The Art Car Boot Fair is always an adventure, the annual London events, the visits to Liverpool, Folkestone, Margate or wherever we may go. Last year the London leg took place South of the river down in Vauxhall, a move away from the Art Car Boot Fair spiritual home of Brick Lane. Brick Lane isn’t…
The Courtesy Group are about to release their “long-awaited” second album ‘2nd City Liquor, here’s a taste, the album that’s due out in August… . . Since the acclaimed debut,‘Tradesman’s Entrance’, TCG’s line-up has changed considerably, with original guitarist and keyboardist Fyfe Dangerfield departing to form Guillemots in 2005 and Delta drumbo Bird leaving to…
CHRIS MOON – Monday Club at Gallery 46, Whitechapel, London, July 2018 – Back to the back streets of Whitechapel, back for a little bit more, back to Gallery 46, scene of that recent Paul Renner, Paul Sakoilsky coming together. Gallery 46 is proving to be one of East London’s more interesting galleries at the…
So you have three people who happen to be either current and former members of Kayo Dot, so that pretty much means your band is going to be pretty good in an off-kilter left-field other rock kind of way Right? Something new from Stern just came our way, the experimental band from Brooklyn featuring Toby…
There a rather impressive version, of course its an impressive version, how could it not be?, When have King Crimson not impressed in terms of the music they constantly make? There’s a rather impressive version of one of King Crimson’s finest of many fine moments, “one of the songs that old-school fans probably thought they’d…
Miss Red just gets better and better with every encounter, here’s the new video for another piece of new music called Dagga . The rather impressive video was directed by Vasilisa Forbes from First Films “In my song ‘Dagga’ I’m addressing the tension between man and woman. The tension created by a woman’s wish to…
Two years ago the On The Brink open air exhibition in the grounds of the Quaker’s Meeting House on the boarders of Wanstead, Leytonstone and the edges of Epping Forest over in East Lonson, was one of the highlight’s of the 2016 Leytonstone Arts Trail. This year, once again, as part of the Leytonstone Arts…
Five Another five slices of music? Five musical things that have come our way in recent times. The latest five kind of fell off the rails with the irritation of that steaming pile of limp-dick sexist crap from that band last week, here then, in no particular order, after the the aborted five of last week,…
STOP PRESS: The opening night “private view” will now happen this Thursday rather than this Wednesday. We assume this is something to do with a football match… Chris Moon returns to London with Monday Club, a new series of paintings based on the artist’s daily cycle from his studio to London Fields Lido. – The…
WILD opens this weekend over in Leytonstone, London E11, as part of the extensive annual Leytonstone Arts Trail. Wild will be the second outdoor 3D exhibition, in the grounds of the Quaker Meeting House curated by artists Brett Banks and Mary Knight, this year’s much anticipated show follows on 2016’s rather well received exhibition the…
A quick Thing today, for we have things to do and palces to be, Gazelle Twin has announced details of her new album Pastoral – “What species is this? What century?” Forged in a rural idyll in Middle-England, the new album Pastoral, by Gazelle Twin, exhumes England’s rotten past, and shines a torch over its…
They were delicious, so sensual, so pure… no, that’s not right, what was it..? Pure? Pure what? The purity of sculpture. They were like ice cream, no, they were like folded soft fabric, no, not soft fabric, no! I can’t be looking at sculpture or dancing around architecture and talking of ice cream. Intense pieces…
