Regrettably, we have had to cancel this event at the Barge. This is entirely due to unforeseen circumstances, and we look forward to seeing you all in the new year.

All the best from the Medway Eyes team, and thank you for your ongoing support.

It’s out! Download it from HERE, and please give what you can for Oxjam.

Click on link > Read the blurb > Donate > Download > Play LOUD! > Enjoy :0)

Now then, now then. Phil and Hannah had a great time taking over Fizzer’s Show on Monday. Thanks again to Fizzer, Brandon and Grace for the opportunity. You can listen again on Fizzer’s podcast page now, and we’ve compiled the playlist from the show below following requests from some of our more anal listeners. Enjoy!

Maker – Soaked Up

Unlucky Fried Kitten – This Is England

Bear vs Manero – Now Is Not The The Time For Impressions, Rory Bremner

Bombay Bicycle Club – Rinse Me Down

Pity Party – The Grudge

Stuart Turner and the Flat Earth Society – Shimmy

Nirvana – Love Buzz

Lupen Crook – Chasing Dragons (menace remix by Kids Unique)

Thee Cusswords – Marijuana Minutes

Groovy Uncle – Got Any Mantras

Dusty Springfield – Breakfast In Bed

Talking Heads – Psycho Killer

Survivors Of Suki – Sing

Rent Boys – Shoot Your Shot

The Weather Station – Everything I Saw

Tom Waits – Little Drop Of Poison

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – I’m Going To Bring A Watermelon To My Girl Tonight

The Claim – Mary Stavin

Balance Lost – Peanut Shells

Frau Pouch – Sexy Architecture

Rocketproof Glass – Girl

My Sick Mind – Show Me Blood

Patrick Watson – Wooden Arms

Didi Bergman – Happy Song #1

Pixies – Something Against You

The Dentists – Creature Out Of Control

The Cherubs – Hey Bunny

The Singing Loins – Where’s My Machine Gun?

Play Dead Proxy  - Get Manic

Pete Da Clinker – Miss Needy

Blur – Chinese Bombs

David Bowie – Lady Stardust

Tomorrow night from 8pm to 10pm, Medway Eyes takes over Fizzer’s Radio Show on Radio Sunlight. Your hosts will be Phil Dillon, photographer and trustee of Medway Eyes, and Hannah Prescott, an artist and film maker known to many for her musical output with Burn Paper Tigers and as Slap Alice. We’ll be promoting the best of Medway, including the forthcoming ME3 compilation, as well as playing cool stuff from further afield.

Tune in. We might play YOU.

Radio Sunlight  ¦  Fizzer’s Show  ¦  Facebook Event

It’s that time of year again. Medway Eyes is three years old in October, and what a long way we’ve come. Three years of art, music, photography, community and fun can only be a cause for celebration, so that’s exactly what we’re going to do. In grand tradition, we’ll be releasing a download album of Medway music at midnight on Friday 7th October. You’ll be able to pay what you like for the album, and every penny raised will go to Oxjam. The album will be available via www.medwayeyes.co.uk.

We’d like to thank the following lovely, fluffy bands and musicians for contributing to the album we have so imaginitavely entitled ME3: The Ambience, Arcelia, Archie Wah Wahs, Baron Von Marlon, Ben Jones, Billy Wears Dresses, The Blissful Mop, Bob Collins, Brigadier Ambrose, Crybaby Special and the Monsters, Damsel, Dave Read, Didi Bergman, Falling Lucid, Firstborn Heroes, The Flowing, Frau Pouch, The Galileo 7, Glenn Barnes, Groovy Uncle, Houdini, James Doyle, The Kids Unique, Los Salvadores, The Love Family, Lupen Crook, Maker, Mr Bridger, One Eleven Edmund, Porlie Eidolon, Reavsey, The Reg Varney Trio, Science Noodles, The Shagmonroes, Simon Bunyan, The Singing Loins, Stuart Turner and the Flat Earth Society, Survivors Of Suki, Tape Error, Theatre Royal, Thomas Turner and the Contents, Tyrannosaurus Alan, Unlucky Fried Kitten, UpcDownc, Wheels, Wolfgang Riot and Z-Stacks.

That’s 47 tracks. Not bad for a dead music scene, eh? We’ll be plugging it shamelessly when we take over Fizzer’s show on Radio Sunlight between 8pm and 10pm on Monday 3rd October.

We’ll be celebrating the launch of the album at the Nag’s Head in Rochester from 8pm on Friday the 7th, in the splendid company of Singing Loins, with support to be announced soon. It’s the landlady’s birthday that day, so expect a top atmosphere. And get there early. It might get a bit busy.

UPDATE 02/10/2011:  We are delighted to announce that Singing Loins will be supported at Friday’s gig by Crybaby Special and Gary Robertson of The Love Family. That’s two more reasons to come along!

Paul Johnston is a Medway based photographer who has received huge acclaim for his contributions to Medway Eyes group exhibitions Look At Medway, Tidal Flow, Sight Unseen and Unframed in the past three years or so. This month, he steps forward to present his first ever solo exhibition at Riverside Country Park. Expect the River Medway to be a feature, but also look out for early mornings, singular takes on familiar subjects and a wry underlying humour in Paul’s work.

The exhibition is free and runs from Sunday 28th August to Saturday 10th September. You can preview the exhibition on the afternoon of Saturday 27th August from 1pm, when Paul and the team will be having lunch in the picnic/playground area.

Paul Johnston on Flickr

Riverside Country Park

We enjoyed last year’s Unframed exhibition at the Barge so much that we thought we’d do it again.  Click on the poster to download it, spread the word and join us for a portable, accessible exhibition by local photographers wrapped up in a family friendly afternoon of live acoustic music from Didi Bergman and Survivors of Suki. Check out the Facebook event here.

Click on the poster to download it.

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