Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
‘Forget This is England ’86 – this is the true story of growing up in Thatcher’s Britain, told by those who went on to create Cool Britannia.’ Un-convention 2010.
The Beat Is The Law (80′s/Part One) will be screened at the Un-convention, Salford, Manchester on 2nd October 2010.
As well as a host of names from the music world, Jarvis Cocker will be performing the following day and Eve Wood, the film’s director will be on an Un-convention discussion panel floating on a barge on 1st October. Sheffield takes on Manchester!… more here
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
The Beat is The Law (80′s) is screening as part of the Noise, Affect, Politics Conference at Salford University on 1st July 2010 and will be preceded by a lecture from Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire) entitled ‘White Heat, White Noise: Ambient Noise in Pre-Punk and Post-Punk Music‘
“…what exactly is noise and what conditions these relative thresholds in which sound crosses over into noise? Or are these more organised and polite sonic phenomena merely varieties of noise that have been tamed and civilised, and yet still contain kernels of the chaotic, anomalous disturbance of primordial noise? As a radical free agent, how is noise channelled, neutralised or enhanced in emergent cityscapes?
Such questions are particularly applicable to contemporary forms of music which, based as they are on a variety of noise-making technical machines, necessarily exist in the interface between chaotic, unpredictable noise and the organised and blended sounds of music and speech. Does modern noise seek to lead us to new, post-secular inscapes (as with psychedelia and shoegazer), or defy the lulling noisescapes of processed background muzak with punitive blasts of disorientating, disorderly noise? And why the cult of noise – in term of both volume and dissonance – in which low cultural practices (metal, moshing) meet those of the avant-garde (atonalism, transcendentalism)?”
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Friday, May 28th, 2010
“Imagine a shop as a vial in which more or less volatile substances mix to release energy. Ultimately, walking into Magma should be like walking into a thermometer, an instrument indicating ‘where things are at’ at a certain point in time and space.” – Magma
We are pleased to announce that The Beat Is The Law DVD is available to buy in the wonderful Magma design shops in Manchester and London’s Covent Garden.
So if you want a day out then drop by the Magma shop for a great browse but don’t forget to by your BITL DVD!
Here are the Magma shop addresses www.magmabooks.com
If Manchester and London is too far then go to the following independent shops in Sheffield: Rare and Racy – Division Street, Record Collector – Broomhill, The Sheffield Music Shop – Ecclesall Road, The Print and Design Shop – Sharrowvale Road.
Of course you can always buy from our ONLINE SHOP
Tags: Magma, Rare and Racy, Record Collector
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