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Urban Strawberry Lunch 1987 – 2007
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;


