Mapping Out May
May 15, 2008
 We're off to Sheffield to see On The Map at the Millennium Galleries tomorrow, satisfying my mapping and artistic bents! So, I thought I better get something down here before there is even more to write about! Let me see if I can explain the lack of posts since the on the first.
I thought I just heard gunshots outside but I can't see anything. There have been quite a few sirens since but that's par for the course round here...
So far this month we've caught up with Justine & Pat [Saturday 2nd] on a rare visit to the UK from New Orleans after which we partied on well into Sunday [3rd] at The Happy Valley Country Club [or Trev's!] with sets from Rob, Pav and Marc scaring the garage-loving kids up the garden. Then on to the Cans Festival [5th] and a drunken amble along the South Bank with Kev & Karol. On Tuesday [6th] we popped along to the ICA to see Life Through A Lens, Barbara Leibovitz's movie about her photographer sister Annie. I recognised many of the shots included in the movie but realised I knew nothing about Annie Liebovitz at all, least of all her relationship with Susan Sontag. We spent Wednesday [7th] working on a new, as yet un-named new tune with Kev with a brief lull on the Thursday and Friday.
Saturday [10th] was a trip to Uckfield to meet up with my folks and sister for lunch, followed by a picnic in Brockwell Park on Sunday [11th] and dinner at the Blueprint Cafe on Tuesday [13th] - Cubeens, followed by Rabbit & Rook Pie as you asked - then more work on that tune round Kev's last night.
In between I've been trying to keep up with some new music, mainly the marvellous Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip album. Tracks about Tommy Cooper and the periodic table do it for me!
I've been trying to only listen to music released this year this year, although a few nostalgic visitors have dictated that I play a few old albums [well, it's only polite to oblige]. And there have been quite a few new albums so far this year. I reckon I've got about 30 so far, although I can't say that I've been impressed with all of them. Portishead hasn't been the release I'd expect after a 10 year hiatus, Neon Neon were a disappointment and the Hot Chip and Gnarls Barkley albums haven't got me too excited either. The Foals, Benga, Be Your Own Pet and Scroobius Pip albums will definitely be getting a few more plays before the year is out though.
Hopefully the rest of the month will be a bit quieter, because I'm way behind reading that pile of books I got all those months back at Christmas time! All we have planned, so far, after that is the Nan Goldin/Patrick Wolf /John Kelly event at the Tate Modern on the 24th.
Next month we'll be off to Liverpool for Klimt at the Tate.
...No more on those gunshots, must have been fire-crackers or something. Odd!
Categories: Music, Art, London, Photography, Food & Drink, Film
See my flickr set: Cans Festival 2008
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Can The Can?
May 01, 2008
 A quick, extra post before the weekend... I've tons more I need to put up here but won't have the time until Monday but the Cans Festival will be pretty much over by then.
The Cans Festival is on at an as yet unknown location, in London, this weekend. I'm not sure I'm going to squeeze in a visit or not yet, in fact I doubt I will but...
Still to come at the Tate, there is Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography and Street Art. Both of which I believe are free and both run from the third week of May until the end of August.
LOCATION UPDATE - Leake Street SE1
10am -10pm - Sat-Mon
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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.
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