The rather enticing New Arts & Music Programme at Hackney’s authentically Tudor Sutton House goes on this weekend with This Heat’s (or This Is Not This Heat’s) Charles Bullen. “Charles Bullen, of seminal experimental art rock group This Heat and its current iteration This Is Not This Heat, performs solo percussive prepared guitar in the…
Extra Life’s beautifully voiced Charlie Looker has announced a debut solo album “Simple Answers”, the album release date is June, it will come out via Last Things Records, he’s unveiled a first single Ritual Fire, you can hear it here, the song can be found further down this very page,,, “This song could be about…
ART / HEAVY METAL / MUSIC
So we’re walking down the Hackney Road, coming back from the Semi Skimmed opening amongst other things, art-dropping, well carefully placing, these things are never dropped, always carefully placed, we’re walking home, minding our own business when without warning, a metal attack, it struck me like a Sledgehammer, or something like that, “Oi! Are…
Ten years of Cafe Oto? One of London’s finest venues with an always exciting programe of cutting-edge music as well as a decent bar and a place just to hang out and enjoy, they’re celebrating, and so they should…. “Hi there, Ten years ago today we hosted our first concert. At the time we had…
A Semi Skimmed pop up, what kind of label are we going to stick on this one then? Pop art? Street art? Urban art? It doesn’t really matter what we call it does it? A room full of art, mostly painting, a room full of colour. lots of colour, (and lots of people) almost always…
Star Period Star just released a new album, they released it on smoked-coloured vinyl, the album is called Daylight Spending Time. The band say they have “returned to the use of “wobbletones”, radical guitar tunings where the lower strings are tuned so low that they not only create micro-tonal chords, but the notes bend or…
Oh, a thing of the day? is anyone that bothered if we do it everyday or not? I mean I know a lot of the art and the music we cover on these fractured pages doesn’t get covered anywhere else (especially the art), but is anyone really that bothered if we miss a day or…
Peter Harris has a new album out, his debut album, Peter Harris is a visual artist. his album, Adverts,. features collaborations with Lee Scratch Perry and Vic Goddard, it comes out as a limited run of 300 vinyl albums, each one comes with a unique piece of hand printed art from Harris The video features…
That five upcoming art things then, five more art things, five five five, five art things, five more London art recommendations, five art things in no particular order, five things that are about to open, five things that interest us, five things that might interest you, an ongoing series of recommendations, five things that look…
Peter Hammill, yhe leader of Van Der Graaf Generator, plays a rare London concert, at the Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, performing music from his new album, as part of a UK tour. The other dates on the tour are: 24 April – GLASGOW Oran Mor, 25 April – MANCHESTER Stoller Hall, 27 + 28 Apr…
ORGAN THING OF THE DAY: A rather exciting thing today, a fresh slice of Chicago’s Cheer Accident, a first slice of their forthcoming new album Fades. Surely one of the finest bands on the planet, one of the few really truly progressive bands, progressive in all senses, a band who challenge themselves as much as…
Cardiacs, for those of you who like to be downloading rather than to be holding these things in our hands, have finally got around to opening a Bandcamp page and making a whole load of their beautifully heaven born and ever bright back catalogue of albums officially available… Meanwhile, in a very (very) slightly related…
