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Electro pop & cabaret performance act employing voice,
electronic sounds, a few props and occasional acoustic guitar.
Imagine Theodor Adorno's "Aesthetic Theory" distilled into
Chas & Dave singing an MA paper, or alternatively the FT letters
page as sung by Soft Cell, and you get the general idea. Project
Adorno have also written and performed a number of art-house multimedia productions
including biographical interpretations of Derek Jarman, Dennis
Potter and, most recently, the Brontës.
These works include film, spoken samples and found sound in
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Latest
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Queer Pop
Left-field,
non-conforming, indie and odd - pop music with lyricism,
melody and the occasional minor chord. Words, beats, tunes & tales featuring…
Project
Adorno, Drunk Keith! & Andy Pop
A new concept in Queer
Pop:
Leftfield electro-pop with analogue sensibilities and a hint
of disco; spoken word, songs & performance art
exploring gender fluidity, the quirks of popular culture,
& low fidelity
infidelities in a celebration of non-conformity; imagine a
mirror ball tinged with the feel of sepia super-8 in
soft-focus.
More
info on Queer Pop and details of forthcoming shows
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Parracombe
Arts and Literary Festival 2025
Project
Adorno are delighted to be performing two events as part of
this year's Arts and Literary Festival in the
picturesque village of Parracombe, North Devon.
Dennis
Potter In The Present Tense
Friday
23 May 2025
Project
Adorno present their electro-pop biopic celebrating the life,
land and work of acclaimed TV dramatist and playwright Dennis
Potter, best known for “The Singing Detective” and
“Pennies From Heaven”. Themes include memory, media and
mortality.
Featuring live songs,
spoken word, video, samples and soundscapes.
Parracombe Village Hall, Church Lane, Barnstaple, EX31 4RJ
8:30pm - 9:30pm Admission: £5
More info
Tickets
Open
Mic Night at the Fox
Saturday
24 May 2025
Time
to dust down those rhymes, limericks and all things literary
with this open mic performance event for poets, storytellers
and other denizens from the world of words. We won’t even
turn you away if you’ve got an acoustic guitar. (We’ll
need a breathing space between all that poetry, after all!)
Hosted by cabaret duo Project Adorno – who will give you a
Paddington Bear hard stare if you overrun your allotted five
minutes. Open to all and everyone welcome. We know
Parracombe’s got talent – let’s show it!
Fox
& Goose, Parracombe,
Barnstaple, EX31 4PE
8:30pm Free event
Info
& Tickets
Parracombe
Arts and Literary Festival runs from
2-26 May and includes
a plethora
of other events comprising walks
and talks, dance and theatre, art and music. In short, there
is something for everyone! Ticket prices are low, and some
events are free, so don’t miss this chance to immerse
yourself in our month of culture. Profits will go to good
causes in the village.
Full
festival programme here
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On
becoming Blousey Brown (Mar 2023) - listen online at
Soundcloud
Pop songs exploring gender-fluidity as an '80s child comes of age in
discovering their true identity. Written over the course of a
year, the songs represent a personal journey through gender,
difference, popular culture and how one wishes to present to the world.
Viewed contemporaneously, from a middle-aged perspective, the songs
inevitably unlock memories of a childhood that only with
hindsight point to the person one might become.
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Virtually
- Project Adorno Album (Aug 2021) - listen online
Words and music blurring the boundaries between the real and
the unreal. Explorations in make-believe, what-ifs, truths and deceptions. As analogue sensibilities fuse with digital artifice do
we really know what is real anymore, and does it really matter? |
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When
Morten Harket Hit the High Notes - Project Adorno album (June 2020)-
listen online
A collection of songs
exploiting PA's favourite themes: reminiscence, nostalgia,
evocation and memory. It's very pop and very 1980s.
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Project
Adorno at Dodo Modern Poets - Virtual Gig (May 2020)
A lock-down special
featuring songs old and new as Project Adorno perform in
real-time from different locations - the results are somewhat
amusing. |
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