Dr Bramwell http://www.drbramwell.com Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 One Hand Clapping http://www.drbramwell.com/2012/04/28/one-hand-clapping/ http://www.drbramwell.com/2012/04/28/one-hand-clapping/#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:02:48 +0000 Dr Bramwell http://www.drbramwell.com/?p=894

Click this text and the link will take you to a recently completed Radio 3 documentary on the role of clapping in music. In it there’s an interview with the legendary Steve Reich, Queen of Kitsch Lorraine Bowen and also the answer the age-old Zen koan, ‘What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping’? Though, to be honest, it was pinched from the Simpsons. To listen to last year’s Radio 3 program, the Haunted Moustache, click on the tash banner on the right and follow the link.

Dr B x

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‘A haunting and melodically beautiful album’ SUNDAY TIMES
It’s been two years in the pipeline but finally the third album by Oddfellow’s Casino is coming out on release in early January 2012. The artwork has been created by Stewart Armstrong and the album produced by Andrew Philips of Grasscut (Ninja Tunes). The first single, Winter in a Strange Town had its first play on BBC6 last week and we’ve got two new videos you can watch here: www.oddfellowscasino.com/video
The album launch party will be on February 23rd at the Hanbury Ballroom in Brighton. See calendar for more information.

On a different note, I’ll be presenting a documentary about the role of clapping in music on Friday, Feb 24th, 8.20pm or thereabouts, on Radio 3 which includes an interview with the minimalist composer Steve Reich and apple crumble-lover and musician Lorraine Bowen!

Dr B x

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Another full crowd at the Round Room, Port Eliot.

Dr B. and his crack team will be out and about this summer performing the No9 Bus to Utopia and Sing-along-a-Wickerman! at a number of UK festivals, including Port Elliot, Green Man, Wilderness, Play Group, Trill Farm and the Ramsgate Arts Festival. Further details can be found in the gig diary.
Have a lovely summer
Dr Bramwell

]]> http://www.drbramwell.com/2011/07/29/786/feed/ 0 The doctor and genius BBC producer Sara-Jane Hall bag a Sony Award! http://www.drbramwell.com/2011/05/17/the-doctor-bags-a-silver-sony-award/ http://www.drbramwell.com/2011/05/17/the-doctor-bags-a-silver-sony-award/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 15:22:12 +0000 Dr Bramwell http://www.drbramwell.com/?p=754

Silver Award for ‘Best Radio Feature 2011: The Haunted Moustache’ and ‘best-dressed Scottish impersonator’

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In collaboration with Playgroup, Brighton’s celebrated spoken word night, the Catalyst Club presents EXOTICA, a series of outlandish, entertaining and enlightening talks throughout the May Festival in the unique POP-UP VENUE (Hector’s House on Grand Parade) on themes ranging from ghost trains and freakshows to utopias, camping and vaginas. Each night will feature special guest speakers plus surprise performers from the festival itself. Come and be inspired, learn stuff, share your festival tips in our audience review section, meet the performers and maybe even push the boat out and have half a shandy.
All tickets £6
Evenings start 7.30pm-late
Tickets in advance from: http://www.concorde2.co.uk/events or, to avoid booking fees email the doctor direct
See Calendar or www.catalystclub.co.uk for details

]]> http://www.drbramwell.com/2011/05/03/catalyst-takes-over-secret-venue-for-brighton-festival/feed/ 0 Oddfellows play Brighton Basement April 29th http://www.drbramwell.com/2011/04/16/oddfellows-play-brighton-basement-april-29th-2/ http://www.drbramwell.com/2011/04/16/oddfellows-play-brighton-basement-april-29th-2/#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:58:54 +0000 Dr Bramwell http://www.drbramwell.com/?p=664 The lovely Hedgerow Society are putting on another music night at the Basement in Kensington Street on Friday April 29th. I shall be doing a set of Oddfellow’s tracks old and new, on the themes of hauntings, birds, death and Doncaster. We’ll also be showing the film Ballad of Oddfellow, made by Toby Amies and starring Dali model Drako Zarhazar, Atters, Heidi Heelz and myself, complete with a mixed Oddfellows soundtrack.
It’s also the night of the Royal Wedding so what better escape…
Dr Bramwell
x

The Hedgerow Society present…

Oddfellows Casino
(with support from Laura Hocking and the Long Goodbye)

An evening of music, film and birdsong

April 29th 8pm-Midnight
The Basement
24 Kensington Street
Brighton BN1 4AJ

Tickets £5 on the door or in advance from www.wegottickets.com

]]> http://www.drbramwell.com/2011/04/16/oddfellows-play-brighton-basement-april-29th-2/feed/ 0 What Spring holds in store for the good doctor… http://www.drbramwell.com/2011/03/20/what-january-holds-in-store-for-the-good-doctor/ http://www.drbramwell.com/2011/03/20/what-january-holds-in-store-for-the-good-doctor/#comments Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:34:03 +0000 Dr Bramwell http://www.drbramwell.com/?p=506 For those who missed the famous TED lectures at Brighton’s Sallis Benney Theatre in January, the doctor and eleven other speakers spoke around the theme of ‘Reasons to be Cheerful, an Optimistic Look Forward,’ the videos for Dr B’s No9 Bus to Utopia can be seen at: http://tedxbrighton.co.uk/previous/2011/speakers-and-talks/david-bramwell

Radio 3′s Haunted Moustache has just been nominated by the BBC for a Sony Award in May. If it wins the doctor has promised to buy everyone in the universe a pint of shandy.

