29 October 2010
Staged at the Bluecoat, the Lounge programme included talks on aspects of Lowry including his musical interests and connections to Herman Melville; screening of TV documentary Rough Passage; launch of The Firminist periodical; and two features that would become fixtures of subsequent lounges, a Lowry-themed music mix and a mescal toast to the writer. Those involved - Bryan Biggs, Alisa Cox, Colin Dilnot, Mark Goodall, Robert Sheppard and Helen Tookey became the nucleus of 'The Firminists', a self-styled group that would organise the Lounge as an annual event in the Bluecoat calendar, staged each year around the time of the Mexican Day of the Dead.
