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In the wide-awake hours after the nightclubs closed we would gather to show our super-8 films and recite redacted newspaper tracts. With an almost religious fervour, Somnambulist Internationale documented a body of work, our very own psychogeographic time capsule. We sat in the dark & watched a flickering projector. Then it was the turn of what we had created to sit in the dark for the next 30 years.


transmissions

  • Autumn 2024 Radio On broadcast on Radio Alhara (Palestine) before our new 10-part radio show Rave On is premiered, featuring our spoken-word sound-collages with both borrowed music & original soundtracks by musician/producer Sonskrif
    Every Sunday at 10pm (GMT) / midnight (EET) on Radio Alhara. Repeated on Mondays at 11.30am (GMT) & Fridays at 3.30pm (GMT) on Resonance FM (London)

  • Spring 2024 Vision On, a hauntological reflection on memory & nostalgia, featuring spoken-word alongside re-appropriated TV programme themes from the 1970s & 80s, presented as eight 10min videos uploaded to our You-Tube channel

  • Spring 2023 Radio Too - The Actors Version (Reimagined, Remixed & Repackaged), a 4-part Radio On podcast, stripped of music & film samples but retaining its Foley soundscapes, was made available on Spotify

  • Autumn 2022 Radio On, an 8-part series of 15 min sound-collage, was broadcast on Resonance FM (London). Spoken-word interwoven & layered with favoured music, film & TV samples, with original Foley soundscapes. The show also had an extended run on Tesla FM (Barcelona) until summer 2023. Each episode is now archived on Mixcloud




films

In 2021, the 30th anniversary of The Somanmbulist Internationale, a dedicated You-Tube channel began to publish the S.I. film archive with a contemporaneous soundtrack. There have been live screening events including Chorlton Arts Festival, Freight Island, Kino Film Festival & NIAMOS and commissions to make videos for jazz trumpeter Kevin G Davy, Fat City's Mystic Brew, and the late Mark Stewart RIP.

Can't Take Johnny To The Funeral (1991-92) Joyride (1992-94) We Turn In A Circle In The Night (1995-97)

screenings

  • Epping Walk - Spellbound, Band On The Wall, Fri Sept 13th 2024
  • Block To Block (documentary) inc. clips from 'Joyride Vol.2' - Kim's Kitchen, Hulme, Mon Nov 6th 2023
  • Block To Block (documentary) inc. clips from 'Joyride Vol.2' - Carlton Club, Whalley Range, Sat July 22nd 2023
  • Block To Block (documentary) inc. clips from 'Joyride Vol.2' - Contact Theatre, Fri June 16th 2023
  • Postcards - Serve Chilled, Carlton Club, Whalley Range, Wed May 24th 2023
  • Can't Take Johnny To The Funeral / Joyride - A Sunshine Crabtree Production, Withington, Fri Mar 24th 2023
  • Postcards - Serve Chilled, Carlton Club, Whalley Range, Thur 19th May 2022
  • Epping Walk / Perryman Close / Postcards - Tarquin Memorial, NIAMOS, Hulme, Sun Nov 14th 2021
  • Epping Walk / Perryman Close / We Want Be Free - Old Abbey Taphouse, Greenheys, Thur Sept 30th 2021
  • Epping Walk / Perryman Close / Postcards - Serve Chilled, Carlton Club, Whalley Range, Sun Sept 19th 2021
  • Epping Walk / Perryman Close / We Want Be Free - Old Abbey Taphouse, Greenheys, Sun Sept 12th 2021
  • Epping Walk / Perryman Close / We Want Be Free / Postcards - Green Island Festival, Hulme, Sun Sept 4th 2021
  • Epping Walk / Perryman Close - Kino Film Festival, Cafe Blah, Withington, Sat Aug 28th 2021
  • Fat City Nights - Mystic Brew, Freight Island, Manchester, Sat July 17th 2021
  • Epping Walk / Perryman Close - Freight Island, Manchester, Summer 2021
  • Perryman Close - NiaTV, NIAMOS, Hulme, Sat Apr 24th 2021
  • Epping Walk - NiaTV, NIAMOS, Hulme, Sat Apr 17th 2021