NOISE Lab – Manchester’s Audacious Pop Up Store For Creative City Centre Urbanites

 T-shirt: Mark Wigan creation on sale at NOISE Lab, Manchester

T-shirt: Mark Wigan creation on sale at NOISE Lab

I really enjoyed last Thursday’s launch of the NOISE Lab, a ‘guerilla arts pop up store’ nestled opposite the Orange Shop and next to Boots the Chemists right on the Great Manchester High Street aka Market Street.

Situated in the former Shelly’s footwear outlet, next to Schuh and in prime shopping centre real estate, this incredibly bold 6 month long ‘experiment’ is born out of the national NOISEFestival.com project, an online community where young creatives in film, music, visual arts and many other creative disciplines develop and showcase their (first, in many cases) online portfolio.

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7 Wonders In 7 Days Live Music Gig: Hungry Pigeon Festival

7 Wonders in 7 Days Live Music Gig: Hungry Pigeon Festival

Hot on the heels of my announcement of Real Fresh TV’s social media charity engagement of the year: 7 Wonders in 7 Days, comes the first live music event in aid of the charity fundraising trip planned for September 2009.

For those of you who are unaware, 7 Wonders in 7 Days is an epic adventure trip I’m embarking on jointly inspired by my grandmonther’s funeral in February and Channel 4’s brilliant Secret Millionaire programme.

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Hot Wire – Episode 2

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Episode 2 of Hot Wire features live music and backstage interviews from the Cohesion Live 2006 festival in Manchester.

Join intrepid Real Fresh TV presenter Emma Harvey as she meets Guy Garvey, lead singer of Elbow, Graham Coxon, Andy Rourke (The Smiths), Lou Rhodes and many more.

With music from Graham Coxon, Lou Rhodes, Nine Black Alps, The Answering Machine, Snowfight In The City Centre and more.

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