REVIEW: ART CAR BOOT FAIR, MARGATE, AUGUST 30th 2015. A little bit more than an hot dog… A day at the The Seaside (capital T, capital S). It’s still there, in our memories, or our imagined memories. Going on a jet plane to a Beach is not The Seaside. The Seaside comes with challenges and…
Things, two things, musical things, things, things… The painter next door is painting oranges today, well maybe not, round orange things at least, atoms? Does he ever stop shaking those cans? We’re off to seaside… Something new from the always stimulating Undergrunnen . Meanwhile Yer man from Crass, Penny Rimbaud, has been up to things……
Tuesday things? Woken by the rhythmical shaking of paint cans again, that aromatic early morning call of Belton drowing out the increasing number of seagulls, green parrots and the cackling police cars of Hackney. Some of us prefer Montana’s distinctive perfume with our first morning coffee, Jimmy chooses to almost exclusively shake Belton for his…
Monday things for a glorious English summer day, rain is not stopping play, not here! Here, have some easy electronica from German three-piece Sea Moya… Here and now, they talk of Electronic-Afro-Kraut-Beat, that seems reasonable enough. Do things, rain never stopped anything, flood? What flood? It got so damn dark in Hackney mid morning that…
Almost a relief to see a new art space opening in East London, especially one as promising as this basement space just by Broadway and a stones-throw from the now pretty much obliterated Vyner Street. English Magic in the first show in Fred Mann’s New Art Project space just over the road from the Regent’s…
What a circus, what a circus indeed, indeed it is a circus, rats, rats and mice and “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” Eaten up by…
Last test match of the season, toss won, where, who, what, where, Battles? Gordon Banksy? Dismaland? Bemusement Park? M-I-C, K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E, Gordon Banksy back in goal? who cares? The artist line-up looks good, it looks Mutoid? K.L.F? Was Shilton a better artist? The Leicester scene? Gaye Bykers on what? Crazyheads indeed Dismaland? Dismal Land? Make…
Off to Margate then, as an artist, I love taking part in the Art Car Boot Fair…. The full list of artists has now been announced for the Margate leg of 2015 Art Car Boot Fair extravaganza. Only two events this year after visits to the Folkestone Triennial and the Liverpool Biennial (alongside the regular…
Things, bassoons, but no monsoons. Monday’s Thing is a taste of things to come from the album from the Leeds-based absurdists new Shatner’s Bassoon. An album that’s about to be released any moment now via Wasp Millionaire Records. Here’s a video from that the label claim is of the UK’s Number one Shatner’s Bassoon Tribute act…
Are we really sure? Today’s thing is a musical box of things, a box with a musical thing on the bottom of it (once the Mellotron has been tunedup again). A box full of musical things (and hogweed seeds) that have landed from the land of the bands of wholesome joy… Deathbomb Arc, the label…
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