MATTHEW BOURNE PIANO DEMOLITION PERFORMANCE, SPATCHCOCK, LONDON, MAY 15, 2010

’SPATCHCOCK’ nights were legendary: hosted by a community of extraordinarily creative people living in amongst the warehouses in Overbuy Road, London. Raucous, intense, powerful, FUN. As the evenings progressed, one could be guaranteed of becoming quite mashed-up, and continuing well into the following morning... SPATCHCOCK had asked if I would play an old upright piano - one they were looking to dispose of. Not wishing to pay for its removal, they asked that, as part of the performance, would I mind progressively destroying it... Armed with tools from Rupert Lees’s nearby workshop, I set about the task of a ’demolition performance’. The video ends with an ’encore’ performed off-camera, on another upright, elsewhere in the warehouse.