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November 2011 - Happy Birthday to us!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! We are ten years old in November 2011.

Tenth Anniversary Performance, Black Lion, Chapel Street, Salford

7.30pm - £5/£3

DepartureLounge presents an evening of improvisation and experimentation featuring acoustic instruments, voices and live electronica. Not to be missed!

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2 July 2011

We are performing on Manchester Art Crawl between 7.00pm and 8.00pm at Kraak Gallery in Manchester

We reckon you should do the whole crawl. That way you can take in some of Paul J. Abbott's for Voice and Art Gallery which is going to be performed for 4 hours in the same space in Kraak!

Meet at the Triangle shopping centre at 2.00pm to get your copy of the map!

26 May 2011

Departure Lounge at Chorlton Arts Festival. We are performing an improvised pub opera as part of Chorlton Arts Festival Cabaret Night.

The event is listed as a festival highlight and also features Bushpig and The Bradawls.

Venue: Conservative Club

Tickets: £5 and £4.

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27 February 2010

FREE GIG - Departure Lounge at Musicians Gallery, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 12.00noon - 4.00pm,> Click here for more information here

September 2008 - Keeping it fresh!

departurelounge is 7 years old and going strong. Supporting our committment to contemporary experimental art and music we have taken a fresh look at our presence in the world and on the web. Since our cutting edge project 30 days in september, back in 2002, innovative use of the web has been important to us. Five years on we are taking advantage of blogging, podcasting and online video streaming to share our work with the world.

August 2008 - Roam the Rows, Chester

departurelounge performed at Roam the Rows festival for shoppers, tourists and passers by. We were delighted to present a two day programme of storytelling, music and instant collaboratiive performance at the heart of a spectacular and intimate festival.

For this two day festival of performance, we researched and presented stories and folk music from the local area, giving a fresh twist to material which reflected the rich history of the area.  It was particularly important for us that while being accessible we did not lose sight of the objectives and mission of the group.