SLEEVE NOTES
New writing and music for Record Store Day
Sleeve Notes was a collaborative performance response to coincide with Record Store Day 2025. Ten writers teamed up with ten musicians to offer their take on how records have shaped their lives and thinking, each pair creating a brand-new track combining spoken word and music.
The performances went well and the event was a sell out! Some great pictures of the event below taken by the wonderful Nic Chapman
Sarah-Clare Conlon recording her piece
The pieces were performed live by the writers and musicians at the International Burgess Centre in Manchester on the evening of Record Store Day - Saturday 12 April 6.30 - - all precisely timed to coincide with you being able to queue and procure those all-important discs and hotfoot it over and grab a drink and take the weight off and chill out.
All tracks are available as a limited-edition cassette and a free download on Bandcamp
Joe Stretch
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The authors were writer and electronic music journalist Fat Roland, surreal poet Vik Shirley. ex-leader of the band Performance and novelist and lecturer Joe Stretch, poet Lauren McLean of the band Locean, novelist, and short story expert Nicholas Royle, short story writer David Gaffney, musician and writer Adrian Slatcher, poet and lead singer of the March Violets, Rosie Garland, UNESCO city of literature writer Dave Hartley, and experimental poet Sarah-Clare Conlon.
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Vik Shirley
John Foxx - photo Ed Fielding
Composers are Andy Hodson of Warm Digits, ex Ultravox singer and musician John Foxx, Billy Fuller of Beak>, artist Jez Dolan on double bass, Joe Cross from the Courteeners, record producer and DJ Fritz von Runte, The March Violets, electronic musician Rickerly, Tombed Visions label head David McLean and Minimums.
