Art rock band to close Rooms to Live exhibition

Friday, 9 February 2024 11:20

By David Murphy

Rooms to Live, the first UK exhibition by collaborative artists Derek Tyman and Andy Webster, closes on Saturday 17 February with a performance by renowned art rock band a.P.A.t.T.

Rooms to Live, at Bury Art Museum, consisted of two interrelated sculptural installations, Trout House Replica and So the Red Rose. Trout House Replica recreated the interior of the Los Angeles house where Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band wrote and rehearsed their seminal 1969 album “Trout Mask Replica”.

So the Red Rose featured a large, boat-like structure reinventing Vanda Chan's fictitious marooned houseboat 'Arcadia', as well as archival material relating to Captain Beefheart's first exhibition of paintings at Liverpool's Bluecoat in 1972.

Combining fact and fiction, while referencing 1960s counterculture and 1980s environmentalism, over 14 weeks Rooms to Live investigated the alliances between music and art as vehicles for the imagination.

On Saturday 17 Feb, a.P.A.t.T. will be onstage at 2pm, followed by a DJ set by Bryan Biggs.

a.P.A.t.T. are a music art collective from Liverpool, who are renowned for their genre-defying music releases and multimedia work.

The collective began with the completion of a C90 cassette in 1998 and they have now released 10 albums plus numerous singles, music videos and short films.

They have undertaken several major European tours and their work has been critically acclaimed.

Bryan Biggs will mix tracks from the record collection of the Magic Band when they lived in Trout House, together with post-punk, jazz and contemporary rock, psyche and experimental music from the 1968/69 period.

For more details about the exhibition and related events programme, see the Instagram account @_rooms_to_live