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Mike Mallett and the Waysiders

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About Me

A series of collaborations around the performance/musical work of writer/artist, Mike Mallett.
Soon to start work on 'Our Caustic Us: the Castner Kellner Square Dance' to be performed at various North West venues after Xmas. 'Dancers' required for this project: no dance experience or aptitude required, just an urge to do something life-affirming, joyous and slightly odd.
Recently completed a short run of the choral performance piece 'Garagantua'. A clumsy attempt to film it can be viewed below.

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Member Since: 4/2/2007
Band Members: Recent collaborators for 'Gargantua': -
Dave McManus, Harry Gallimore, Ian Simpson, Kerry Chapman, Mark Taylor, Penny Kirby, Suzy Fitzpatrick.
Influences: random co-incidences that gives you that shimmery warm delusion that there’s a magical truth out there somewhere … Frank Randle … the Annual Knutsford Naturist Crown Green Bowling Championship … cards left on the message board in the Asda … the Orford Hotel Carrot Club…the look in the eye when you accidentally enter the popular side of the bar … the Nature Theatre of Oklahoma ... graffiti you can’t quite understand … alsatians with dummies in their mouths … ‘Slow Night’ at the Bluebell … Theodore Major …lane-rage at Woolston Baths … neon laser comelight mirror ... local newspaper accounts of the murders of people you used to half-know … Lee Briers … that face you make in bluetack and then stick staples in the eyes …‘The Waysiders’: stockists of china and glass ornaments and figurines; 38 Horsemarket Street, WA1 1XZ ... and not forgetting: -

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Gargantua

'Garagantua' was a choral-cum-performance piece devised around an old piece of writing.  We wanted it to be a cathartic ritual for a post-industrial town.  Deliberately awkward and aton...
Posted by Mike Mallett and the Waysiders on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:26:00 PST