BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:202@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20150828 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20150901 DTSTAMP:20150827T102245Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/palm-house-commissions-weekend-o f-events-for-liverpool-international-music-festival/ SUMMARY:Sefton Park Palm House: The Palm House: Liverpool International Mus ic Festival Commissions - Liverpool: Next Stop New York Weekend of Events DESCRIPTION:Liverpool: Next Stop New York\nFREE party and weekend of explor ation at The Palm House\n\nA free party featuring legendary Merseyside DJs Greg Wilson &\; Les Spaine\, panels and Q&\;As with the Real Thing ’s Eddie Amoo\, and an art exhibition featuring the Specials’ Horace P anter are among the events celebrating how Black American music and cultur e infiltrated Liverpool via New York this weekend.\n\nTracing these roots from the post-war period through to the nineties\, Liverpool: Next Stop Ne w York will celebrate the music that formed unique bond between the two tr ans-Atlantic cities\, in a free\, four-part LIMF commissioned extravaganza .\n\nLaunch Party - Friday 28th August\nTaking to the iconic Palm House in Sefton Park\, the party on 28 August at 19.30 promises to be the highligh t of the four events. With DJs including Greg Wilson\, the first-come-firs t-served free party is sure to fill up quickly\n\nWorking at Manchester’ s Legend\, Wirral born Wilson took the cutting edge sounds coming over fro m New York and introduced them to a Manchester crowd in the late seventies and early eighties\, both establishing the electro-funk/boogie scene in t he city and playing an essential role in the UK’s adoption of mixing DJs - the tradition of announcing records still ingrained in the culture at t he time. On the back of his success at Legend he was hired as the first ‘dance music specialist’ at the later legendary Haçienda in 1983.\n\n Returning to Liverpool is Les Spaine. Born in Sierra Leone and then brough t to Liverpool\, Spaine made his mark on UK club culture in the seventies during his time at The Timepiece. Contrary to the belief that all Northern DJs played Northern Soul\, DJs like Les spearheaded Liverpool’s defiant move against the grain\, playing funk and soul records from the likes of Marvin Gaye and Kool &\; The Gang. Held in high regard by those in the know\, Les went on to work for both Motown and Capitol Records after his t ime at Liverpool’s infamous funk and soul club.\n\nA key figure in Manch ester’s funk and soul underbelly in the nineties\, Mark Rae’s Grand Ce ntral Records harnessed the soul-driven hip-hop sound coming out of the ci ty at the time and combining it with the best he could find further afield . Bridging the gap between jazz\, funk\, reggae\, hip-hop\, breakbeat and jungle\, his DJ sets draw from a whole history of Black American and Briti sh music.\n\nDeep-rooted in the city’s hip-hop culture\, having pushed i t forward since the late nineties\, No Fakin’ are a Liverpool hip-hop co llective born out of a night of the same name. Made up of Kwinzola and DJ Illson\, they use four turntables to create a semi-live show\, blending an d layering their way through a kaleidoscopic array of music anchored in hi p-hop\, complemented by live instruments\, samplers\, drum-machines and mo re.\n\nExploration - Saturday 29th &\; Sunday 30th August\n\nSplit over Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 August from midday until 18.00\, an engaging ex ploration features a range of Q&\;A sessions\, discussions and panels w ith music between and during. Covering a range of topics relating to Liver pool’s connection with US black music and culture\, the interactive talk s draw together a range of knowledgeable people drawing from first hand ex perience.\n\nCunard Yanks Ritchie Barton and Billy Harrison will lead the talks exploring the influence the trans-Atlantic cruise-liner they worked on had on the city\, while the Liverpool: From The Chants to The Real Thin g will feature Eddie Amoo\, famed for his work with both bands in the 1960 s and 70s and Ozzie Yue\, who went on from his Merseybeat-fame with The Hi deaways to become a familiar face on British television.\n\nTalks on the I nfluence of Radio will be hosted by presenter BBC Radio Merseyside’s Sun day evening Upfront Show Ngunan Adamu\, the local DJ with an encyclopedic knowledge of the city\, Bernie Connor and presenter of the Friday night St reetBeats Show on Wirral Radio\, DJ 2Kind.\n\nRenowned local selectors Ste phen ‘The Principal’ Nze and Ivan ‘The Russian’ Freeman will be ex ploring the history of Social Clubs and Soundsystems in L8 in talks that w ill seque into a discussion around the Earthbeat movement of the late eigh ties and early nineties with the visual artist Jonathan Swaine.