Tag archives for Jude Montague
What’s in the Air? A new graphic novel rises
VICTORIA KINGHAM Artist Jude Montague, ever interested in the history of radio and TV, has produced a lively and sometimes extraordinary graphic novel, detailing the beginnings of radio in Manchester.…
XMTR AudioArts Festival
JUDE MONTAGUE Sound tells stories. Lucia Scazzochio from Social Broadcasts (Resonance FM) has settled in St Leonards-on-Sea and set up an international festival, XMTR – a standard tech abbreviation for a radio…
Madagascar to Ethiopia – Hanitra and Haymanot
JUDE MONTAGUE AND VICTORIA KINGHAM Two extraordinary female African musicians, Hanitra Ranaivo from Madagascar and Haymanot Tesfa from Ethiopia, visit Hastings this summer. Hanitra Ranaivo and Jean-Marc Bontemps at the…
Adventures in Pop
JUDE MONTAGUE Adventures in Pop has been running original creative rock and pop nights at the Jenny Lind for over a year. The scene has built up, and the First…
Love of the Awkward, Different,and Strange
Xelis de Toro and ChopChop Jude Montague Xelis de Toro, writer and performance artist from Galicia, performs at the Jenny Lind music pub with the band ChopChop – a collective…
Zalktis
JUSTIN MORENO The beautiful, gold-collared natrix natrix is a symbol of power and prosperity. Snakes are often reviled, but in Baltic lore, the presence of a grass snake or zalktis…
Sex and Success in Sussex
JUDE MONTAGUE A group exhibition brought together by friends, beneath this controversial but playful title, follows last year’s Spirit of Invention show which responded to John Logie Baird’s inventiveness. These…
Radio Times
JUDE MONTAGUE introduces a new community history project focusing on our economic past A new radio project is taking to the air, devised by members of Parchment Trust, providers of…
Braga, Portugal, and Brazil
JUDE MONTAGUE and VICTORIA KINGHAM The association between Brazil and Portugal dates back to the 16th century, when Brazil was colonised for its plentiful trees (Brazilwood), then later used for…
The Psychoshadowery of John Logie Baird
MARK WALTER I met Jude Montague on a sunny but chilly January morning at the door of the Hastings Museum, and her beaming smile radiated from the entrance hall. I…
Sweating, Rocking, Tender Moments
JUDE MONTAGUE Amy Rigby, US singer-songwriter, visits Hastings for her first ever local gig with husband and sometime-duo partner, Wreckless Eric. Eric (Goulden) is local, from Peacehaven. Amy was raised…
McNiff: Everything’s a Song
Local singer/ songwriter Jason McNiff launches his 9th album, Everything’s a Song, at The Stables Theatre in Hastings on 2 June. He will be joined by talented musicians and writers…
Poets muse on Hastings, Poetry, and In The Night Garden
JUDE MONTAGUE interviews three poets visiting Hastings who have new collections out in Bloodaxe books. They read their poems at Hastings Bookshop on 13 April. Matthew Caley is a tutor/mentor…
What’s in the Air?
SARAH MILNE talks to Jude Montague about her graphic novel-in-progress Matt Armstrong Jude Montague’s talents are spread right across the local art and music scene. From musical performances with her…
Thinking Inside the Box
JUDE MONTAGUE uncovers a slice of Social History I have been chasing history. Specifically, Hastings history. My research has uncovered the tale of the first woman ever to become a…
Wreckless Eric plays the Pig
JUDE MONTAGUE On a dark October night, just before a storm, we stood on White Rock seafront watching for the main act to drive up. It’s a great moment before…
Repairing Vintage Audio Gear
JUDE MONTAGUE Recently, Hastings Independent Press featured a Supersound amplifier that was bought by Montague Armstrong and manufactured on Kings Road, St Leonards-on-Sea. It still worked – amazingly for a…
Supersound: A Legendary Local Business
JUDE MONTAGUE Jude MontagueMatt Armstrong with the Supersound Amplifier Browsing the internet on the trail of local manufacturing history, Matt Armstrong discovered an interesting early 1960s amplifier. When he noticed…
A Hundred Years Ago in Hastings – the Invention of Television
JUDE MONTAGUE delves into the Logie Baird archives at Hastings Museum Jude MontagueJude Montague’s Interpretation It’s a hundred years since John Logie Baird first transmitted images, transferring the outline of…
Cinema Cats
JUDE MONTAGUE Cats have inspired worship throughout history. They are allegedly the second most popular search on the internet, and have been the focus of films that have been significant…
Primal Dreaming at Electro Land
NICK PELLING There used to be a time when the world teemed with deities. You couldn’t move for them. Messing with every aspect of your life. Bird-like or as beetles…
ARTS DIARY
Summer Picnic Concert at Fairlight Hall Hastings International PianoThomas Kelly Thomas Kelly, 2022 prize winner of the Hastings International Piano Competition, returns for a summer picnic recital at beautiful Fairlight…
Turps Banana: An Off-Site Art School Comes To Hastings
JUDE MONTAGUE Turps Banana, the alternative art school, is opening a new off-site programme in the Hastings area. Many of my friends have taken an interest in the London school…
A Town Explores a Book 2023
JUDE MONTAGUE This year the St Leonards-on-Sea readers’ festival focussed on Mary Seacole’s autobiography Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands. Mary came from Jamaica, the daughter of a…
Shadowlands
Mark Walter Explores an Alternative Photography Process Shadowlands was a collaboration between six artists and is part of the Photo Hastings festival that has run since 2010. This year the…
A Dream of Escape
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling Who hasn’t dreamed of getting on a motorbike and hurdling the barbed wire at Stalag Luft III to freedom? The dream of some form…
Art for HIP’s Sake
By Nick Pelling Sometimes artists get a bad press. They are occasionally depicted as narcissistic types obsessed with their own ideas and neurotic about reviews and, of course, sales. But…
The Real Deal
By Nick Pelling Many of us have no doubt dreamt of being an artist; breaking the digital chains that now ensnare us all. But reality, in the form of needing…