Tyneside Sounds Society #8 - Museum Failures

The Tyneside Sounds Society is a monthly broadcast dedicated to the recording and reinterpretation of the sonic environment and sound heritage of Tyneside in the North East of England.

For this months Tyneside Sounds Society we went on an excursion out of Tyneside in November and joined the delegates at the Museums Association annual conference and exhibition.

The conference is a big deal for museums in the UK, there are 100s of delegates who attend from all over the country representing different museums. The conference and exhibition also includes many companies and organisations that are connected to what is called the heritage industry or museum sector; designers, consultants and people selling things to museums. This year it took place at the Manchester Conference Centre in the North of England.

We went round with a roving mic and asked delegates about failure. Why don't museums talk about it? Why don't they admit failure? Or do they? What is failure to them?

This is an edit of some of the interviews mixed together with an emotional and fun playlist of failure themed tracks.

Thanks to Katy Swift and Jessica Turtle from Museums Association Transformers programme and Festival of Change

Tracklist

Swans - Failure
Loretta Lynn - Success
The Beach Boys - Don’t Worry Baby
Perry Como - I’m Always Chasing Rainbows
The Walker Brothers - Love Minus Zero
Stereolab - Ping Pong
Patsy Cline - Yes, I Understand
Willie Nelson - Bubbles in My Beer
Blancmange - The Day Before You Came
Joy Division - Failures
Kings of Convenience - Failure
The Smiths - Jeane