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| INSIDE ISSUE NUMBER 10
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THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES
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CONCERT
| THE BOY CARTOGRAPHER | | Wednesday 14 August (8.30pm - The Boy Cartographer on stage at c.10pm) | | @ The Windmill , 22 Blenheim Gardens, SW2 (020.8671.0700) Tube: Brixton |
| | Price: £2 |
| Links: The Windmill | Planet Pop | Drowned in Sound |
| Formed in early 2001, The Boy Cartographer are a shower of young Glasgow chancers adept in all things lo-fi. They've had repeated radio play from John Peel, will soon be supporting Camera Obscura at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and have a forthcoming single release on Starharbour Records (an off-shoot of Shifty Disco) which will be produced by Geoff Allan (who also twiddles the knobs for the likes of Mogwai, Arab Strap and Belle and Sebastian). Catch these kids before they achieve world domination or just get too big for their own boots - they're on tonight at the Windmill, an intimate, friendly, candlelit venue (which has an actual, though disused, windmill in the field nearby), with support from Swiss and Austrian immigrants Clean
who play psychedelic folk-space-rock and Derby's Plans and Apologies.
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ART / TALK
| ACCEPTABLE ART? | | Wednesday 14 August (7:30pm) | | @ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly |
| | Price: general £2.00 | concessions £1.50 |
| Links: ICA |
| The ICA is giving a talk on "Acceptable Art" by Tom Morton the curios Editor of Frieze. If you were to walk by a piece of unacceptable art, would you recognize it?? We should say - would you recognize it as art? Can you tell what's life and what's art? A ray of sunshine falling on a leaf of grass, you have a sublime experience (i.e. you realize how small you are in relation to the universe). Is that art? Is that an art experience? Here in England, the work that pushes buttons provokes money and morals: that is porn, murder and huge sums spent on useless things like art are unacceptable. Basically most negative things we read about in the tabloids. Hence, football-related art would be considered acceptable right? You disagree? Well, see what
Tom Morton has to say about it. | |
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MULTIMEDIA / Q&A
| LAPTOPS LIVE 6 - SFT/SWIFT | | Wednesday 14 August (8pm) | | @ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly |
| | Price: general £7 | concessions £6 |
| Links: ICA | Mute Records |
| It's all back to front. Simon Fisher Turner (SFT) is famous for writing film scores (he received an Oscar nomination for Loaded by Anna Campion and has worked for Derek Jarman on numerous occasions). Now a film has been made to accompany his music. This event at the ICA sees the screening of Swift, a collection of footage by six film makers compiled by Adam Shepherd. A DVD of the film comes with the CD, but at the live event there's also a Q&A with Shepherd and SFT on digital media in film. Then we get to see SFT jamming along on his Apple Powerbook to the work of Len Lye (1901-1980): super inventive animation which although extremely primitive in method (scratching directly onto film), was way ahead of its time. | |
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MULTIMEDIA / THEATRE
| EUPHOR!UM | | Wednesday 14 August (Wed to Fri 6pm - 10.30pm; Sat 1pm - 10.30pm; Sun 1pm - 6pm) | | @ The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Rd., NW1 (020.7424.9991) Tube: Chalk Farm |
| | Price: general £10 | concessions £8 |
| Links: The Roundhouse |
Euphorium, created by Californian theatre company Antenna, is a dynamic virtual reality experience of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's hallucinatory poem Kubla Khan. Wearing sense-encompassing headsets that add visual illusions to audio tracks, visitors enter the Roundhouse's undercroft. The labyrinth of brick tunnels and niches are transformed into the hazy, mellifluous world of Xanadu. You meander, like the sacred river Alph, for half an hour through caverns measureless to man and gardens bright with sinuous rills. A soundtrack of echoes, music and fragments of Coleridge's poem breathes all the while in your ears. New loops are triggered as you move through infrared beams. Linger afterwards in the shadow of the dome of pleasure: a central circular room called the Opium Lounge, where your walk-through begins. Euphorium is produced in collaboration with Soho Theatre.
