It was just cheering, the whole thing, the whole weekend in the Bristol sunshine, the whole Bristol vibe, the people, the art, the music, the feeling around Bedminster for Upfest 2022. Now this isn’t going to be an attempt to critically review the whole festival or the art, for a start, as a participating artist,…
“We’re back… and bigger than ever! Upfest returns in 2022 with an earlier date and a whole new vibe” say the Upfest team. Upfest returns and they’re crowd funding to make the massive free festival happen again, surely got to be worth a tenner and you do get some goodies for your money, here’s the…
The week has been a busy one, it started in a rather fractured way with that rather underwhelming Sluice Biennial thing up in that bit of Hackney now overrun by designer labels, so so disappointing after all the positive engagement of Folkestone in the weeks before. Sluice kicked off the Frieze art week, Sluice was quickly…
Half The Sky then, another Thursday evening in East London, art, music and more, how beautifully easy on the ear was that last night? Surely music that complex, music that impressively difficult shouldn’t be that enjoyable? Half The Sky played London’s Cafe Oto last night, their first performance on Lindsay Cooper’s home soil, “We were…
Last days of where? We’re most definitely in Camden tonight, never a hot bed in terms of art, the glory days of the fractured London suburb are long gone with the Falcon, the proper Monarch and the days before Brit Pop when the Lurch was the thing and Headcleaner jousted with the Homage Freaks, Swervedriver,…
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