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Modern
Music Review stunts: Silly moments, stupid gestures, utter failures
“Maciunas was a staunch opponent of personal enrichment and came up with
spartan solutions for almost every life situation. Despite his tireless
efforts, he never achieved his ultimate goal, and he died impoverished and
in miserable circumstances.”
Modern
Music Review stunt no 1
From a review from the Harrogate Advertiser, July 31, 2009
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
Music to Murder By, Crown Hotel, Harrogate.
At the end
of the event, after the panel of famous writers have edged their way through
the throng to the hotel's temporary book shop to sign autographs, a figure
makes his way up to the host Andrew Male. The deputy editor of music
magazine Mojo suddenly finds pushed into his hands a large envelope bearing
the legend www.modernmusicreview.com "these people are the enemy." "A
strange young man asked me to give you this," says the figure before
scurrying off.
Previous stunts from the people behind Charm
Alternative Dance event, 1999
Live electro-dance acts mixed with Bill Haley & The Comets and Cajun on the
PA. People dance.
Harrogate International Festival Fringe, 2003
Ambient Noise Samples event: Headliners in cows heads playing 40 tracks in
20 minutes made from samples. People laugh..
Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word event, 2005
Old trad folk acts play with young singer-songwriters. People dance.
Harrogate International Festival Fringe, 2002
Charm presents The Elements Suite. Post-rock band Nothing interpret Brian
Wilson’s unfinished Elements Suite from Smile on cinema stage as Godfrey
Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi is shown. Cinema withdraws permission for film to be
shown. Event cancelled.
Harrogate Theatre Music Party, 2005
Charm organisers perform poetry and spoken word passages by Allen Ginsberg,
Radiohead, Huter S Thompson and Alistair Cooke to recorded music and mouth
bass. Twelve people watch.
Blue Bar, Harrogate, 2005
Charm ambushes headlining rock band The Husbands by arranging for a jazz
saxophonist to walk on stage to play a roaring solo by surprise. Band
surprised. Band annoyed. No one impressed.
The great outdoors, 2006
Charm by the River event. Live acts in secret rural location. Omitted to
inform audience where secret location was. Acts turned up , audience turned
up - not in the same place at the same time.
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