it wasn’t all all about the headliners and the big bands, five unexpected things from our time at All Points East. There were six gigs in all, we made it to two of them (can’t be too greedy), we sat in the park and listened to bits of the others as well as going in…
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – All Points East, Victoria Park, East London, August 2022 – Just breathe, just breathe, just breathe, just breathe… Back to the park again, just back from being back in the park again, just back from a week that started with the triumph of Idles and ended with a…
Joseph Wilson’s ‘Fragments Between Us’, New Art Projects, East London, August 2022 – I haven’t quite worked out what was happening at New Art Projects last week? That opening down in the basement was stupidly hot in many more ways that just the obvious one during this damn heatwave and I must confess by the…
Organ preview: Double Trouble with Dalek and Ezra Brown then, September is almost here, a so-called new art season, never understood that myself, surely art never stops? The almost always rewarding StolenSpace are kicking off with a double header, feels like we haven’t seen a really exciting show at the Whitechapel based gallery since they…
Someone stopped me at an art gallery the other day, one of those opening night affairs, she stopped me and said, the problem with you is you like everything you ever go and see. I have no idea who she was, she had bright pink hair, she didn’t introduce herself, just kind of launched herself…
All Points East, Victoria Park, East London, 19th August 2022 – It really can’t be lost on anyone, what with The Clash connections headlining over on the other stage as part of Gorillaz, it can’t be lost on anyone just how significant Idles were in the middle of East London’s Victoria Park tearing it up…
Kate Bickmore – Unfurling at Annka Kultys Gallery, East London – Better almost too late than never I guess, if it hadn’t been for an e.mail about the show ending this weekend then this would have passed by. The previous Kate Bickmore exhibition at the same gallery was one of our picks of the art…
There’s a new Phillip Allen show opening at The Approach Gallery tonight, his last one in the East London space back in February of 2019 was rather tasty, and yes, I did think about the choice of word there, his paintings really are tasty, his paintings really do demand you go see them, that you…
Los Angeles based artist Carter Potter has an instantly likeable show on at Rocket (here in Hackney) at the moment, his found film side, strips of film woven together, placed on canvas, arranged like textile pieces, colourful strips, his work here does feel like that of a weaver, a textile designer, and really who couldn’t…
Space Studios Open Day, Martello Street/The Triangle, Hackney, East London, July 2022 – Open Studios, especially Open Studio days in those old East London spaces, the ones steeped in history, the ones alive with tales of the fights to keep them as studios, to take the dilapidated buildings on in the first place, getting the…
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