x Part nine of an occasional series. Ahead of the opening of the Nothing is Square Pt.2 group show next Thursday evening (Thursday evening being February 27th and the place being Shipton Street Gallery, just off Columbia Road, East London) we invited painter, London-based figurative oil painter if we must put more of a label…
Is there any wonder? It was one of those sorting through the mountains of things in the in box, the musical box, kind of days, the never ending pile of demanding e.mails and let down by those Horse Lords and their insect hoof flannery? As good as the music they make is, not sure why…
Nothing is Square Pt.2 – a Carefully curated painterly group show, 38 artists, 140 identically sized square pieces. Opening night Thursday February 27th, 6pm until 9pm. The show will happen at Shipton Street Gallery, Shipton Street, Columbia Road, London, E2 7RZ. All work ON 20cm x 20cm canvas, all work will be on sale at…
Two things today, two very tasty slices of adventurous earfood… Toby Driver, he of Kayo Dot and such has just said “I have some solo shows abroad coming up soon”. The man who we last mentioned at the end of last year when he released and a tasty piece of epicness, has these dates coming…
MEL BOCHNER, Blah Blah Blah at Maddox Gallery, Mayfair, London, Feb 2020 – The never ending need to explore galleries, to go look at art, the need to go be in the room with it. Managed to catch some of the Mel Bochner paintings recently on show at Maddox Gallery, an exhibition of his very…
Garrett Prutner and Richie Culver, Cacotopia04 Week three and four at Annka Kultys Gallery, Hackney Road, London E2, Feb 2020 – It would be fair to say that week three and four had a lot to live up to in terms of Cacotopia04, it would also be fair to say that week three and four…
Organ Thing of The Day: It was forty years ago this very day, as someone just pointed out on social media, actually it was film maker Gavin Toomey, let’s give him credit, It was forty years ago this very day, February 16th, right over the street from us here in the Organ bunker in Hackney,…
She’s talkin’ some new kicks, ones like you ain’t never seen, well old kicks in this case and yes that is a Van Halen line and that is a tasty version of AC/DC‘s Have a Drink On Me, out old friend Tairrie B and her partner in musical crime Mick Murphy, not content with letting…
Organ Thing of the Day – Sex Swing released one of the finest albums or recent times back there in 2016, we said so in rather enthusiastic fashion at the time, and then got on with things and to be frank didn’t ever get around to actually buying a copy or ever thinking that much…
Five Recommended Art Things? Are bothered, shall we do it again? Rubbish? I saw a man, a middle aged man who really should have known better, a middle aged man who was about to throw a trombone in a skip, I asked him why he didn’t at least take it to the charity shop, (we…
Organ Thing of The Day – A slice of NI, another slice from one of the seemingly endless parade of challenging French progressive rock bands, progressive in the real sense of course, This is some footage that goes with the album Pantophobie (2019), an album recorded live in Nantes in October 2019, You’ll find the…
Four musical things that have been hanging about here for a couple of days demanding a mention and a link and the posting of the information you might need to go find out more, three new albums and a very now slice of goodness from back there … 1: CHEER ACCIDENT have a new album:…
