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‘True Faith’: the celebration of Manchester established and emerging talents.
Pavilion Theatre, Albert Square, Manchester
Hosted by Dave Haslam, Close Up was a short series of exclusive on stage interviews with Manchester icons such as music writer and broadcaster Paul Morley, and former Magazine and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds bass player and soundtrack composer Barry Adamson .
Paul Morley, 11 July 2011
In this Special Close Up conversation taking place in the Glass House in front of the city Town’s Hall, Stockborn-born Paul Morley recalled the beginning of his career and his first reviews for the NME. He mentioned amongst others Factory Records founder Tony Wilson and the relationship they had, and on whom is has been writing a book.
At the end of the interview the audience was invited to ask Paul Morley a few questions. It was the opportunity for him to say again how much he is disappointed with nowadays’ vending machine aspect of medias and TV, ‘bullying culture’, rather than poetry and medias originally as a mean of communication. As Paul Morley said himself, ‘… technology should help rather than culture bullying…’ .
Paul Morley hates to repeat himself, and he would never write something he mentioned before. He likes taking risks by the way he puts sentences together.
Barry Adamson, 13 July 2011
Barry Adamson answered questions about his career, including Moss Side Story, his solo album, and his involvement with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Magazine, but he also mentioned some personal aspects of his life and his childhood, growing up in South Manchester - Barry Adamson mentioned during this interview the fact that he could not really remember of any ‘happy’ memories… - and also evoked the sudden loss of his closest relatives.
Barry Adamson is a very expressive man, and he shown an aspect of him that contributed to the intimacy of the setting.
Barry Adamson is a very expressive man, and he shown an aspect of him that contributed to the intimacy of the setting.
The Live strand featured a selection of Manchester’s great emerging
bands.
12 July 2011 - The third and last night of live music for the ‘True Faith’ event celebrating Manchester established and emerging talents saw new Mancunian bands featuring Golden Glow, Young British Artists and D/R/U/G/S, hand-picked selection of artists chosen by the writer, journalist and DJ Dave Haslam.
First on were Golden Glow -Leading singer Pierre Hall, with his low-dark voice accompanied by echoing guitars and bass line sometimes reminding of the strings of Joy Division as well as other influences, and took the audience for a post punk trip inside the shiny Pavilion Theatre. The music is quite melancholic and you can feel a personal touch in their songs which are on the debut album ‘Tender is the Night’. My personal favourite of the moment is ‘At a loss’
Next up were Young British Artists shaking the public with their energetic catchy indie pop –
Last on was D/R/U/G/S (22 years old DJ Callum Wright), with his debut single Love/Lust, making powerful electro inviting the public to dance The shiny ceiling of the beautifully constructed state of the art Pavilion Theatre suited very well the line-up that night.
To end this 2011 edition of the Manchester International Festival in music, MIF presented on 16 July the city’s own WU LYF unique show, the band’s first Manchester date of 2011 and their only UK festival appearance this year. For one night WU LYF stopped traffic with their distinct sound of heavy pop. The Tunnel on Great Bridgewater Street was closed to everyone except 2,000 ticket-holders.
Support acts were Dirty Beaches , from Vancouver, Canada, with a retro pop music most of the time composed of these sound calamities tearing the fog while hallucinated raised voices get lost in the void – accompanied by breathless guitars and at some point recalling Martin Rev and Alan Vega 's band Suicide - and Gwilym Gold (London, UK) with its dark modern pop. ‘Flesh Freeze’ is Gwilym Glow debut solo single, and the first piece of music available in the ‘Bronze Fromat’; indeed, Gwilym will release his music via Bronze, a computer format that “transforms every aspect of the music in real time on every play.” That’s a unique version every single time you hit play.
Published on 25 July 2011 by purplepunk
