With something like 33 days to go one of the best days on the London art calender, the participating artists list has been announced this morning. Karen Ashton and her team have been leaking announcements via their social media feeds for the last few weeks, some exciting new names (and although no one has said…
The Cosmics have streamed a new track called Drained ahead of a self-titled EP that comes out on June 13th. ‘The Cosmics’ will be their debut vinyl EP, “they welcome you into their world of distorted yet infectious melodies, glazed with a punk aesthetic” so says this press release. We talking new garage scuzz pop,…
“Join us for Open Weekend 17-19th May 2019!” exclaim the spokespeople or a spokesperson for Chisenhale. Open studios are always a worth exploring, especially places like Chisenhale that have history on the walls and artists with tales to tell – take yourself to some Organ coverage and a bag load of imagery from a previous…
ISILDURS BANE & PETER HAMMILL – In Amazonia (Ataraxia) – An album arrives, without any real warning, no idea what to expect, well no, that’s not true, Peter Hammill is involved, well no, still don’t know what to expect, you’re kind of hoping to hear that voice, that wordplay, that learning not to shoot from…
TRIGGER CUT – Buster – This is good, this is very good, they said they were loud but then surely every band is loud if you turn them up enough, get what they mean though, they sound loud, Trigger Cut, they’re from Germany, that don’t sound like they’re from anywhere in particular, they sound like…
Well now, the price of what? Never mind, there’s always a price to pay, on with things, on with it all, on with fruit picking and we don’t don’t cover ever gig we go to or every art show we go to or every piece of music that comes in here, only the good ones,…
Koenji Hyakkei are touring Europe right now, this is a very very good thing, they’re at the legendary Rock in Opposition Festival over in France this week, they’re also in London this coming Sunday 12th May, the beautifully hard-boiled Japanese band are at The Lexington, this is the long awaited debut London show from the…
Five more art things then, five recommendations. Do we need an introduction? All very simple, five art things coming up or happening right now, same as we said last time, a born again regular (unless it all falls off the edge of a cliff again) almost certainly weekly, or something like weekly, a weekly round…
IDLES have shared a new song – “Mercedes Marxist” – pulled from the sessions for their latest LP ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance.’. . “Mercedes Marxist was a strange beast for us, after Rottweiler, it was the first song we wrote for Joy as an Act of Resistance. I was pissed off at what…
Sofia Martins-Gray is an artist, a painter, she paints with her camera, she paints beautifully with her camera, Sofia regularly exhibits around London, she was recently a guest artist at my Fruit Shop show (guest artists are always an important part of my solo shows), she was also part of the recent Over and Over…
Marx Lee, Non-Places at Annka Kultys Gallery, Hackney Road, London E2 – You never quite know what you’re going to get at Annka Kultys Gallery but you know that a good percentage of what happens in that rather formal rather unassuming white cube of a space above a shop by Cambridge Heath station on the…
Organ Thing of The Day, there feels like there’s need to just remind ourselves what this is about, it is all very simple, it should be very simple, gone are te days of the big fat glossy magazine version of Organ or even the handmade zine days, these days it is all very simple, a…
