| INSIDE ISSUE NUMBER 14 | THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES |
| Tuesday | 10th September |
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CONCERT
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GARLIC | |||
| Tuesday 10 September (7:30pm) | |||
| @ 100 Club, 100 Oxford St., W10 (020.7636.0933) Tube: Tottenham Court Rd/Oxford Circus | |||
| Price: £6 | |||
| Links: 100 Club | Garlic | Album Reviews | |||
| When first released, The Murky World Of Seats didn't quite set the world alight, but caught the attention of John Peel (for whom the band recorded a Peel session) and New Order who they supported. Thankfully due to the efforts of Bella Union, the album is being re-released with a couple of re-recorded tracks and a new cover. Watch out for past single Not Over Yet ( a random one... co-written by Rob Davies, one of the authors of Kylie's Can't Get You Out Of My Head) in its slower alt-country guise. | |||
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ART / PRIVATE VIEW
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UGO RONDINONE | |||
| Tuesday 10 September (Tue to Sat 10am - 6pm) | |||
| @ Sadie Coles HQ, 35 Heddon St., W1 (020.7434.2227) Tube: Piccadilly Circus | |||
| Price: FREE | |||
| Links: Sadie Coles | Sadie Coles at the RA | Matthew Marks | Lowlon Lullaby | Kunsthalle Vienna | Images | |||
| With his exhibition cigarettesandwich Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone has blacked out the windows and draped the walls of the smart central London Sadie Coles Gallery in Hessian. The space has been transformed into a disorientating theatrical showcase; four threateningly huge ink on paper images will stage an Arcadian landscape, promising to dwarf those who enter, hence inviting a child-like curiosity in the sinister and impenetrable. (show ends Monday 14.10) NB: Private View Tuesday 10.09 from 6pm to 8pm -- includes at 7:45pm a recital by the American spoken-word poet John Giorno. Make sure you check out Richard Wright next door at Gagosian. | |||
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ART / PRIVATE VIEW
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RACHEL FEINSTEIN | |||
| Tuesday 10 September (Tue to Sat 11am - 6pm) | |||
| @ Corvi-Mora, 22 Warren St., W1 (020.7383.2419) Tube: Warren St./Great Portland St. | |||
| Price: FREE | |||
| Links: Corvi-Mora | Corvi-Mora at the RA | Marianne Boesky | |||
| Realising the American dream for most is like gold at the bottom of the rainbow, thing is Rachel Feinstein actually works there, at the end of the rainbow that is. However, there's no pot of gold, just tree stumps, lakes, log cabins, in other words typical Americana, all made out of simple wood-paint, mirrors and plywood; and it's opening here in London this week. Feinstein's work -- with a click of them ruby slippers -- flies you into a world both serious and funny; yes that fine line of sublime tragi-comedy, not Beckettian, but American a la Hal Hartley or Walt Stilman. At Corvi-Mora, Feinstein will be exhibiting a unicorn, a tree relief and a portrait painted on a mirror, but that's just the image like the Wizard appears to be a mere old man... like Moby Dick is mere allegory (or is that a metaphor)... Drop in and find out. NB: Private View on Tuesday 10.09 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm (show ends Saturday 02.11) | |||
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ART / PRIVATE VIEW
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RICHARD WRIGHT | |||
| Tuesday 10 September (Tue to Sat 10am - 6pm) | |||
| @ Gagosian, 8 Heddon St., W1 (020.7292.8222) Tube: Piccadilly Circus | |||
| Price: FREE | |||
| Links: Gagosian | Gagosian at the RA | |||
