{"id":4107,"date":"2026-08-28T13:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/?post_type=events-&#038;p=4107"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:25:52","slug":"dead-ends-losers-and-inventions","status":"publish","type":"events-","link":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/?events=dead-ends-losers-and-inventions","title":{"rendered":"Dead Ends, Losers, and Inventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An evening of experimental sound, moving image and post-industrial machines with \u2018<b>Motorhand<\/b>\u2019 (Graeme Hogg), \u2018<b>Cheapest Cigs and Booze in Town<\/b>\u2019 (Tall) and\u00a0\u2018<b>Invisible Creatures<\/b>\u2019 (Jennifer Wicks). They come together for an evening of experimental sound and moving image, moving between noise, projection, analogue processes, improvisation and technological misbehaviour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Cheapest cigs n booze in town<\/b> uses baffling pseudo scientific machinery to create a <b>kaleidoscopichypnoticphantasma<wbr \/>goric<\/b> light and sound show.<\/p>\n<div><b>Motorhand<\/b> is the end of the strasse for the electric motor. Noise and live melting of 16mm film using a modified Eiki. Film slowed down til it eventually dies. Motorhand is Graeme Hogg (Hogge) a co-founder of Cube Cinema in Bristol, UK, a long-standing hub for underground, independent, and DIY creative scenes since 1998. His film lab project Nachleben emerged from the preservation and repurposing of cinema machinery made available during the industry\u2019s transition to digital.<\/div>\n<p><b>Invisible Creatures<\/b> industrial noise, sample culture and cut-up techniques. Using modified 16mm projectors, contact mics, and multiple guitar effects pedals, to craft layered, and dissonant sound and visual installations.\u00a0Invisible Creatures\u00a0is interdisciplinary artist and musician Jennifer Wicks. She also makes music with experimental post-punk duo WOMEN\u2019S HOUR (J. Wicks and Murray CY). LP released on L.I.E.S.\u00a0\u201cSounds like it coulda come out of a squat during the\u00a0\u201880s by a duo that rarely sees sunlight\u201d\u00a0Norman Records; \u201cmessengers of certain northerly latitude of heck, wreathing scuzzy post-punk songcraft and spoken word in thistly distortion and dragged-backwards-thru-a-hedge drum machines and synths&#8230;sung with the acidic throat burn of being on the hash and cider lash for too long\u2026\u00a04AD calibre\u00a0\u201c\u00a0Boomkat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An evening of experimental sound, moving image and post-industrial machines with \u2018Motorhand\u2019 (Graeme Hogg), \u2018Cheapest Cigs and Booze in Town\u2019 (Tall) and\u00a0\u2018Invisible Creatures\u2019 (Jennifer Wicks). They come together for an evening of experimental sound and moving image, moving between noise, projection, analogue processes, improvisation and technological misbehaviour. &nbsp; Cheapest cigs n booze in town uses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4108,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"ptb_metabox":{"ptb_events__date_":"2026-10-08 19:30:00","ptb_events__time_":"7.30pm"},"ptb_taxonomy":[],"ptb_featured_image":{"url":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/JENNY-WICKS_WEB.jpg","title":"JENNY WICKS_WEB","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/events-\/4107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/events-"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/events-"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theoldhairdressers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}