ORGAN THING: Stuff and such, Stuff’s future funk, Paolozzi’s murals under threat again…

Monday’s thing turned out to be Tuesday’s thing, disappointing to read Paolozzi murals at Tottenham Court Road tube face the threat of ‘demolition’ again this morning, or so the Architects Journal is reporting today. Well they’ve already pulled down the Astoria, closed a load of other places of cultural importance, so why should we expect…

Glorious looking Tuesday, who needs happy Mondays, good riddance to page three. No time to be here today, things to paint, leaves to grow and stuff… here some Stuff and some envelope pushing future funk for you…

“Stuff are a five piece that brings a crossgenre groove, spanning from broken hip-hop to more electronic and jazz influenced future funk”

Stuff head over from Belgium to play a free gig at East London’s Old Blue Last this Wednesday night (Jan 21st) or so the ever excellent LondonGigs.net tells us.

The 1000 square metres of mosaic installed throughout Tottenham Court Road underground station in the early 1980s were designed by Scottish sculptor Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. The murals have been under serious threat since the London tube station closed for major redevelopment, even though assurance have been given that they would still be there, it now looks like that might not be the case…. Enough for today, stuff to do, stuff stuff stuff….

More of this tomorrow, maybe?

3 responses to “ORGAN THING: Stuff and such, Stuff’s future funk, Paolozzi’s murals under threat again…”

ajdehany

January 20, 2015 at 12:01 pm

The blandification of London. I saw a very bland proposal for the bit opposite London Bridge. It’s arguably the contemporary version of Fascist Architecture; curves for rigid lines, glass for stone, grey for grey.

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[…] A rush down to Tottenham Court Road, good to see the Sir Eduardo Paolozzi mosaics in the Tottenham Court Road underground station restored and looking as good as they always did – “Mosaics by the British Pop Artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi in Tottenham Court Road underground station have been re-enstated after a public outcry and petition, signed by over 50,000 members of the public. The works of art have now been restored and are viewable in the station”. (so said Artlyst). Can they restore the Astoria, the Marquee and Soho now please, those mosaics felt like long lost friends, flashbacks to the Royal George, the garage girls and carrying bags of flyers to Atom Seed gigs, good to see them back, for once protest worked… […]

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