Don't Panic!
August 28, 2007
 Quick post, just so that you don't think I'm only posting once a month now!
Still recovering from Saturday/Sunday's great party at the Happy Valley Country Club. Great sounds from Rob, Kev, Pascale and who was that German bloke? Oh and of course Anthony, who somehow kept it all going into the late morning/early afternoon. 28 hours later we went home for a little lie down. Did Marc play as well? I can't remember. Shame we can't make it over to Brussels weekend after next to see Pascale again.
Oh Yeah! Sorry we didn't stop to clear up any mess!
Anyway, we're hoping to get to Panic Attack! by the weekend as it's only got a week to go after that. Not only that but it's got to be better for you than 28 hour parties and it includes works by Nan Goldin, Derek Jarman, Raymond Pettibon, Tony Cragg, Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger. Amongst others.
Panic Attack!
Art in the Punk Years
5 June 2007 - 9 September 2007
Barbican Art Gallery
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A is for Art, B is for Bat
August 13, 2007
 Looky! half way through August and not a peep from me. Still got traces of germs. That's my excuse anyway. Also, having a twat of a time with my monitor going randomly [and quite literally] on the blink.
Popped into the latest Candice Breitz: Working Class Hero - A Portrait of John Lennon in the White Cube on our way to the Innocent Day Out. Breitz current exhibit is not as immediately appealing as her previous Madonna one. This one is 25 John Lennon fans singing along to Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album. Well, those that know the words are! In case you aren't aware, Candice Breitz films a collection of individuals singing along to an album and plays them all back in unison without the original soundtrack. Sometimes harmonies appear out of the cacophony... Other times they don't!
I think I might have got more out of it if I'd known the album better. I can only say that I'm familiar with Working Class Hero, and we didn't stay to hear that track. Mostly I found it funny. Mainly due to the over emotive gent who really didn't know any of the words. Also, the Madonna, Immaculate Collection set was a wall of faces rather than a long line you had to scan along and you got the impression that although these people were in separate booths they were definitely singing from the same hymn sheet, so to speak. Although it did tend to make you single out the individuals. hence the aforementioned guy.
The Innocent thing was a bit over-crowded and under staffed for my liking. Too much queueing but a nice day for it.
Also been to the brilliant Anthony Gormley: Blind Light exhibit at the Hayward Gallery. I couldn't fault this at all. The Event Horizon [see pic above] viewing points added to it all as well. In fact I think it's the best thing I've seen since Anish Kapoor in the same space, in 1998.
We went on a bat walk at the London Wetlands Centre on Thursday. They had a BBQ before which was excellent. It was all so good in fact it was hard to believe it was in this country at all. The walk involves a 45 minute [I think] talk about what bats we might see and how to identify them with the detectors we were to be supplied with. Followed by an hour or so wandering around the reserve. It was great tuning into different frequencies for the various bats and hearing the echoes get nearer just before they swoop over your head. The stroll through Barnes was nice too. Past Olympic Studios [host to some of the greatest recording sessions in history, including albums from The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin amongst others.], the duck pond, and highly priced houses.
Currently listening to I Am Jen and studying a variety of Googlemap related links I've come across lately. Also wanting these two items I spotted on the Suck.UK site. Mix Tape USB Drive and the Graffiti Train.
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