:: folkestone fringe :: 14 june - 14 september 2008
celestial radio: a visionary journey
on saturday 19th july artists zo walker and neil bromwick will sail into folkestone harbour aboard their magnificent mirror tiled yatch, the celeste. adorned with over 60,000 one inch mirror tiles, the celeste is the base for the artists' unique project, celeste radio. broadcasting on 87.7fm, the artists have created a special soundpiece for their tour around the kent coast that features music from the heyday of the pirate radio era combined with interviews with people from kent discussing famous visionaries associated with the area such as JMW Turner, [abe]TS Eliot[/abe], [abe]Pugin[/abe] and [abe]HG Wells[/abe]. radios and headsets will be available on the day for people to listen to the broadcast or you can tune in at home or in your car.
for further information visit:
turnercontemporary.org1 folkestonefringe.com/the_celeste.html2
This is part of my site The Folkestone Gerald that I set up in a fury of excitement when we first moved to Folkestone sometime in '04. I had been a frequent visitor for a while previous to that but I am technically one of those DFLs you get nowadays. This site was updated more frequently with a gig calendar + voting for favourite places and things, and I know it was a useful resource for others who were moving here. Now I've moved out of Folkestone again (though only to Hythe) it doesn't get as much attention as it used to. Ironic really as Folkestone itself is now becoming the exciting place we knew it was just about to. My name is not Gerald BTW, the name comes from the name of a pretend paper in an episode of The Day Today or something, the Portsmouth Gerald, and how there is a local paper here called the Folkestone Herald. Puns like this are great aren't they? Do get in touch if you have something to offer, email anythign @ this domain, or try @folkestone or @pauly on Twitter.