Frakture Concerts Archive: The Early Year
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Derek Bailey
Derek Bailey, guitar
Bonehouse
Phil morton, guitar :
Phil hargreaves, saxes,flute The Picket
Hardman Street, Liverpoo; Frakture Session 1

Torcher/Musicians de Lune
Dec 10th 1997 Torcher: Steve Lewis + Lexicon jamman
Musicians de Lune: Bonehouse
Phil morton, guitar :
Phil hargreaves, saxes,flute The Picket
Hardman Street,Liverpool
Frakture Session 2

Slip & Slant
Feb 4th 1998 Slip & Slant
John Jasnoch, guitar
collins, reeds
Phil marks, drumset Bonehouse
Phil morton, guitar :
Phil hargreaves, saxes,flute The Picket
Hardman Street
Liverpool Frakture Session 3

The Phil minton quartet
A Mouth Full Of Ectasy
Mar 18th 1998
Phil Minton Quartet
Phil Minton, voice : John Butcher, saxaphone : Roger Turner, drumset and percussion : Veryan weston, piano support
bonehouse
Phil morton, guitar :
Phil hargreaves, saxes,flute
Bonehouse set recorded on DAT
Frakture Session 3

Evan Parker, Lawrence Casserley
June 1999
Evan Parker, saxaphone
Lawrence Casserley, processing
support
bonehouse
Phil morton, guitar :
Phil hargreaves, saxes,flute The Picket
Hardman Street, Liverpool
Frakture Session 4

Kaffe Matthews
1st Frakture Festival
July 9th 1999
The Everyman, third room
Hope Street London. Frakture Session 6

Tony Bevan/bonehouse
1st Frakture Festival, July 10th 1999 The Bluecoat Garden 1st set, second set concert Hall
Tony Bevan, Bass Saxaphone and Solo Tenor Sax Bonehouse
Phil Morton, guitar
Phil hargreaves, flute and saxaphone
Frakture Session 7

Frakture Big Band/John Jasnoch+Rob Dainton
1st Frakture Festival
July 11th 1999 Frakture Big Band
John Jasnoch, guitars-plural
Rob Dainton, drumset The Bluecoat, front courtyard
Liverpool
Frakture Session 8

Lol Coxhill+Pat Thomas/bonehouse

September 24th 1999 Lol Coxhill + Pat Thomas
Bonehouse
Phil morton, guitar : plus an altar of junk
Phil hargreaves, saxes,flute Everyman Bistro: Third Room
Bold Street, Liverpool
No known recording? Review
Frakture Session 9

Butcher/Marshall/Davies/Hutchinson + bonehouse
Oct 14th, 1999 The Picket
Hardman Street, Liverpool Video archive.
Frakture Session 10

IST/Jose's Fish
Nov 11th 1999
IST
Rhodri Davies, Harp
Mark Wastel, Cello
Simon H Fell, Double Bass José Fish
Neil Murphy, guitar
Simonm Eames, guitar
Neil Campbell, guitar The Picket
Hardman Street
Liverpool Video archive: Dat archive not known
Frakture Session 11

Frakture Big Band plus helenfordsdale
Dec 16th 1999
The Frakture Big band
Helenfordsdale The Picket
Hardman Street
Liverpool FBB recorded on DAT by Phil Hargreaves
frakture session 12

Paul Hession +
Feb 12th  2000 Wibke - voice/guitar,Llyod - Bass, Grapham - Guitar , Heidi - voice , Rebecca - flute Heidi M - percussion
Tom - Bass, Christine - Piano ,Ged - Guitar, Phil Morton Guitar, George Double bass, Mole Saxaphone, Neil Murphy guitar,
Marion Leible voice. Paul Hession Drumset Bluecoat Arts Centre, Concert Hall
School Lane Liverpool
Session recorded on DAT,featured as a track of the month, REVIEW
video footage of workshops
frakture session 13
Shock Exchange
March 17 2000 Shock Exchange
Caroline Krabble, saxaphone (baritone displayed without played: a silent solo!)
John Edwards, Double Bass
Charles Haywood, Drumset, processes, vocals Bonehouse
Phil Morton, gtr, can & chair: Plus Acoustic Archeology part 2
Phil Hargreaves, saxaphones, flute The Picket
Hardman St, Liverpool Video evidence remains
Frakture Session 14

