BARROWFULL / INTO THE MUSIC

This is Daz Burke, musician. We talked on saturday about his relationship with music and pop culture.   We agree that pop is information, and we talked about how, in the right - or wrong - hands, pop can inform, enable, and subvert;  how part of its allure is the search and the sniffing out of the next bit of info and the one after that.   How recorded music  inhabits us and the places we move around in;  its agency and affect and its ability to act as a stimulus, a point of cohesion. How It  arrives, moves in, and leaves us changed. If it leaves at all.  We talked about where Daz found the info on his doorstep in Barrow,  about the current draining ubiquity of pop, on the need for a local underground of some sort, where if only for a short period you can find community,  and enjoy those sudden shifts in the landscape when the mode of the music changes.You can hear the outcome in June.   Thanks Daz, nice afternoon. Daz's records...Chaino " Jungle Echoes" Esquivel " E

 Wandered down to the MIND allotment today to run some mixes past Glenn and Arnie, and met a few more of their colleagues who were happy to become our first, informal, audience.  Everyone laughed and nodded in the right places, and made some interesting connections between the voices, the words and the music...Trainspotting, Sleaford Mods and  the Doors got a mention, which, I must say, I think I took very well.... The excerpts from group conversations at the start of the project give the work a bit of additional context, and have turned out to be useful throughout. I've used them as the basis for questions and topics to be explored in other  interviews and conversations.  There's a lot of cross referencing throughout, suggesting a lot of shared priorities and pre-occupations, spanning different periods in the life and times of the local scene.