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Urban Strawberry Lunch 1987 – 2007Hit the surf and catch some Links with Liz.

Media Appearances Include:

Television

  • BBC Blue Peter (3 times)
  • Top of the Pops
  • CBBC, X-Change, Oasis
  • Teleganticmegavision
  • The Late Late Show, RTE (with Gaye Byrne)
  • Good Morning Singapore
  • Toy Craft, Making Sense of Science
  • Music Makers
  • Playdays
  • Parallel 9
  • What's New
  • Eurovision Song Contest
  • Good Morning
  • Motormouth
  • Xaranbanc (Malta)
  • Siesta (Malta)
  • Restyle (Malta)
  • BBC Children in Need

Radio

  • Outlook (BBC World Service)
  • Down Your Way
  • In Tune
  • Music Matters
  • Music Machine
  • Radio 5 Live with Johnny Walker
  • Radio 2 Arts Programme with Alan Titchmarsh
  • Pick of the Week
  • Pick of the World  

INTERNATIONAL WORK   

DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, MALTA 
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BUILDING, BRUSSELS – the first ever concert given inside the EU parliament buildings 
BRITISH COUNCIL, SINGAPORE
BRITISH COUNCIL CYPRUS 
BRITISH COUNCIL, MALTA 
COME TOGETHER, BRUSSELS 
KORTRIJK FESTIVAL   
WATERFORD SPROAI 1997 + 2002 
DER HAAN FESTIVAL, BELGIUM 
FRESTAS, Porto 2000 + 2001 
TEMPLE BAR FESTIVAL 2000 + 2007 
MALLOW GARDEN FESTIVAL 
VIVA CITE - Rouen 
GREYSTONES ARTS FESTIVAL County Wicklow 
St PATRICK’S DAY FESTIVAL –1996, 1997, 2006 
REMADE IN PORTUGAL – Lisbon 
BRITISH TELECOM (Prague)
ACADEMIA CONTEMPORANIO do ESPECTACULO, Porto 
BRITISH TOURIST AUTHORITY, DUBLIN                     

SELECTED PERFORMANCES 

LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY - suspension piece for the Architecture Department’s International Winter School in the Golden Gallery
THE LIVING ROOM, GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY BUILDING
TATE LIVERPOOL - September 1995 and The Alternative Turner Prize September 2007 
IMPACT 92, Derry                               
SONIC – national tour featuring Levi Tafari and Eiko Falckenberg 
THE BANQUET - national tour 
EVOLVER - North West Live Art Network Tour
WAKEFIELD THEATRE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE - live premier of the sound track for The Enchantress with Skinning the Cat
PURCELL ROOM, South Bank Centre
THE WATERMANS, LONDON          
EUROPEAN CAR FREE DAY –. Tower Bridge 2002; Liverpool 2003;  Greenwich  2005
THE EARTH CENTRE - USL were the first ever professional arts organisation to appear at the Earth Centre when it opened
EDINBURGH’S HOGMANAY 
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC HALL – Philbusters 1992; Refurbishment 1995; Music For Life 2005

SELECTED COMMISSIONS and PROJECTS 

PLANT INVASION - in partnership with Hope Street
FINEST HOUR - performances and exhibitions 2003 to date including Living With History 2006
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
ISLE OF MAN NATIONAL DAY
WALK THE PLANK – a commission for thirty minutes of new music for a spectacular Fire Show in Bedford 
ELECTIVE AFFINITIES and TESTING THE WATER Sound Track commissions to accompany exhibitions 
SHETLAND ISLANDS COUNCIL
GLITTERBUG BALL 
NEW VIC THEATRE STOKE, BORDERLINES PROJECT
USL @ THE WATERFRONT - a Music for Prepared    Buildings project 
NEW MUSIC 98 - comprising A GOOD HOOT, AMBIENT BLX and SONG OF THE BUILDING - for the 75th conference of the International Society for Contemporary Music
MUSIC FOR PREPARED BUILDINGS - Warwick Arts Centre 
THE ENCHANTRESS - sound track for touring performance 
BIG NOISE - Birmingham Town Hall      

COLLABORATIONS 

HOPE STREET HEALTHY ARTS AND NETHERTON FEELGOOD FACTORY
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 
WALK THE PLANK 1993 to date     
PA BOOM
EMERGENCY EXIT ARTS 1994 + 1996 
SKINNING THE CAT 
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH INTERNATIONAL           
NEXUS DANCE 
JACKDAW MEDIA 
LEVI TAFARI 
THE WIZARDS OF TWIDDLY 
PAULA SIMMS 
WIGAN YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA 

