Went to Hang-Up Gallery’s Ten opening tonight, Hang-Up, the self proclaimed “Contemporary Urban Art and Graffiti” gallery on Stoke Newington Road, over in Dalston was busy celebrating itself. And what a politely unexciting pile of polite middle class neatly-framed coffee-table politeness it was. Same old polite Banksy prints you’ve seen a million times before,…
Organ Thing of The Day? Where were we, Monday? Blacking out in a red room or something, that and thinking about London Bridge falling down. This e.mail communication message just landed from a band called XCR (they’re not a band though, they said they weren’t a band). They want a review, fair enough, but we…
DANNY POCKETS – “Houses of The Holy”, Royal Albert Hall, London, March 2018 – Of course it was emotional, of course it was, Danny Pockets, a much respected contemporary painter, a much appreciated person who was always a pleasure to work with and share space with, a well known and extremely respected character and significant…
Animation has a terrible burden to bear. What other art form is expected by so many to be juvenile, to be cheery, to be so damn normal and much of the time so damn American? Imagine if the same was expected of a painter, a writer, anyone who gathers images with a camera to tell…
Organ Thing of The Day: the damn song is stuck in our heads alreadyYou have to love an infectious good slice of “spiky, cynical, wordy new-wave synthpop” like this one. The real art of pop, blueprints for modernisation and a lot more than just minor hits and cult success, cynical smiles indeed, smiles as…
Five more musical things and I guess you want some editorial up front of them all? All very simple, five bands or musical people or pieces of music or earfood of some kind that has passed our way in the last few days, this that have flown into the inbox or passed by in some…
New Thinking Plague song posted, this is good a good thing as well, a first taste of the new album, posted up along with with a statement on Cuneform’s Bandcamp page late last night. Here’s the statement, the track is further down… “Clouds scud across a storm-wracked sky, but while briefly exposing rare shards of…
