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Preston Tringe Festival: Full line-up of what’s left to come

Posted on - 11th October, 2014 - 12:00pm | Author - | Posted in - City Centre, Music, Nightlife, Preston City Centre, Things to Do in and around Preston, Tringe, What's On in Preston
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Preston Tringe Festival returned across venues in the city on Friday with an eclectic mix of comedy, music and more.

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The festival runs for another week bringing a fringe festival feel to Preston.

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Here’s a breakdown of what’s happening when and where.

Saturday 11 October 2014

8pm – Music with Ska Face

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Formed from the desire to return to the classic sounds of their youth, Ska Face contains ten individual members with a combined age of over 450 years between them. Old enough to know better but young and foolish enough to attempt to re-write the rule book and enjoy music with the passion and honesty that it was designed for.

An antidote to the mass mediocrity played across the country, in a world dominated by media hype, spin, and untruths, Ska Face keep it real and enjoy every minute with an infectious stage show of power, energy and damn good tunes that you just have to dance to. There is no better remedy to a stressful week than a few cheeky drinks and dancing like a loon; and that’s just the band!

Venue: The Continental Price: £7

8.30pm – Oxjam

Oxjam is Oxfam’s month-long music festival. It runs all through October with hundreds of events around the UK all in aid of Oxfam. Since the first Oxjam in 2006, more than 50,000 musicians have played to over 1 million people at around 4,000 Oxjam events nationwide. Oxjam has raised more than £2 million in total for Oxfam: enough to feed 285,000 families; buy 80,000 goats or provide safe water for 1,200 schools.

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Venue: Korova Cafe Bar

Price: Minimum £4 donation

8.30pm – Comedy with Kiri Pritchard-McLean

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Join local comedienne, Kiri Pritchard-McLean for an evening of comedy and laughter.

Venue: Korova Cafe Bar

Price: On the door

Sunday 12 October 2014

7.00 pm – Music with Lizanne Knott (US) plus Bill Reveles

An award-winning singer-songwriter from Philadelphia, PA, USA, Lizanne Knott has been captivating audiences throughout the States and garnering accolades from radio listeners and peers around the globe. She has performed at some of the most prestigious listening venues in the USA steadily gaining ground wherever the road takes her.

Venue: The Continental
Price: £10

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8.30pm – Geins Family Giftshop

Fresh from acclaimed showings at Edinburgh Fringe 2014, Gein’s Family Giftshop bring their unique brand of dark humour to Preston.

Venue: Korova Café Bar Price:

Monday 13 October 2014

8.30pm – Dronology

Musical performances by undergraduate students on the BA (Hons) Music Practice course at UCLan. A series of performances by groups of 3-6 students making prominent use of drones.

Drones are used in music around the world for many different reasons – for beautiful and sublime experiences, as signifiers of power and awe, as minimal measurers of time within stasis, and for their therapeutic potential. Here, several ensembles explore musical drones.

Venue: The Adelphi Price: £4

8.30pm – Modify My Vagina by Claire Doyle

This exhibition (already performed at The Arts Centre. Ormskirk. Feb 2014) involves an audience modifying a plaster mold of my vagina with glitter, paint, feathers, etc. The customised molds are then displayed.

If the piece was to be less interactive, I would be happy to simply display the molds I have kept since the last showing of this piece.

I hope the participants can use this occasion to consider and discuss stigma and taboo surrounding female genitalia.

Have you ever seen a vagina that has NEVER been designed to look or feel anything other than its natural state?

Do you have a preferable vagina type? No hair? Lots of hair? Piercings? Small labia/clitoris? Large labia/clitoris? No labia? No clitoris?

The modification of female genitalia such as hair removal, vaginal bleaching, surgery, and genital mutilation are available and even promoted by cultures and media surrounding us daily. These procedures usually occur so a level of acceptance can be created in a culture that thinks genitalia’s natural appearance is a taboo.

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Venue: Cafe Korova Price: £3 Age: 18+

Tuesday 14 October 2014

7pm – Preston’s People Choir

A session with the Preston People’s Choir, a group who sing unaccompanied and usually in 3 or 4 part harmony. This is a session rather than a performance so the audience will be expected to join the group and learn some songs with us.

Come and join the Preston People’s Choir! No audition, no music-reading, no need to have a great voice. Singing arrangements of popular music and folk songs from around the world, this is not a performance – it is a chance to join in.

Venue: Korova Café Bar

Price: On the door

8.30pm – The Tom Short & Kate McCabe Stand-up Hour

This is an Edinburgh-style split bill. Tom Short and Kate McCabe will each be performing a half an hour of stand-up comedy.

The two performers have a complimentary style based in observation and the ridiculous.

Tom Short from Salford & Kate McCabe from America might not SEEM to have much in common. But they ARE both stand-ups doing a half an hour a piece in this exact space starting at this exact time. So, there’s that.

Venue: Korova Cafe Bar

Price: On the door

Wednesday 15 October 2014

7pm – Worldwise Samba Drummers

A set by the Worldwise Samba Drummers followed by a chance for the audience to have a go themselves.

South American rhythms performed by the Worldwise Samba Drummers playing an array of instruments from the tiny tamborims to the huge surdos. Followed by an opportunity for you to have a go yourselves.

