Ssion: Like an earthquake
Ssion were great at Birthdays last night: exciting and euphoric. Been smiling ever since. Visit the Ssion site.
Author: Paul Gorman
Maurizio Cattelan: I Always Remember A Face, Especially When I’ve Sat On It
I Always Remember A Face, Especially When I’ve Sat On It is the arresting title of a great 14-track vinyl-only compilation from artist of the fantastical, Maurizio Cattelan. This is the tracklisting: A Side 1 Bernard Herrmann – Brave New World (Excerpt) 2 The Cheers – Black Denim Trousers & Motorcycle Boots 3 Pierre Schaeffer […]
Iggy Pop strolls around the Losaida, 1993
Directed by Bram Van Splunteren, via openculture.com
Sunglasses Ron in rocking rabble-rousing mode at The Rainbow 1977
The photograph above – taken by a friend, Neal Purvis – captures one of the leading lights of London’s Ted scene at the height of his rabble-rousing powers. Here is “Sunglasses Ron” Fahey taking to the stage of north London venue The Rainbow during The Sun Sound Show, which ran on the nights of April 30 […]
Ian Dury, Dany Bubbles + Barney Bubbles
I sourced one of the paintings which is in More Than Fair, the exhibition of Ian Dury’s artworks which opens at his alma mater, London’s Royal College of Art, next month. Dury gave the ultra-Pop Dany Bubbles to his friend and designer Barney Bubbles in the late 70s during their spell of collaboration which resulted […]
Golden age of British boutiques evoked by Christie’s Pop Culture sale
The spirit of great British boutique culture is summoned by a couple of lots in next week’s Pop Culture sale at Christie’s. One is a previously unpublished June 1967 photograph of Jim Hendrix not in Carnaby Street as captioned, but outside the tobacconist Finlay’s, which was in Foubert’s Place. It’s evident from the carrier bag […]
The Peter Small connection: George O’Dowd at Street Theatre, The Regal + The Foundry
I’ve been acting as a consultant to artist Lucy Harrison on her latest site specific project Carnaby Echoes, which focuses on the culturally fertile area of central London adjacent to Soho. With the starting point of the opening of Murray’s Club in Beak Street in 1913, Harrison is mounting her artistic response to 100 years […]
The Photo Kid: Ben Kelly at the Royal College Of Art, 1974
This is designer Ben Kelly at his 1974 degree show at London’s Royal College Of Art. Kelly adopted the alter-ego The Photo Kid, who is portrayed in the work by which he is standing. The Photo Kid wore clothes – in particular brothel creepers – from Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s shop Let It Rock, […]
I’ve been stupefied from Burundi Black to Grimes and back: Stupefaction posts my playlist
I was flattered to be invited to contribute this playlist to Tim Broun’s great blog Stupefaction: 01. Cocoa Song from Moon Over The Alley OST 02. I Start Counting – Basil Kirchin 03. Say You Don’t Mind – Colin Blunstone 04. Cut The World – Antony & The Johnsons 05. Burundi Black (Part 2) – […]
Alchemy: Malcolm McLaren on Paris, Capital of the XXIst Century
Paris, Capital of the XXIst Century is a personal and subjective journey that began firstly by ambling through a century’s archive of thousands of cinema commercials about the city (its inhabitants, what it sells, how it looks…), secondly by gathering impressions (choosing what to exploit, covet and keep), jotting them down only when I returned […]