Behold. Never in the history of our events have we had to copy - paste so many Wikipedia articles about the participants. We hope this conveys the unmissability of this event. Join us for a Make-Yer-Own-Merch workshop, a short film, and Q&A with the guest editor Savage Pencil (Nick Cave, The Fall, Sunn O))), Lydia Lunch, Sonic Youth) and Stephen Mallinder, with live music courtesy of Vagrant Lovers and The Jonny Halifax Invocation, special guests, and more on the 7th of July at The Prince Albert.
Entry includes ltd edition Ambit Pop magazine. Rebellion in Poems, Stories, and Art since 1959. So it's basically free.
Tickets on DICE https://dice.fm/event/me25r-savage-pencil-magazine-film-workshop-music-7th-jul-the-prince-albert-brighton-tickets
Times:
7.15 Playlist and Gay Black (The Adverts) Black Metal images and Art on rotation.
7.30 Magick invocation / creative summoning workshop hosted by Barbara Frost and Savage Pencil. This unofficially launches the Ambit School.
8 Poems: Tony Potts (illustrious past making films with The Monochrome Set now creator of bird shaped hole beautiful illuminated manuscript-type things - urban romantic goth).
8.15 Film (10mins) about Savage Pencil and QnA Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire, Wrangler, Dr at University of Brighton)
Poems // peter hope-evans (Medicine Head)
9.15 LIVE// Vagrant Lovers
10 LIVE // Jonny Halifax Invocation
AMBIT
Ambit is a quarterly literary periodical published in the UK. The magazine was founded in 1959 by Martin Bax.
Uniting art, prose, poetry and reviews, the magazine appears quarterly and is distributed internationally. Notable Ambit contributors have included J. G. Ballard, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ralph Steadman, Carol Ann Duffy, Fleur Adcock, Peter Blake and David Hockney. Michael Foreman was art director for 50 years. Derek Birdsall, Alan Kitching and John Morgan Studio are notable designers. Despite the wealth of recognisable names, Ambit also features the work of new, unpublished writers.In the sixties Ambit became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Ballard became fiction editor alongside Geoff Nicholson, and Duffy joined Henry Graham as Poetry Editor. The magazine professes not to include in its publication criticisms, essays, articles and lengthy reviews but prefers including real work, the likes and dislikes associated with the readers, creating never a dull moment and always sparking off feedbacks. To quote Carol Ann Duffy, "Ambit continues to surprise, exasperate and delight". Two issues of Ambit a year are put together entirely from unsolicited, previously unpublished poetry and short fiction submissions.
https://ambitmagazine.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/ambitmagazine
SAVAGE PENCIL
Savage Pencil is a comics artist, and is the nom de plume of English music journalist Edwin Pouncey.
As Savage Pencil and otherwise, Pouncey has contributed to magazines such as Sounds ("Rock'n'Roll Zoo", etc.), Forced Exposure and The Wire. He has illustrated record sleeves for bands such as The Fall, Big Black, Sonic Youth and Rocket From The Crypt amongst others. Savage Pencil was also a member of The Art Attacks, a band who released two 7"s; "I'm A Dalek" b/w "Neutron Bomb" (released on the Albatross label in 1977) and "First & Last" / "Punk Rock Stars" / "Rat City" (released on the Fresh label in 1979).
He is currently a member of the "improvising drone-rock noise band" Pestrepeller, along with Peter Hope-Evans (ex-Medicine Head), Ed Pinsent, Harley Richardson, Nick Neocleous and Rob Brown. They released an album in May 2006 on Important Records, entitled Isle of Dark Magick, described in the press release as "a gem of free-improvised-found-sound-collage enriched with dark pagan folky vibes and supernatural horror noise dedicated to H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Austin Osman Spare."
https://linktr.ee/flyzruz
VAGRANT LOVERS
"The modern Patti Smith" Johny Brown, Band of Holy Joy
"Wordsmith wizardry" Adam J. Harmer, Fat White Family
"She combines the cerebral and the carnival." Sunday Times Style
https://vagrantlovers.bandcamp.com
THE JONNY HALIFAX INVOCATION
The godless acid blues punk of Honkeyfinger and The Howling Truth meets freeform drone raag transcendentalism in this new Invocation. The blues are transmogrified, unhinged, reduced and re-imagined as trance-inducing feedback-drenched noise paintings.
https://jonnyhalifaxinvocation.bandcamp.com/https://www.facebook.com/JonnyHalifaxInvocation
STEPHEN MALLINDER
Stephen Mallinder is an English artist and musician who was a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire, and went on to work as Sassi & Loco, the Ku-Ling Bros., Hey, Rube!, Wrangler, and Creep Show.Stephen recorded as a solo artist in the 1980s, including the Pow-Wow album, released in 1983. In 1988, he recorded with members of Soft Cell in the band Love Street, and in 1989, he was a member of Acid Horse, a band which also featured Al Jourgensen of Ministry.Mallinder, alongside Richard H. Kirk, established the Western Works Studio (with Chris Watson until 1982) and subsequently produced in excess of 30 albums, working alongside producers and engineers including Flood, Adrian Sherwood, and Marshall Jefferson. He worked as producer, remixer, and live performer.In 1982, Stephen Mallinder was one of the founders of Doublevision, which was the UK's first independent video label with an associated record label, Plastex Records in 1990. He is also the founder of the Off World Sounds label (Australia), releasing material under the names Ku-Ling Bros. and Sassi & Loco. Mallinder established Off World Productions in 1998.Stephen is a former journalist, including as a music journalist for Australian publications Ministry Magazine, Sunday Times and The West Australian, working also as a radio presenter and producer for RTRFM.He has published numerous academic papers, and gained his PhD in music and popular culture from Murdoch University in Australia in 2011 with his thesis Movement: Journey of the Beat.
He now lives in Brighton and has been researching at the Art Design Media Centre and teaches on Digital Music & Sound Art at the University of Brighton.
As part of Cabaret Voltaire, Stephen Mallinder has had video work exhibited at MoMA in New York, and with Wrangler in the Turbines (Tate Modern, 2010).
Event Venue
The Prince Albert, 48 Trafalgar Street, Brighton, United Kingdom
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