Sally Dige

Sally Dige releases new single "Forget Me / Losing You" on Night School Records.  Stunning dreamy fast paced 80s synth greatness.  It's coming out on limited 7 inch, 300 copies.  And digitally.

Femme

Since being sent this, i haven't been able to listen to anything else.  Femme, releasing this as a double A side with "Trouble"

NEW EXHIBITION : Departure Lounge : Vanley Burke: By The Rivers of Birminam

 We're so excited to see the new exhibition coming to the Departure Lounge this week!  Its based around the history of Caribbean community in Birmingham from 1967 to present day... Here's what the DL have to say...

"By the Rivers of Birminam:

Departure Lounge is delighted to present By the Rivers of Birminam – the first retrospective exhibition by Vanley Burke one of the UK’s most prolific black photographers.

The exhibition brings together 75 images, which explore the history of the Caribbean community in Birmingham from 1967 to the present. The exhibition represents what is arguably the greatest photographic document of Caribbean people in post-war Britain, presenting in intimate detail Black people’s experience in the UK and their community identity.

 Shot entirely in black and white, this careful and considered collection of photographs concentrates on the intelligence, beauty, the sense of community, the churches and family values, as well as the political, emotional and spiritual contexts that have united Birmingham’s (and more widely the UK’s) black communities since the mid 1960s. 

By the Rivers of Birminam is a touring exhibition from mac Birmingham. The exhibition has received funding from Arts Council England and the Roughley Trust, and is supported by Norwich University College of the Arts. 

This is the fourth major exhibition facilitated by Departure Lounge that has brought international contemporary art to Luton for the first time."

It runs from Friday 26th July until Saturday 12th October.  You can visit on Thursday's, Friday's and Saturday's from 2pm to 6pm.  And its FREE


Departure Lounge is also collaborating with Culture Show presenter Michael Smith and Up Projects/Floating Cinema on a new film Bright River a psycho-geographic investigation of the River Lee/Lea, which will launch in the autumn.

For more info contact Matthew matthew@departure-lounge.org.uk 
Or check out the website www.daparture-lounge.org.uk