Friday 16 May
Exhibition Previews
Join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the launch of our Visual Arts exhibitions in bars and galleries across Chorlton. Full details in ‘Visual Arts’.
Burst Couch presents The Sisters of Transistors & Triclops,
featuring Hollowsphere visuals
Long-standing, experimental electronic music event ‘Burst Couch’ presents the best of south Manchester’s cutting edge music talent, The Sisters of Transistors & Triclops. Baroque disco prog from the combo organ quartet to the rag and bone plunderphonia of the beast with three backs, all immersed in a dollop of the Hollowsphere liquid lightshow.
St Clement’s Church | 7pm | Free
Manky Poets with Janet Fisher
Janet Fisher has been co-director of The Poetry Business in Huddersfield for almost 20 years. She is a remarkable poet, who has had two full collections published: ‘Listening to Dancing’, and ‘Women Who Dye Their Hair’. The evening will also include intros and music from copland smith and an opportunity for floor poets to read their work.
‘Her poems illuminate small moments between people, passing threads of conversation, and make of them something resonant and universal.’ – Maura Dooley www.myspace.com/coanco
Chorlton Library Meeting | 7.30pm | £2/£1
The Sterling Trio: Music for a Summer’s Evening
An evening of music for the unusual and exciting combination of flute, clarinet and piano. An eclectic programme of music written between 1550 and 2007, including the British première of ‘Sonata No. 1’ by Gary Schocker.
St Werburgh’s Church | 7.30pm | Free
Cosmophobia
Roll up! Roll up! Fasten your psychological seat belts for a hypnotic and disorienting voyage through the cosmos. Become reduced to an insignificant speck of dust on a pale blue dot as our sinister hosts trap you on a carnival ride into the true, terrifying, mind-wrenching scale of our universe.
Please note: Contains references that may not be suitable for children
The Lloyds Hotel (upstairs) | 8pm | Free
Acoustic Night @ The Hillary Step with Crook and The 100 Club
The 100 Club plays a brand of alternative rock that features pounding drums, heavy bass, and soaring melodies. Smart guitar lines and assured vocals mark them out as something different on the current British musical landscape. Crook is a singer-songwriter who is creeping onto the Manchester acoustic scene. This ‘Manc bloke off the street’ talks casually to his audience as though sitting at their table and invites you to something quite human.
The Hillary Step | 8.30pm | Free
Thingumabob & The Thingumajigs and Lonesome George
‘Sing-along, good time music’ from the Thingumabob Salford based band followed by Lonesome George, R&B band playing popular covers with vocalist Bryony Ward.
The Lloyds Hotel | 9pm | Free
Late Night CAF: The Laura Manship Jazz Quartet
Unwind after a long week as we launch our Late Night CAF series. Founded by students at the Royal Northern College of Music, The Laura Manship Jazz Quartet performs regularly around the North West. Its repertoire consists mainly of jazz standards and arrangements of well known music.
Iguana | 9.30pm | Free