NB: People enter individually at 90 second intervals -- Show run ends Sunday 20.10 | |
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CLUB
| SAVE OR DELETE | | Wednesday 14 August (7pm - 1am) | | @ Cargo, Kingsland Viaduct, 83 Rivington St., EC2 (020.7739.3440) Tube: Old St./Liverpool St. |
| | Price: £5 before 9pm, £7 thereafter |
| Links: Cargo | Greenpeace | Terry Callier Interview |
| With 80% of the worlds rainforests already destroyed, Save or Delete have decided to heighten awareness with an incredible night of music at Cargo.
Unsung Chicago genius, Terry Callier, provides a unique blend of blues, soul, folk and jazz that will reach out to everyone present. Providing support are Z-list, a collaboration between graphic designer/dj Chris Bruty and visual artist/dj Dave Gibbons resulting in an eclectic mix of Rare Grooves, Nu-Jazz, Brazilliance and electro soul. Also performing on the night are Zohar, Futuro Flamenco, Bluey, Little Fish and Martin Morales, a dj who played a key role in bringing world music to the dancefloor. With a fantastic line up and a worthy cause, you can't help but take notice. | |
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DJ
| CURSOR MINER | | Wednesday 14 August (8pm) | | @ Lock Tavern, 35 Chalk Farm Rd., NW1 (0207.482.7163) Tube: Chalk Farm |
| | Price: FREE |
| Cursor Miner (Lo Recordings) in Latin roughly translates to "Aggressive Messenger", and nothing could be closer to the truth. Cursor Miner's reputation precedes him for serving us with his electro/funk/breaks mix of "twisted digipop". With all the effects knobs whacked up to the appropriate level, this music does something good to your brain. Cutting, stuttering and warbling of blips and bleeps in just the right places taking you to some freaky place where Aphex Twin spanks Depeche Mode and Beta Band on the back with a Beck shovel. Put simply: get yourself along to the well known Lock Tavern for this week's sonic workout.
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CLUB
| ILLUSTRIOUS RECORDS/ELECTRIC STEW | | Thursday 15 August (9pm) | | @ Sahara Nights, 257-259 Pentonville Rd., N1 (0208.354.3799) Tube: King's Cross |
| | Price: £4 |
| Links: Illustrious Records |
| Hosting the achingly hip label's first birthday bash is the even hipper Electric Stew. Perhaps as a final kiss off to the Superclub, it's being held at the considerably less glamorous Sahara Nights in Kings Cross. On the menu tonight - sets from Jolly Music and Golden Boy
and Miss Kittin. Expect DJ sets from the Germanic chanteuse as well as the 'stew boys and girls. And don't forget those vintage skinny ties and the heroin mullet skunk haircuts as the fashionistas will be out in droves. You have been warned!
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CLUB
| DOT ALLISON & RICHARD FEARLESS | | Thursday 15 August (8pm) | | @ Cargo, Kingsland Viaduct, 83 Rivington St., EC2 (020.7739.3440) Tube: Old St./Liverpool St. |
| | Price: £5 before 9pm, £7 thereafter |
| Links: Cargo | Dot Allison | We Are Science | DIV / Fearless Interview |
Rock-meets-dance-meets-electro-meets-pop tonight and your hosts for this genre defying trip are XFMers DJs James Hyman and Eddie Temple Morris - copresenters of The Remix, whose blistering show translates well to the dance-floor. Tonight they're bringing us club couple extraordinaire, Dot Allison and Richard Fearless. Best known as the frontwoman of acid housers One Dove, Dot will be singing a live set of old classics alongside new Detroit/'80s electronic sounds. And then, her other half and the other half of acclaimed electronica duo Death In Vegas, Fearless will take to the decks with some ska, techno, motown, and acid house to lose your head to.
NB: Highlights from the evening will be broadcast on XFM on Friday 16, August 9pm - 11pm | |
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CLUB
| MAURICE FULTON | | Friday 16 August (8pm) | | @ Blag Club, Canalot Studios, 222 Kensal Rd., W10 (020.7243.0123) Tube: Westbourne Park |
| | Price: £3 before 10pm, £5 thereafter |
| Links: Blag Club | Deep Blue Music | MF Discography | Ladyvipb |
| Don't ask us how, but if you get to the Blag Club before 10pm, you'll get to
see NYC's Maurice Fulton for £3. Even if you're late, it's still only £5 to
see the legend who this year celebrates twenty years rocking house and
garage parties all over the world. Deep Blue, London's holders of the
Underground Parties Trophy since 1999, have done it again. Deep, weird
garage from loft classics to super chic belters, tonight has "special"
graffitied all over it. Support comes from the Deep Blue's dream team: Daddy
Ad (Jockey Slut), Zak Frost (Affro Art) Dan Jordan (Fuego) and D'Roc
(Ministry).
