>>>MIKE DAWSON & ROBIN NATURE-BOLD’ PRESENT:
‘The Different Souls of Men Gig, Manchester, 2003’
Featuring:
‘Billy Childish & The Buff Medways’
With Special Support by:
‘Edward Barton & Sons’

Also Appearing:

‘Bob & Roberta Smith & Piano’
(with Graham Revell & Saxophone)

AT: Matt & Phreds, Tib St, Manchester, UK
ON:
>Sunday 6th July,
Doors 8pm (on the dot).

BITE ME
Launch Party @ Fed? Oldham Street, Manchester
Monday 23rd June 2003,
7pm - late, £2 OTD

ROBIN NATURE-BOLD performing a 20-30 minute set of music by Edward Barton with live art, see www.mikedawsonart.com

Crime

On show at an art gallery in Manchester is a "sculpture" entitled Stolen, so called because all the material used in its construction has been nicked.

Artist Edward Barton, 34, sent a shoplifter round local supermarkets to bring back cans of lager, nappies, washing powder and toys, all of which he placed in a cage to form his sculpture.

Said Steve Murphy, chairman of the city's police authority, "Only lunatics would call it art. This person is openly promoting crime. It would make the artist an accessory to crime and I am sure the police will be most interested in talking to him."

The Greater Manchester and District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament have a great calender of upcoming gigs beginning this week and continuing over the next couple of months.

Thursday 29th April 2004 (Changed from Friday 30th)
Star and Garter
9.00pm - 1.00am
£4

Performance
Polythene (TBC)
The Strap Ons
Purgatory State
Moon
Compere Edward Barton

Another unmissable night for a good cause

The Greater Manchester and District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament have a great calender of upcoming gigs beginning this week and continuing over the next couple of months.

Things kick off on Friday 27th February 2004
at the Star & Garter.

Doors are : 9.00pm - 1.00am and prices are £5/£4 guest list. On the bill are :

External Menace
Hooker
Icons of Poundland
Politburo
Seven Sisters
DJ Owen (Smile)
Compere: Edward Barton

You can't miss that - especially strange legend Barton !!!

there's also a discount offer of £4 instead of £5 if you send an email to:-

office@nuclearpolicy.info or text 07931 812 965

All proceeds to:
Greater Manchester and District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
T 0161 273 8283 E gmdcnd@gn.apc.org W www.gmdcnd.org.uk
and
The Campaign Against Depleted Uranium
T 0161 273 8293 E info@cadu.org.uk W www.cadu.org.uk

Larry Gott last week played a gig with vocalist Mark Curtis and James associate Edward Barton at the launch of a new bar called SixtySouth in Waterloo near Crosby. In an interview with the Crosby Herald, Larry described the music thus "our style fuses tribal, folk, jazz, classical and R + B music to create a totally unique genre". Larry and Edward are planning to write more songs with a view to releasing an album.

The Comme Ca Art Gallery/ 24 Worsley Street
Castlefield / Manchester / M15 4LD
Edward Barton: A rock bard, musician, composer, poet and artist based in Manchester, well known for writing the Opus 3 hit "It‚s a Fine Day" playing a guitar with a wooden spoon on The Tube, 84 (this also debut of one of his paintings), and his performance nights/events "Misery"and "My Eye Hurts" Barton was the first to open a gallery (Oblong) in Manchester‚s "Afflecks Palace" Because of their Dadaist and often crime-related edge Oblong‚s shows often get as much coverage in the pages of the tabloids as they did in the art press. Since the closure of Oblong in '92 Barton has been writing a lot of poetry and music. He has become a rather reclusive painter and art maker who only surfaces when pestered. For this show Barton will present a series of paintings he made just before the stroke of midnight on New Year‚s Eve, 1999. For further info on Edward Barton visit: www.edwardbarton.com