Fwd: Tonight, 6:30pm - Colloquium for Unpopular Culture: The Rise and Fall of the Nosebleeds (1977), presented by Michael C. Vazquez
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THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE presents:
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE NOSEBLEEDS (dir. John Crumpton, 1977), 20 min
Presented by Michael C. Vazquez
WHEN: Monday 23 April 2012, 6:30pm
WHERE: Room 471, 20 Cooper Square [East 5th and Bowery]
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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The Manchester music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s has hardly wanted for attention in recent years. Whether on film (Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People or Anton Corbijn’s Control), literature (James Nice’s Shadowplayers, Mark E. Smith’s Renegades), or photography (Kevin Cummins’s Manchester: Looking For The Light Through The Pouring Rain, the city that birthed labels such as New Hormones, Object Music and Play Hard has been endlessly documented and dramatized.
And then there’s THE RISE AND FALL OF THE NOSEBLEEDS, a twenty-minute film that was never released, never distributed, and has been shown only once, in Manchester in 2005. It’s a lost chronicle of The Nosebleeds, a punk band led by Ed Banger who released only one 7-inch record (on Rabid Records), Aint Bin To No Music School/ Fascist Pigs. Yet, in its brief lifetime, the band’s members included a pre-Smiths Morrissey, a pre-Cult Billy Duffy and – as captured in Crumpton’s film – a pre-Durutti Column Vini Reilly. Impossibly no-fi, historically significant (it shows what may be the moment Reilly and future Factory-supremo Tony Wilson first met), and raggedly moving, it is a film no Manchester music obsessive should miss.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE NOSEBLEEDS will be presented by Michael C. Vazquez, Senior Editor at Bidoun: Art and Culture from the Middle East. He has published narrowly on food, art, music, and cultural diplomacy, often in the form of conversations. Recent subjects have included Turkish sound artist/progressive metalhead Cevdet Erek, Egyptian artist/musician Hassan Khan, alt-Muslim maestro Michael Muhammad Knight, race and noise music, and the Otolith Group. His memoir of obscurity, Extrapolate Wildly, appeared in the inaugural issue of Texte und Töne, the official journal of the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at New York University. He lives in deep Brooklyn.
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