ALBUM REVIEW: PETER HAMMILL – From The Trees (FiE) – Is it possible to be too Peter Hammill? Surely no one else could get away with all this? All these metaphors, all this whispering through megaphones, all these public faces he’s prepared to wear? What else would be squandered other than time? There’s always beauty to…
Five more, the next five recommended art things then, an ongoing regular series of parish notices, things that have been brought to our attention that we think worthy of bringing to yours, things that have passed our way, five art things, mostly London things for that is where we are for now. Five things we think…
A quick thing today, another parish notice, a bit of word-spreading on behalf of the good people over at Keep it In The Family, for it is they who are putting on this rather good-looking slab of DIY punk rock attitude…. Keep it In The Family presents, at the Bird’s Nest, over there in Deptford,…
What you make of the show that just opened over at the small Hoxton Street shop-shaped gallery on the borders of North and East London then?. The art of the paste-up probably isn’t as new and exciting as the gallery statement would have us believe, well no, of course it isn’t, the art of the…
Open days at artist’s studios are almost always worth exploring. True, the artists do tend to clean things up just a little too much to give you the really truthful honest full-on paint-encrusted deal – those carefully placed books designed to impress, that pile of music there to casually catch your eye, and yes they…
Throbbing Gristle have announced a Rough Trade East event on Wednesday 1 November which will see Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti in conversation, and Chris Carter performing an improvised modular set. The set will be performed predominately on prototypes of a brand new collaboration with Tiptop Audio. Chris Carter has been working with Tiptop…
Organ Thing of the Day, for that is what we do here these days, cherry pick a thing, a piece of art, a slice of music, a gig, a painting, an exhibition, maybe a book, never a cup cake or a cat, certainly not a beard of a coffee shop, a thing of the day.…
Back To The Future The Ride are back to the here and now and riding with Lord Voorhees who in turn sits upon his throne, ruling over a desolate world filled with the brittle bones of inhabitants long ago slain. Back To The Future The Ride have a new album released via the almost always…
Today’s rather simple Organ Thing of the Day is really as much about the art of the video as the piece of music, “Knightstown today unveils the video for his new single Eyes Open Wide. Directed and hand painted in the dark by Helen Plumb, “the clip is the first visual showing from the Brighton…
Well does it work for you? This five thing I mean? You never say that much these days, what are you thinking? How good were Yowie the other day, really must commit some words to electronic paper in terms of that one. Thrown so many things at the music chewer in the last few days,…
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