Well we didn’t expect that today! East London’s rather celebrated Clare street has been buffed, the art vandals have struck! Really wasn’t expecting that today, it was only last weekend we were celebrating the colour and the organic creativity on that street, people come from all over to view the the art on that Bethnal…
So Condo started or opened or kicked off or did whatever something like Condo does? Condo kicked off last weekend. To get to it all over the preview weekend is impossible of course, the art event is spread far and wide, bits over here in the East, bits overseas in South London, Condo has kicked…
Displacement? Words? Another show…. art…. blah blah… this… that… words? What’s words worth?…. there goes the neighbourhood…. beer…paint…. rust…. people…. words… friends…old friends, new friends…. foes, toes, stepping on toes, artists, egos… words… I was on the way to the show yesterday morning, off along the road, painting under arm, off to hang it in…
Another slice of East London is on the way out, the railway arches of Clare Street, the East London caves, East London’s primitive cave system (as the ever excellent writer Iain Sinclair described them) are going, the family businesses, the car repair shops that were here when no one else wanted to be, the East…
Embarked on one of those clear out the in-box sessions earlier today. Every day, a hundred or so e.mails mostly scatter-gunned at us by highly paid not very selective music PR companies, along with an e.mail or two direct from a big name “independent” record labels and occasionally something a little more personal from a…
Watermelon rage and a fractured set of words from a few weeks ago that never got as far as being posted here and that really wouldn’t be fair to Stereocilia. Who are Stereocilla? Well they might just be the antidote to vibrant pinks for your wall, well no, Big ‘N are, Big ‘N are the…
Brothers and Sisters, time to kick out the jams! No, surely not? Not a day to encounter the Motor City Five, we’re off to an art fair, the biggest of them all in terms of London, this is not going to be a kicking out the jams kind of day. Jump on a train, get…
Sex Swing, now this is the best thing these ears have heard in a while, “I rather like this band” she said, she was right, word of mouth you see, rather like the menace, the brooding power, the tension, the building on things, the layers as it broods up inside you, and yes they do…
Thursday evening ended with The Snake playing as the venue emptied out , you really have to Keep On Keepin’ On through, the Snake always divided Northern Soul opinion so much. Things evolve, things move, buildings go, venues, galleries and more being lost almost on a weekly basis now, where did that one go? Another…
