Archive for the 'Manchester' Category
Posted by listenhear on 14th May 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7399067.stm
100,000 Glasgow Rangers fans descend on Manchester. Final Score Rangers 0 Zenit St. Petersburg 2. Unfortunately it turned quite nasty after the game, with some rioting and violence, the mess and litter left behind was unforgivable. Despite a positive start, the event turned out to be memorable for the wrong reasons.
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Posted by listenhear on 13th May 2008
Glasgow Rangers supporters have started turning up in droves today for tomorrows UEFA Cup Final against Zenit St. Petersburg. Noisy, but so far pretty well behaved….Political songs being sung, a very different atmosphere from the Brighton Beach bar.
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Posted by listenhear on 4th May 2008
Traffic and birdsong, a wet Sunday morning in North Manchester.
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Posted by listenhear on 18th January 2008
Latitude 53° 28′56.15″N
Longitude 2°14′39.54″W
14:25 Friday 18th January 2008
A wet Friday afternoon…
Street Sound #1
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Posted by listenhear on 18th December 2007
A brief walk around the German Christmas market in St. Ann’s Square, Manchester.
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Posted by listenhear on 11th December 2007
After a 13 hour day in the theatre perhaps the last thing you need is; to share the jouney home with a bunch of Take That fans in an overcrowded tram…..
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Posted by listenhear on 27th November 2007
Some noisy, but extremely well behaved and likable Sporting Lisbon fans, singing in Manchester city centre before tonight’s football match against Manchester United.
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Posted by listenhear on 3rd November 2007
The familiar sounds of north Manchester with added Guy Fawkes firework party mayhem……
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Posted by listenhear on 31st October 2007
Beautiful colours outside my window this morning.
So, it’s Halloween and north Manchester has been thrown into darkness, a power cut….or at least I hope (cue: very deep reverberant long laugh) thats what’s happened…(cue: Squeaky floorboard and the sound of a quiet irregular breath behind me)….
So all I have is about 30 minutes battery life on my laptop and a few samples to play with and………..
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Posted by listenhear on 18th October 2007
My friend Linda recommended this, do watch…some stuff we all know about but also a few surprises….
So it’s turning cold.
As I waited on the tram station platform this evening I began to ponder the lack of whistling in the world…whatever happened to people walking along the road whistling a favourite tune? I haven’t heard anyone doing this in ages….the world may be a pretty awful place at the moment, but maybe things might feel a little better if….I want to encourage the return of whistling, so if you’re a window cleaner, postman, milkman start whistling again today…I’m going to start practising. Mind you if Roger Whittaker ever reads this, then I hope he’ll ignore this plea….whistling that well is just plain annoying… Right….time for a cup of tea….
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Posted by listenhear on 10th October 2007
My regular morning walk from Manchester Victoria station to the theatre. Not a great recording, but such noise, fountains, buses, jumbo TV screens, lorries……
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Posted by listenhear on 18th September 2007
The first slightly chilly morning and it’s beginning to feel Autumnal, the sun is shining but a heavy dew lies on the surrounding roofs and grass. The leaves are turning and promising such wonderful colours, my favourite time of year approaches. The upgraded Metrolink track makes the passing trams almost silent, as they speed south towards Manchester.
So much depressing news on the TV once again today, but fresh mornings like today make me feel positive.
News stories this morning tell me that 2 graffiti artists get 12 and 15 months imprisonment whilst those found guilty of downloading child pornography get 10 months, eh? I enjoy good graffiti, the bad stuff annoys me…much like music and sound. OK, I accept that what those artists did was illegal but a slap on the wrists and some community service would have been punishment enough.,.if I read about our prisons being overcrowded again…surely it is the responsibility of authority to encourage and guide…
http://www.designatedarea.co.uk/enter.html
Manchester Graffiti
Latitude 53°32′10.69″N Longitude 2°16′58.52″W 7.30am
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Posted by listenhear on 9th September 2007
After nearly a 90 hour week spent on the battlefields of Harfleur and Agincourt, what better way to spend a Sunday morning!
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Posted by listenhear on 9th September 2007
So, Saturday afternoon, I was just waiting to go and watch another Henry V preview and the UK’s first Art Car Parade passed the theatre. Some really amazing vehicles, many had been converted to become mechanical motorised instruments. Fantastic.
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Posted by listenhear on 3rd August 2007
Latitude 53° 28′56.15″N
Longitude 2°14′39.54″W
14:54 Wednesday 1st August 2007
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Posted by listenhear on 25th July 2007
And todays parade is…..
‘The Freedom of the City Parade’ by the Royal Lancashire Regiment…or some such like bunch. something to do with losing so many members of that Regiment in that war that’s occurring at the moment, the one which shouldn’t really be happening type thang…Nevertheless Still A seriously tragic, sad, senseless and pointless loss of a young peoples lives.
Although, Uhmm, giving the freedom of a city like Manchester to a bunch of Squaddies? Did anyone really think this through?
Other military news today, as we’re on the subject…the Government have ordered two more Aircraft Carriers at a cost of something like 3.4 Billion pounds, meanwhile they’ve applied for European funding to help those stricken by the terrible floods in the Midlands, because we must be broke….how many hospitals, schools, homes, flood victims would that kind of money help….priorities in Westminster? If only we could all afford those toys we’d really like to buy and apply to Europe in order to pay the Household bills…
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Posted by listenhear on 13th July 2007
A small demonstration by the Congo Support Project has just passed my window…
hey,….this is my demo recording…maybe I’ll package it and send it to some record companies 
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Posted by listenhear on 16th May 2007
I’m wondering if anyone has a ’sound’ which they’d like to contribute to ‘The Babel Bell’ project at the forthcoming Scenofest at the Prague Quadrennial 2007.
The idea is that before each presentation, or event, on the Scenofest stage some loudspeakers mounted at the top of the Tower of Babel (a huge structure being built nearby) will relay a sound, which will herald people to the theatre. This sound can be anything whatsoever it’s simply down to you and your imagination. The only conditions are; that your sound should be no more than 1 minute long, that no payment will be due or made if they’re used and please do not infringe anyones’s copyright! These sounds must be all your own work…
Please send you your sounds to me, Steve@scenofest.org. I’ll look forward to receiving them, or answering any other questions you might have.
For further info on Scenofest and the Prague Quadrennial take a look at http://www.scenofest.org and http://www.pq.cz.
You don’t have to be a Sound Designer or Sound Artist, anyone can submit a sound….go on you know you want too..
And finally…..something for the weekend…
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Posted by listenhear on 13th May 2007
9am
Latitude 53°32′10.69″N
Longitude 2°16′58.52″W
Those who know me, or have read/listened to some of my past posts, will know that I quite like a peaceful Sunday morning, not sure why, because to me this day of the week is much like any other. But I do like to simply lay in bed listening to people endlessly witter on the radio, or sometimes, I watch TV and laugh at the smug ‘oh aren’t we so ironic’ style of presentation on Channel Four. But when I’m in Manchester it isn’t the sound of Seagulls which wakes me, but the sound of this awful ‘electronic’ Church Bell. Yep not the romance real one but a digital ring much like the sound you’d expect from an overlarge wristwatch.
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Posted by listenhear on 11th April 2007
Latitude 53°28′54.89″N
Longitude 2°14′19.68″W
7pm
Waiting for my tram home; feeling like summer is about to begin, buskers, lively banter and a crowded early evening city centre.
Saw a great sign today, no camera, but it read “Danger Temporary Flooring Under Foot”…correct me please, if I’m wrong, but are the last two words in that sentence really necessary?
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