Peter Hook, Howard Marks and more join the Words In Motion line-up!
April 30th, 2010 by sparky
‘An Evening of Unknown Pleasures’ with Peter Hook and Howard Marks
We’re delighted to announce that co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, bassist Peter Hook will be taking to the Words in Motion stage with the best selling author and notorious drug smuggler Howard Marks in a talk that will engage and captivate Chillers.
Peter Hook – legendary bass-slinger with two of the most influential bands in British pop music history, Joy Division and New Order – has always been out there on his own somehow, as an artist, an icon and as the architect of his own oblivion.
Having recently reinvented himself as a respected DJ, author and raconteur, Hooky will appear at The Big Chill with Howard Marks, in a conversational show that will see the duo open up about their rock and roll shenanigans and pasts.
Clutching some cherished memories and rock memorabilia, the celebrated musician, scribe and mouthpiece will be fessing up, pouring forth and telling all to Howard Marks, including the tragi-comic tale of the Manchester nightclub, The Haçienda, and the two seminal groups that paid for it.
Swapping rock venue for theatre seat, Hooky and Howard will talk candidly about the tragedy, hysteria, debauchery and disaster that have characterized his three decade career – and famously consigned both his bands and his club to history and legend.
Compered by Wales’ own legend of the counter-culture and man of many guises, Mr Nice, An Evening Of Unknown Pleasures with Peter Hook promises to be an exhilarating ride. Telling tales of the sex, drugs and rock’n’roll madness, mayhem and general misadventure behind the Manchester and Madchester scenes, the successfully rehabilitated Hooky will also recount some of the rip-roaring stories featured in his best selling book and lift the lid on events that, for reasons of prudence, weren’t featured on lawyers advice.
But they’re not the only additions to this year’s literary line-up…
Paul Morley on Michael Jackson
Acclaimed music journalist Paul Morley examines Michael Jackson’s place in 21st-century pop. To read Paul Morley’s Observer feature ‘The untimely, shady death of Michael Jackson’, please click here.
Shlomo
After his incredible performance alongside Big Chill favourites Hexstatic last year, Shlomo returns to The Big Chill, this time for a more intimate performance in the Words In Motion Tent. Read more here.
John Shuttleworth
Graham Fellows is best known for his comic creation – John Shuttleworth, a mild-mannered Sheffield would-be singer-songwriter in his fifties. Fellows first rose to fame in 1978, with the novelty punk single ‘Jilted John’ (produced by the late, great Martin Hannett), which went to No. 4 in the UK, with it’s timeless refrain of ‘Gordon is a moron’. Read more…
Lynn Barber ‘An Education’
Lynn Barber’s true story, now a new film of the same name – at 16, the Observer journalist was an ambitious schoolgirl working towards a place at Oxford, when she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man in a sports car. So began a relationship that almost wrecked her life. Read more…
Loops Journal Talks featuring Owen Hatherley
‘So Much to Answer For: Post Punk Urbanism in Manchester’
Wordoodles…from the Doodlebug side of life up North
Doodlebug presents…was given birth to in June 2001, with a unique performance of Japanese Butoh by Tokyo artist, Ken Mai. Since then an indiscriminate series of presentations at various venues in Manchester, London and beyond have inspired many. It remains a gem of intimately provocative mind-food, smeared with a wonky mix of live music, movement, short films, dramatic extracts, juxtaposed debate, sneaky whispers…and food. Read more…
Charlie Dark’s School of Dark featuring;
Kate Tempest
Without a doubt one of the best performance poets in the country at present, Kate Tempest’s rapid-fire lyrics encapsulate urban life. While she’s not one to shy to fade away from telling it exactly how it is, her words are motivating and inspiring, and her delivery is electric.
Sound of Rum
Sound of Rum formed in the summer of 2008. Since then rapper Kate Tempest, guitarist Archie Marsh and drummer Ferry Lawrenson have been playing gigs all over Britain, at every festival going – whether on actual stages or just busking in the rain.
Polarbear
Will be accompanying the performances with his own short-story responses. Read more…
Speakers Corner Quartet
