Month: July 2017
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Shellshock 2017
If you’re a New Order fan, the mention of New Order playing Shellshock in 2017 (last played live 30 years ago apparently) should send you into Maximum Squeedom…Also they play Sub-culture one of my faves but like Shellshock not I think played for a very long time either. Amazing looking set from artist Liam Gillick…
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Dancing in a war
Just come across the inspiring story of Ahmad Joudeh, fighting his own war to dance in Syria as a Palestinian, under the threat of being killed by terrorists. Very moving the shots of him dancing again at Palmyra, where he’d danced in 2007, and ISIS executions had previously happened, and is now destroyed. And dancing…
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Don’t Get Captured
Loving Chris Hopewell’s work (Burn The Witch) and the new video for Run The Jewel’s storming ‘Don’t Get Captured’ brings the politics of gentrification, an uncaring justice system and the military industrial complex to claymation (not a sentence I thought I’d write). This song was a highlight of their Glastonbury set, which pointedly kicked the…
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A Fishy Story
Ahh this is what short films are for – take a fanciful story about a friend’s relative half-remembering a strange smelling tale where his grandmother who had a fish surname got a salmon from the opening of a Marina, opened by legend Sir Michael Fish, and see if it’s a fishy story, or not…Delightful! (via…
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Madonna Has A Kiki – drag queen version
OMFG I can tick off one of my bucketlist and die happy now, cos a drag queen had synched one of my mashups. A proper working queen, dollars and all. I missed this, I knew my Madonna Has A Kiki mashup has legs, but not amazing legs LIKE THAT…thank you Morgan McMichaels and crew, love…