Aoire and John Hall
NEW DATE - WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2025, 7pm
Aoire is local musician and sound artist Shaun Blezard.
He is joined by John Hall for a work in progress combination of text and music as part of the Artspace project Reverb.
This event follows on from the book - Play Summat We Know book and the Play One Of Your Own exhibition at Barrow Dock Museum.
During the Aoire and John Hall concert the music will be made from elements of recordings of local independent bands from the 80s and 90s, mostly taken from old cassettes, many of which have been in various lofts in Barrow for decades.
The music is fragmented and is full of hiss, wow and flutter. Like the degrading of definition from multi generations of tapes and of the hazy memory of youth from a middle aged perspective there is something recognised but vague. The medium is part of the message.
Shaun Blezard
Shaun has been a part of the Barrow music community since the mid 80s, starting as bass player with The Peach Thieves and The Clementines.
Inspired by mid 90s ambient dance he started making electronic music. This has his been his main interest for the last 25 years, incorporating field recordings and free improvisation into his music.
He became the first Cumbrian composer to be featured in the British Music Collection and is returning to the stage after a break of a few years. He has played with musicians from Pere Ubu , The Slits and Mike Flower Pops and many of the leading free improvisers in the UK.
John Hall
John is REVERB's lead artist and Project Manager. He was a founder Director of Full Of Noises and worked with Shaun in the laptop improv band Good Noise Bad Noise. Johns live work has taken him to Glastonbury Festival, the San Paulo Biennale and a Biker bar in Nashville . He produces books, records and audio for broadcast, and produces the pop culture 'zine Flypaper. Counter Culture is a performance version of a piece for Flypaper, on independent record shops and their relationship with the towns and scenes they serve. The text is accompanied by Johns own music , with live treatments from Shaun.
Reverb
REVERB is an Artspace project.
