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power to the
penguin!
http://www.puregroove.co.uk/search.asp?FromForm=1&Search=Josh+weller Good Luck Josh!
 UNION CHAPEL 16/03/08: Colleen (Leaf) With Max de Wardener featuring the Elysian Quartet plus Vox Cordis choir address: Compton
Terrace, London N1 2UN
price: £10 in advance / £12 on door time: 7pm Where do I get tickets? http://www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?e%7Cartist=COLLEEN&n|artist=null& resultsperpage=20&filler1=see&filler2=art-srch How do I get there? Highbury & Islington Tube/Train And the directions? www.unionchapel.org.uk/pages/how_to_get_here.html  QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL address: price: time: How do I get there? And the directions? www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visiting-us JUST ANNOUNCED!!! We've secured Montag, The Slow Life & Rival Consoles for a gig on 15th April at the Corsica Studios. Tickets are available now. www.wegottickets.com/event/28117  COLLEEN We asked Colleen some simple questions and she kindly obliged us with these words about resting, architecture and how much she loves cooking: Right now musically I’m having a break of sorts. I play a lot of music, but mostly not my own (I’m playing a lot of viola da gamba and am trying to refocus on the piano, which was an instrument I’d started learning by myself about two years ago, but didn’t really dedicate myself to, due to all the work I had to do on my viola da gamba). I feel like I did so much in 2006 and early 2007 (composing and recording the equivalent of three albums within one year : Colleen et les boîtes à musique, Les ondes silencieuses and then a 50-minute dance score), and in general over the past five years, that I really felt like having a time of not recording at all and not putting myself under any kind of pressure in terms of 'I have to prepare a new album'. Sometimes I feel a bit guilty about it, but I certainly think it’s impossible to be constantly inspired, especially if you’re caught in a whirlpool of events, and it allows me to focus on other things outside music, so right now I’m reading a lot (mostly about architecture, gardens, design, and ceramics), visiting lots of museums in Paris, and also cooking a lot (I have to say that right now I feel as passionate about cooking as about music!). That said right now I’m preparing a special 20-minute piece for a festival called Presences Electronique which takes place in an amazing concert hall at Maison de la Radio in Paris, in late March, and I’m very excited about it as I’ll be using gongs and a vibraphone – something I’ll certainly never be able to play again after that particular performance! I went on tour in Japan for the second time in January this year, and again I was blown away by what I saw: temples, gardens, nature, all under the snow … It’s the sort of thing that’s hard to describe in words but it definitely stays with me and embodies the sort of feeling I would like my music to evoke to listeners. In general, I find it extremely stimulating to look at great works of art in other disciplines such as the ones I mentioned earlier. I’m actually very excited about playing at Union Chapel, because if the venue sounds as fabulous as it looks, then I think it’ll be very special indeed. I’m also looking forward to all my other gigs actually, as they’re all taking place in places that I love (Portugal, Italy, New York…) or look forward to visiting for the first time (Riga). And if everything goes well there should be some dates in Brazil later on this year, which I really hope will happen, as I’ve never been to South America. Find out more about Colleen and her music: www.colleen.org www.myspace.com/colleenmusique  INNER CIRCLE: Pika Pika
We love working with the Arctic
Circle, the projects just seem to get bigger and more elaborate.
One day we will probably be having an Arctic Circle parade through the
streets of London with giant inflatable penguins and polar bears filling
the sky. We are ready for that day!
It has been a long, long month. As you may recall, my erstwhile diary was last hijacked by you-know-who. Ahem. Well, dear reader I’m sure you have succeeded in deducing that I have out witted ‘he who is short of stature and brain’ and am once again in full control of the pen. I do not wish to dwell on exactly what happened in the few short hours that Tinkles held me captive and just how I wrangled my escape; suffice to say that the old trick of exclaiming ‘look!’ and pointing played significant role. Since then our routine here in the station has been relatively normal, if that is a suitable word given our particular circumstances. Tinkles has been occupying his time in the running of a seal sanctuary, all very noble were it not taking up most of our own dormitory. I can barely step across the room dear reader without going head over tail-feathers across a slumbering furry form. Tinkles has been encouraging the talents of his charges and they have recently formed a barber-shop quartet. Who knew that seals could sing in harmony! Oh dear, oh dear. Your long-suffering Chief Penguin
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