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BONS is Spillage Fete exhibition and label co-founders Mat Fowler and Matthew Hunt playing guitars, keyboards, singing and hitting things and recording it all onto cassette and 4-track.

BONS have also collaborated with sound artist Benji Fox on a series of recordings titled 'Medallions'. 

There are many tapes of Bons recordings, beginning in 2004 to present, still using the same Fostex X28 tape recorder. Here are a handful.



Inspector Tapehead (est. 2008, Glasgow) consists of Chris Croasdale, Jonnie Common and Roy Mohan Shearer.  Their new album So Solar is out NOW and can be ordered on LP or digital formats from their Bandcamp page.  Their first album Duress Code was released by Song, by Toad in 2010.

Big Dada is a label run by Black, POC & Minority Ethnic people for Black, POC & Minority Ethnic artists

Full biog here: http://hobbesmusic.co.uk/about

Spillage Fete Records is a small, boutique label set up as a means to release music by individuals and groups closely involved with the Blank Tape Spillage Fete project.

The label is fully committed to developing a roster and release schedule that reflects the diverse, eclectic and experimental nature of the exhibition.

We are fully self-funded and all sales go directly towards successive releases on the label and the promotions thereof - this in turn perpetuates the DIY and community-spirited nature of the projects as a whole.

Rookery Ensemble would like to say a few words in honour of Alison O'Melia founding member who passed away just before Christmas 2020 after a illness. We will miss you; love you in so many ways. Its still so hard to comprehend but we will follow the paths you set in music and sound. Your patterns of spirit are there rich with colour and transcend the mundane. We hold our hands up and touch those stars above in which way they shine xxx 

Rookery were founded by
George Harris and Alison O'Melia 
they were previously called Brother G and The Trouble and World Of Surprises and started in 2011.
Through the recent lockdown in UK, Alison and George played a number of home performances for Crystal Palace Lockdown Live online which you can hear a best of album on soundcloud and bandcamp.  As well as view some on YouTube and the CPLL Facebook group page. The bandcamp album is available to buy and is raising money for St Christopher's Hospice. This has been with the help of Erik Moore on various tracks virtually.
Other members of Ensemble  of late have been David Rothon on various instruments including the Omni Chord and Melodica, Mark Hill - Electronics and Radio, Erik Moore - Bass,  Agata Liswoska on Violin with occasional appearances by  Mitzy Valentine - Flute and Voice, Victoria Potterton on Trumpet and Voice. Rookery use Spoken word, piano, accordion, reel-to reel machines, clarinet, sampled environmental sounds, voice,  percussion plus help from friends at different performances,  
Other collaborators with other names include
Walt Shaw - Percussion / Electronics, 
Lorin Jasper Halsall - Double Upright Bass

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