re: iain simons

Getting very excited about being able to get on with the first monthly event out of GCHQ, and particularly excited that the brilliant Hello Games are coming up to launch the season with us. I think this series of shows is going to act as a really useful prototyping ground for some of the things that we want to try out at the festival later this year, and also at other events throughout the year. We’ve been threatening to roll these out for years now, every autumn they’re written into the plan and invariably by new year we’re already too suffocated in festival detail to actually deliver them. It’s nice that as well as being able to get them up and running, they kind of also act as a marker that we’re getting a little more formalised (and possibly even better?) at rolling the work out. It’s a big transitional year ahead, which is already moving ahead quicker than we’d planned, so having a monthly public pulse to the development will really help to keep the festival moving. We’re really going to need it this year.