The Shed Spring 2013
12.03.13Seaming To + Kira Kira
03.04.13Mike Harding SOLD OUT
04.04.13Mike Harding SOLD OUT
The Shed at 20 – BBC Radio 3
Shed Builder: Gail Brand, John Walpole (Concept: Simon Thackray) Photo: Kippa Matthews
The Shed at 20
BBC Radio 3 – Jazz on 3, Monday 8 October
A piece about The Shed at 20 with interviews recorded on the banks of Bob’s Pond (scene of the Yorkshire Pudding Boat Race) and The Shed (in Brawby village hall) with creator Simon Thackray and audience members. Includes recordings from The Shed archive of Bob Cobbing and some of Simon’s most memorable events: Mrs Boyes’ Bingo featuring Mark Sanders, Lol Coxhill in a skip and Sebastian Rochford’s Van Gig.
Includes the world premiere of ‘Shed Builder’, a new improvised art event by Simon Thackray featuring Gail Brand on trombone and John Walpole on welder, scaling hammer and pillar drill. ‘Shed Builder’ was recorded live – in one take – in Rye Valley Works, Brawby (fabrication shed of agricultural engineers J. Thackray & Sons Limited) where Simon Thackray made farm buildings in a former life.
“For the past 20 years, The Shed, near the market town of Malton, has been responsible for some of the smallest and most inspired art events in the country.” Alfred Hickling, Guardian
More about Simon Thackray and his special projects here:
The Shed Autumn 2012 / Spring 2013
Bomber Bates and the Airfix Modellers
An art event by Simon Thackray
Saturday 24 November 2pm
The Shed, Brawby
£5 adults (£3 under 12s)
SPECIAL DISCOUNT TICKET OFFER when you buy Airfix Modeller tickets and Bad Moth gig tickets together.
Back by popular demand, Flt. Lt. Dylan (Bomber) Bates will don his WW2 leather flying helmet to pilot another flight of fancy! Bomber Bates plays violin, pocket trumpet, ukulele, spoons and a saw and is a long-time member of Billy Jenkins’ Blues Collective and leader of the improv group Stanley Bad and the Bad Asses and co-founder of Bitten by a Monkey.
Bomber Bates will play a selection of tunes from Tiny Tim to the Beetles and Glenn Miller and you, the audience, are invited to build Airfix models* and / or just sit back and enjoy the trip. NB: the modelling is not obligatory but it’s great fun! *Kits are sold separately.
“The Shed came up trumps again! Splendid Dylan Bomber Bates.” Kitty Lamb, Observer newspaper: ‘My Cultural Week’.
Bomber Bates is wearing a genuine WW2 leather flying helmet (from the National Collection) originally worn by G. Mullinex on 13 sortees between 1939 and 1945. Special thanks to the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York for the loan of the helmet.
Tickets: £5 (£3 under 12s)
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All tickets are sold subject to our terms and conditions.
MONEY CANNOT BE REFUNDED. We do not refund money unless an event is cancelled and we do not give credit for unwanted tickets. We don’t keep waiting lists or details of people wanting tickets. Tickets are non-transferable. Information correct at time of going to press. The Shed reserves the right to change, cancel or postpone events should circumstances dictate.
PHOTOGRAPHY, FILMING OR RECORDING IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.
Bad Moth at The Shed, Brawby 2012 Photo © Simon Thackray
Bad Moth
Saturday 24 November 8pm
The Shed, Brawby
£10 adults (£5 under 12s)
SPECIAL OFFER: Buy joint tickets for both the Bomber Bates & Bad Moth gigs for just £12.50 (£7.50 U12s)
Bad Moth is the duo of Stanley Bad and St. Moth. Fresh from a grand tour of Sardinia, Bad Moth are brimming with songs about food, ambulances, light bulbs and all things bad and moth-like. Stanley Bad is the piano and violin playing alta-ego of Lynda (aka Squeezy) Beast (aka Dylan Bates) and St. Moth is the accordionist and composer Matt Scott.
Featuring the new song inspired by the sound of Sardinian ambulances (la danza dell’ambulanza), and other Bad Moth classics like ‘Peas And Pie 4 T’.
Note for vegetarians: some songs may contain references to meat.
Tickets: £10 adults (£5 under 12s)
Please PRINT your booking confirmation email and bring it with you to the gig. We DO NOT post out actual physical tickets for online bookings.
