Film, Music And Cheese
April 28, 2008
 It's been an eventful couple of weeks what with Jake's three consecutive weekends of Birthday partying. Well, you're only 18 once!
Went to the Rob Carter private view, Travelling Still, at The Gallery a couple of weeks back. My those pictures were shifting well. I was mentally totting up the sales on the way round and stopped around the £250,000 mark.
Then there was Chris' visit. During which we met up with Neil [who I haven't seen in donkeys years] and Emma and a couple of late nights ensued... with Kev and Karol popping round for jerk chicken, rice and peas and flambed bananas on Saturday. Good stuff, even if I do say so myself! Better still was Tuesday's meal at the lovely Lindsay House [still not sure how I found room for the blue cheese mousse] followed by Friday, when we went along to the Real Food Festival at Earls Court, hence the picture of Alex James above. He was there talking about his cheeses, Little Wallop and Farleigh Wallop.
Last weekend was the final third of the Jake birthday trilogy upstairs in the Railway, before heading back to Kev and Karol's and partying through till Sunday. Been paying for it today mind... but headed off to the Ritzy for a preview of Grant Gee's Joy Division tonight. Good film. I haven't seen Control yet but I'd imagine they are a million miles apart. I wasn't sure the old footage and the interviews would be enough to hold it together but with a bit of judicious editing and the odd effect Grant has put an engaging documentary together. Some of the sound is obviously ropey, coming from very old video footage and it's a bit of a roll call of the deceased... Apart from Curtis, it features Martin Hannett, Rob Gretton, Tony Wilson and bit of John Peel, all sadly no longer with us. But it justifies its existence.
Categories: Music, Art, London, Photography, Food & Drink, Film
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