Hive present a Long Night of the Biennial event Thursday 30 October 6-11pm Tate Liverpool Free admission

Hive present a Long Night of the Biennial event Thursday 30th Oct 6-11pm
Tate Liverpool
Free admission.

HIVE explore the ways in which the relationship between the heart and the machine is endlessly Made Up through an evening of carefully selected music, performance and live intervention.

Wolfgang Flur (ex-Kraftwerk) Ich war ein Roboter (reading)
Kraftwerk’s joyful hymns to modernity form some of popular culture’s most enduring works and their influence on contemporary electronic music is immeasurable. Hive is delighted to present former member Wolfgang Flur reading and screening related visuals from his celebrated autobiography I was a Robot. As drummer / electronic percussionist between 1973 and 1986 Flur is in a unique position to share his experience of one of the most influential bands of all time.

Robert Strachan and Anni Hogan (Live)
Producer, collaborator, DJ and writer Anni Hogan first came to prominence as a musician in Marc Almond’s Marc and the Mambas. Hogan would continue to work closely with Almond until the early 1990s as a writer, arranger, performer and producer. Among many current projects, her compositions with Robert Strachan are particularly striking; micro-constructions and piano melodies blended into profound and beautiful new shapes. Such experimentation underscores much of Strachan’s recent work, which included the stunning improvised soundtrack to accompany 'Blue Remix'- a performance by the Swiss artist Yann Marussich as part of the sk:interfaces exhibition at FACT.

Testcard (Live)
Testcard are an electropop trio based in Liverpool who meld power pop, future disco and pristine Italo to soundtrack poignant tales of modern urban life. Coolly observing the contradictions of contemporary relationships, Testcard swerve the electropop stereotype through soaring, soulful vocals and an unashamed love of pure pop.

Café del Lar DJs
The Café del Lar doesn't exist, it's an imaginary place where the Mersey meets the Medi and the ferries go to Birkenhead not Formentera. Phil Thornton and Ste Connor have been championing the original 'balearic' ethos in Liverpool for the past two decades and refuse to accept any musical boundaries or phoney marketing pigeonholes. Their rare as hen’s teeth mix cds travel from sun scorched West Coast psychedelics to distant galaxies of space funk and beyond...

DJ Joe Mckechnie
Label runner, club promoter, musician and regular DJ at the legendary Fukdup Ravers nights, Joe has remixed tracks for, amongst others, ROC, Alabama 3, Echo and The Bunnymen, Ladytron, X-Press 2 and Will Sergeant.

Hive visual artists
Hive’s visual artists debut a film screening based on the recent Shopping Remixed Hive event, which saw local sound artists Noise Club challenge, perplex and delight Saturday afternoon shoppers in Liverpool’s St John’s Shopping Centre.

Plus HIVE DJs, Outsiders Film Festival screening and Biennial exhibition