Organ Thing of the Day: Something new from the rather engaging Frog Eyes, the band from British Columbia, Canada, have a first single from their new album Pickpocket’s Locket ready for us to explore, and here it is right now. The single is called Joe With the Jam, the single is out on Paper Bag Records…
WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS is an event happening at a new improv/experimental night at Redchurch Brewery, a night run by Yumi Hara, and a pre-launch party for Guy Harries and Yumi Hara’s new album, also called Wheels Within Wheels. (and it’s Yumi’s birthday party as well) The event features live performances: (in various combinations):from YUMI HARA…
ORGAN THING OF THE DAY: Went to have a look at Diane Goldie‘s window today, at Viktor Wynd’s Last Tuesday Society, his rather delightfully strange museum on Mare Street, just by the canal, edges of Hackney. I wasn’t the only one curious, big crowd outside, very colourful crowd (very very colourful), artists, film directors, perfprmers……
We’re sad to learn of the passing of Chris Squire, the widely-respected bass player best known for his work with one of the finest bands ever, Yes. Chris, aged 67, had been undergoing treatment, in his adopted home town of Phoenix, for acute erythroid leukemia, his illness had been widely reported over the last few…
So Hackney Wick then, Fish Island and the rabbit warrens of lovely old buildings, spaces and places unwanted and unloved for years, well besides by the artists who have loved them and live in them, worked in them and created in them for the last twenty or so years. Yesterday was the Saturday of this…
ORGAN THING OF THE DAY: Poison Girl Vi Subversa turns 80: As pointed out by our good friend Mr Sterile, the rather GLORIOUSLY inspirational Vi Subversa (she of Poison Girls) has just turned 80 – “Amazing, Vi Subversa turns 80! Front person for the unique UK anarcho-punk band Poison Girls (said mr Sterile). Their music…
This weekend over at Hackney Wick, around Fish Island and the surrounding area of fast disappearing East London, lots of things are happening. Things? Creativity, art, painting, performance, dancing around architecture (while maybe watching a ship, or a Sweet Toof encrusted canal boat, arriving too late to save a drowning witch?). The annual Hackney WickED…
This Tuesday 23rd June, that’s tomorrow if you’re reading this on the day it was posted, this Tuesday at Cafe Oto, north London… Now that’s what we call an impressive line up of band members… Lydia Lunch Retrovirus + Mesa of the Lost Women (Junko / Yves Botz / Christophe Sorro) No Wave iconoclast Lydia…
It goes, it goes, it goes, it goes something like this, if we see Chicago’s finest Lovely Little Girls playing a gig then we know we need to go check out whoever it is they’re playing with. Lovely Little Girls always play on interesting bills and this one next week looks as wholesome as any…
So anyway, Death Grips just played the first show of their Post-“Breakup” Tour. It happened in Seattle, eleven months after they “called it quits”, no band ever calls it quits, nothing ever ends, here it comes, all red and ready, it goes it goes it goes something like this…. . . . . Meanwhile, #365ArtDrops…
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