Tag: Gentrification
-
The Abandoned Mansions of London
There are quite a few mansions in London which are empty – appallingly given the housing crisis. Whole areas are bought up by foreign (and probably dodgy) oligarchs and left to rot, an investment rather than a home. Here is a fascinating look at the dilapidated towers of capitalism in one street in North London.…
-
Dismembered Sound Booth
Some of you might be wondering what became of those unlikely lads, The Who Boys. Well, after a pause where it seems they all became artists (and some like Mark continue to be, pretty sure that’s his artwork above for the cover), they came back to music, but creating original tunes with members of Pilchard…
-
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…