All tickets are sold subject to our terms and conditions.
MONEY CANNOT BE REFUNDED. We do not refund money unless an event is cancelled and we do not give credit for unwanted tickets. We don’t keep waiting lists or details of people wanting tickets. Tickets are non-transferable. Information correct at time of going to press. The Shed reserves the right to change, cancel or postpone events should circumstances dictate.
PHOTOGRAPHY, FILMING OR RECORDING IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.
Bad Pub
An art event by Simon Thackray
Sunday 25 November 12pm – 3pm
The Shed, Brawby
£3 adults (£2 under 16s)
Once upon a time, over a hundred years ago, Brawby had a pub called the White Swan until the teetotal Methodists bought it and closed it down. Brawby hasn’t had a pub since…
Our good friend Stanley Bad (aka Lynda Beast) has kindly agreed to help us recreate a Sunday lunchtime pub gig in memory of those pre-pedal-power-harmonium sober days. He’ll play familiar tunes on the ‘ole Joanna’ like Roll Out The Barrel and some specially commissioned new Bad Pub songs:
The Old Bad Pub, Horseradish Clouds, Ode to Brawby, Consumption and Singalong Song are just a few of the witty ditties to be premiered. We hereby name Brawby’s new pub ‘Bad Pub’ in Stan’s honour.
NEW: Stan’s Bad Pub Shed Songs are now on Soundcloud!
Come and enjoy a Bad Pub Sunday lunchtime singalong with Stan. Drink Shed Bitter (our delicious real ale), eat plain crisps and pickled or hardboiled eggs! Beautiful free range eggs from Willow Farm, Butterwick, Brawby, Malton.
Tickets: £3 adults (£2 under 12s)
Please PRINT your booking confirmation email and bring it with you to the gig. We DO NOT post out actual physical tickets for online bookings.
All tickets are sold subject to our terms and conditions.
MONEY CANNOT BE REFUNDED. We do not refund money unless an event is cancelled and we do not give credit for unwanted tickets. We don’t keep waiting lists or details of people wanting tickets. Tickets are non-transferable. Information correct at time of going to press. The Shed reserves the right to change, cancel or postpone events should circumstances dictate.
PHOTOGRAPHY, FILMING OR RECORDING IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.
Seaming To + Kira Kira
Tuesday 12 March 8pm
The Shed, Brawby village hall
£15 adults (£10 under 18s) Buy tickets
“The voice of the 21st century.” BBC Radio 1
Seaming To – voice, piano, clarinet, dulcimer, music box, electronics
Enloc Wu – piano
Seaming To has contributed her unique vocals to the music of Robert Wyatt, Jean Claude Vannier, Leila, Homelife, Graham Massey, Herbaliser and Cinematic Orchestra. This captivating singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer will showcase her brand new work Songs For My Grandmother, following the release of her debut CD Seaming.
A compelling new work that combines the skills and experience of three generations of Chinese women traversing vocal and experimental electronic music, Songs For My Grandmother features Seaming To performing alongside her acclaimed concert pianist mother Enloc Wu.
Supported by Kira Kira
Kira Kira
Kira Kira is the alias of Icelandic composer, audio/visual artist and founding member of Kitchen Motors, Kristin Björk Kristjansdottir. Kira Kira has just released her third album Feathermagnetik (Sound Of A Handshake). Her first feature film as director and screenwriter, Grandma Lo-fi – The Basement Tapes of Sigridur Nielsdottir is also just out and has been celebrated in New York’s Museum of Modern Art; MoMA, SXSW and a plethora of other festivals around the world.
Kira Kira will present a 30 minute set incorporating music and visuals from Feathermagnetik and Grandma Lo-Fi.
Tickets: £15 (Under 18s £10) Buy tickets
Please PRINT your booking confirmation email and bring it with you to the gig. We DO NOT post out actual physical tickets for online bookings.
All tickets are sold subject to our terms and conditions.
MONEY CANNOT BE REFUNDED. We do not refund money unless an event is cancelled and we do not give credit for unwanted tickets. We don’t keep waiting lists or details of people wanting tickets. Tickets are non-transferable. Information correct at time of going to press. The Shed reserves the right to change, cancel or postpone events should circumstances dictate.
PHOTOGRAPHY, FILMING OR RECORDING IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.
