Who We Are, opening night, Hackney Wicked, July 2019 – There are so many conflicting thoughts in terms of Hackney Wick and the tenth annual Hackney WickEd weekend, of course it should still be happening, of course it can’t be allowed to just fade away and of course it has to evolve as the destruction…
KayoDot have new ear food, they’re a band oft-championed around these parts, Toby Driver, leader of said KayoDot has just made a video, “Hello! I’m excited to share with you “Blasphemy: A Prophecy,” the first single from the forthcoming Kayo Dot album, Blasphemy. This is especially exciting for me, not only because this album has…
Hackney WickED Ten happens this weekend, a whole load of open artists studios, shows, art events, exhibitions from Friday July 26th until Sunday July 29th. Hackney Wick has drastically changed over the last ten years and especially the last four or five, actually it drastically changes on a monthly basis now, wasn’t there a big…
Organ Thing Of The Day? Another of the million press releases that come in every day, they all get opened, (no for need for those damn ICYMI resends!), Really wanted this one to be good simply because I really like the painting on the cover, everyone knows the art is more important than the music…
Your weekly hour of structurally adventurous music – with special guest Bob Drake – a composer and multi instrumentalist, purveyor of intricate and dazzling tunes and a pioneer of the avant progressive underground, he once of Thinking Plague and lots more besides.Bob will be bringing in some unheard new and exclusive recordings, tune in at…
Organ Thing Of The Day? An excellent version of Savage Sea from The Pop Group, a taste of something new from Psychic Graveyard and one hundred what? “The Next World” is the first single from Psychic Graveyard’s Five-song follow up EP of the same name to their debut album “Loud As Laughter”. Founded by…
THE TENTH ANNUAL WHITECROSS STREET PARTY, Whitecross Street, London EC1, July 13th/14th 2019 – The overall feeling at the tenth annual Whitecross Street Party is exactly that, the feeling of a rather good East End urban art flavoured street party; a street party alive with energetic colour, with lots of fun, alive with art, with…
Transformations Sue Tilley, Dylan Meade, Fredrik Andersson.at New Art Projects, Hackney, East London (July 2019) – So what to make of this one?, What to make of everything right now? Going to as many London shows as ever but where has the spark gone? Is it just me? Not seeing so many shows that really…
Do rather like the way this slowly builds, no, the way is quietly swells more than builds, it swells id a deliciously no so obvious kind of way; “The result of collaboration with Blonde Redhead bandmate Amadeo Pace, “Meo” also features synths and piano from Ryuichi Sakamoto, percussion from Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier, and flute from…
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