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Places of Live Music: Eventful Geographies of the Roundhouse and the Troubadour Places of Live Music: Eventful Geographies of the Roundhouse and the Troubadour A Thesis by Michael Anton Submitted to the University of London in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree: Doctor of Philosophy 05/2015 Department of Geography Royal Holloway, University of London 1 Declaration Of Authorship I, Michael Anton, hereby declare that this thesis and the work presented in it is entirely my own. Where I have consulted the work of others, this is always clearly stated. Signed: _____________________________________________ Date: 25/05/2015 2 Abstract Music venues are eventful places in which live musical performances happen. They are places of live music, spaces organised for live music, and buildings in which more than just music happens. The Roundhouse and the Troubadour are two examples of music venues, and this thesis is a consideration of what it means for these specific buildings to be, and to become, eventful places of live music. Drawing on geographical theories of space, place and the built environment, philosophical notions of affect, becoming and the event, and musicological understandings of rhythm and sound, I focus on what happens when places of live music happen. I move beyond a consideration of venues as mere containers for performance, and, whilst I concentrate on the roles that music and sound play in the making and remaking of these places, I also consider venues as multi-layered and multifaceted polyrhythms constructed from a multitude of overtly musical and seemingly unmusical processes, actions and materials. Using ethnographic research methods, including participant sensing, informal interviews and rhythmanalysis, I represent and examine a series of multimedia vignettes gathered from these places in order to show how places of live music are characterised by, and impose limitations upon, the abundance of events that occur within them. I unpack a number moments from within live music events, demonstrating the dense bundles of processes unfolding overtly and covertly within them. Music venues are defined by the activities that occur within them. This PhD attends to, examines, and explores the eventful geographies of places of live music, and it produces a geographical account of what goes on when live music happens in a place. 3 Table Of Contents Title Page 1 Declaration Of Authorship 2 Abstract 3 Table Of Contents 4 Table Of Figures 6 Acknowledgements 8 1! Introducing…---------Places-Of-Live-Music- 11! 1.1! Introducing-The-Roundhouse- 15! 1.2! Introducing-The-Troubadour- 22! 1.3! Introducing-The-Author- 25! 2! Places-And-Events- 32! 2.1! Places- 32! 2.2! Events- 47! 2.2.1! Non(Representational!Geography! 49! 2.3! Place-Of-Live-Music-Events- 58! 2.4! Researching- 69! 2.4.1! Questions! 70! 2.4.2! Methods! 70! 2.4.3! Recording! 80! 2.4.4! Writing!Eventful!Geographies! 93! 2.5! Conclusions- 105! 3! Buildings- 107! 3.1! Stabilising-Rhythms- 108! 3.2! Negotiated-Materials- 119! 3.3! Conclusions- 136! 4! Sounding- 141! 4.1! Sound- 148! 4 4.1.1! Waves! 154! 4.1.2! Reverberation! 159! 4.2! When-It-Reaches-My-Ears- 165! 4.2.1! Listening!To!IT! 177! 4.2.2! Affected!By!Timbre! 183! 4.3! Representing-And-Resonating- 191! 4.4! Having-Been-Dragged- 196! 4.4.1! Witnessing!A!Flash!Of!Emotion! 204! 4.4.2! The!Frustration!Of!The!Unspeakable! 212! 4.5! Conclusions- 219! 5! Rhythms- 221! 5.1! More-Than-Sound- 225! 5.1.1! Prehending!Rhythm! 236! 5.2! Rhythms-Coming-Together- 240! 5.2.1! Eurhythmia! 257! 5.2.2! The!Crowd! 260! 5.2.3! Learnt!Rhythms,!Taught!Rhythms! 264! 5.2.4! Going!Through!The!Motions! 269! 5.3! Rhythms-Breaking-Apart- 272! 5.4! Producing-Rhythm- 284! 5.4.1! Rhythms!Of!The!Roundhouse! 285! 5.4.2! Rhythms!Of!The!Troubadour! 289! 5.4.3! Different!Venues,!Different!Rhythms! 292! 5.5! Conclusions- 294! 6! Concluding…------Eventful-Geographies- 296! 5 6.1! Summary-Of-Research-Findings- 299! 6.2! Future-Geographies-Of-Live-Music- 306! 7! Appendix- 308! 7.1! Roundhouse-Venue-Attendance- 308! 7.2! Roundhouse-Working-Passes- 310! 7.3! Troubadour-Venue-Attendance- 313! 7.4! Example-Of-Twitter-Data- 314! 8! References- 315! 6 Table of Figures Figure 1 The Roundhouse, interior, 21:21, 20/05/2010 .................................................................. 10 Figure 2 Interior of the new great circular engine-house, at the Camden-Town deport of the North Western Railway ................................................................................................................... 17 Figure 3 The Roundhouse, floor plan, bird’s eye view .................................................................. 18 Figure 4 The Roundhouse, floor plan, cross section ....................................................................... 