Bollocks To Poverty
June 27, 2006
 Act!onAid will be making their presence felt around this summer's festivals with their Bollocks To Poverty campaign. Get over to their site and get yourself a BTP T-shirt for the summer. They are also one of the sponsors of the "so ridiculous it's brilliant" UK Mobile Phone Throwing Championships 2006. Which will be held at Tooting Bec Athletics Track on Sunday 20th August. Raising awareness for the recycling of mobile phones, PDAs, printer toners etc. that most of us take for granted. Where possible they sell the phones and PDAs to be directly re-used and have a number of outlets including their own ebay shop.
You can also add your eyes to the Stop AIDS Campaign petition to show the G8 leaders that the world is watching them. Over 5,000 eyes have already been added by people from all over the world.
Categories: London
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Kos It's Hot
June 26, 2006
 We're off to Kos in a couple of days to avoid the shitty weather that Wimbledon fortnight has prompted. So the sporadic blogging of June will extend into July. The laptop isn't coming this time but I'm not sure whether to take any music out with me as well...
Currently liking Dani Siciliano and Ribsburg a lot. And Lily Allen of course. I look forward to hearing recordings of Rufus Wainwright's take on Judy Garland's Carnegie Hall show. He was joined onstage by his singer mother Kate McGarrigle, his sister Martha and Garland's daughter Lorna Luft, no Liza Minnelli though.
It's the Urban Art Festival in Brixton the day after we get back so I hope the weather is nice for that. In September we hope to be off to the Flemish Coast, Ostend and beyond to see the Beaufort 2006 exhibits that are currently covering the beaches of various resorts along a 42 mile stretch of coast.
Categories: Music, Art
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Fuerzabruta
June 19, 2006
 We just got back from witnessing the spectacle that is Fuerzabruta.
Created by the remnants of the Argentinian company behind De La Guarda, also performed at the Roundhouse, Fuerzabruta [Brute Force] is nothing short of a spectacle... Performance art for the rave generation maybe?
Accompanied by the soundtrack provided by Gaby Kerpel, which lies somewhere between the M25 and South America, Diqui James spectacle supposedly came to him as if in a dream...
At times it reminded me of dreams I have had... Not bad dreams, but those dreams that seem to come back to you, in parts, during the day and just sort of lurk in your subconcsious... Or those dreams you remember on waking and try to go back to sleep hoping they will continue.
I've linked to the website but don't visit it... Buy tickets and go visit the Roundhouse. It's a fantastic venture in itself and the pefect venue for this sort of theatre. I can't promise you will come away with any philosophical insights into life, the universe and everything but you'll be smiling from ear to ear when your jaw isn't somewhere on the floor.
The less you know about this before you go the better, I think... You can't get a bad seat because you are there, in the show, moving around as 50ft+ pieces of scenery/lighting rig creep up behind you! You'll feel as if you are inside a movie, not a railway shed.
Categories: Music, Art, London
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Too Hot To Blog
June 14, 2006
 Much as I'd like to say I've been too busy to post anything the truth is I haven't been arsed. It's not like nothing has been going on though...
Chris came to visit weekend before last and met everyone else, at last, at Paul & Sarah's "We're Moving To Ibiza" do [doubling up as Paul's birthday party], hosted by Kev & Karol. At which I was admirably restrained I thought. Then there was a Sunday in the Railway garden, since when it's been hot, hot, hot.
Last Friday we saw Matt & Ivy off back to Cape Town and the start of the World Cup. Friday carried on into Saturday back down the pub and lounging in the long grass in Kev & Karol's garden.
In between all that it's been maintaining the various KSX, PornTsar and starck MySpace pages. Many thanks to Andy dBang for including the KSX track, Try Hard, in his Positronic Dance Life show last week.
Also, thanks to Kate Marshall for the link on her new website too. That's her Red Shoes picture, top left.
Categories: Music, Art, London
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Adopt A London Landmark
June 05, 2006
 I've just adopted my local! Capital Radio have a mashed-up Google Map to help raise money for Help A London Child, upon which you can donate money to adopt London landmarks. Well, not just landmarks as I'm sure the Railway in Tulse Hill isn't a landmark to many Londoners. Once you own the site of your choice you can add photos of it to the map... Not that I have any yet, but we can soon sort that out. It's a shame you can't add locations of your choice but I suppose you could suggest them to HALC if you have enough money to back it up!
Categories: London, Web, Photography
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