I'm trying to be bolder, to ask for the things I need and explain why I think you might be the one to give me them. I want to be straight-up: this is what I've got on the table (or in the studio) and this is how you can get involved. I'm not going to be a kiss-arse, I don't want to hang around you and flatter you and say how marvellous you are and everything you're doing is, because in any ca
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04 Feb 2012Tags brazen, programmers, shy bairns get nowt, Support, venues -
02 Feb 2012Category Culture, Opportunities, Visuals -
01 Feb 2012Here's a song I made up last night.
I'm addicted to your lovin'
I can't stop following you
If it were as simple
as saying:
'Stop following me'
then it wouldn't be
a real addiction.
If it were as simple
as saying:
'Stop following me'
then it wouldn't be
a real addiction.
Category Musings -
31 Jan 2012Other than the fact that you got to love this song, what is it with Contemporary Dance and Venus In Furs?
Dance can be so
Fetishistic
Masochistic
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30 Jan 2012A few weekends ago I went to see a live performance at The Peacock Theatre... It annoyed me.
This article however is not about that piece. It's about hype.
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30 Jan 2012It is either credit to the subliminal, crawl-under-your-skin nature of pop culture, or perhaps just the ultra-absorbent, internet-centred state of mind which I’m currently occupying, that I have just bought Lana Del Rey’s album, Born to Die.
Tags Born To Die, Lana Del Rey, mainstream, Music, pop, women -
30 Jan 2012The joy of laughing is only trumped by the joy of laughing when you’re not supposed to be doing so - laughing when it’s impossible to stop, even if a million people want you to.
In performance the twist is of course that those million people wanting the laughter to stop are probably enjoying watching you giggle even more than you are enjoying actually giggling.
Category Arts, Culture, Frolics, Musings, Theme Time!Tags charlotte green, dudley moore, elvis, laughter, peter cook, Theme time -
27 Jan 2012Tags CBE, Royal Ballet, tax, The Queen, Wayne McGregor -
25 Jan 2012Martin Creed's Work No. 291 (above).
Getting a haircut.
Vidal Sassoon cut on Mary Quant. By Ronald Dumont/Getty Images.
New trainers.
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24 Jan 2012Last week I wrote about The Artist. Ah well, it seems that everybody's still talking about this film. Now, apparently, people have been walking out during it, demanding their money back from the cinema, because they'd not been made aware that the film is a black & white silent.
