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Rich seam of solidarity
GARETH DAVIES-JONES has unearthed some great source material for his song cycle celebrating the north east’s mining communities, says Mike Quille
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
AS OF last autumn, Gareth Davies-Jones has been in residence at the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers in Newcastle Upon Tyne, where he’s been digging through the institute’s archives and collections for a unique songwriting project dubbed The Seam.
The result is the recently released album The Usual Quarterly Days and Davies-Jones is currently on the road touring songs from it around the north east.
He couldn’t have picked a better place to do his research than the mining institute, a cathedral to mining safety.
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