progcomputerrockandsomeotherstuff

A weekend in London to see the Lambrini Girls. They were supporting Idles at Ally Pally. There was a couple of good tracks but mainly it became a little boring and communicated a sort of confusing message – fuck the police and the government and at the same time think about community building, simultaneously promoting piece and talking about mental health awareness and calling on people to love one another. The other support act, Battles - who's music was way too clever, but not interesting, all those extensive noodling samples and guitar/drum solos – prog computer rock. But the Lambrini Girls are quite marvellous and come highly recommended, the mosh pits are beautifully generated and controlled. Meanwhile dropped into South London Gallery to see some gloriously pointless things beautifully made by Nairy Baghramiam. Maybe this is the definition of art! On the way home - Mark Steel on desert island discs is a gem - great songs and great storytelling. Onto screens – Joker: Folie à Deux was stunning, a modern, dark, beautiful way of thinking about dance.

recyclework

how have I not come across the wonderful recycle radio on radio 4? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04f23qy just chilling - I started off with magic and have been working my way through the series, class, blood, money - it's all there..... if you enjoy this but maybe want something with beats try cassette boy https://www.youtube.com/user/cassetteboy for the project in Cambridge I've been working on a collection of double page spreads that have become a form of visual note book. The spreads are full of ideas, possible starting points and contain many elements of the finished works, in effect a sort 'look book' or 'mood board' of the project so far. https://unfoldingthinking.blogspot.co.uk/

aworldofthinkingrethinking

Spent the last 2 days working on a body of work that brings together the past 6 months of thinking. Over the past 5 days Radio 4 Book of the week has provided a series of profound moments throughout the week - John Berger - And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08l78gf#play Whilst listening I've been mainly in a heightened emotional state but today it was tears throughout the last episode and from 9:03 onwards it was so truly heart wrenching that I felt turned inside out - with you I can imagine a place where phosphate of calcium is enough....................  I have now started what will be my Berger obsession - starting points were https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLwmv-1AZDg Berger will help you rethink your thinking 20:00 onwards provides answers to a key question...and moved onto the very delicate and thoughtful conversation - what books can teach us is a wonderfully intense passage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLivFgw_i-8 and there is the ever important ways of seeing -   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk 

quite apt that spellcheck offers up and points out our failure to conform by attempting to change Berger to Burger...onto films - catfight -http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5294198/?ref_=nv_sr_2 a kind of sliding doors madness, but interspersed with violent obsessive insanity. upside down http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1374992/?ref_=nv_sr_1 an interesting idea but the 'CGIness' gets in the way.

Tommy at The Wolsey https://www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/shows/tommy/ in Ipswich provided a jaunting rethink of what you thought you knew of the jaunty 'sing along' musical. It really was a wonderfully demanding, eye opening, dazzling evening at the theatre - 'he's a deaf, dumb and blind kid!' - think about it, what more could it be than challenging and then there is the addition of the fiddler!