/Karlsen - being a collaboration between UK saxophonist Mark Hanslip and Norwegian drummer Emil Karlsen, who play improvised music stretching from open textural playing to fiery free jazz.
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