18 Figure 5 The Roundhouse, interior, 20:20, 06/07/2009 .................................................................. 19 Figure 6 The Roundhouse, interior, 21:30, 05/07/2009 .................................................................. 19 Figure 7 The Roundhouse, interior, 22:52, 22/01/2010 .................................................................. 20 Figure 8 The Roundhouse, exterior, 10:38, 28/02/2010 .................................................................. 20 Figure 9 The Roundhouse, interior, 20:45, 15/11/2009 .................................................................. 21 Figure 10 The Roundhouse, interior, 21:55, 30/01/2010 ................................................................ 21 Figure 11 The Troubadour, interior, 22:38, 14/01/2010 ................................................................. 23 Figure 12 The Troubadour, interior, December 1962 ..................................................................... 23 Figure 13 The Troubadour, exterior, 00:03, 07/01/2010 ................................................................. 24 Figure 14 The Troubadour, interior, 22:15, 06/01/2010 ................................................................. 24 Figure 15 The Roundhouse, interior, 15:34, 24/09/2009 ................................................................ 25 Figure 16 The Troubadour, interior, 22:38, 14/01/2010 ............................................................... 112 Figure 17 The!Roundhouse,!interior,!21:30,!05/07/2009 ........................................................ 112 Figure 18 Sketch of the interior of the Troubadour ....................................................................... 113 Figure 19 Sketch of the interior of the Roundhouse ...................................................................... 113 Figure 20 The Trouabdour, interior, 23:43, 20/01/2010 ............................................................... 132 Figure 21 The Roundhouse, interior, 21:48, 30/01/2010 .............................................................. 148 Figure 22 The paths of sound ........................................................................................................ 161 Figure 23 The Troubadour, interior, 22:12, 14/01/2010 ............................................................... 165 Figure 24 The Troubadour, interior, 22:13, 14/01/2010 ............................................................... 144 Figure 25 The Troubadour, interior, 22:14, 14/01/2010 ............................................................... 183 7 Figure 26 The Roundhouse, interior, 21:46, 20/07/2009 .............................................................. 245 Figure 27 The Roundhouse, interior, 22:53, 20/07/2009 .............................................................. 246 Figure 28 The Roundhouse, interior, 23:11, 20/07/2009 .............................................................. 247 Figure 29 The Roundhouse, interior, 23:06, 20/07/2009 .............................................................. 248 Figure 30 Roundhouse working passes 30/06/2010 – 17/07/2009 ................................................ 310 Figure 31 Roundhouse working passes 18/07/2009 – 22/04/2010 ................................................ 311 Figure 32 Roundhouse working passes 30/04/2010 – 29/07/2010 ................................................ 312 Figure 33 Twitter Feed from the Oasis gig, Roundhouse, 21/07/2009 ......................................... 314 8 Acknowledgements There are many, many people responsible for getting me here. Thank you to all of them. I owe a lot of this thesis to the strangers that talked to me at gigs, and those who sent me countless messages detailing their experiences at live music events. In particular I want to thank Dave Gaydon, John Talavera and Laurence Jones for helping me gain access to the venues that form the beating heart of this thesis, and doubtless, saving me a small fortune on gig tickets. I also am indebted to my supervisor Tim Cresswell whose thoughts, guidance, feedback and endless encouragement, concern and supply of coffee helped me immensely to work out what this thesis is/was. Thanks also to Phil Crang, whose advice progressed this thesis in ways I would have never considered. David Gilbert and everyone else who ever attended Royal Holloway’s Landscape surgery also played their part in the creation of this document, and I am very thankful. Mum, Dad, thank you. Without you I could have never achieved this. Your support and love is the reason this got started and finished. Dad, thanks for taking me to all those gigs. And Kate, thank you for believing in me, even when I didn’t, I owe you everything. 9 Figure 1 The Roundhouse, internal, 21:21, 20/05/2010 ! “A concert is being performed tonight. It is the event.” (Deleuze
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