Robert Del Naja aka 3D: Fire Sale at Lazarides Gallery @Lazarides_Art @MassiveAttackUK
From 24th May – June 20th Lazarides gallery in W1 welcomes back artist and musician Robert Del Naja aka 3D. Fire Sale is a unique retrospective of painting and design that have helped define Massive Attack over the past 20 years, covering the pages of sketchbooks to 12 million record sleeves. Previously unseen pieces created...
Line Up announced for @Chagstock Festival, Dartmoor 19-20th July
Chagstock started in 2003 and has grown into what John Otway described as ‘One of the greatest small festivals I’ve played in 35 years of doing them’. This year’s festival is on 19-20th July and the line up has just been released. Feast your eyes… The Boomtown RatsBilly Bragg – Mystery JetsDizraeli & The Small...
Best music videos: The Art of Pop Video @FACT_Liverpool
The Art of Pop Video exhibition at FACT, Liverpool features more 100 videos that tell the story of the pop video, marking the medium’s substantial contribution to popular culture. Providing an insight into experimental approaches to pop video while also reclaiming it as an artistic medium, the exhibition looks at the evolution of the media...
Travels by Eurovision 2013
It’s a sad. sad day when the GFC leaks into song and I fear that this year’s black clad, down-beat, disappointing Eurovision is an indication of the mood. Where is the joy, Europe? Where are the crazy costumes and the onstage bread-baking and sand painting? Are things so bad that even Eurovision has woken up...
@Jasonrockcity release ‘Gold Digger & Other Hip-Hop Joints of Distinction’
Jasonrockcity are an experimental acoustic/indie duo, fronted by Damn Damn Patriots and Union Starr singer Jason Applin. Entitled ‘Gold Digger & Other Hip-Hop Joints of Distinction’, their mini album is release on May 17th. That’s today! The pair have taken seven classic hip-hop tracks and molded them to their sound. A genre which members Jason Applin...
17th May: Noise of Art’s 100 years of electronic music @The_E_R_C
Noise of Art kicks off its year long celebration of 100 years of electronic music with a stellar line up featuring the debut London show of the Eccentronic Research Council – featuring Maxine Peake – and stellar DJ line up. Marking a century since Luigi Russolo published his ‘Manifesto for An Art of Noises’ the celebrations will see a...
Eurovision 2013 At A Glance
Roll out the pyrotechnics and dust down your favourite stereotypes: it’s Eurovision time again. For 57 glorious years Europe has been keeping itself entertained (and any viewers from outside the continent thoroughly bemused) by putting on a gigantic shindig. It started out on a smaller scale with only seven nations competing in a far less...
@SeanMcGowanUK main support to @BillyBragg at Brighton’s The Great Escape @TGE_mama
Hampshire based singer-songwriter, Seán McGowan, is set to play his biggest show to date when he supports Billy Bragg at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton on Friday, 17th May, The gig came after Bragg, who tipped Seán as one to watch for 2013 in the BBC Radio 6 John Peel lecture, personally invited him...
New Perfume Uniform Cologne EP via @Fjellsmug Rekords
The fourth release from the Cologne based Fjellsmug Rekords appeared the other day. It’s by a trio that goes by the name Perfume Uniform. The bandmembers come Kvinnherad near Bergen (Norway) and Cologne (Germany) – “Cologne” is actually their first proper release. “Cologne” is a five track EP somewhere in between lo-fi acoustics, tech-house engines...
