railway tulse hill

happy new ear

Happy New Ear 

to all loyal 

Boneasandtheaftsupporters

here is a new drawing to cheer you up.... 

ALSO

we have some lovely treats for you upcoming, namely 

 a gig on

Saturday 24th February 

with Arthur Bently and Ella Rimmer's new band

(also featuring the wonderful Max Pope and others...)

Bonesandtheaft/Bird Radio

/Kit Rimmer 

This gig will be at a 

secret new venue 

in South london so 

keep the date free 

and we'll let you know 

the venue later....

also, for your later spring Diary..

we are doing 

TWO NIGHTS

at 

Archers Lodge

in St Leonards 

on 

Friday 18th and Saturday 19th May 2018

with the amazing 

Oliver Cherer and his band

the dates  will be all ticket

so we'll give you booking details soon.......

100 books again

Liver & Lights No 23 100 Books

This project was inspired, if that's the right word

by the execution of the writer Ken Saro Wiwa

by the Nigerian Government twenty odd years ago,

along with the recent random

executions of various writers by the Iranian government.

I tried to create a song in response to these acts and realised that

after fifteen drafts or so

that I wasn't doing the subject matter justice

and that the song, or at least its simple meaning,

 was staying the same  even 

though I was moving the words around. ...

So..I continued the editing and changing

and eventually stopped at 100

different versions of the poem, 

some with one word only changed.

 ......the words themselves were

writhing out of the reach 

of a mythical tyrant who was trying to ban them.

The Tyrant  executes the singers,

but the song sings on and on, eventually

coming to haunt him forevermore in hell.

In order to celebrate these 100 songs,

each one different but the same,

I constructed 100 completely different books 

to contain them...

some of them are illustrated here.

A touring exhibition of the hundred books was banned by five of the venues

who originally booked it for being 'political'....

Earlier this year the wonderful Chiara Ambrosio

brought the project back to life after

20 years dormant by arranging for 100

singers to come together at The Horse Hospital

in London to perform the  cycle in its

entirety for the first time.

The recording of this by Mikey Kirkpatrick will be

broadcast for the first time on the Radiophrenia

performance radio station in Glasgow

on Sunday 12th November at 10.30 pm

http://radiophrenia.scot/schedule/november-12th/

Portico Gallery Directions

Bonesandtheaft / Bird Radio at the Portico Gallery:  Directions:

Trains direct to West Norwood from Victoria take twenty   

minutes and are every 15 minutes.The last one back is

11. 46.

Buse no. 68, which goes from Euston Via Elephant, 

Camberwell and Herne Hill will also get you there.

Buses No 2 and 196 also go there…from outside Brixton tube 

and take about 20 minutes

Portico Gallery

Liver & Lights No 54.

Bones and the Aft  and Bird Radio spent the summer of 2016 

performing together in the homes of brave supporters throughout 

the South Coast of England, creating musical magic in their 

portable hand painted stage set, behaving like electric minstrels, 

subsisting  by means of a passed round hat and the dispensing of cheer. 

Some of these adventures have magically metamorphosed into songs 

only to gather themselves together splendidly into a collaborative 

Limited Edition Vinyl Long Playing Record with 

Accompanying Celebratory ‘Zine as:

You’ve Been Kind! 

Bonesandtheaft / Bird Radio

who, to celebrate its creation, will be performing, 

together and separately,

 these and other tunes live at the

Portico Gallery, 

23B Knight's Hill, 

West Norwood, London,

SE27 0HS

Saturday 28th October,

7pm til 11.30 pm, 

Admittance £5.00

“Mesmerising and mystical. Enchanting and awe inspiring”. Matt Ford. The Student

“Strange and wonderful.” FRoots magazine

“Exciting stirrings from the DIY Underground” R2 MAgazine

Folkestone!

Bonesandtheaft

in Folkestone!!

As part of the famous

Folkestone Triennial Fringe

http://www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk

Boneandtheaft/ Bird Radio

are playing live at the

All Inked Up!

Artist Book Fair at the

Brewery Tap Art Centre

53 Tontine St, 

Folkestone 

CT20 1JR

Beginning sharp at 7pm

Saturday 14th October

Entrance is free

photo's all courtesy

popEstates photography

Liver & Lights publications will also be appearing at

All Inked Up! Artist Book Fair, 

containing many exciting stalls 

promoting Artist Publications 

from all around the world

Friday 13^th Oct, Canterbury 11 - 5pm

University of the Creative Arts, 

Herbert Read Gallery, 

New Dover Road, 

Canterbury, Kent,

(This is part of the Canterbury Festival).

Saturday 14^th Oct Folkestone, 11 - 7 pm

Sunday 15^th Oct Folkestone   11 - 4pm

new album review

A brilliant review from 

Dai Jeffries at folking.com website

....check it out its a pretty brilliant 

source of info on new music 

of a folky kind...with a wide remit 

as to what that is  (obviously!!)

http://folking.com/latest-posts/