Cacotopia 03 Week Two, Rui Lin at Annka Kultys Gallery, Hackney Road, East London, December 2018 – Week one was bright, week one of this year’s Cacotopia was exciting, it was striking, it was electric, I went three times, it got better every time, there’s no way week two was going to follow it, video…
Organ Thing of The Day then, here we go, a quick one, cherry picking just for you while we recover from the fair – “To celebrate the release of the IDLES and Heavy Lungs split 7” single, Bristol’s Heavy Lungs have revealed a brand new video to accompany their track ‘Blood Brother’, a reference to…
See the thing about the Art Car Boot Fair is that it really is like a proper all-the-fun-of-the-fair type fair, it isn’t just an art market, it certainly isn’t anything like those other rather formal rather cold-hearted art fair monsters, actually, what it really has become now is a kind of travelling art show,…
Cacotopia 03, Week One, Martin Nemes at Annka Kultys Gallery, Hackney Road, East London, December 2018 – First you’re going to need a little in terms what’s actually going on here, what we have is the third year of Cacotopia, a now annual event at Annka Kultys Gallery. The gallery is hiding in plain sight…
News is coming in that Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks has died at the age of 63, the BBC is reporting a ‘suspected heart attack’ as the cause, sad news indeed, an important figure and influence in terms of British music, punk rock, pop goodness and the rest, I played that single all day, perfect pop…
The first ever Christmas version of the beautiful thing that is the Art Car Boot Fair is almost upon us, the Christmas Wrap Party happens this coming Sunday over by the River Thames, at the great big indoor space called The Workshop over by Newport Street gallery and such at 26 Lambeth High Street,…
Another Thursday evening in East London, let’s go explore, Is that the distinctive drone of an art crowd? Can we hear the sound of an opening night at an art gallery? You can always tell, to the trained ear it is a very distinctive sound, we didn’t see it, we heard it, is that the…
Watch the first official video for ‘Liberty City’ and first visual document to accompany Mark Stewart’s ground-breaking debut solo record Learning To Cope With Cowardice: an interdisciplinary collaboration between post-punk iconoclast Mark Stewart and renowned avant-garde choreographer Mehmet Sander. . “Mark Stewart has revealed the official video for ‘Liberty City’ ahead of the definitive reissue…
ORGAN PREVIEW: Intervention, an exhibition featuring something like thirty or more contemporary artists will open on Friday 30th November 2018 in the gallery at East London’s new artist-hub and studio workspace: The Hackney Creative Social Club. The show runs until December 22nd, we’ll be back with more coverage over the weekend I expect. The statement from…
Following pop-up exhibitions in London, New York and Paris, Idles announce today their plans to auction off all the artwork to raise money for Samaritans. The band’s latest single, of the same name and inspired by the charity of course The auction will be live from 09:00 GMT on Friday 7th December here. The band…
EndofTheLine have a whole load of festive things coming up over a week at the start of December, a festive fair, an exhibition, a Christmas show and more in an East London pop-up space over in the middle of Shoreditch – “EndoftheLine present our end of year Christmas show, come and celebrate an alternative to…
Gum Takes Tooth have released A second track from their forthcoming album for Rocket Recordings, Arrow. Listen to the three and a half minute rhythmically driven stomp of ‘Borrowed Lies right here… , Taken from the London duo Jussi Brightmore and Tom Fug’s new full length album ‘Arrow’ (Launch135) Released 25 January 2019. That will…