| The space between design and art never really exisited until Matisse renovated composition in his rivalry with Picasso, since then art and design have been unfriendly bed-fellows. In the last few decades, that vast ocean has been narrowing, in fact in the last few years, design and art are determined more by function and institution than anything else... Richard Wright makes gigantic wall paintings. In another time, the 1970s, these spirograph-like webs or geographic maps would have been very druggie wall-paper. However, like any good draughtsman, Wright listens to his painting, that is, he allows the space, colour and line to determine the growth and shape of his work. His new exhibition at Gagosian (his first solo show in London) comprises of wall paintings, silk-screened posters and works on paper. Over the next few weeks he will continue to add to gallery's walls -- that is paint... an old fashioned activity that seems even in the 21st Century to keep on producing new results. (show ends Saturday 26.10) NB: Private View Tuesday 10.09 from 6 to 8pm. Make sure you check out Ugo Rondinone next door at Sadie Coles HQ. | |||
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DANCE / TALK
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MERCE CUNNINGHAM | |||
| Tuesday 10 September (Tue 10, Wed 11 and Thu 12 at 7:45pm; Fri 13 and Sat 14 at 7:45pm) | |||
| @ Barbican Centre, Barbican Centre, EC2 (020.7638.8891) Tube: Barbican | |||
| Price: £5 to £29.50 | |||
| Links: Barbican | MC | PBS on MC | Salon.com Interview | |||
| Few octagenarians these days could be expected to move into the computer age in their twilight years -- and yet Merce Cunningham, the undisputed grand old man of dance, who is in London to celebrate his fiftieth year as a choreographer, has been using computers in his dances for the last ten years. Ever since his personal and professional partner John Cage died in 1992, Cunningham has experimented with a software called LifeForms, which enables him to pursue movement ideas using figures on screen before taking them into the studio and on to the bodies of his live dancers. He uses the computer in all his dances, including the newest one, Fluid Canvas, which has its world premiere at the Barbican this week. NB: There are also several events going on at the ICA -- and installation called Merce Cunningham and Loops (Wed 11 to Sat 14) and a discussion between Merce Cunningham, Paul Kaiser, Shelley Eshkar, Shobana Jeyasingh, Marie Claude Poulin, Marc Downie, Martin Kusch and others. The day-long discusion will be moderated by Ghislaine Boddington (see the ICA Website for details). | |||
| Wednesday | 11th September |
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CONCERT
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QUANTIC | |||
| Wednesday 11 September (7pm) | |||
| @ Jazz Cafe, 5 Parkway, NW1 (020.7916.6060) Tube: Camden Town | |||
| Price: £10 advance / £12 door | |||
| Links: Jazz Cafe | Tickets | Quantic | |||
| 22 year old Will Holland has already released an unnervingly good album, The 5th Exotic, and a string of dance-floor filling singles. With an ear for the sweetest jazz melodies and the dirtiest funk drums, the prodigious talent, going under the name Quantic, has been feted by the likes of LTJ Bukem, Mr Scruff and Ninja Tune. With a new album, Apricot Morning, out on Tru Thoughts Recordings, and a fresh 9 piece band to present it with, we are certain the man's excitement will rub off on audience and band alike. NB: Quantic plays live tonight (9 Piece Funk Band with Vocalist Alice Russell & MC EQ) Natural-Self & Nostalgia 77 (3 Deck Scratch routine) & Jon Kennedy Live (3 Piece live band) | |||
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FILM
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LUMUMBA | |||
| Wednesday 11 September (7:30pm) | |||
| @ Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Place, SW7 (020.073.1350) Tube: South Kensington | |||
| Price: general £6 | concessions £4.50 | |||
| Links: Cine Lumiere | Lumumba the movie | Info on Lumumba | BFM International Film Festival | |||
| Once upon a time there was a man, even a hero... a man with a dream for a better future. This man became the first prime minister of independent Congo. But the powers that be wished it differently, and Lumumba was disposed in favour of Mobutu. Lumumba is the story of this man and those who successfully destroyed him. This tale of injustice, inequality and freedom (or rather lack of freedom) will draw you into the climate of a Congo in upheaval. This may be your only chance to see it on a big screen -- this film is not scheduled for release in the UK any time soon -- take it!