Stephen Grew/Mick Beck
April 23 2000
Stephen Grew, piano
Mick Beck, reeds, recorder Bluecoat Arts Centre,
School Lane Liverpool Frakture session 15

Remote Viewers & .mdh
May 20 2000 Remote Viewers
Louise Petts, Alto sax, Vocals, Wasp Synth, Pocket Theremin, Lyricist
Adrian Northover, Alto & Soprano Saxes, Mini-Disk Sampling, Pocket Theremin.
David petts, Tenor Sax, Roland SH09 Synth, Pocket Theremin, Amplified Strings, Composer
  .mdh
Phil Morton, double bass
Phil Hargreaves, sax & flute
Paul Hession, drumset Everyman Bistro, hopestreet: third room
Frakture session 16

Eddie Prevost Trio + Veryan Weston

June 3 2000
2nd Frakture Festival: presentation Eddie Prevost Trio
Eddie Prevost, drumset
John Edwards, Double Bass
Tom Chant, Saxaphone
Veryan Weston, piano Liverpool Community College,
session recroded by the college
Frakture Session 17

Mondo Chadbournes 2000
June 4th 1999
Frakture Festival presentation
Mondo Chadbournes 2000,
Bonehouse Bluecoat Arts Centre, Neptune Room
School Lane Liverpool
Frakture session 18

John Law Trio
June 5th 1999
Frakture Festival presentation John Law,piano
Louis Moholo, drumset
Paul Dunmall, reeds
Bluecoat Arts Centre, Neptune Room
School Lane Liverpool
Frakture session 19

Jose's Fish/.mdh
June 5th 1999
Frakture Festival presentation
Josés Fish
Neil Murphy, Guitar,
Neil Campbell  Guitar,
Simon Eames  Guitar, .mdh
Rob Dainton, drumset
Phil Morton, Double Bass
Phil Hargreaves, sax Session Captured on Video Tape
Bluecoat Front Court yards & bits of school lane
Frakture session 20

John Jasnoch, Mole
Frakture Festival presentation
June 10th 1999
John Jasnoch, gtr
Mole sax+tapes
Phil Morton, novelties Everyman Bistro
Hope Street
Frakture session 21

Listening Room: Carry on Camping
June 11th 1999
Frakture Festival presentation
Phil hargreaves, sax,cello
Phil Morton,accidents and treatments
Mole, Sax
Neil Murphy, Viola,tapes, slides Bluecoat Arts Centre, Neptune Room
School Lane Liverpool
Frakture session 22
Simon Fell + the Frakture Big Band
June 12th 1999 Neil Murphy, Marion Leibl, Phil Morton, Phil hargreaves, Mole, Martin Robinson, Simon Eames, Neil Campbell,
Ricardo Fernandez & Simon Fell
John Jasnoch, Rob Dainton and Jeffrey Morgan
October 20th 1999,
John Jasnoch, gtr
Rob Dainton , drumset
Jeffrey Morgan, sax Bluecoat Arts Centre, Sandon Room
School Lane Liverpool
Whole session recorded by some-one
Frakture session 24

Clack
Thursday 25th November 2000,Bluecoat
Viv D Corringham,
Sophia Lycouris,
Knut Auferman,
Lol Coxhill,
Michael Kosmides Bluecoat Arts Centre, Concert Hall
School Lane Liverpool Frakture session 25

Veryan Weston  Caroline Kraable
December 9th 2000
Veryan Weston Piano
Caroline Kraable Saxaphone
second set with Frakture Big Band Bluecoat Arts Centre, Concert Hall
School Lane Liverpool Frakture session 26
Session recorded, Veryan Weston & Caroline Krabbel released one piece on Emanem

