Exhibitions
Quiffs, Riffs and Tiffs: The story of popular music in Salford from 1950 to today
Quiffs Riffs and Tiffs celebrates the history of popular music in Salford over the past fifty years - right up to the present day. It explores our everyday musical stories, and takes a look the current and future sounds coming out of Salford today.
A huge number of musicians hail from Salford or have connections with the city. However this has not always been recognised and many famous bands, musicians and “sounds” have often been attributed to Manchester.
Quiffs Riffs and Tiffs tells the real story.
Now Salford musicians, bands, managers, producers, fans and music people recount their personal stories for this exhibition, and show the unique musical character of this city and its influence on the local, national and international music scene.
Do you have stories of a Quiff, Riff or a Tiff? If so, be sure to add your stories and memories to the exhibition.
- Find out more on the Quiffs, Riffs & Tiffs site on myspace
- Find out about the Salford music map
- You can take part in Music Quiz No. 1
Notion Pictures
by Denis Whiteside, Ian Irvine and Andrea Cotton
The artists in this exhibition look closely at, and makes use of, language and symbols, arts and common objects, song titles and common phrases. These elements are then presented using a method or process which illuminates that idea, sometimes with a dash of humour or even obsession.
Man's Ruin
Photography by Richard Heeps
Man's Ruin represents a road trip that takes in a decade of Richard Heep's career as a professional photographer. It takes the form of a personal photo-documentary capturing the sights and kitsh Americana of Arizona, California, and Nevada shown alongside comparable images from Europe and East Anglia. By presenting these images side by side he challenges the viewer to question where and when the photograph was taken. His vibrant photography is all traditionally hand-printed using archive quality materials and is characterised by his trademark of highly saturated colour. For Richard 'it is all about colour, this scene: highly saturated, glorious Technicolour'.
Appearing alongside this body of work are local images from his 'Ordinary Places' series. Salford holds special significance in Richard's photographic journey as the location of his first solo exhibition. It was also in Salford where he switched from the more conventional approach to documentary photography by using black and white film, to experimenting in colour, setting the origins of the Man's Ruin trip back further to 1986. The elements were all there in those early days - the passion for capturing what is about to be lost to time and the evidence of the past in the present. Whilst they cannot be described as 'ruins' what remains are traces of faded glamour drawing its last breath.
Play Out!
This summer, Salford Museum is transforming one of their galleries into a play street. Come and play out all day in the street without cars, and in the back yards and alleyways. Play street games, with balls, bikes and round the lamposts - and find out more about Salford's very own special play streets!
This page was last updated on 02 July 2009
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