THE HEART OF SWINTON SUNDAY MARCH 17TH 5.30-7PM AGNES HOPKINS COMMUNITY CENTRE FREE This event brings to a close the Not Quite Light weekend in Swinton, but what a way to go out as we lay on a free feast of entertainment and cuisine from the local area, reflecting the richly diverse cultural mix within the town. As well as food, there will be a ukulele band, poetry and spoken word performance from a local literacy group that uses the […]
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VENUES FOR NOT QUITE LIGHT 2024 ALL VENUES ARE FULLY ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT TO SWINTON: TRAIN TO SWINTON STATION FROM MANCHESTER VICTORIA BUS 36,37, 38 FROM PICCADILLY GARDENS BEE NETWORK LINK CAR: ALL DAY PARKING AT CHURCH STREET MAP LINK HERE ASDA, MORRISONS AND ALDI SUPERMARKET CAR PARKS, VARYING TIMES, FREE. SWINTON SQUARE SHOPPING PRECINCT: Swinton, M27 4BD OPENING HOURS: SATURDAY 9AM-5.30PM SUNDAY 10AM-4PM ARTS LET LOOSE: The Unit 69-73 The Parade, Swinton M274BD THE GRAND PALAIS: 11 Station Road, Swinton, […]
Join Not Quite Light for an eclectic mix of delicious music and field recordings… This month I make a final visit to the house of my late nana, just before it’s finally sold, after being in the family since 1958. I record the sounds of the house, and my feelings as I say goodbye to somewhere that has been part of my whole life. Music features tracks by Pefkin, Loula Yorke, Anja Garbarek and Harry Seacombe… LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
Join Not Quite Light for an eclectic mix of delicious music and field recordings… This month I take a look back on 2023, the year just gone. Originally broadcast live just after Christmas, this show features music and soundscapes featured during the past twleve months. It was quite moving, and also inspirational, to hear the sounds I recorded last year, providing a provocative reminder of the life I experienced. Sounds from Manchester, Salford, Hull, Paris, Portugal and Poland. Music featured […]
I recently took photographs which have slightly evolved Not Quite Light in the city. I’ve begun to seek out spaces which are ostensibly public, and which yet are unsettling in the twilight. Often they are areas used for leisure, or green spaces, but that were once industrial areas, now reclaimed for other uses. The initial three photographs from this collection are now exclusively available as limited edition prints via the Saul Hay Gallery in Castlefield. They can be bought in […]
THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS AVAILABLE AS A LIMITED EDITION PRINT, AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY VIA SAUL HAY GALLERY Fear comes with me when I work in the twilight. As I stand by my tripod, waiting for minutes to pass as I take my photographs, I’m as much engaged with risk, as I am with the scene before me, constantly casting around for signs of danger, animalistic instincts awoken by my isolation in darkened surroundings. In the stillness of half-light, everything is exaggerated. Sound, […]
THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS AVAILABLE AS A LIMITED EDITION PRINT, EXCLUSIVELY VIA SAUL HAY GALLERY… When is dusk? For me it’s a period of time that can last for over an hour. If you’re staring at a darkening sky, searching for the last of the light, it’s a state of mind as much as anything else. There was a sign on the railings that quite clearly stated that the park would be locked up at dusk. The winter sky was awash […]
THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS AVAILABLE AS A LIMITED EDITION PRINT EXCLUSIVELY VIA SAUL HAY GALLERY It’s not the clock that sets our feelings towards any particular space, it’s light, or its absence, setting that particular agenda. And now that it’s winter time, when dusk falls across the end of the working day, our familiar paths home become shrouded in darkness, altering our perceptions of known places. And so we tend to gather around around light. On a recent Friday tea-time, I’m […]