It's known for making submarines. So how does this remote Cumbrian venue attract the world's boldest musicians?

"The corrugated peaks of BAE Systems' Dock Hall dominate the skyline over Barrow's red-brick terraces, and roughly a third of working-age locals are employed in its sprawling complex. This militarised landscape is the unlikely home of Full of Noises, an experimental music and arts venue with a capacity of 40 whose first event featured krautrock legends Faust destroying an electric guitar with a pneumatic drill."

"The paradox of existing in this highly surveilled complex was that its far-flung location offered a rare kind of creative freedom: there was no established scene to satisfy. You could do anything because no one was really bothered or looking, says Boulter. That first festival with Faust set the tone big German men banging on an oil drum and setting fire to stuff and brought together a group of local ex-submariners to perform Kurt Schwitters' dadaist poetry in morse code."

Barrow-in-Furness sits on a windswept Cumbrian hook, an industrial town surrounded by the Irish Sea and known for 140 years of submarine building. BAE Systems' Dock Hall dominates the skyline and employs roughly a third of working-age locals. Full of Noises is an experimental music and arts venue with capacity 40, launched with a 2009 festival whose opening featured Faust destroying an electric guitar with a pneumatic drill. Glenn Boulter and four local artists took temporary custodianship of a crumbling canteen on wind-lashed Barrow Island within the military-industrial complex. The venue used the site's remote, highly surveilled paradox to commission work rooted in local history and communities and later moved to Piel View House.

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