People Like Us play Liverpool Sound City in May 2010

Genre Collage will be performed at Static Gallery in Liverpool on Thursday 20th May at 7pm, admission £5. This event is presented by Sound and Music as part of Memories are Made of This: Sound and Music at Liverpool Sound City.

The evening features People Like Us, Position Normal and The Pony Harvest
with DJs Strcprstskrzkrk and Igor Hax
Static Gallery, 23 Roscoe Street, L1 9JD

Celebrated collage artist People Like Us, plunderphonic duo Position Normal and far out electro-medievalist The Pony Harvest explore and skew narratives, use and abuse quotations, and draw on a wide range of references from popular culture and beyond.
Event details and tickets:

http://www.soundandmusic.org/activities/events/genre-collage

Parade to be in group exhibition

In The Long Run: 30 Years of Great Running
By Claire Leona Apps, Vicki Bennett, Suky Best, Ravi Deepres and Michael Baig-Clifford, Graham Dolphin, James Edwards, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Julian Germain, Jane and Louise Wilson

Exhibition
Starts: 17th July 2010
Ends: 17th October 2010
Great North Museum: Hancock
Barras Bridge
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE2 4PT
0191 222 6765

Celebrating the 30th staging of the Bupa Great North Run, this major new exhibition explores the history and significance of this enormously popular event.
In The Long Run looks at significant role this event has played in reflecting and shaping the region’s cultural identity.

As well as the well known stories of elite runners, In The Long Run will also explore the huge organisational effort behind the Bupa Great North Run, documenting the event’s community spirit and creating a powerful piece of social history.

Alongside interactive exhibits, memorabilia and star objects, In The Long Run will present artwork from the archives of Bupa Great North Run Culture, with paintings, films, photographs and drawings by Jane and Louise Wilson, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Julian Germain, Graham Dolphin and Vicki Bennett, among many others.
A programme of special events and guest lectures, as well as a special Late Show the night before this year’s Bupa Great North Run, will be announced soon.


The plume of smoke and so on

As you all know there are a lot of displaced beings on the planet and that does not exclude People Like Us. As a result we are not going to be able to perform in Barcelona on Thursday 22nd April and are waiting to find out if we can reschedule once people are not trapped all over the place. At present there’s not much we can do except enjoy being somewhere else, but we obviously were very much wanting to play in Barcelona. But what can you do about a plume of whatever it is?

Update: we are now back and trying to reschedule the Barcelona concert for July and will keep you posted by updating the old concert announcement when it is confirmed.

People Like Us at Baltimore Transmodern Festival

People Like Us will present “Genre Collage” at the 7th Annual Transmodern Festival on Saturday 17th April 2010. Tickets can be bought through the Transmodern website.
http://www.transmodernfestival.org/2010/?page_id=481

H&H BUILDING
405 W. Franklin Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Directions and tickets
Tickets: $10
Doors Open: 8:30pm

On Saturday, April 17th, the Transmodern Festival will continue major installations in Whole Gallery, Nudashank Gallery, Gallery Four, 5th Dimension. We will be featuring a stage based performance and experimental music program at the critically acclaimed Floristree space. The night will feature an eclectic mix of local and international artists including Carly Ptak (Baltimore), Robby Rackleff (Baltimore), Joseph Keckler (NYC), People Like Us (UK) and Blues Control (NYC.)

Floristree
Carly Ptak
Robby Rackleff
Joseph Keckler
People Like Us
Blues Control




People Like Us play Issue Project Room, Brooklyn

People Like Us will perform “Genre Collage” at Issue Project Room on Thursday 15th April 2010. Also in the evening we’ve very pleased to have WFMU’s Ken Freedman with a DJ set and Aki Onda with a live set.
http://issueprojectroom.org/2010/02/17/people-like-us/

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Doors Open: 8pm
Directions
Admission: $15 door ($12 advance)
Buy tickets






People Like Us Play AV Festival 2010

Live Performance at Star and Shadow (NewcastleGateshead)
Saturday 13th March 2010

from 9:00pm until 2:00am
Vicki Bennett has co-curated an evening with AV Festival entitled

Nothing is New, Everything Is Permitted.

The title is a pun on the phrase ‘Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted’, famously quoted by William S Burroughs, who helped popularise cut-up culture. This incredible evening includes live performances by artists, musicians and poets who have creatively dissected, recycled and quoted. Including: Genre Collage the new live audio-visual set from People Like Us that collages film genres using well-known feature films; live improviser Gwilly Edmondez who uses voice, tapes, decks and samples; debut performance of Café Carbon by The Gluts (Gina Birch, Kaffe Matthews, Hayley Newman) and whirlwind wizard of the ivories Felix Kubin. With DO or DIY Radio and other visual delights.

Buy tickets here
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10/events/nothing-is-new-everything-is-permitted
Other highlights of the festival that we recommend (which are separate events to the above) are appearances by Rick Prelinger, Craig Baldwin, and Kenneth Anger. Separately, we might add!

The full programme of AV Festival can be found at
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10
Download the AV Festival programme as a pdf here
Here is a presentation from Vicki Bennett, creator of Genre Collage – at AV Festival 2010.


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AV Festival update

A last minute addition if you are at AV Festival in Newcastle – People Like Us will be speaking at today’s Recycled Film Symposium.

Another last minute addition – Craig Baldwin will be joining us to introduce in his special way Nothing Is New, Everything Is Permitted.

Here is the presentation from Vicki Bennett, creator of Genre Collage – at AV Festival 2010.

The WFMU 2010 Marathon is here!

The WFMU marathon 2010 has begun! If you are a fan of WFMU or indeed listen to DO or DIY with People Like Us please consider pledging, since the station runs on listener sponsorship. We’re looking forward to the marathon and hope you are too! Here is the co-host schedule:

http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/schedule.shtml

And here’s some of the marathon goodies you can get if you pledge:
http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/tch.shtml
Take me to the pledge page now!

Pledge to the WFMU Marathon!

People Like Us play BFI Southbank, London

Tuesday 8th December 2009 at 20:30
BFI Southbank, London – NFT3
Tickets £5

This will be the UK Premiere of Genre Collage, the new People Like Us live a/v set.
BFI Southbank are taking booking now. We recommend booking tickets in advance or you may find yourself without a seat!
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/events/genre_collage_the_new_live_set_by_people_like_us

Telephone booking is often easier: 020 7928 3232
BFI Visitor information here.

The Night of the Long Worms

People Like Us are making a short film presentation for and related to the following event. We recommend you come along and be entertained by this great line up. Please note this is not a PLU concert.

The Tapeworm presents its first live event, “The Night of the Long Worms”
8-11PM on Thursday 19 November 2009 at Café Oto, London E8 3DL.
Travelling all the way from Sweden is Leif Elggren, with a piece performed remotely by Joachim Nordwall of IDEAL. The Atlantic Isles are represented by Baraclough, Philip Jeck (Bass Guitar/Effects), Meltaot, Souls on Board (with Bruce Gilbert) and Simon Fisher Turner, plus special guest People Like Us.