NB: Lumumba is part of the Black Filmmaker (BFM) International Film Festival which takes place at several venues across London till 15th of September. For complete schedule, visit their website. | |||
| Thursday | 12th September |
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CONCERT
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EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER | |||
| Thursday 12 September (7:30pm) | |||
| @ Barfly Monarh, 49 Chalk Farm Rd., NW1 (020.7691.4244) Tube: Chalk Farm | |||
| Price: £6 advance / £7 door | |||
| Links: Barfly Monarch | Tickets | Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster | Lapsus Linguae | |||
| The most exiting gig of the year? We don't know yet, but it sure looks that way. Brighton's 80s MBD sounds like Black Sabbath, The Jesus And Marychain and a troop of monks with amphetamine psychosis using road drills to smash open Bo Diddly's tombstone in a drunken hunt for "The Lost Chord". Tonight is noise terror at its most modern and original. Heart shuddering, eye rolling, hysteria inducing tunes played by a bunch of wide eyed, wild haired freaks. You have to break the law to have more fun. Support comes from Scottish feedback composers Lapsus Linguae and Mad Pitch. Hysterical. | |||
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ART / FILM
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CERITH WYN EVANS | |||
| Thursday 12 September (7pm - 10pm) | |||
| @ Bloomberg SPACE, 50 Finsbury Sq., EC2 (020.7330.7959) Tube: Moorgate | |||
| Price: FREE | |||
| Links: White Cube | CWE at the Kunsthaus Glarus | BBC on CWE | Kenneth Anger Interview | |||
| Cerith Wyn Evans has embraced film and video making, sculpture and installations throughout his career. Tonight provides an interesting opportunity to see some of his early work and influences. The programme, selected by Evans himself includes a screening of the original Rabbit Moon (1950) by underground American filmmaker Kenneth Anger -- cited by Evans as a formative influence. Evans will also screen his own The sky is as thin as paper here... (1983-2002), a video homage to Warhol's The Chelsea Girls that encompasses fiction, documentary and an insight into his issue based work. This evening is part of the film nights that run in conjuction with Bloomberg SPACE's The Mind Is A Horse film and video exhibition. (show ends Sunday 06.10) | |||
| Friday | 13th September |
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CLUB
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SCAND | |||
| Friday 13 September (10pm - 6am) | |||
| @ Fortress Studios, 34-38 Provost Street, N1 (020.7251.6200 ) Tube: Old Street | |||
| Price: £7 advance / £8 door | |||
| Links: Kai-zen | |||
| It's a night jam-packed with electro-technoid-loveliness at the Fortress this Friday, featuring a headline DJ set from Mike Dredd (Kosmik Kommando/Rephlex) and Toytronic's Multiplex playing live. Other names on the bill include ADJ, Cultek, Bionic Man, Cred, Paul C, Stormfield, Naut, Mirto and Rob Smut playing everything from electro, techno, minimal house and jazz, to breaks and beats, soul and hip hop. With two rooms of music, roof terrace, natty visuals and a free CD on arrival (for those who get there early) who said Friday 13th needs to be unlucky?
NB: Tickets are available in advance from 07771 824 628/07866 483 858, email scand@kai-zen.co.uk, or in person from Sister Ray and Smallfish. | |||
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BANCO DE GAIA | |||
| Friday 13 September (10pm - 12am) | |||
| @ National Theatre, South Bank, SE1 (020 7452 3400) Tube: Embankment/Waterloo | |||
| Price: FREE | |||
| Links: National Theatre | Banco de Gaia | Unofficial | Interview | |||
| To mark the forthcoming release of 10 Years -- a "retrospective compilation" due to emerge in the UK on September 16th, Semi-detached present this album launch night for Banco de Gaia. For anyone who appreciates well-crafted, enlightened music of epic proportions, Banco has to be one of the finest ambient swathesmiths around. His legacy could be said to provide the earthier anchor that complements the Orb's more ethereal meanderings, but whatever the comparison Banco's worldwide cultural influences promise to be savoured well at the NT's Terrace Bar overlooking the Thames. | |||
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ART / FILM / TALK
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MARK NASH | |||
| Friday 13 September (9pm) | |||
| @ The Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, W2 (020.7402.6075) Tube: Knightsbridge/Lancaster Gate | |||