Bark
February 2000
Rex Caswell- Electric Guitar ,
Phillip  Marks- percussion
Paul Obermayer -Electronics
support Jose's Fish Bluecoat Arts Centre, Sandon Room
School Lane Liverpool
Frakture session 27

The Long and Short Of It
March 2000
Helmut Lemke and John Jasnoch Bluecoat Arts Centre, Neptune Room
School Lane Liverpool
Frakture session 28

Gino Robair  and  John Butcher
March 2nd 2000, Gino Robair  (percussion USA)  and  John Butcher (sax UK)
Bonehouse (Phil Morton + Phil Lucking) Whole session recorded on DAT
Bluecoat Arts Centre, Sandon Room
School Lane Liverpool
Frakture session 29

Mick Beck Quartet, Loopwhole
March 29th  2000,
Mick Beck
Pat Thomas,
Rainer Kuhn
Tony Buck. Bluecoat Arts Centre, Sandon Room
School Lane Liverpool
Frakture session 30

The Remote Viewers
May 18th 2000, Bluecoat Arts Centre, Sandon Room
School Lane Liverpool
Frakture session 31

Johannes Bergmark
June 13th : 2000
  Johannes Bergmark (Sweden) with
Phil Morton, Marion Leibl, Neil Murphy, Mole, and Phil hargreaves Bluecoat Arts Centre, Neptune Room
School Lane Liverpool
Session not recorded due to mechanical failure
Frakture session 32

 Fly-over: Joachim Zoepf
October : 2000
A Frakture Festival 2000 presentation
also part of the Cologn-Liverpool Exchange
"eight days a week" Joachim Zoepf (saxes, bass clarinet) plus Mole (saxes), Ricardo Fernandez (piano), and Ros (from the audience with his sax and trombone) Bluecoat Arts Centre, Sandon Room
School Lane Liverpool
Session recorded on DAT
Frakture session 33

José's Fish and Kling Klang
October:2000
A Frakture Festival 2000 presentation José's Fish & Kling Klang
The magnet
hardman street, Liverpool
some of the Session available on Cassette
Frakture session 34

Maggie Nicols and the Frakture Big band
October 2000
A Frakture Festival 2000 presentation Maggie Nicols vcl + Neil Murphy, Marion Leibl, Phil Morton, Phil hargreaves, Mole, Martin Robinson, Paul Tunstall, Neil Campbell,Ricardo Fernandez Bluecoat Arts Centre, Concert Hall
School Lane Liverpool
Session recorded on DAT, several tracks also on Festival Compilation CDr
Frakture session 35

ARC
October: 2000
Arc,were
John Bisset,
Simon H. Fell,
Pat Thomas,
Mark Sanders Bluecoat Arts Centre, Concert Hall
School Lane Liverpool
Session recorded on DAT,one track (excerpt) also on Festival Compilation CDr
frakture session 36

Shunt and Lifts (take you to undiscovered places)  Listening Room

October: 2000 The Listening Room contrubution to the Frakture Festival was a re-mix of their classic shows Shunt and Lifts, mini-disk, Cd, Video , performance writing and live-work formed the basis of this work Bluecoat Arts Centre, Sandon Room
School Lane Liverpool
Session recorded on video
frakture session 38

Hession Mole Kirk
October: 2000
The Paul Hession Drumset,
Mole saxaphone,
Mr Kirk Double Bass Bluecoat Arts Centre, Sandon Room
School Lane Liverpool
Session recorded on DAT
frakture  session 39

Belgium Night
November; 2000
Peter Jacquemyn and Bart Maris,
plus guests,Phil Morton Dbl Bass, Phil Lucking Bass Trumpet / Trumpet and Phil hargreaves Sax and Flute Bluecoat Arts Centre, Sandon Room
School Lane Liverpool
Session recorded on DAT,
frakture session 40

