Sunday, 2 September 2012

SOMEDAY ALL THE ADULTS WILL DIE

Boo-Hooray is pleased to announce Someday All The Adults Will Die: Punk Graphics 1971-1984, curated by Johan Kugelberg and Jon Savage, which will open at the Hayward Gallery in London this fall. The exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of punk graphic design, highlighting imagery before, during and after the punk years, drawing upon previously unseen public and private archives and collections. Punk and post-punk graphic design is illuminated by examples of homemade cassettes, fanzines, posters, handbills, records and clothing. Highlights include original artworks by Gee Vaucher, Jamie Reid, Gary Panter, John Holmstrom and Penny Rimbaud alongside numerous anonymous artists.
The exhibition coincides with the publication of Punk: An Aesthetic by Johan Kugelberg and Jon Savage, published by Rizzoli.
'SOMEDAY ALL THE ADULTS WILL DIE'
Punk Graphics 1971 - 1984
Hayward Gallery, London
13 September - 4 November 2012

Uncommon Deities - The God of Single Cell Organisms

David Sylvian's Samadhisound will be releasing Uncommon Deities on the 24th September 2012. Last year's Punkt Festival played host to Uncommon Deities, an unusual confluence of talents and media. Walking into the gallery’s large space, visitors were greeted by a series of paintings by Atsushi Fukui that culminated in the striking, hermaphroditic figure in “The Botanist.” An audio installation by David Sylvian filled the space, and the opening night celebration brought poets and musicians into the mix: the acclaimed Norwegian poets Paal-Helge Haugen and Nils Christian Moe Repstad read alongside Evan Parker and Arve Henriksen, and their works were read in English by Sylvian, whose recorded voice was accompanied by John Tilbury, Philip Jeck, and Sidsel Endresen.
The CD release of Uncommon Deities isn’t a document of the installation, but a reinvention: the poems and Sylvian’s readings are placed in new settings by Jan Bang and Erik Honoré.
The cofounders of the Punkt festival and close collaborators on the original installation, Bang and Honoré draw on new performances by the deeply sympathetic trumpeter Arve Henriksen and the startling, elemental singer Sidsel Endresen. These improvisations join live material captured at last year’s Punkt events, in a production that’s spacious and atmospheric, somber and escapist, light-hearted and steeped in history - a recording as rich as the ancestry of the work that inspired it.
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(Thanx JA!)

Hal David RIP







Hal David dies at 91

Saturday, 1 September 2012

Federal Authorites Drop Criminal Case Against Joe Arpaio


Man held over double murder in which graffiti was linked to Pussy Riot


Friday, 31 August 2012

Ad Break: Viv Albertine & Paul Simonon for Laura Ashley (1976)

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White Light White Heat

Ralph Stanley

Mark Lanegan

Brion Gysin: Moroccan Mishaps With The Strolling Ruins

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Bvdub. Moscow. Tonight (31/08)

Место: клуб Artplay и веранда кафе Art Clumba (Нижняя Сыромятническая, 5/7)
Время: 23.00, 31/08
Вход: 500 — предпродажа через Timepad (http://clumba-lab.timepad.ru/event/31502) / 700 — в день мероприятия

Our Future

The globe is sadly groaning with debt, poverty and strife
And billions now are pleading to enjoy a better life
Their hope lies with resources buried deep within the earth
And the enterprise and capital which give each project worth
Is our future threatened with massive debts run up by political hacks
Who dig themselves out by unleashing rampant tax
The end result is sending Australian investment, growth and jobs offshore
This type of direction is harmful to our core
Some envious unthinking people have been conned
To think prosperity is created by waving a magic wand
Through such unfortunate ignorance, too much abuse is hurled
Against miners, workers and related industries who strive to build the world
Develop North Australia, embrace multiculturalism and welcome short term foreign workers to our shores
To benefit from the export of our minerals and ores
The world’s poor need our resources: do not leave them to their fate
Our nation needs special economic zones and wiser government, before it is too late.
By Gina Rinehart (age 58)
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 If you won’t consider my well-being, at least allow me to remember you as the neat, trim, capable and attractive young lady of the Wake Up Australia tour, rather than the slothful, vindictive and devious baby elephant that you have become.
Nice to see the American papers and blogs pick up on GR. Man you are lucky you don't have to live with her tho. Let's see:
'Embrace multiculturalism and welcome short term foreign workers to our shores' to work in your mines for less than the minimum wage and that would really help 'the bludgers' find work wouldn't it? Oh well guess grog and a smoko it is again then...and fair play to Fairfax standing up to you too!
Hmmm!!!

Obama 1 VS 0 Romney

WTF was THAT all about?

Hillbilly

Trigger warning: contains Billy Ray Cyrus!

Laurie Penny: It's not rhetoric to draw parallels with Nazism