Bonobo to provide club culture at festival show
MANCHESTER International Festival and The Warehouse Project are joining forces for a series of shows at Mayfield Depot this autumn.
The former railway station opposite Manchester Piccadilly will host five shows programmed by the festival and clubbing institution, following on from their joint 10 x 10 shows in 2015.
Curated together with BBC 6 Music’s Mary Anne Hobbs and featuring unique visuals from lighting designer, Stuart Bailes, this year’s Special Edition series will open on Saturday, November 3, as Bonobo brings his Outlier series to Manchester.
Previously presented in London and New York, Outlier has seen the producer and DJ – real name Simon Green – harness his talents as a curator and arbiter of club culture, as well as demonstrating his instinctive relationship with music.
Joining him at Mayfield will be Gilles Peterson, George Fitzgerald, Shanti Celeste, Palms Trax and Josey Rebelle. Following on Tuesday, November 6, will be Fever Ray, performing off the back of her criticallyacclaimed second solo album Plunge.
Manchester’s rising grime star Bugzy Malone will perform two consecutive shows on November 8 and 9, giving audiences a double hit of his heavyweight sound and plugging his soon-to-be-released debut album B. Inspired, which is due out in August.
A number of tickets for his shows will be free to young people in Greater Manchester, with more details to be revealed soon.
Producer and DJ duo Bicep will bring the curtain down on the Special Edition series with an expansive live show on Saturday, November 10.
The shows will run alongside The Warehouse Project’s full 2018 season, which is yet to be announced, and will pave the way for the opening of The Factory, the £111m arts centre – dubbed the ‘Guggenheim of the North’ – being built on the Old Granada Studios site as a permanent home for MIF.
Other pre-Factory events giving audiences a glimpse at the work that will be staged at the venue include ‘Everything that happened and would happen,’ by German composer and artist Heiner Goebbels, which has its world premiere at Mayfield from October 10 to 21.
Priority booking for Special Edition tickets opens on Tuesday, July 10, before the general sale opens on Thursday, July 12.
Tickets cost between £22 and £25, and Greater Manchester residents on a lower wage are eligible to apply for £10 tickets. Visit mif.co.uk and thewarehouseproject. com for more information and to book.