Martin Archer has been throwing various combinations of sonic stuff at sticky Sheffield surfaces since the late Seventies.
Assembling the forty, largely untrained, singers of Juxtavoices in atmospheric locations, he channels their breathy extemporisations through texts by Samuel Becket, Gertrude Stein and the venerable sound poet Bob Cobbing, who would have loved Juxtavoices’ inchoate evisceration of Are Your Children Safe In The Sea? Here’s a mass exorcism, a whole tribe talking in tongues, forty full moon were-Ligetis, and Wicker Man workings wrangled by the Swingle Singers.
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Nicetime, Guardian.co.uk
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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GRTak, finalgear.com
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Carcrazychica, Youtube
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Sidsings000, Youtube
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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John Robins, Comedian
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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