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:3770@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180707T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180707T233000 DTSTAMP:20180620T103904Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/the-royal-standard-psycho-comedy -presents-welcome-to-smashville-2/ SUMMARY:The Royal Standard: The Royal Standard: Psycho Comedy Presents: Wel come to Smashville DESCRIPTION:Psycho Comedy Presents: Welcome to Smashville\n\nSaturday 7th J uly 2018 at The Royal Standard\, Liverpool.\n\nDoors: 7pm till late.\n\nPs ycho Comedy Presents: Welcome to Smashville will provide and insight/intro duction in to the surreal world of Psycho Comedy. Taking place at The Roya l Standard in the Northern Lights Complex\, Cains Brewery Village\, the ni ght will showcase both their multi-disciplinary creative output and artist ic concept through:\n\n Live music\n Performance\n Spoken word\n Visua l art/Exhibition\n\nThe night will also include the first ever screening o f the Psycho Comedy documentary\, directed by Caitlin Mongan.\n\nAn art in stillation from Sophia Duff will further explain the concept.\n\nTheir wor k – which encapsulates music\, visual art\, poetry and film – has all been created with the Psycho Comedy concept in mind. All elements of the e vent interconnect to coalesce into one entity: Psycho Comedy.\n\nAdvanced tickets are priced at £6 and can be purchased from https://www.eventbrite .com/e/psycho-comedy-presents-welcome-to-smashville-tickets-46300831032?af f=es2\n\nTickets are limited and advanced booking is advised.\n\n \;\n \nTHE PSYCHO COMEDY CONCEPT \n\n \;\n\nPsycho Comedy translates as a s chizophrenic acquaintance of myself - Shaun Powell. Delving in and out of two mindsets and ways of life\; the debauched and the candid. The tracks a re stories that derive from personal episodes since the of age 16 to the p resent day.\n\nThe conceptual town of ‘Smashville’ is the scene for th e unhinged happenings where everything is immoral\, a parallel land to the perceived morality of our own. When it arises from the immoral\, the mora l side of its inhabitants’ psyche searches for purity and calm\, only to inevitably return to the debauched and chaotic.\n\nThe Psycho Comedy dog print (logo) is known as ‘Varmint’\, which represents the ugly side of the personality than reigns in ‘Smashville’. Listen to the tracks and you will hear a conversation between the opposing sides of the personalit y. The moral and the immoral. The Apollonian and the Dionysian. Almost lik e a battle.\n\nInfluences derive from New York artists\, musicians and poe ts (Patti Smith\, Lou Reed\, Johnny Thunders\, Television etc) as they alw ays seem to have had an intoxicating yet sincere struggle.\n\nINTOXICATING /SINCERE. Can you see the two mind sets and the influence settling in?\n\n The name Psycho Comedy originates from the Comic Strip Presents\, with pow erful\, deranged humour being a reference point to the ongoing satire with in the tracks. If you explore these tracks you will find elements of humou r\, ridicule and parody.\n\nThough starting primarily as a band\, we have evolved as a collective encapsulating music\, performance\, poetry and vis ual art. Our work explores the real and surreal nature of Psycho Comedy an d Smashville. The dual\, yet entwined\, natures of the candid\, the fantas tical\, the debauched\, the virtuous\, the hedonistic\, the disciplined\, the moral\, the immoral\, the humorous and the serious.\n\nDelve in.\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n-              Shaun Powell\, Psycho Comedy. 2018\n\ n \;\n\n \;\n\nABOUT PSYCHO COMEDY\n\nPsycho Comedy are a Liverpoo l based (born and raised) band and art collective who blend music\, perfor mance\, spoken word and visual art. Their work is created from the perspec tive of the Psycho Comedy concept as conceived by founder\, vocalist and g uitarist Shaun Powell.\n\nThough already a fixture of the Liverpool music scene Psycho Comedy: Welcome to Smashville offers a closer look at the bre adth\, and eclecticism of their work and a greater insight in to their con cept and artistic vison.\n\nPsycho Comedy are:\n\nShaun Powell – Vocals/ Guitar\n\nJack Thompson – Noise Guitar\n\nConnor Duff – Bass\n\nLydia McGhee – Guitar\n\nJack Williams – Drums\n\nMatthew Thomas Smith – P oet\n\nSophia Duff - Artist/Curator\n\n \;\n\n \n\nABOUT THE ROYAL ST ANDARD\n\n \n\nThe Royal Standard (TRS) is an artist-led gallery\, studio complex and registered charity based in Liverpool. As an organisation\, w e are dedicated to fostering opportunities for the most outstanding recent graduates and emerging artists through providing affordable studio space\ , free public exhibitions\, events and training. We deliver a public progr amme and monthly workshop programme for our membership simultaneously\, wh ich includes exhibitions\, workshops\, residencies\, social meets\, screen ings\, studio exchanges and group critiques.\n\nEstablished in 2006\, TRS was founded in response to the need for a new organisation that could oper ate between grassroots initiatives and the more established arts instituti ons in the North West. Over 12 years\, we have worked with over 300 artist s and delivered over 70 unique exhibitions and events and grown to support 45 artists based in studios\, as well as 5 project spaces and its own gal lery. This growth was in part enabled by successfully relocating TRS into new larger more central premises in Baltic Creative’s Northern Lights co mplex in October 2016. TRS also works with partners across the North West. We have long standing partnerships with Liverpool Biennial\, Bluecoat\, F ACT\, New Contemporaries\, Newbridge Projects\, Liverpool John Moores Univ ersity\, and critical writing journal and critical writing journal The Dou ble Negative.\n\nThe Royal Standard can be found at Northern Lights\, Cain s Brewery Village\, Grafton Street\, Liverpool\, L8 5SD\n\nFor more inform ation visit:  www.the-royal-standard.com ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2018/06/IMG_1091-1.jpg LOCATION:The Royal Standard\, Northern Lights\, Cains Brewery Village\, Gra fton Street\, Liverpool\, L8 5SD\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.392268;-2.978806 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Northern Lights\, Cains Bre wery Village\, Grafton Street\, Liverpool\, L8 5SD\, Liverpool\, United Ki ngdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The Royal Standard:geo:53.392268,-2.97880 6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180325T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR