Home of Metal Symposium Schedule and Handbook
Date & Time:
13th September, 03:15
Below is the SCHEDULE for Friday’s Symposium and a handbook with details of presentations and presenters can be downloaded here.
Music Heritage, People and Place.
9.00-10.00 Registration and Coffee
Venue: Parkside Atrium
10.00 -11.00
KEYNOTE
Venue: Parkside, The Shell
SYNNØVE ENGEVIK (Rockheim)
Q: What is a rock museum? A: Rockheim, The National Museum of Popular Music
With Marion Leonard (UNIVERSITY of LIVERPOOL)
11.00-12.30
Parallel Panels
A. Youth Culture and Memory
Chair: Paul Long (BCU)
Venue: Parkside P131
AMANDA BARNETT (UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL): ‘I will survive’ in the Alternative Archive: An examination of how archival collections of heavy metal music in student societies is preserved and understood within universities.
LISA DER WEDUWE & JAMIE BRETT: Youth Club Archive: Museum of Youth Culture
TOM CARDWELL (UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, LONDON): Illuminating Battle Jackets – a Fine Art Research Project.
B. Music Global and Local
Chair: Asya Draganova (BCU)
Venue: Parkside P132
EDWARD BANCHS (INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR): The Curious Case of Metal in Botswana: Observations of the Nation’s Heavy Metal Culture in Western Spaces.
NIALL SCOTT (UCLAN): Reporting on the World Metal Congress.
ZELMARIE CANTILLON (PRESENTER), RAPHAËL NOWAK AND SARAH BAKER (GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY): Cultural Justice for Deindustrialising Cities: A popular music heritage approach.
MMH Radio Sessions
MMH Reviews Department
11:50-12:20
Venue: Parkside 233
MMH reviews department manager David Steed will be giving a live demonstration of approaches to music reviewing.
There will be an opportunity for live Q and A with members of the reviews department.
The team will also be on site all day to talk to about applying for a job role in the reviews department
12.30-1.30
LUNCH Break
Performance by Black September Falls
Introduced by Bill Sneyd (Home of Metal)
Venue: Parkside TV STUDIO A
What is the relationship of music heritage, creativity and new music scenes?
Since the emergence of Black Sabbath in the early 1970s many artists within genres of heavy metal have acknowledged their influences on their Oeuvre. As an extension of this fact Black September Falls have created a 4 track EP entitled ‘PROSAiC’ which acts as a creative response to the legacy of Black Sabbath whilst looking to re work and re-invent the early soundscapes that Black Sabbath created through a new 21C dynamic. In addition, and to move towards the development of a possible new genre, namely Dark Ambient Rock/Metal, Black September Falls have created a fusion with dark ambient artists such as Brian ENO. Therefore, creating a new music born out of Black Sabbath and ENO (a kind of Black Country meets Suffolk).
As part of the day’s presentations at the Home of Metal Symposium, Black September Falls (namely Nigel Sanders) will perform a selection of material from this EP along with other new music that further explores the heritage and legacy of Black Sabbath. These extend Nigel Sanders own research for his PhD and explore authenticity within the creative process both in the studio and the live arena. Therefore, the live performance will feature in the moment presentations of Ambient Hauntology reflecting the memory of Black Sabbath, the EP ‘Prosaic’ and ‘live’ music creativity.
To find out more prior to the event visit https://bsfallsresearch.webs.com // https://blackseptemberfalls.bandcamp.com/releases // Listen Out For Nigel’s Interviews on The Progmiester Show at MMH
1.30-3.00
Parallel Panels
C. Post/Communist Perspectives on Metal
Chair: Martin Cox (BCU)
Venue: Parkside, The Shell
ASYA DRAGANOVA (BCU): “To Break a Wall”: Reflections on the genealogy of subcultural scenes in Eastern Europe
DAWN HAZLE (INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR): Performing the ‘right’ music: Russian metal music as a political barometer.
NIKOLAI OKUNEW (LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY HISTORY POTSDAM): Red Metal Radio: Heavy Metal in the socialist public sphere of 1980s East Germany
D. Live Spaces and DiY Politics
Chair: Zelmarie Cantillon (Griffith)
Venue: Parkside P131
KIRSTY FIFE (UCL): Document It Yourself: Unauthorised Heritage Praxis in UK-based DIY Music Spaces
LYVINIA ELLESCHILD (UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH) Film, Image and Music Based Presentation: ‘Without Live Music This Culture Is Dead’: Documenting a Community Struggle to Keep Live Music at Maker, Cornwall.
E. The Future is the Past: Heritage Sources of Music Inspiration
Chair: Angela English (BCU)
Venue: Parkside P132
JAN HERBST (UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD): Teutonic Heritage: A Producer’s View on the Effects of Cultural Origin on Record Production and Artist Interaction.
FLAVIO PIRES (UNIVERSITY OF PORTO) Embracing Heritage: Black Metal and the Visual Legacy of Romanticism Online Presentation
NIGEL SANDERS (ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY) What is the relationship of music heritage, creativity and new music scenes?