| Price: general £5 | concessions £4 | |||
| Links: Serpentine Gallery | An A-Z of Documenta | Jean-Christophe Ammann on Documenta | |||
| Nash has a beautiful mind, not Paul Nash of the film, but Mark Nash the filmmaker. However his mind is not just beautiful for art-work but for it's breadth: he's been an educator (Harvard, NYU, UCSantaCruz), Editor (Screen), Author (African Cinema, Critical Genealogies and Frantz Fanon as Film), Curator (Force Fields with Guy Brett at the Hayward in 2000, but more importantly part of the team of uber art-event Documenta 11 this year in Germany)! Flims like Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask, a so-called "docu-ficition" which he co-wrote and produced, touches at the intersection of his interests, Africa and political radicalism. So just how beautiful is his brain, and what kind of patterns does he see, well find out at the Serpentine's last Park Night, where Nash will be discussing his current projects and show exerpts from The Short Century -- his most recent curatorial project. (another reason to go is to see the wonderful Ito Pavilion which will be taken down on Sunday 29.10) | |||
| Saturday | 14th September |
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CLUB
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SOFA SURFERS | |||
| Saturday 14 September (8pm - 3am) | |||
| @ Cargo, Kingsland Viaduct, 83 Rivington St., EC2 (020.7739.3440) Tube: Old St./Liverpool St. | |||
| Price: £6 before 9pm / £9 thereafter | |||
| Links: Cargo | Sofa Surfers | Klein Records | Leaf Records | Chilled Beats | Post Everything | |||
| Renowned Professors of Groovology the Sofa Surfers are an Austrian outfit that denounces that of the archetypal leather shorts. They play live (and somewhat appropriately) at Cargo this evening as part of Ross Allen's Destination Out event, but also to promote their forthcoming 3rd album Encounters, due for release at the end of September. Working with a range of independent rap and vocal artists, the Sofa Surfers proffer trip-hop with the undertones of melodies similar to those laid down by DJ Shadow, but with a less aggressive beat philosophy akin to that of DJ Food. The uncluttered production promises to fit snugly into the dark but welcoming ambience of Cargo's live hall. Giveaway: We have two advance copies of Encounters to give away. They'll go to two randomly picked winners who can tell us which other down-tempo masters hail from Austria. | |||
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ART / PRIVATE VIEW
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MICHAEL RAEDECKER | |||
| Saturday 14 September (Wed to Sun 12pm - 6pm) | |||
| @ The Approach, 47 Approach Rd., E2 (020.8983.3878) Tube: Bethnal Green | |||
| Price: FREE | |||
| Links: The Approach | The Approach at the RA | Michael Raedecker | MR at the Stedelijk Museum | |||
| The Saturday event is Michael Raedecker's private view at The Approach Gallery, yup the one above The Approach pub. For his third solo show there, the Dutch-born, London trained one-time Turner-prize nominee, presents tropical desert island scenes and semi-abstract interiors created through his usual blend of the painted and embroidered surface. With Raedecker -- a former fashion design student -- sewing each piece with his own unique threads of quiet emotion, the end result always proves to be an enigmatic blend of image and embroided object. NB: Private View Saturday 14.09 from 6 to 9pm (show ends on Sunday 13.10) | |||
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OPERA
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ARIADNE AUF NAXOS | |||
| Saturday 14 September (7pm on Sat 14; 7:30pm on Tue 17; 1pm on Sat 21; 7:30pm Thu 26) | |||
| @ Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, WC2 (020.7304.4000) Tube: Convent Garden | |||
| Price: Call B.O. for prices | |||
| Links: Royal Opera House | Ariadne auf Naxos Synopsis | Guardian Review | |||
| Thank God the summer is over. You may be able to get a parking space and restaurant reservation in August, but September is a month full of promise and new beginnings, even if you don't live by the school calendar. This year the Royal Opera House kicks off its autumn season with a new music director, Antonio Pappano. Following the much-trumpeted end of Bernard Haitink's tenure in June, Pappano has stepped onto the rostrum, and opened the season with Richard Strauss' opera, Ariadne auf Naxos. Appropriately enough, this is an opera within an opera, and is a work about the trials of staging a production. Witty and visually striking from start to finish. NB: Call B.O. at 020.7304.4000 for prices and to purchase tickets | |||
