Alan Moore (the writer) and Stephen O’Malley (the musician and Z’Ev collaborator) are preparing a performance at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Alan Moore’s neo-shamanic spoken performances, for my money, are a lot more interesting and transformative than his comics, and that’s saying something. Hopefully there’ll be a CD.
For the opening of the Great British Art Debate: Turner Versus Martin, AV Festival 10 brings together two great forces in contemporary culture, the graphic novelist Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Watchmen), and musician Stephen O’Malley (Sun O))), KTL, Gravetemple). Alan Moore will write and perform a new text responding to the energy of the two paintings on show: John Martin’s The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Hannibal Crossing the Alps by JMW Turner.
Stephen O’Malley will create a new ambient soundscape, sonically melting in the radiance of the paintings.
(Alan Moore and David J: The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels)