Month: August 2015
-
John Criscitello and Seattle Gentrification
Loving these images from John Criscitello, a queer artist responding to the gentrification and changing nature of Capitol Hill in Seattle, previously a gay enclave but invaded by ‘Tech Bros’ and ‘Woo girls’. Amazon has taken over Seattle in part, and the ‘bros’ and hen-party good-time girls have flocked to the new bars in the…
-
Henry Moore: Big Business Whore
Heard this song from artist Scott King via Jeremy Deller’s stand in for Iggy Pop, a great show of music made by artists and art-school graduates from Throbbing Gristle to The KLF, Add N To (X) to Beta Band, Roxy Music to Frank Sidebottom and David Shrigley. Love the lines ‘intellectual Meccano’ and the digs…
-
BBC Records mix & Vendetta Tapes
It’s been a Radiophonic sort of day, courtesy of Ian Fondue – starting with listening to John Baker’s Vendetta Tapes – it took me a long time to get around to this. I especially like Orbit and Lively Mind which I’ve never heard before, and bought again the COI Pavillion and Man Alive UFO cue…
-
Mogwai scores Atomic
Mogwai have scored the soundtrack to a documentary ‘Atomic – Living In Dread And Promise’ by Mark Cousins about atomic energy and nuclear weapons, and you can see the trailer above. It’s part of a series commememorating the 70th anniverary of Hiroshima. Looks and sounds amazing, and I’m sure it will be eye-opening for those…