STEPHEN MORRIS IN CONVERSATION WITH SARAH WALTERS
15:30 - 16:30
Stephen Morris
Stephen Morris has been a consistent fixture in New Order since 1980. The band's long career has included multiple world tours and headlining festival appearances.
Outside of New Order, Morris has released albums and television soundtracks with his wife Gillian Gilbert under the name The Other Two and released two acclaimed volumes of his autobiography.
Sarah Walters
Sarah Walters is a journalist and producer from Manchester. For a decade, she was lead writer on CityLife - the number one weekly culture guide for Manchester, inside the Manchester Evening News, where she met and interviewed the great and good in music, comedy, theatre, art, film and TV.
She is currently focused on broadcast media, specialising in documentary making and development, and is a presenter on Manchester’s Gorilla TV.
TIM BURGESS IN CONVERSATION
WITH BOB STANLEY
14:15 - 15:15
Tim Burgess
Frontman, singer, label boss, DJ and author, Tim has been instrumental in so many great records over the years, always bringing enthusiasm, positivity and diversity of influence, which altogether light the way for those who hold him dear.
While in The Charlatans, Tim’s indefatigable energy has been a consistent fuel for the band across thirteen high-charting albums, his solo adventure has been no less extraordinary, scaling new heights in 2020 with his fifth solo release to date: ‘I Love The New Sky’. Released on Bella Union, it features wonderfully connective songs of everyday minutiae and universal experience, of love and anger, of loss and belonging, all united by elaborate yet natural arrangements and an effortless but deceptively expert way with melody.
Bob Stanley
Bob StanleyBob Stanley has been obsessed with pop music since he inherited his mum and dad's pile of rock'n'roll 45s in the seventies. He started a fanzine called Caff with his childhood pal Pete Wiggs in the eighties, and has gone on to write for Smash Hits, NME, Melody Maker, The Face, Mojo, the Times and the Guardian. Bob and Pete formed Saint Etienne in 1990 and released their acclaimed tenth album, I've Been Trying To Tell You, last year
He has compiled and annotated archive compilations over the years including Gather In The Mushrooms, Velvet Tinmine, Tea & Symphony, English Weather and Choctaw Ridge, as well as the Saint Etienne Presents series. Bob's book Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop was published by Faber & Faber in 2013; the prequel, Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop, will be published in May.
SIMON RAYMONDE IN CONVERSATION
WITH JOHN ROBB
13:00 - 14:00
Simon Raymonde
10 years ago John Robb spoke with Bella Union's Simon Raymonde at Sound+Vision in Norwich Arts Centre.
One question John asked was 'Who would be a dream signing for Bella Union?' to which Simon responded without hesitation "Patti Smith", but it was like suggesting a bucket list ambition was to go to the moon. So it does seem somewhat remarkable that since that chat, Bella Union has released not one, but four albums with Patti Smith and her collaborators Soundwalk Collective.
Alot more water has passed under the bridge since then, and notably Simon's return to music making in 2017 with his new project Lost Horizons. Two double albums have been released since then, with the promise of more to come, but it is the
the 25th anniversary of the label this year that sees new albums arrive from five of the label's biggest artists. The label began working with Beach House on their first lp back in 2006 and 16 years later, Once Twice Melody was just released, their eighth album with Bella Union.
John Robb
John Robb is a many-faceted creature.
Bassist and singer for post-punk mainstays The Membranes, author, journalist, DJ, publisher and talking head, he's all these things and more like his ground breaking new scheme called the Green Britain Academy to train up to 700 000 apprentices in Eco jobs and also Borders Blurred - a gaming and music agency with a twist.
He grew up in Blackpool before punk rock came along and saved his life and he formed the Membranes - the highly influential post punk band whose current albums keep pushing forward with added choirs and textures and are critically acclaimed.
He was one of the leading post punk fanzine writers in the UK with ‘Rox’ before he went on to write for the rock press with Sounds and was the first person to interview Nirvana and coined the expression Britpop and was instrumental in kick starting and documenting the Madchester scene with his writing. His music and culture website louderthanwar.com is currently one of the biggest music and culture sites in the UK.
John Robb is a key face on TV and radio. He is one of the UK’s leading in conversation hosts who has his own successful youtube channel and his own books and music event called Louder Than Words.
He has written many books (best sellers like ‘Punk Rock - an Oral History’ and The Stone Roses and the Resurrection of British Pop’ - he is currently finishing writing a new book on Goth and post punk called ’The Art Of Darkness’ and his 2021 book about the leading Eco energy boss Dale Vince from Ecotricity. he is working on his autobiography.
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