This evening I went to see the Dan Flavin Retrospective at the Hayward Gallery. An entire gallery full of fluorescent light tube art works.
Visitors aren’t allowed to take photographs but luckily for you I already possess a similar work of art, currently on display on my kitchen ceiling.
But is it art?
This blog is starting to turn into a bit of a London Music Events Diary. This entry continues that trend and takes the death-speed-metal theme even further than Children of Bodom and into The Darkness.
Harder and heavier than anything you’ve ever heard before … or at least, you’d think so, given the name, but actually they are more than just a little bit camp and not even the teeniest bit “metal”.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the picture above showed a large pair of floating comedy breasts. There’s a reason why it looks that way …
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Chalking up another gig for my blog. I promise I’ll include some non-gig content soon.
Rather than another blurry gig-shot - like the Prodigy ones, here’s a photo of the ticket.
Well, at least it is different … and it isn’t blurred.
So, are Children of Bodom cool enough to get away with having such a silly name?
I’ve just got back in from seeing the Blue Man Group perform - and here is the proof!
So, what are these Blue Men all about?
Once again, Father Christmas(es) hit the streets of London for Santacon.
The picture above shows only a percentage of the two or three hundred Santas that turned up for Santacon this year. At the point in the day when this picture was taken we’d already attracted a small Police following. Just to make sure we were “keeping the peace”, they said. We weren’t commiting any crimes. Well, Christmas is a time of peace, so that was OK.
Santacon is an unofficial annual event organised by word of mouth and the internet. It involves lots of people dressing up as Father Christmas and going for a big wander around town. There have been similar events in other countries, going as far back as 1994 according to this article.
The official UK Santacon website is here.
Another outing for The Gig List, this time to see (and hear) The Prodigy at Brixton Academy.
I’d been looking forward to this event for a long time and had high expectations for The Prodigy. They’re one of my favourite dance acts and I hadn’t seen them perform live before. Surprising, really, as they date right back to the very early nineteen-nineties.
And, wow, did they meet my expectations …
Meant to write this up today, although I see that Paul has beaten me to it! A group of us went to the Ozwald Boateng fashion show at the Victoria and Albert museum.
It was definitely an interesting experience. Mostly I liked the clothing on show, although I suspect some of the items won’t be hitting the high street stores any time soon. My favorite items were the long brown leather coats. I’ll be having a wander round the leather shops in Camden for something similar soon. Ozwald has a shop on Vigo Street, which I may have a look at, too. I can’t imagine that clothing will be anything other than outrageously expensive.
I have a handy price guide for designer clothing:
Anyway, the fashion show was really cool and given that it was free, I can’t complain about the price. I met some friends for drinks later on in the evening, some of whom I hadn’t seen for over a year. Always good to catch up.
At long last, the first ever Gig List arranged event finally happened. Dave, Andy and myself made the hazardous trek to Brixton to see Icelandic band Sigur Ros.
We arranged this one months ago when tickets were first released. Just as well as the event was a sell-out with touts looking for spare tickets but not selling any.
A chap I met at a Green Social event recommended a fascinating tool to me - Google Earth. So, fascinating in fact that I have just spent a couple of hours fiddling with it.
I did the first thing that I suspect everyone does with it, which was to find my house.
And here it is:
I also found a few other interesting spots …
Today I went to the Tate Britain to see the Turner Prize Exhibition. The exhibition displays the work of the four final nominees for the prize. The winner has not yet been announced.
Below you can see the work of Simon Starling. And yes, it is a big shed and an electric bicycle.
This wasn’t actually my favourite of the four finalists but it was one of the only two that lent itself towards a decent picture for my site.
My favourite was …