Venue: The Adelphi Price: £4

8.30pm – Shakespeare’s Deadly Sins

Conor McKee Productions returns to The Continental to celebrate Shakespeare’s 450th birthday with a unique and thrilling production.

In Shakespeare’s Deadly Sins an ensemble of four of the North’s finest actors takes you on an electrifying journey through gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, pride, lust and envy.

Haunting vocal harmonies and searing stage combat are woven through the action as moments from less performed plays and sonnets encounter scenes from classic works Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth.

Venue: The Continental Price: £8

Thursday 16 October 2014

7pm – The Fruits of the Feminine by Claire Doyle

Claire will present live art and photography as an extension of ‘Habitual Body Monitoring’ at ‘Fruits of the Feminine’ in October 2014

Venue: Korova Café Bar

Price: On the door

8pm – Shakespeare’s Deadly Sins

Conor McKee Productions returns to The Continental to celebrate Shakespeare’s 450th birthday with a unique and thrilling production.

In Shakespeare’s Deadly Sins an ensemble of four of the North’s finest actors takes you on an electrifying journey through gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, pride, lust and envy.

Haunting vocal harmonies and searing stage combat are woven through the action as moments from less performed plays and sonnets encounter scenes from classic works Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth.

Venue: The Continental Price: £8

8.30pm – Furry Revelations by Claire Doyle

See artist, Claire Doyle wear a costume made with five windows. The windows can be unbuttoned and untied to reveal the hair on my body – under arm, pubic and leg hair.

It is up to the public to reveal my hair and experience what a “real woman” looks like. The audience control the performance. It is a time for them to discuss and embrace a woman’s natural state.

Venue: Korova Café Bar

Price: £3

Age: 18+

Friday 17 October 2014

6.30pm – Family; Unexpected; Desire by Spark Preston

A series of short stories on the themes of family, the unexpected and desires.

Venue: Korova Cafe Bar

Price: On the door

7pm – Music with Aveyard, Brown, Flynn, Horsley, Wilkinson

A series of short musical improvisations using a variety of sound sources such as samplers, keyboards, synthesizers, amplified toys and found sound objects.

These musicians, each experienced improvisers in their own right, come together to make some noise in a series of short improvisations using whatever equipment they decide to bring along on the night, which might include samplers, guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, toys, percussion instruments, household rubbish…

Venue: The Adelphi Price: £5

7.30pm – Music with The Boston Funk Party

The Boston Funk Party is a Leeds based funk outfit playing the music of James Brown and The JBs.

The band emulates the original sound and energy of the Godfather of Soul, whilst hinting at contemporary interpretations and influences throughout the arrangements.

Formed just last year, the band has gone from strength to strength, playing at venues such as The HiFi Club, Smokestack, and Sela Bar in Leeds, creating a great deal of excitement on the scene. Join them here as they begin their conquest of the North West.

Venue: The Continental Price: £7

8.30pm – Professor Bennison’s Life of Pi

Professor Bennison takes the audience through the whirlwind comedy topic of mathematics through his wildly inaccurate and incomplete syllabus using song and comedy to help the attendees get the most coveting mathematical qualification, the JCSE.

Other topics explored are how awful Life of Pi the film was, why you shouldn’t trust Brian Cox, and why actresses don’t make good girlfriends.

Venue: The Adelphi Price: £3

8.30pm – Same Old Stories by Ben Smith

Same Old Stories is the debut Tringe performance by Singer/Songwriter Ben Smith, Playing songs from his 4 albums, plus debuting new material off his new album ‘There And Back Again’. The show will focus more on the stories surrounding these songs as well, however, as for the first time Ben will be sharing the inspiration and events which helped to create these songs.

Venue: Korova Café Bar Price: £4

10pm – Comedy Friday

The best stand-up and sketch comedy, plus much more from around the North West.

Venue: Korova Café Bar Price: Ticket prices vary.

Saturday 18 October 2014

6.30pm – Family; Unexpected; Desire by Spark Preston

A series of short stories based upon themes of family, the unexpected and desires.
Venue: Korova Cafe Bar

Price: On the door

8.30pm – Professor Bennison’s Life of Pi

Professor Bennison takes the audience through the whirlwind comedy topic of mathematics through his wildly inaccurate and incomplete syllabus using song and comedy to help the attendees get the most coveting mathematical qualification, the JCSE.

Other topics explored are how awful Life of Pi the film was, why you shouldn’t trust Brian Cox, and why actresses don’t make good girlfriends.
Venue: The Adelphi Price: £3

8.30pm – The Note by Ben Smith

The Note is a new short play by Ben Smith, debuting at the Preston Tringe 2014. When Mark invites his long time girlfriend Julia over to stay with him in Manchester for the weekend, Mark is expects to have a weekend filled with hugs, laughs and sex. However, when Mark finds a mysterious note in Julia’s bag, their whole relationship is turned upside down. As the two begin to discuss the information the note holds, the two quickly realise that their relationship isn’t as perfect as it once seemed. As more notes are found and more secrets told, only one question remains: Should the couple really be together anymore?

Venue: Korova Café Bar Price: £4

10pm – Saturday Music Live

The best of the local and regional music scene. Special food and drink deals.

Venue: Korova Café Bar

Price: On the door

What events will you be going to? Let us know in the comments below

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