John Russel and Stefan Keune
November:
John Russel (gtr), Stefan Keune (sax) "Big George" available on ACTA , issue ACTA 14 , Excerpts & Offerings
Acta tel/ fax 0208 740 1348     email stefan.keune@gmx.de Bluecoat Arts Centre, Sandon Room
School Lane Liverpool
Session recorded by frakture on DAT
frakture session 41

Konk Pack
February 23rd 2001 Roger Turner : drums, Thomas Lehn : analogue synthesizer, Tim Hodgkinson: flat guitar, electronics Bluecoat Arts Centre,
School Lane Liverpoo
Session recorded by frakture on DAT
frakture session 42

L.E.G.O

May 12  2001 8.00pm
The Liverpool Guitar Orchestra, Directed by John Bisset
Orchestra members
Dave Joss (Straty Type Guitar) , Mark Beaumont (Hohner) Adam Webster (Bass Gtr), Joe McLaughlin (Guitar plus delay) Sam Baxter (Ibanez or Yamaha Pacifica) Phil Morton,(Framus semi-electric) Neil Murphy, (another guitar)  James Hughes,(a les Paul Copy) Christopher Abel, (a hamer) John Bisset  (London Guitar) First half documented on Mini-disk
Video evidence also recorded. Bluecoat Arts Centre,
School Lane Liverpool
frakture session 43

Anglo Japanese duet

June 15 2001, 8.00pm Toshimaru Nakamura &Daniel Weaver
Toshimaru Nakamura , no input mixing desk
Daniel Weaver, Cello &Computer Input Concert Hall
Bluecoat Arts Centre,
School Lane Liverpool,
Session recorded on DAT
frakture session 44

Toshi  Makihara
August 22 2001 Toshi Makihara, drum,two cymbals and himself phil hargreaves,sax-flute
phil lucking,trumpets
neil murphy,viola and electronica
marion leibl,voice
phil morton,dbl bass, accidents & treatments sandon room
Bluecoat Arts centre
School lane
Liverpool Session recorded on DAT, and many minidisks: featured as September Track off the month -2001
Frakture Session 45
Jeffrey Morgan  - Usa / Cologne

September 22 Jeffrey Morgan Alto saxophone
Adam webster, electric bass
Phil Marks, drumset
phil morton, gtr sandon room 8.00pm
Bluecoat Arts centre
School lane
Liverpool
£5 - £4 Frakture Session 46
Session recorded by frakture on DAT,transferred to CDR Links: Jeffery Morgan   http://jazzhouse.org/morgan Phil Morton  http://www.nervetech.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

Nought
Wednesday 3rd  October 2001 Nought
Plus
Budgie Drumset
Adam Webster Bass
Mole Sax
Phil Lucking Trumpets Jump Ship Rat Gallery
Parr Street
Liverpool Frakture Session 47
Session recorded on video

Before Touch
Thursday 4th October 2001 8.00pm Listening Room present for the Frakture Festival
Before Touch
May Molteno, Movement & Dance
Phil Morton,   Sound,treatments & accidents
Price £5 & £4 The Bluecoat Concert Hall
Bluecoat Arts Centre
School lane
Liverpool L1 3BX Frakture Session 48
Session recorded on video

Lol Coxhill & Michael Kosmides
Friday October 5th 2001 8.00pm Lol Coxhill, Saxophone
Michael Kosmides, theremins, samplers & laptop
  The Concert Hall, Bluecoat Arts Centre, School lane Liverpool
£5 & £4

ELEKTROHEAD
Tuesday 9 th October 2001
ELEKTROHEAD
featuring:
Michel Bestmann   shisha, electric hair dryer, tv
Neil Campbell (Jose`s fish) electronics, programming
Neil Murphy (Jose`s fish) electronics, live processing
Jurgen Wendellen  sub-text The Concert Hall,
Bluecoat Arts Centre,
School lane
Liverpool Frakture Session 49
Session recorded on video, image and DAT recording by Chris Trent