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ART
| RENE DANIELS AND KARIN RUGGABER | | Saturday 17 August (Mon to Sat 11am - 6pm) | | @ Bloomberg SPACE, 50 Finsbury Sq., EC2 (020.7330.7959) Tube: Moorgate |
| | Price: FREE |
| Links: RD at Van Abbe Museum | KR in Predator |
This gallery definitely sees the bigger picture: selecting artists of different nationality, generation and reputation, then combining them to wonderful effect. The current show brings together Dutch painter Rene Daniels and German artist Karin Ruggaber. References to light, space, and architecture abound in Daniels' paintings (many of the works in this show have not been seen in the UK before). Sadly, his career was brought to an abrupt close by the brain haemorrhage he suffered in 1987. He remains an important artist and was included in two of the block-buster exhibitions of the '80s and '90s: Zeigeist in '81 and Metropolis in '91, both at Martin Gropius Bau, in Berlin. Ruggaber makes sculpture with minimal means to affect the dynamics of their immediate environment; subtle and economical, she often uses the familiar and functional-lighting systems, for example. Now based in London she exhibited recently in Exchange at Richard Salmon Gallery. Bloomberg SPACE continues a well informed and adventurous programme with this brilliant show, don't miss it!
NB: This show ends Saturday 17.08
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CONCERT
| LEE SCRATCH PERRY | | Sunday 18 August (7pm also on 19.08, 20.08 & 21.08) | | @ Jazz Cafe, 5 Parkway, NW1 (020.7916.6060) Tube: Camden Town |
| | Price: £17.50 in advance / £20 |
| Links: Jazz Cafe | Tickets | LSP Website | LSP Interview | Another Interview |
No matter if the man is insane - Lee Scratch Perry is proof that madness and genius go hand in hand. From his reggae roots through to his more - uh - innovative experiments of late, the original producer of Bob Marley and the Clash is still going strong. If you're not worried about a repeat of the time when he brandished a loaded gun on stage, and you're unfazed by the fact that this musician once burned down and flooded his legendary Black Art studio, then what better place to see him perform than in the cosy confines of Camden's smoky Jazz Cafe. Booking is most definitely advisable.
NB: LSP plays four nights at the Jazz cafe - Sunday 18.08, Monday 19.08, Tuesday 20.08 & Wednesday 21.08 | |
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DJ
| XEN SOLID STEEL - A SKIVERS GUIDE | | Sunday 18 August (7pm) | | @ Bridge & Tunnel, 4 Calvert Avenue, E2 (020.7729.6533) Tube: Old St./Liverpool St. |
| | Price: FREE |
| Links: Ninjatune | The Herbaliser | Bridge & Tunnel |
| Ninjas! It's the penultimate free Xen Solid Steel night at Bridge and Tunnel...! Yep - no tax, no fluff - just DJs doing what they do, and it's going to be a good one. There's Ollie Teeba from The Herbaliser, Jonny Cuba of DSP, and Nick C from Let's Be Friends on the decks dishing up laid back grooves. And when you phone in sick on Monday morning just tell your boss you were out Sunday night Ninja training. | |
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ART
| MATISSE PICASSO | | Tuesday 13 August - Sunday 18 August (Daily 10:15am - 10pm; open all night on the 17th) | | @ Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 (020.7887.8008) Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars |
| | Price: general £10 | concessions £7 |
| Links: Tate Modern | MP Website | MP PBS Show | Guardian Review | Matisse | Picasso |
MatissePicasso, in its final glory days at Tate Modern, is following in the footsteps of blockbuster shows past and extending its opening hours until 10pm, staying open for 24 hours on the penultimate night. If you haven't seen the exhibition yet, go if you can get a ticket. It's not just a chance to revisit two of the greatest pillars of modern art but an opportunity to see an intelligent installation that brings out the many facets of the artistic dialogue that took place between these two sometime rivals, sometime friends. What the show (thankfully) lacks is kilometres - it's not as extensive as these two were prolific - but it makes up for this in an excellently chosen range of paintings and some drawings and sculpture, borrowed from institutions and private collections.
