MTO live at the Rites of Spring: Ikon Music Festival
Thursday 7, Friday 8 and Saturday 9 April, 7–11pm
Ikon Eastside, 183 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham B5 5SE
Ikon presents Rites of Spring, a special festival of live music taking place 7-9 April 2011 at Ikon Eastside, Digbeth.
Modified Toy Orchestra, Martin Creed and his band and Fyfe Dangerfield headline the three-night festival, which showcases a pick of emerging folk, pop and electronic talent from Birmingham and further afield.
The Lineup:
Thursday 7 April
Modified Toy Orchestra
epic45
Shady Bard
Poppy Tibbetts
Friends of the Stars
Friday 8 April
Martin Creed and his band
David Cunningham
Matmos (video set)
Is I Cinema
Arc Vel
Saturday 9 April
Fyfe Dangerfield
Lulu and the Lampshades
Boat to Row
Young Runaways
Timothy Parkes
Doors open 7pm
First act 7.30pm
Headline act 10pm
TICKETS
£12 (£10 students with valid NUS card) per night or £30 (£27) for all three nights.
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This blog has no connection with Brian Duffy, Warm Circuit or anything like that. It's a homage, a monument of love. We love you Brian.
"Brian Duffy, award winning sound artist and creator of the Modified Toy Orchestra, has been at the forefront of a world wide underground movement called circuit bending which involves rescuing childrens electronic toys from car boot sales, and converting them into new strange and wonderfully sophisticated musical instruments. Taking them apart, he finds new connections hidden within each toys circuits that reveal new sounds, exposing the surplus value of redundant technology. The toys are then reassembled including switches and dials with which to control this surplus value. The results of this process can be shockingly beautiful, funny and extreme and have led to Brian being labeled a genius, a madman, and a national treasure."