MMH Radio Sessions
MMH Live Interviews/Press
14:50-15:30
Venue: Parkside 233
Come and be interviewed by Stephanie Ingram – Head of the MMH press department and inhouse DJ Lexi.
Q and A with Adam Till Founder and director of MMH The Home Of Rock Radio.
Participate in live interviews with special guests and speak with Stephanie Ingram about applying for a job role in the MMH press department.
3.00-3.15
BREAK
3.15-4.45
Parallel Panels
F. Music Places and Living Identities
Chair: Amanda Barnett (Liverpool)
Venue: Parkside, P132
CORENTIN CHARBONNIER (ECOLE RÉGIONALE DU TRAVAIL SOCIAL [ERTS])
The Hellfest Festival : A Metalhead’s Pilgrimage.
ANTTI-VILLE KÄRJÄ (UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, HELSINKI): Maidenfest in the Tango City
RUTH ADAMS (KINGS COLLEGE LONDON) ‘We made the genre everybody’s onto, it’s all come from Bow E3’ (Wiley, ‘E3’) Grime Music and Identity in East London.
G. Birmingham Echoes
Chair: Mike Jeffries (Home of Metal)
Venue: Parkside, The Shell
PIPPA LANG (KINGSTON UNIVERSITY) HOME OF METAL: The Gospel according to Ozzy?
NOLAN STOLZ (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE) More Than Metal: Black Sabbath’s Use of Blues, Classical, Jazz, Prog and other Musical Styles.
KEVIN HOFFIN, NATHAN KERRIGAN & AIDAN O’SULLIVAN (BCU): ‘You Suffer’
MMH Radio Sessions
MMH DJ Department
16:10-16:45
Venue P233
Meet and be interviewed by MMH DJ’S Jon Watkiss and Adam Onslaught for a live podcast
Live Q and A
Speak to Jon and Adam about applying for a role as an MMH DJ .They will be there all day.
4.45-5.00
BREAK
5.15-6.15
PANEL
Home of Metal: Building the Metal Museum
Participants: Alexander Milas, Dr. Lina Khatib, Lisa Meyer, and Joe Keggin
Alexander Milas is a lifelong music fan and erstwhile archaeologist with a range of writing and documentary credits including various episodes of VH1: Behind the Music, Kerrang! magazine where he was a full-time features writer and reviewer before becoming the features and then editor-in-chief of Metal Hammer magazine, where he was twice awarded a PPA for editor of the year and cover of the year.
Dr. Lina Khatib — Following a decade of work in radio broadcasting and another decade-long career in academia, she has been for the past ten years working in leadership positions at world-renowned policy institutions; currently she is head of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). Lina has published seven books and is a frequent commentator on current affairs in the Middle East, with regular appearances on channels like CNN and the BBC.
Lisa Meyer — Artistic Director/CEO of Capsule, an arts organisation which she co-founded in 1999. Capsule is responsible for a number of high profile projects, including the internationally renowned Supersonic Festival, which this year celebrated its 15th edition and was named by The Guardian as the UK’s best small festival. She is responsible for conceiving and curating Home Of Metal, producing a series of exhibitions and events which join the dots between music, social history, visual art and fan cultures to produce a new perspective on Heavy Metal.
Joe Keggin works for Marketing Liverpool. Specialising in PR he works closely with the music visitor attractions in Liverpool as well as alongside contemporary musicians. He is responsible for telling media from around the world why his home city is such a great place to visit and for attracting music tourists from across the globe to the city. Music is one of the main reasons people visit Liverpool. The city harness both the legacy of The Beatles and the contemporary music scene.
Followed by drinks in the Parkside Atrium to celebrate the Home of Metal Exhibition
Evening Social Event
Scruffy Murphy’s
Quirky, independent rock venue with long history offering food, games and lots of live heavy metal.
Address: Dale End, Birmingham B4 7LN
To register interest mail: Aidan.OSullivan@bcu.ac.uk
Exhibitions
Home of Metal International Fans Portrait Collection
Parkside Gallery through September
This exhibition features a series of images of Black Sabbath fans from across the world including Botswana, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, Netherlands, Spain, and the USA.
The portraits, created over the last three years as part of the Home of Metal project, celebrate Black Sabbath as the pioneers of the unique sound and originators of the genre. The portraits demonstrate the diversity and breadth of fandom and highlight the links between music, heritage, people and place.
Tom Cardwell: ‘Battle Jacket Paintings’
Friday 13th only Parkside Floor 1
My website which contains artworks and research is at https://tomcardwell.uk
About the paintings:
These watercolour paintings are part of a larger series depicting the customised ‘battle jackets’ of metal fans. The act of painting is used to transcribe and explore the complex visual forms of these garments, tracing structures of patch organisation, and examining the artwork and logos of the bands featured. Each jacket is unique to its wearer, and offers clues to their identity as a member of metal subcultures.
The jackets are chosen from a range of heavy metal subgenres, from well established bands to more esoteric scenes. To the affiliate, these patches can be read clearly as indicators of the wearer’s particular taste, and can mark a kind of connoisseurship amongst fans. Ideas of ‘authenticity’ are central to the values of the battle jacket wearer, with original tour patches and personal hand-making valued above the mass-produced and easily accessible.