Peter Fairclough  & Keith Tippet
Thursday 11th October 2001 8.00pm Peter Fairclough  Percusion
Keith Tippet Piano The Concert Hall
Bluecoat Arts Centre
School lane
Liverpool Frakture Session 50
Session recorded DAT recording by Chris Trent

Hession Wilkinson Fell
Friday 12th October 2001 Paul hession, drumset
Alan Wilkinson, sax
Simon H Fell, Double Bass The Concert Hall, Bluecoat Arts Centre, School lane Liverpool
8.00pm £5 & £4 Frakture Session 50
Session recorded DAT recording by Chris Trent & Video by Roger Parry
Chwareteg

Saturday 13th 2001 8.00pm John Bisset , Guitar
Rhodri Davies, Harp
Phil Morton, Guitar, Treatments & Accidents Plus Duo : There isnt a word for this in Welsh
Mole Sax
Phil Morton Tape piece The Sandon Room, Bluecoat Arts Centre, School lane Liverpool
£5 & £4
Frakture Session 51
Session recorded DAT recording by Chris Trent & Video by Roger Parry,
Digital Camera Phil Hargreaves

John Butcher (Uk) Ian Birse (Canada)

October 6 2001   8.00pm John Butcher Saxophone
Ian Birse, guitar, samplers, 4 track adat playback Bluecoat Concert hall 8.00pm
Bluecoat Arts centre
School lane
Liverpool
£5 - £4 Frakture Session 52
Session recorded on DAT by Chris Trent and Video by Laura Kavanagh

Bonehouse : Stairway To Memory
November 16th 2001 Bonehouse +,
Phil Morton   : Double Bass
Phil Lucking  : Bass Trumpet. trumpet and pocket trumpet plus +
Phil Hargreaves, Neil Murphy. Live mix and soundprocessing. The Concert hall, time 8.00pm
Bluecoat Art Centre,
School lane , Liverpool L1 3BX
Fee- £5 & £4 Frakture Session 53
Session: 2nd half only recorded on minidisk by Phil Morton

E8
Saturday 8 December Andrew Williams : Samplers, Live Electronics, Diffusion, Stylophone, Mbire,Bass, Glass
instruments, Programming.
Duncan Chapman Samplers, Analogue Sythns, Horn, Amplified Objects,Radios, Live Electronics and Processing, Voice.
Isabel Jones : Voice, Ektar, Mbire, Words, Video
Peter Shelton : Keyboards, Samplers, Voice, Live Electronics,Programming, Video The Concert Hall, 8.00pm
Bluecoat Art Centre,
School lane,
Liverpool L1 3BX
£5-£4 Frakture Session 54
not documented by Frakture , but recorded by E8

Bread And Shed
Saturday March 30th, Anna Holmer (USA) toys,stories
Sylvia Hallett (UK) accordian, bowed cycle spokes,violins, The Concert Hall, 8.00pm
Bluecoat Art Centre,
School lane,
Liverpool L1 3BX
£5-£4 Frakture Session 54
Session: recorded on DAT by Chris Trent

Grew Trio
April 20th 2002, 8.00 pm Stepehan Grew, piano
Mick Beck, sax, bassoon
Phil Marks, drumset The Concert Hall, 8.00pm
Bluecoat Art Centre,
School lane,
Liverpool L1 3BX
£5-£4 Frakture Session 55
Session: recorded on DAT by Chris Trent

Mark Wastell & Matt Davis Duo

May 10 2002 8.00pm Mark Wastell, Cello
Matt Davis, Trumpet The Concert Hall,
Bluecoat Art Centre,
School lane,
Liverpool L1 3BX
£5-£4 Frakture Session 54
Session: recorded on DAT by Chris Trent
also on Video by Chaps from Derbyshire