Mike Harding
Wednesday 3 April 8pm
The Shed, Brawby village hall
SOLD OUT
“Me, a guitar and some more daft stuff”
He’s been described by Billy Connolly as “the funniest man in England” and widely acknowledged as “the grandfather of alternative comedy”.
And now, after 15 years concentrating on writing and broadcasting, fell-walking and fly fishing, Radio 2′s Mike Harding is back on the road.
With a guitar and a back catalogue of more than forty years of material to draw on, you’re invited to join Mike for an evening of daft stories, silly songs and the odd comic monologue.
It’ll be alright if you like laughing.
SOLD OUT
Please PRINT your booking confirmation email and bring it with you to the gig. We DO NOT post out actual physical tickets for online bookings.
All tickets are sold subject to our terms and conditions.
MONEY CANNOT BE REFUNDED. We do not refund money unless an event is cancelled and we do not give credit for unwanted tickets. We don’t keep waiting lists or details of people wanting tickets. Tickets are non-transferable. Information correct at time of going to press. The Shed reserves the right to change, cancel or postpone events should circumstances dictate.
PHOTOGRAPHY, FILMING OR RECORDING IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.
Mike Harding
Thursday 4 April 8pm
The Shed, Brawby village hall
SOLD OUT
“Me, a guitar and some more daft stuff”
He’s been described by Billy Connolly as “the funniest man in England” and widely acknowledged as “the grandfather of alternative comedy”.
And now, after 15 years concentrating on writing and broadcasting, fell-walking and fly fishing, Radio 2′s Mike Harding is back on the road.
With a guitar and a back catalogue of more than forty years of material to draw on, you’re invited to join Mike for an evening of daft stories, silly songs and the odd comic monologue.
It’ll be alright if you like laughing.
SOLD OUT
Please PRINT your booking confirmation email and bring it with you to the gig. We DO NOT post out actual physical tickets for online bookings.
All tickets are sold subject to our terms and conditions.
MONEY CANNOT BE REFUNDED. We do not refund money unless an event is cancelled and we do not give credit for unwanted tickets. We don’t keep waiting lists or details of people wanting tickets. Tickets are non-transferable. Information correct at time of going to press. The Shed reserves the right to change, cancel or postpone events should circumstances dictate.
PHOTOGRAPHY, FILMING OR RECORDING IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.
Michael Marra 1952 – 2012
One of the all-time greats and ‘a best kept secret’ died in October.
Here is a short video of Michael singing “Muggie Shaw” at The Shed November 2010. We invite you to support Michael’s chosen charity, Sistema Scotland.
In the 1970s in Venezuela, Maestro José Antonio Abreu began running music lessons for a handful of children. Today “El Sistema” involves 300,000 children in centres across the South American country.
In the summer of 2008 the charity Sistema Scotland established its Big Noise orchestra in Raploch, Stirling. Big Noise is officially partnered with the Venezuelan programme and has the same aim – to transform lives with music.
We’re sharing the money raised from The Shed’s Christmas raffle with Sistema Scotland and Akosia Mongolia Project.
Please donate to Sistema Scotland.
Bari and friends enjoying painting, Mongolia, 2010
Akosia Mongolia Project
We’re sharing the money raised from The Shed’s Christmas raffle with Sistema Scotland and Akosia Mongolia Project.
Akosia Mongolia Project is a partnership between the UK based charity Akosia and CYPPD, Mongolia. Children and Young People Protection and Development was established in 2002 by a Mongolian woman called Batoya. A social worker in Ulaanbaatar, Batoya wanted to do more for the young people living on the fringes of society. CYPPD works with children aged 12 – 24 including children working in factories, street children, children recycling rubbish from dumps, victims of abuse and child trafficking. Many children seek refuge in underground pipes to escape winter temperatures that drop to -40C. CYPPD raises money to buy traditional Mongolian Gers (felt yurts) to provide safer places for the children to stay.
Here is Bati, who loved singing. Filmed by Mary Thackray at summer camp in 2010. (Bati is second from the left in the photo above).
Please donate to Akosia Mongolia Project
The Religion is the Blues
Trailer of a new documentary by film maker Antonio Rui Ribeiro about the guitarist Billy Jenkins. Includes interviews with comedian Stewart Lee, music critic and writer John L. Walters and Simon Thackray from The Shed. A chance to learn more about the radical great singer, songwriter and composer.
