We went to more theatre/music/art in Burnley than I ever did when I lived in London – partly because you couldn’t quite believe what was being put on in this post industrial backwater Continue reading Urban Myth & Magic
The process of creating LANTERNHOUSE was unique. There was an unusual partnership between the client (WSI artists), the architect and the builder. Continue reading Lantern HOUSE
Not having got married me and Kate didn’t even have an anniversary marker date to hang a celebration on if we had wanted too. Continue reading Odd Weddings
I guess we were trying to make a political point. Something along the lines of ‘this festival really has no meaning for us and we’re only going along with it because everyone else is’. Continue reading Xmas is coming…
People In Common would utilise much of this new information to take control of it’s next funeral following the death of member Malcolm Cockcroft in the late 1990’s Continue reading Four Funerals and the Odd Wedding Part 2
The day of the frame raising was the point where construction and performance intersected. In a one-off never-to-be-repeated event … Continue reading BARN 2
The decision to build a replacement workshop using medieval building techniques, with a largely volunteer labour force, was arrived at by a sort of osmosis of ideas… Continue reading BARN 1
HOUSE was an ambitious attempt to apply the artist-led-community-engaged ethos of WSI to a construction project… Continue reading HOUSE
No-one wants to think about planning a funeral. Most of us are fearful, vulnerable and unprepared because we organise a funeral so infrequently. A painful & confusing task…. Continue reading Four Funerals and the Odd Wedding
I remember talking about how we might finally move from our terraced houses in Burnleywood to The Mill at Altham. I had one fantasy that we could do the removal….. Continue reading Doing up the Mill (Part 6) – Moving in