The Catalyst Club is in full swing. Regular nights are now running in Brighton’s Latest Music Bar and London’s Last Tuesday Society in Hackney every month. See Catalyst Club website for details and Dr Bramwell’s calendar for dates.

Oddfellows Casino are finally launching their fourth release this autumn with ‘the Raven’s Empire’ a collection of songs on the themes of death and hauntings. Cheery stuff. They’ll be launching some these new songs in Estonia, as part of the Schilling Festival this July!

More news as it comes.
x

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Radio 3′s Haunted Moustache was selected for an Italia Prix award in July 2010 and is now available on www.speechification.com where it can be downloaded as a podcast. For those who don’t know it, it speechification is a brilliant site for lovers of spoken word radio. It’s a sort of round up of the best stuff going on in world with an obvious bias towards radio 4!

SingalongaWickerman! is all set up for a tour of the UK for autumn. Dates for the Green Man pub near Dumfries, the Bath film festival, Lowry in Manchester, and Picture House cinemas in Oxford, Exeter, LIverpool and Birmingham will be going up shortly.

The Catalyst Club has taken up a residency at the Last Tuesday Society in Hackney and will be taking guest speakers every second Friday of the month to perform in this unique and creepy venue. I will be doing a talk on Utopia (no surprise) on November 12th and Sarah Angliss (aka Space Dog) on December 10th.

]]> http://www.drbramwell.com/2010/08/03/plans-for-the-autumn/feed/ 0 Award-nomination for BBC R3 program! http://www.drbramwell.com/2010/06/08/award-nomination-for-bbc-r3-program/ http://www.drbramwell.com/2010/06/08/award-nomination-for-bbc-r3-program/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:24:28 +0000 Dr Bramwell http://www.drbramwell.com/?p=462 Thanks to the mad genius of producer Sara Jane Hall, Radio 3′s version of the Haunted Moustache has ben nominated for a coveted Italia Prix Award this summer 2010. We have no idea what category it has been chosen for. We can only presume, ‘best facial hair feature’.
The program included the wheezy music of the doctor’s band Oddfellows Casino, the recording of a Wiccan priest in Shoreham, a seance in Hackney and an ayahuasca shaman in..well….the covered market by the Level. It was aired Saturday 27th March 11pm but with the help of a giant magnet and a time machine can be heard again by clicking on the Haunted Tash banner on the main page!

]]> http://www.drbramwell.com/2010/06/08/award-nomination-for-bbc-r3-program/feed/ 0 Festival News! http://www.drbramwell.com/2010/04/19/festival-news/ http://www.drbramwell.com/2010/04/19/festival-news/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:48:22 +0000 Dr Bramwell http://www.drbramwell.com/?p=437 The doctor’s new one-man show, the Number Nine Bus to Utopia (directed by Emma Kilbey and her dog, Ronnie Barker), will be making its debut at the Earth Ship in Stanmer Park for four nights this year during Brighton festival, 7th, 8th, 21st, 22nd May. 7.30pm.

ABOUT THE SHOW
Simply executed with just a table, chair, coat-stand and hot tub (!) the No 9 Bus to Utopia takes the audience on a roller-coaster ride through the history and philosophy of some of the West’s most fantastical communities combined with Bramwell’s own autobiographical adventures and insights into how, practically, we could all bring a greater sense of community back to our city lives.

The No 9 Bus to Utopia combines Bramwell’s trademark styles of theatre, comedy, anecdote and lecture-style slide shows, and recalls the storytelling styles of such performers as Ken Campbell, Claire Dowie and Spalding Gray.
The show ends with the unveiling of Bramwell’s own plans for turning Brighton into his own utopia and a Q&A that could turn messy…

The Number Nine bus to Utopia follows on the success of The Haunted Moustache, a one-man storytelling theatre show which premièred at the Brighton Festival in 2008. and won two Fringe Festival Awards and a BBC radio 3 commission.

Brighton’s Earth Ship, Stanmer Park
Fri/Sat 7th/8th May, Fri/Sat 21/22nd May 7.30pm
£10+£2.50 bus fare
BUY TICKETS
Big Lemon Bus leaves 6.30pm each evening @ Three at Ten Old Steine or make your own way there.

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