
Lol Coxhill
in a skip - Concept and photo © Simon Thackray
Simon Thackray
Photographs from The Shed
The Roslyn Lyons Art Gallery
Music Research Centre, University of York
23 April - 27 June 2008
Gallery open: 10am - 5pm Monday
to Friday (and University concert nights).
In 1992, Simon Thackray photographed
his shed door and founded The Shed. This improbable performance
venue in a small village in North Yorkshire has since become
renowned for presenting world-class music and poetry and for
staging the unique art events that Simon dreams up from time
to time. The Yorkshire Pudding Boat Race,
Mrs
Boyes' Bingo featuring Mark Sanders, the Fish
and Chip van tour and Lol Coxhill
in a skip are just a few. Simon conjured the words, music
and participatory knitting spectacular, HAT,
(written and performed by Ian McMillan and Billy Jenkins) and
invented the knitted Elvis wig. Along
the way, he recorded events in a series of 'incidental' photographs
exhibited here for the first time. The famous and the not-so-famous,
on show, off-guard.
'Certain men are notorious
for what they get up to in their sheds. Simon Thackray runs an
arts centre in his. For the past 16 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
"He's a strange'un alright,
but the art world could do with more of his kind of far-reaching
woolly thinking."
Daily Telegraph
Funded by the Heslington Foundation
and University of York
Full
details and biography here:

Time Out: 1000 things to do
in Britain 
Catch a performance in The Shed:
(extract)
"...The Shed is one of
few venues in the country with a location as inspiring as its
programme of live music and performance art. The latter's affinity
with the surreal end of the creative spectrum is largely thanks
to the boundless imagination of its creator, Simon
Thackray, whose ideas are often too large to be limited to
his makeshift stage..."
Editor: Elizabeth Winding (Published
May 2008)

Simon
Thackray introducing
Mrs Boyes' Bingo Photo ©
www.davidxgreen.com
New
to The Shed? Try this!
Click here
to sample the music and the stories of our unique venue in a
special programme celebrating The Shed (first broadcast in June
2005). Hear Simon, Snake Davis, Billy Jenkins, Ian McMillan and
Hank Wangford talking about The Shed and listen to a selection
of great music.
The Shed's Radio Party playlist:
Brendan Power
Chris Smither
Justin Vali
Norma Waterson
Snake Davis (live)
Hank Wangford & the Lost Cowboys
Billy Jenkins (live)
Labi Siffre
Mrs Boyes' Bingo with Mark Sanders
Martin Simpson
Bob Cobbing
Four Brothers
Kevin Coyne
Helen Watson
Party
photos, words and music

The Books at The Shed ©
Mary Thackray
Review: Clogs and The Books
at The Shed
Yorkshire
Evening Press 01.02.2006
"CLOGS, please meet The
Books; The Books, please meet Clogs.
This American musical handshake
was arranged by the British champions of the avant-garde, the
Contemporary Music Network, and last week the two improvisational
bands met up in Massachusetts for the first time, leading to
new acoustic-electronic music to open and close a truly uplifting
and adventurous night, played out to a Shed full house."
Read
the review!

Lol Coxhill in a skip @ FUSELEEDS
'06 - Concept and photo © Simon Thackray
Lol Coxhill in a skip
Saturday 6 May 
Lol Coxhill in a skip - FuseLeeds06. Concept & photo ©
Simon Thackray. Broadcast on Jazz On 3 and Pick Of The Week on
Radio 4.
Lol
Coxhill in a skip

Mrs Boyes' Bingo featuring
Mark Sanders - Concept © Simon Thackray Photo: www.davidxgreen.com
The Shed's Greatest Hits
Yorkshire
Evening Press 11.11.2005
"UNDER a slice of moon and
stars as bright as American teeth, Hovingham's queue for the
Ryedale fish and chip van's weekly village run was longer than
usual. What's more, the hiss of batter had a musical counterpoint..."
Read
the review!
The Fish
and Chip van tour - featuring
Alan Tomlinson.

Fish and Chip van tour - Concept
and photo © Simon Thackray
Free improvisation gets audience
of 1.9 million!
Richard and Judy Show,
6 April 04
"Steve is at the wheel
of his van on a damp, not-too-chilly Tuesday night. Behind him
is his replacement trailer, funded partly by a Countryside Agency
grant. Beside him is a journalist and a trombone player, not
his usual companionship on his journey. (Son Steve, mini-Steve
in his identical frying gear, is in a following car, driven by
The Shed pioneer of improvised arts events, Simon Thackray."
The
Fish and Chip van tour
Sponsored by Sirdar
The Fish and Chip van tour is
a live art event. Copyright Simon Thackray. All rights reserved.
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Yorkshire Pudding Boat Race -
Concept © Simon Thackray Photo © Tony Bartholomew
The Yorkshire Pudding Boat Race
"soon it'll be like Woodstock:
people will pretend they were there - people will want to say,
'I was there when it all started'" Independent on Sunday.
Read
all about it...
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