SELECTED FESTIVAL WORK

UK TRIBAL GATHERING 
PHOENIX FESTIVAL 
MANCHESTER FESTIVAL OF EXPRESSIVE ARTS 
ARUNDEL FESTIVAL 
THE MANCHESTER FESTIVAL 
SPITALFIELDS FESTIVAL 
NATIONAL THEATRE ACROSS THE RIVER FESTIVAL 
BEDFORD RIVER FESTIVAL 
LIVERPOOL CYCLE FESTIVAL 
CARDIFF INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 
STREETS OF BRIGHTON FESTIVAL CLUB 
BRACKNELL FESTIVAL 
DULWICH FESTIVAL 
BBC MUSIC LIVE 
BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 
NORFOLK AND NORWICH FESTIVAL 
THE MANCHESTER FESTIVAL 
BLANDFORD FESTIVAL 
COLOURSCAPE FESTIVAL 
RHYTHM STICKS FESTIVAL AT THE SOUTH BANK CENTRE 
ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL 
CAMBRIDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL 
THE KINGS LYN FESTIVAL 
CHELTENHAM INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC 
KORTRIJK FESTIVAL   
WATERFORD SPROAI 
DER HAAN FESTIVAL, BELGIUM 
FRESTAS FESTIVAL, PORTO
KLANKENBERGE IN BLANKENBERGE 
EARAGAIL FESTIVAL, DONEGAL 
CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE WEEK 
TEMPLE BAR FESTIVAL 
MALLOW GARDEN FESTIVAL         
VIVA CITE 
GREYSTONES ARTS FESTIVAL 
GREENWICH AND DOCKLANDS FESTIVAL 
St PATRICK’S DAY FESTIVAL 

CORPORATE WORK

MERSEYSIDE INNOVATION AWARDS CEREMONY 
BRITISH PETROLIUM 
MANCHESTER AIRPORT – 2004 + 2005 + 2007 
EURO 96   
WILD IN YOUR GARDEN
ASTRO ZENICA 
BRITISH TELECOM in Prague 
BK SPORTS 
G-MEX, Manchester 
LIVERPOOL TOWN HALL AND GRANADA TELEVISION 
BRITISH MUSIC FAIR 
BRITISH TOURIST AUTHORITY 
BIRSE CONSTRUCTION 
RESOURCE MARKETING 
SAINSBURYS AND ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND 
REMADE IN PORTUGAL 
BRITISH WATERWAYS 
SCHLUMBERGER RESEARCH 
UNITED UTILITIES 
JAGUAR AND ARTS IN BUSINESS 
CHANNEL 4 AND ACTIVE PR
COMPUTER 2000 
 

EDUCATION CLIENTS INCLUDE

Raw Talent Youth Arts Festival; Pier Pressure Youth Arts Festival; Wigan City Challenge; Leigh Coalfield Challenge; National Youth Arts Festival; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society; Valleys Live 92; Wigan Education; Liverpool City Council; Liverpool Festival of Comedy; Birmingham Town Hall; Haverhill Town Council; Glasgow City Council; Easington District Council; Kings Lyn Festival; Aberdeen Leisure Services; West Belfast Festival; Citylands Curriculum Development Project; Cambridge City Council; Kent County Council; Thamesdown Borough Council; Warwick Arts Centre; The Summer Music Project; Young At Art - The Belfast Festival; Cambridge Music Festival; Rochdale Borough Council; The Firebird Trust; Blackburn with Darwen Music Service; Mole Valley District Council; Tandridge Leisure; Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool; Aldeburgh Productions; Creative Partnerships Merseyside; Blackpool Education; Stoke on Trent Youth Service; Groundwork Trust (National, Blackburn, Wirral, Lancashire, Coventry); Arts Connection, Powys; Wrexham Youth Service; Sefton Education Action Zone; Sure Start, Islington; Museum of Liverpool Life; Kids in Need and Distress, Liverpool; Lake Side Arts Centre; National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Rochdale MBC; Speke Garston Partnership; Arts in Regeneration, Speke; Waterfront Hall, Belfast; Leicester Festival; Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council; Manchester Museum; Liverpool Everyman Youth Theatre; The Royal Festival Hall; New Victoria Theatre, Stoke; Halton Children’s Fund; Children of Deaf Parents UK; Lowry Centre, Manchester; Hope Street Ltd; Tameside Music Service; Barton Moss Secure Centre; Wigan Music Service; Breeze International Youth Festival;  Museum of Welsh Life; Warrington Link Project; Preston Disability Arts Forum; Red Bank Secure Care Centre;
 
 

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