Apartment ~ News

Apartment is awaiting news on funding to inform visitors to our blog of forthcoming exhibitions. Berlin based artist Nikola Irmer is the next confirmed show, details will follow soon. Lamport Court where Apartment is based continues to be a centre of various cultural activity. LoneLady (above) continues to create electrifying music on the seventh floor, and has just released a vinyl; ‘Early the haste comes’ is available in all good outlets, for more information on LoneLady visit Lamport Court based independent record label Filthy Home Recordings. Lamport Court poetry magazine continues to support new writing. Paul Harfleet is about to feature his Pansy Project at the Homotopia Festival in Liverpool. Hilary Jack is currently exhibiting at CUBE in Manchester and is preparing a show for Transition Gallery in London. This is not to mention the other bands, artists, DJ’s and musicians based in this unlikely artistic hub.

Willy Mason / House Concert Tour

Above Willy Mason

Apartment was delighted to host a special acoustic gig by Willy Mason as part of his House Concert Tour. What a lovely evening it was, a huge thank you to all of the people that were able to come; you were a wonderful audience and a massive thanks to Willy Mason. What a joy he was! This was the second gig we've hosted at Apartment; LoneLady played last year; that too was great. There is something quite magical about these intimate small scale gigs, we might do another soon so keep an eye on the blog for information.

Below an image of the gig which better captures the atmosphere

LoneLady

LoneLady has been selected to perform at the world famous ‘South by Southwest’ festival in Austin, Texas; Apartment is hosting a one off acoustic fundraising gig:

Thursday March 2^nd 7pm-9pm @ Apartment

The reason for this unexpected creative alliance is that Apartment and LoneLady both reside at Lamport Court; AKA ‘Rock ‘n Roll Towers’. Whilst Apartment runs its artistic activities from the sixth floor; LoneLady writes and records her music in an architecturally identical seventh floor flat. So in an unbridled celebration of this hot bed of artistic and creative talent Apartment is proclaiming allegiance with Lonelady by hosting this fundraising event in the hope that LoneLady is able to exploit every opportunity presented to her in the USA.

“Spewing forth from her Manchester Council flat… LoneLady conjures up sleazy, guttural mantras backed by her blazing Telecaster”

City Life Magazine

For more information on Lonelady visit: www.lonelady.blogspot.com

LoneLady

Above an image of LoneLady's fantastic acoustic fundraising performance at Apartment; Thanks so much to all those who attended. We raised over £250 that will go towards funding LoneLady's trip to Texas. For More information on; and to keep track of LoneLady you can visit the site above, to listen to some samples of her music you can visit: www.myspace.com/hiholonelady