Giveaway: We have two pairs of tickets for MatissePicasso to give away. They'll go to two randomly picked winners who can tell us in whose studio did Matisse and Picasso first meet (hint: Getrude & Leo). | |
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ART
| LENI RIEFENSTAHL | | Ends Monday 26 August (Mon to Fri 10am - 6pm; Sat 11am - 5pm) | | @ Atlas, 49 Dorset St., W1 (020.7224.4192) Tube: Baker St. |
| | Price: FREE |
| Links: Atlas Gallery | American LR Website | German (in English) LR Website | LR Documentary | PBS on LR |
| A former dancer turned film-maker and photographer, Leni Riefenstahl has been singled out by many a critic for her indelible contributions to the medium of film, in particular for her choreographic approach to shooting people and events. But this has been obscured - notoriously so - by another aspect of her life: on special request from Hitler, she made the overwhelmingly iconic films of the 1934 Nuremburg rallies, Triumph of the Will, and the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Olympia. For many years, Riefenstahl, who turns 100 this month, has said she was never a willing participant in the Nazi ideology, and the show currently on view at Atlas, of stills from Olympia, pay some credit to this claim. The geometries she creates from perfect human forms - of all colours and shapes - pay more homage to modernism than they do eugenics. | |
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FILM
| THE QUIET AMERICAN | | Ends Thursday 22 August (showing daily at 6.10pm & 8.40pm) | | @ National Film Theatre, South Bank, SE1 (020.7928.3232) Tube: Embankment/Waterloo |
| | Price: general £7.20 | concessions £5.50 |
| Links: National Film Theatre | GG on The Quiet American | The Quiet American remake |
The Quiet American by Graham Greene was, at the time of publication, a chilling tale of what the United States might encounter in the future, and the movie of the same name does remain true to his vision in this the first US movie made in Vietnam. The film deals with many of the issues which concerned Greene in the book; including racism, economic concerns and colonialism. More importantly, checking out this original will be interesting pending Miramax's release (due to be on Spetember 11th) of the remake starring Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser some time in 2003.
NB: This run ends on Thursday 22.08 | |
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GROOVETECH STREAMS
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BROKEN BEATS
David Suave presents Khz Show feat. Bootsie |
TECHNO:
Ian O'Brien (Peacefrog)
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HOUSE:
Spooky (Deviant)
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be delivering you three specially selected streams direct to your inbox
each and every week. As well as these there are also live streams from
around the world and a massive archive to check out at
groovetech.com.
Now is probably a good time to check out the Groovetech Shop
where their coveted back catalogue vinyl is available at massively reduced
prices as part of their summer sale.
You'll need the Real
Audio player to listen to the streams. If you don't already have it, get it here.
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BOOK REVIEW
Diamond Sea
Namib Desert, Southwestern Africa
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This book is a chronicle of Doug Aitken's photographic journey into Diamond Areas 1 and 2, a restricted mining area (roughly the size of the state of California, America) in Namibia. Closed to the world since 1907, this highly profitable desert mining region seems stuck in time through Aitken's camera and is almost void of human presence. His hypnotic photographs beautifully capture this surreal world of shifting sand and sophisticated machinery. Aitken is originally from Redondo Beach, California but now lives and works in New York City. This book is a companion piece to his film and video work Diamond Sea, 1996.
Giveaway: We have one copy of Diamond Sea to give away. It'll go to one randomly picked winner who can tell us which gallery represents Doug Aitken in London.
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Gavin Turk
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Julien Dobbs-Higginson, Andreas Hesse, Iain Macleod, Simonida Tomovic, James Waite
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Elia-Shaul, Melissa Firth, Amit Green, Eamon Hamilton, Clifford Leo Harris, Marine Hugonnier, Magnus
Larsson, Ingrid Lunden, Perry Mason, Sarah McDermott, Jo Osborne, David Rhodes, Graeme Ross, Ingvild Rytter, Sherman Sam, Charlie Sorrel, Henrietta Thompson, Jane Tobin, Mo White
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