\n\nOn top of this\, The Role of the Club DJ in Liverpool will be discussed by Norman Killon and Greg Wilson - the former at the vanguard of the Liverpool scen e\, pushing the boundaries at The Sink\, the latter at the vanguard of the development of the modern DJ in the UK\, the first person to mix two reco rds together on British TV.\n\nSATURDAY 29TH AUGUST\n\n12PM - LIVERPOOL ST ATE OF MIND - EXPLORING THE REASONS FOR THE ARRIVAL AND IMPACT OF BLACK AM ERICAN MUSIC IN LIVERPOOL\n\nFeat. GREG WILSON / LEVI TAFARI / YAW OWUSU ( NBTM AGENCY / LIMF) / MIKE BADGER / HOSTED BY ROGER HILL (PURE MUSICAL SEN SATIONS)\n\n(DJ Set - Mark Johnstone)\n\n- -\n\n1.30PM - MAKING WAVES: THE IMPORTANCE OF RADIO DISCUSSING THE ROLE OF RADIO IN LIVERPOOL - THE SOUND S AND IDEAS THAT WERE DISSEMINATED\, AND THE WAY IT AFFECTED MUSIC PRODUCE D AND PLAYED IN THE CITY\n\nFeat. SPYKATCHA / NGUNAN ADAMU (UPFRONT / BBC MERSEYSIDE) / BERNIE CONNOR (THE SOUND OF MUSIC) / HOSTED BY ROGER HILL (P URE MUSICAL SENSATIONS)\n\n(DJ Set - Bido Lito DJs)\n\n- -\n\n3PM - ERICS TO EARTHBEAT - EXPLORING THE PERIOD FROM THE LATE 1970s TO LATE 1980s\, AN D THE EMERGENCE OF NEW BLACK MUSIC IN LIVERPOOL AT THIS TIME\n\nFeat. NORM AN KILLON (THE SINK / ERICS) / JONATHAN SWAIN / JENNIFER JOHN / HOSTED BY BRYAN BIGGS\n\n- -\n\n4.30PM - THE CLUB DJ IN LIVERPOOL - DISCUSSING THE R OLE OF THE CLUB DJ IN SOURCING\, ACQUIRING AND SPREADING NEW BLACK AMERICA N SOUNDS\n\nFeat. NORMAN KILLON (THE SINK / ERICS) / LES SPAINE (THE TIMEP IECE / MOTOWN) / DJ OLABEAN / IVAN THE RUSSIAN / HOSTED BY GREG WILSON\n\n SUNDAY 30TH AUGUST\n\n12PM - THE CUNARD YANKS: NEXT STOP NEW YORK EXPLORIN G THE ROLE OF THE CUNARD YANKS IN INTRODUCING LIVERPOOL TO BLACK AMERICAN MUSIC THROUGHOUT THE 1950s &\; 1960s\n\nFeat. ORIGINAL CUNARD YANKS\, R ITCHIE BARTON\, BILLY HARRISON\, JOE BLUNDELL\, JOHN HIBBERT\, ALAN WEBSTE R / HOSTED BY STUART BORTHWICK\n\n(DJ set - Beaten Tracks)\n\n13.30PM - TH E CHANTS TO THE REAL THING - SPECIAL GUEST EDDIE AMOO CHARTING THE PROGRES SION AND APPROPRIATION OF BLACK MUSIC IN LIVERPOOL\, FROM THE LATE 1950s T O THE LATE 1970s\n\nFeat. EDDIE AMOO (THE CHANTS / THE REAL THING) / LES S PAINE (THE TIMEPIECE) / OZZIE YUE / BEA FREEMAN / LAURENCE WESTGAPH / HOST ED BY BRYAN BIGGS\n\n(DJ Set - No Fakin')\n\n3PM - FIRST IN COMMAND... - T HE GROWTH OF HIP HOP IN LIVERPOOL DISCUSSING THE ARRIVAL\, INFLUENCE AND A PPROPRIATION OF HIP HOP CULTURE IN LIVERPOOL\n\nFeat. DJ 2KIND / NIKKI BLA ZE / D FRESH / TONY BROKE / HOSTED BY CURTIS WATT\n\n4.15PM - THE SOUND OF MUSIC - THE SOCIAL CLUB TO THE SOUND SYSTEM - EXPLORING THE IMPORTANCE AN D ROLE OF THE THRIVING LIVERPOOL 8 SOCIAL CLUB SCENE\, THE TRANSITION TO B LOCK PARTIES AND SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE\, AND OTHER HAPPENINGS AT THAT TIME\ nFeat. STEPHEN NZE - THE PRINCIPAL / CHARLIE C / IVAN THE RUSSIAN / JONATH AN SWAIN / DJ 2KIND / MUHAMMAD KHALIL AKA EUGENE SAMUEL LANGE / HOSTED BY BERNIE CONNOR\n\nMarketplace - Monday 31st August\n\nTo round things off o n Monday 31 August\, from midday until 18.00\, Liverpool: Next Stop New Yo rk will return to Sefton Park’s Palm House in the form of a marketplace. Boasting an array of vinyl from some of the region’s premier retailers and record labels\, alongside screen-prints\, posters and other must-have collectibles.\n\nExhibition at the View Two Gallery\n\nFrom 7 – 31 Augus t\, an exhibition at the View Two Gallery on Mathew Street will set the co ntext for the series of events. Investigating the links between Liverpool and New York and how they was enhanced by a love and appreciation of Black American music and culture\, the RedHouse Originals curated gallery and e xhibition will feature an array of works from artists and photographers wi th links to both cities.\n\nAs well as an exclusively commissioned sculptu re by Mike Badger of The La’s and original paintings by Horace Panter of The Specials the exhibition will also feature work by acclaimed artists\, Dudley Edwards\, Pete McKee\, Low Coney and The Studio of Ezra.\n\nAlongs ide the exhibition a range of archive photography\, including that of Live rpool based photographer Mark McNulty\, will be displayed to shine more li ght on the fascinating post-war period. With contributions from original C unard Yanks themselves and selections from the archives of the Liverpool E cho\, National Museums Liverpool and the International Slavery Museum\, th ere’s plenty to draw from when building a picture of the era.\n\nFollowi ng the development of Liverpool’s culture later down the line\, the exhi bition will also feature shots of L8 from Tricia’s Porter’s recent exh ibition at Bluecoat\, unseen photographs of Earthbeat taken by Roger Sinek and from Steve Howe’s personal collection.\n\nThis is bolstered by a se ries of eight exclusively commissioned portraits by Liverpool-based photog rapher Robin Clewley\, featuring some of key contributors to the Next Stop New York project. 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