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CLUB / DJ
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RICHIE HAWTIN | |||
| Saturday 14 September (10pm - 7am) | |||
| @ The End, 16a West Central St., WC1 (020.7419.9199) Tube: Tottenham Court Rd./Holborn | |||
| Price: £15 advance | |||
| Links: The End | M-nus | Tickets | plus 8 | |||
| Since being dragged from Oxfordshire, to Windsor in Canada; just an irresistible hop across the river from Detroit city USA, Richie Hawtin has represented a way of seeing the other side. Together with his alter ego
Plastikman, he has revolutionised underground music with his own stomping style and he now crosses the world with similar ease to that step over the river. Tonight he'll take us to places where we aren't supposed to go and it's gonna be unreal. His
techno imprint Minus is taking over The End with dark, potent and technotic
electronic beats, wild snares and acid lines, courtesy of the great lab technician himself, DEX N'EFX, DJ Magda and Freefunk. NB: Purchase tickets through Ticketweb or call 08700.600.100 | |||
| Sunday | 15th September |
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CONCERT
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THRILL JOCKEY 10TH ANNIVERSARY | |||
| Sunday 15 September (12pm - 12am) | |||
| @ Ocean, 270 Mare St., Hackney, E8 (020.8533.0111) Tube: Hackney Downs/Hackney Central Rail | |||
| Price: £20 advance | |||
| Links: Ocean | Thrill Jockey Anniversary European Tour | |||
| Celebrating ten years of Chicago's subversive Thrill Jockey Records, this all day mini-festival will feature some top names from the label's roster. Confirmed acts include Trans Am with new-wave electronica, freeform jazz from Chicago Underground Duo, The Sea & Cake with some shimmery pop and exploratory aural adventures from the highly influential, Tortoise. There will also be DJ sets from members of Tortoise, Stereolab and the All Tomorrow's Parties bods. A new film called Looking for a Thrill (a collection of interviews with musicians who inspire, talking about a musical moment that inspired them) directed by Braden King will also have it's European premiere on the day. And, if all that wasn't enough, the first 1,000 people through the doors get a free cd with unreleased tracks from Tortoise and The Sea and Cake. NB: For tickets call 020.7314.2800 (24 hours) | |||
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FILM / Q&A
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INJUSTICE | |||
| Sunday 15 September (3pm) | |||
| @ Ritzy Cinema, Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane, SW2 (020.7733.2229) Tube: Brixton | |||
| Price: general £6.50 | concessions £ 5 | |||
| Links: Rio Cinema | Injustice | Guardian Review | Additional Review | |||
| Injustice was the documentary they never wanted you to see, literally. Upon its release, threats were made to cinemas screening this film -- sometimes resulting in the cinema canceling the screening or moving it to a nearby venue -- and at least on one occasion, it resulted in 150 people barricading themselves with the projector to ensure the screening. What is it all about? Four men died in police custody under questionable circumstance -- we meet the mourning families and follow their struggle to come to terms with the death of a loved one under exceptional circumstances, as well as their virtual impossible search for justice. Injustice is part of the BFM International Film Festival. NB: Discussion with the filmmakers and families of the deceased will follow the screening. | |||
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BOOK REVIEW
Photographers such as Nick Knight, Nobert Schoemer, Inez van Lamsweerde and Wolfgang Tillmans have redefined fashion photography
as we see it today. Fashion Statements showcases the work of these great artists and many more, demonstrating that
photography has become one of the driving forces of today's popular culture. The essence of their work resides in not only
depicting the clothes and accessories of fashion, but more importantly, capturing and transforming a certain attitude and
lifestyle into an image. This book is an "A to Z" to the work of the world's top photographers old and new... cutting-edge
fashion photography from the past 20 years. Flicking through the pages one can quickly see that these images have indeed
become a form of fine art in themselves.
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