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Threadfest Bradford: THE FREE MUSIC FESTIVAL IN BRADFORD CELEBRATING INDEPENDENT MUSIC REVEALS ARTS STRAND AND SECOND WAVE OF ACTS‏

March 25, 2014

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BRADFORD THREADFEST

THE FREE MUSIC FESTIVAL IN BRADFORD CELEBRATING INDEPENDENT MUSIC REVEALS ARTS STRAND AND SECOND WAVE OF ACTS

23rd May 23rd – 25th May 2014

The free cross city festival of independent music and art that takes place Spring Bank Holiday May 23 – 25th – has been given a boost to its arts strand in the form of a grant from Arts Council England and support from Bradford Council. Art In Unusual Spaces, a Community Interest Company who curate and commission art in the public realm, have a programme of activity focused in the city’s Oastler Market.

AIUS will create the Dark Matter Institute, a temporary gallery that celebrates ‘the hidden mass of informal creativity that emerges both within and outside of the mainstream; the bleed between the amateur and the professional; work and play; the tensions between making a living and loving what you do; and the precarious conditions, temporary contracts, enforced flexibility, economic recession and strategies of austerity that background this.’

The Dark Matter Institute show a diverse range of work including performance, theatre, film, music and print including commissions from artists across the UK and projects made in response to the market and its people.

Confirmed artists and groups include film and music collaboration Polymitas who recently debuted new work at Berlin’s CTM festival and have featured in The Wire magazine, DIY artist collective Black Dogs whose previous interventions and events have been commissioned by Tate Modern, Margaret Tait Award recipient Rachel Maclean from Glasgow, illustrator and poet Matt The Horse whose work has appeared in The New York Times and The Guardian, Bradford community theatre company Northern Lines, experimental dance group Maho, with more to be announced soon.

Threadfest’s music programme also has an arty slant with Fuse Art Space and leftfield music collective Golden Cabinet programming a diverse and busy Sunday that will include sound artists and musicians from UK and USA including Robert Millis, Phillip Jeck, Female Band, Basic House and Dean McPhee.

New artists confirmed for the rest of the festival include Leeds-based Black Sabbath fused rockers Black Moth (who will be  fresh faced from their tour with Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats) Glasgow folk rock from Two Wings, as well as Cantaloupe, Grey Hairs, Rattle, Sentimentalists, Negative Panda, Crinkle Cuts, Snack Family, Gerrard Bell-fife, Idiot Box, Ironrat, Marry Another, Allusondrugs, and Cleft who will join acts including Japan’s Nissenenmodai, Canada’s Nadja and Bradford’s Monty Casino for a packed weekend full of free independent and underground music. Details at www.bradfordthreadfest.com.

Before the weekend itself is the second of the M@BU (Music at Bradford University) lead-up events, featuring Vilalka from France performing a ‘minimalist opera’, avant-garde anti-choir Juxtavoices from Sheffield, and Bradford’s Stephanie Hladowski. All at Theatre in the Mill on University of Bradford Campus on Saturday 29th March. Tickets and more details at www.brad.ac.uk/music.

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