Stephen Donnelly's Blog – May 2015 Archive (7)

One Note Missing... (6) And the winner is....

Me, Paul and our Dad are all guitar players. Neither Paul nor my Father could bring themselves to learn how to tune a guitar properly so it was always left up to me to do it. There's still 3 or 4 of Paul's left handed guitars dotted between my Dads and Mothers homes. One was restrung for right-handers when we used it for a Bone Cancer…

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Added by Stephen Donnelly on May 22, 2015 at 4:34 — No Comments

One Note Missing (5) - '...a cosmic night of music, live art, performance & ritual...'

"One Note Missing..." is a performance event to mark the start of my artistic residency at Unit 61. The evening will include performances from a collection of artists I have gathered together from all over the planet; a rare, wild and eclectic group of performers, musicians, live artists, dancers, actors and poets. I am honoured to be in their company.' - Marina…

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Added by Stephen Donnelly on May 13, 2015 at 22:23 — No Comments

One Note Missing (4) Step right up, test your strength!

It's Saturday evening, the performance is tomorrow and I'm auditioning for a new sibling. I'm wary about making this a project about me; my grief, my worries, my sadness. There is nothing in Paul, my memory of him, the way he handled his…

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Added by Stephen Donnelly on May 7, 2015 at 6:59 — No Comments

One Note Missing (3) ‘I came, I took some MDMA, my parents bought me a flat.’ (Hackney)

After bumbling around Hackney lost for 10min or so I finally find the right street and Lucy's Studio. I last spoke properly to Lucy during summer 2014 when she was organising several parties across the world linked through the web as part of a durational performance art festival based in Seattle. I was working at NozStock at the same time, and knowing how terrible my signal would become once amongst the green fields of Hereford I recorded a few video blogs as a contribution. I like Lucy,…

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Added by Stephen Donnelly on May 4, 2015 at 17:00 — No Comments

One Note Missing (2) stepping off a bus into a brawl

April 9th

04:23 – MegaBus from Swansea to London. I've brought books but reading them makes me feel travel sick. I have a list of things to-do but it's four in the morning so there's no way. Instead I listen to a podcast about Jackie Chan. I'm not a massive fan of Jackie Chan's films, I've watched Rumble in the Bronx and a few…

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Added by Stephen Donnelly on May 3, 2015 at 10:56 — No Comments

One Note Missing (1)

March '15

I receive an email with from Marina Sossie, an artist and friend, who's just arrived back in the UK from her travels has been offered a residency in Hackney by Lucy, a mutual friend and artist herself. The three of us met in …

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Added by Stephen Donnelly on May 3, 2015 at 5:57 — 1 Comment

Q: Brother, where art thou?

A: In an urn on Mum's mantelpiece.

My younger brother, Paul, was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer aged 16. Despite several invasive operations to attempt to remove his rogue cells and gruelling rounds of chemotherapy I lost a best friend, music appreciation compadre and someone to wind-up endlessly with random noises and stupid jokes in the 0ctober 2008.

The last few years I've found it incredibly difficult to…

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Added by Stephen Donnelly on May 2, 2015 at 5:25 — No Comments

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