Mike Johnston
Born in Belfast, Ireland, 1971 Lives and works in Birmingham, UK Work: Musician,
Group Exhibitions 2007-8 Binary Oppositions group show, Citric Gallery, Brescia, Italy 2005 No Place, Somewhere (Soundtrack), Architecture Week, Birmingham 2004 Midland Aquaphiliacs, Architecture Week, Birmingham Animations 'Look + Listen' 2004 (screened at 7" Cinema, Optronica, Stella Artois film festival) 'UDS Monster Tree' 2006 (screened exclusively at 7" Cinema and then deleted) 'The Red Square' 2006 (screened at 7" Cinema, Flatpack film festival) Discography Plone 'Press A Key' / 'Electronic Beauty Parlour' 7" Wurlitzer Jukebox 1997 'Plaything' on Warp 100 'We Are Reasonable People' Compliation 1998 'Plock' / 'Simple Song' / 'Sunday Laid Moo' 12"/CD Warp 1998 'For Beginner Piano' LP Warp 1999 'Tricky Disco' (Plone remix) on Warp compliation 1999 'Bewitched' (Plone remix) on Pram's 'Somniloquay' LP Domino 2001 Mike in Mono 'On Furry Cushion' (My Life In Mono remix) on Lightspeed Future Lullaby 7" Octave Kitten 2001 'Mashed Up' / 'Pogo' 7" Halfeaten Records 2002 'Exit 3' on St Dunstan's Experiment compliation 2002 'Sidetracked' on Broader Than Broad Street (Birmingham Post Compliation) 'Stars' / 'No Rest' / 'Southwold Jack' / 'Stripes' CD Warmcircuit 2004 'Egg Shaped Planet' on Capsule compliation 2006 'Euro Eccentric' / 'Binary' 7" Static Caravan 2007 'Almost Unreachable' on Binary Oppositions compliation, 2007 'Perfect' / 'Egg Shaped Planet' CD Warmcircuit 2008 ZX Spectrum Orchestra 'Baroque' / 'Fed Blanket' / 'Beepulator' / 'Clive Wink' (data) Cassette Halfeaten / Warmcircuit 'Clive Live' CD Warmcircuit 'Beepulator' on Capsule compliation 2003 'T.V.O.D.' split 7" Static Caravan / Warmcircuit 2006 'The Red Square' (animation) on 7" Cinema DVD compliation 2006 'Dollar Power' / 'Musx' / 'Dollar Power' (video) / 'Look + Listen' (animation) CD/DVD Warmcircuit 2007 'Basic Programming' LP Warmcircuit 2007 Modified Toy Orchestra 'Pocket Calculator' split 7" Static Caravan / Warmcircuit 2006 'Black Star' on Wiretapper compliation, The Wire, October 2007
Live Performances Mike In Mono 2007
Kommune 1, Birmingham The Cross, Birmingham Green St., Birmingham Arts Fest, Birmingham Supersonic Festival, Birmingham 2003 Medicine Bar, Birmingham 13th Note, Glasgow Cork Brighton Stoke Night & Day, Manchester Shoreditch Arts Centre, London Hospital Festival, Brighton Custard Factory Theatre, Birmingham Islington Academy, London Institute, Birmingham
St Dunstan's Experiment, Birmingham Norman McLaren Short Films, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham Cube Gallery, London BBC Radio 1's In The City, Birmingham ZX Spectrum Orchestra 7" Cinema, ICA, London, 2007 Spitz, London, 2007 Kinetica Museum, London, 2007 GamesAV, London, 2007 2003-2006 Sideshow, Nottingham 7" Cinema, Birmingham 7" Cinema, Cube, Bristol Neen Day, London Spitz, London 7" Cinema, Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium 7" Cinema, Birmingham Supersonic Festival, Birmingham Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
Modified Toy Orchestra 2007 Goldsmiths, London Junction, Cambridge Late At The Tate, London Supersonic Festival, Birmingham Faster Than Sound, Bentwaters Airbase Octopus Festival, Paris Under Construction Festival, Vienna Dissonanze Festival, Rome Zemos '98 Festival, Seville South Bank Centre, London Barfly, Birmingham Summer Sundae, Leicester Rive Creative, Civildale, Italy Town Hall, Birmingham 2004-2006 Digital Arts Awards, Manchester Sonar, Barcelona Supersonic Festival, Birmingham Spitz, London Supersonic Festival, Birmingham Royal Institution, London Scala, London Medicine Bar, Birmingham
Press NME - February 1997 The Face - June 1998 'We Brought Our Friends - Birmingham's Experimental Bands In Words And Pictures' (Bearos) - 1998 The Times - 27/2/99 Dazed & Confused - September 1999 Birmingham Post - 12/4/03 Guardian - 8/3/07
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