What do Beth Gibbons, Gaika, Elizabeth Fraser, Crass, WW1, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter, a load of mushrooms, and burning bad shit have in common? Robert Pacitti on SPILL Festival + time.
This is the fourth SPILL Festival taking place in Ipswich, and this year’s festival is bigger than ever. We have live performances, sound and music, film and video, plus projects exploring heritage and place, all made by some of the world’s most exciting contemporary artists.
"It's also about how bloody sexy we are too, hun" - Scottee on Fat Blokes
Queer artist, activist and all round piece of “feminist ’n’ working class fat brilliance”, Scottee, has a new show that yet again smashes the staid narratives and challenges the norms.
Down Syndrome Radical Beauties in the Truth to Power Cafe
Image credit: Jeremy Goldstein, photographed by Kate Holmes.
‘Truth to Power Cafe’ is a new international performance event wowing audiences in UK, Netherlands, Australia, and Croatia. Their only London dates are on 30th and 31st October at the Roundhouse where 20 London participants will rise up in the name of free speech and political activism, and respond to the question ‘who has power over you and what do you want to say to them?’ before a live audience.
The nocturnal activities of a sleep-talker and walker. Tom Adams on his experimental gig-theatre show - Elephant and Castle
Performer and composer Tom Adams and Lillian Henley (Associate Composer of 1927) are a married couple and have made a Gig Theatre show about sleep talking and sleep walking, using over three years of sleep talk recordings of Tom. What you see is a tender, funny, intimate and sometimes dark portrait of a relationship, exploring the meaningless utterances that Tom speaks in the night.