Special show dedicated to the music of Robert Storey (dark heart of countless Murphy variations for nigh on 30 years) who L'étranger has coaxed out of South London to play a rare live set in Brussels at Radio Panik's party in LAC on 21st November. Rob will be joined on stage by Florence Raynaud.
Tonight spanning 1980-2014 with music from Murphy Federation, Up Murphy Street, Orchestre Murphy, Murphy Working Stiffs, I Am A Kamura, Bing Selfish, Hot Club Murphy, Miners Of Banal, C Siders, Bing Selfish & The Ideals, Murphy Fed, Robert Storey, Plain People Of England + Rob on anti-copyright, anonymity, poverty and collective identity from 'Down Up Murphy Street', Resonance FM special (2011).
On selected Murphy variations:
"Truly eccentric and absolutely out of step with any known fashion, past or present, though obliquely familiar to many of them." Chris Cutler
"Speaks of a locale, we might even say (unfashionably) a community ... useful ammunition for those whose faith in the marginal and the progressive is not entirely spent" - The Wire
"Archly delicious; mating delicacy, whimsy, roguish wit and cabaret-like airs with elusive undertows of wobbly structural strangeness." - Mutant Sounds.
"Song as domestic interior, lit with a sparkling wit and displaying an elegance of form. " - Alcohol Label
Check the present / past form: download the majority of the Murphies projects in pay what you want / can form at Divine Records.
Check the past form: Rob in some shape or form at No.s 9, 73, 80, 120 in FACT magazine's The story of UK DIY: 131 experimental underground classics from 1977-1985