June 2007: Wouldn't it be nice...

Sometimes... is an arts collective formed in 2000 in Preston, Lancashire, we fled to Manchester in 2005, and began running quarterly performance event Volume at greenroom.

In February of '07 we triumphed at greenroom's Instant Win Competition, where you get 60 seconds to pitch an idea for an art project, grand prize £500. Phil and Nathan said they wanted to buy 500 items of 500 people for £500 and exhibit the items for one month, so we spend two weeks bounding, lunging, trudging andtraipsing round the streets of Manchester meeting many kind, helpful and enthusiastic people.
We bought: a broken guitar, a jar of soil from Lanzarote (or: a jar of lanzarote), lots of smoking paraphernalia, lots of keyrings, a bra, clothes for a premature baby, train tickets, someone's bail release form ("I never went down for this"), a bicycle clip from a girl playing the mouth organ, a bicycle maintenance tool, a book to be proof-read, all sorts.



Other Documentation of the opening night of the exhibition, and of some radio interviews can be found here at our virb.com account.

Many thanks to everyone who sold us an item.