CLOUDCHAMBER & The Bohman Brothers
Saturday June 15 2002 Johannes Bergmark, invented constructions, saw, moog, voice, specializes on his own constructions.
Martin Küchen, saxophones, fujara, miscellaneous percussion, radio,barrel
Sören Runolf, electric guitar, cello and electronics plus Bohman Brothers on amplified objects,
Jas Maddock Peotry Link Cloudchamber
Bluecoat Sandon Room  8.00pm
Bluecoat Arts centre
School lane
Liverpool
L1 3BX Frakture Session 55

Christoph Irmer
Friday 5 July 2002 Christoph Irmer, Violin
Plus  Phil Hargreaves Sax, Marion Leibl vocals .
and   Mnene : Phil Hargreaves Cello: Adam Webster Cello, Neil Murphy Viola Neptune Room,
Bluecoat Arts Centre,
School Lane
L1 3BX Frakture Session 56

Front Of House Special
Saturday 27 July  2002 1.00pm till 5.00pm Frakture Big Band
~ Swung Dash ~
Pudendascope The Front Courtyard
Bluecoat Arts Centre
School Lane
L1 3BX Frakture Session 57

Dunmall Roger Gibbs + Swung Dash
Sat 28 September 2002 8.00 pm Phill Gibbs, Guitar
Paul Dunmall, Reeds
Paul Rogers, Double Bass support ~ Swung Dash ~
Adam Webster, bass guitar & cello
Budgie Drumset
Phil Morton, Accidents and Treatments
Phil Lucking Trumpet, Flugelbone, Pocket trumpet The Concert Hall, 8.00pm
Bluecoat Art Centre,
School lane,
Liverpool L1 3BX
£5-£4 Frakture Session 58

The Fifth Frakture Festival of Improvised and Electronic Music
Frakture Session 59
Thursday 3rd october 2002
unplugboy, aka Daniel Weaver ;
John Butcher & Rhodri Davies Duo ;
Mick beck trio { mick beck / paul hession / matt wand } Frakture Session 60
Friday 4th October 2002
Mick Beck solo bassoon ;
Viv Corringham & Pat Thomas duo ;
amere3 { rob dainton, phil hargreaves, simon h fell ) Frakture Session 61
Saturday 5th October 2002 daytime 12-4.00
WYHIWYG Frakture Session 62
GP Hall, gtr Frakture Session 63
Saturday Evening 5th October 2002
Rob Dainton & John Jasnoch Duo
Mneme Ensemble + Simon H Fell [ phil hargreaves / adam webster / neil murphy +Simon H Fell ]
Angel High Wires
Saturday Late evening  5th October 2002
Casa bar "late session" :10.00pm till 2.00am (sunday) Frakture Session 64
Sunday 6th October
Moved to Speak :

The Frakture Big band & Maggie Nicols
Friday December 13 2002 very superstitious writings on the wall with
Maggie Nicols
FBB, taken from
Phil Hargreaves - saxes
Paul Tunstall - electric guitar
Neil Campbell - classical guitar
Neil Murphy - treated viola
Mole - sax, percussion
Phil Lucking - trumpet
Ricardo Fernandez - piano
Marion Leibl - voice
Adam Webster - bass
Rob Dainton - drums
John Whittington - electric guitar The Concert hall , Bluecoat Arts Centre, School Lane Liverpool L1 3BX
8.00pm £5 & £3 : Venue events presumed to be have been recorded by Phil Hargreaves
Frakture Session 65

Paul Hession  and Joe McPhee (Usa)
Monday January 20 8.00pm  £5 & £3
Paul Hession, Drumset
Joe McPhee, saxaphones
Plus short solo drumsolo by Phil Morton
The Concert hall
Bluecoat Arts Centre, School Lane
Liverpool L1 3BX  Frakture Session 66: session recorded on DAT and direct to harddrive.

nTet + SOLO3Saturday 22nd February 2003 nTet
Simon Bradley (cello, guitar and voice)
Jack Glover (clarinet and voice)
SOLO3
Phil Morton:Can, Neil Murphy:Viola Adam Webster: Cello
Bluecoat Arts Centre Sandon Room
School Lane, Liverpool
£5&£3 8:00pmFrakture Session 67

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