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welcome

Hi, and welcome to Ban This!, a community project for Egremont and the surrounding areas by juneau/projects/.

about Ban This!

juneau/projects/ are actually artists Phil Duckworth and Ben Sadler, who have worked together on art and music projects since 2001. Based in Birmingham, juneau/projects/ make records, perform live and exhibit their work in art galleries. Ban This! is an ongoing project where Phil and Ben work with children to write and record pop songs about their lives. They have now collected over 50 songs and regularly perform cover versions of them at their own concerts.

"We loved Egremont, and really liked the songs that the children recorded. We also enjoyed finding out that the Crab Fair wasn't about people selling seafood and that the school was built on a mine."

In the past the duo have used mobile phones, computers, camcorders, dictaphones and cd walkmans in their work, often delighting audiences by destroying them to make unexpected sounds. They are also interested in nature, and use characters and images of animals and birds to tell stories about how we think and feel about nature in the 21st century.