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Issue 219
Before we get to the juicy stuff, a little aside: because of the veritable art mania this week, what with Frieze & co, this is a bumper two week issue. You'll have your work cut out for you, so we're leaving you to it until the 24th, when we'll be back with a vengeance.
In terms of news we begin by giving a high five to Radar's Overrated Report. It rocks (although an arguable omission was the Turner Prize). In fact, we were so inspired by this original, arbitrary award scheme, that, David Chipperfield, ,
UNStudio and the Empire State Building aside (being "official" gold medallists), we've come up with a few prize-winning suggestions of our own (we'd call them the KultureFlash Olympics but apparently that's not allowed).
Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling wins, hands down, for Best Multitasking. For Overall Contribution to Wikipedia: Japanese Ministry of Agriculture. Most Dramatic Exit goes to Nathan Zuckerman, and Deity Decoration to Norman Mailer. For putting the "strip" back into comic:
Alan Moore. The Rising Star is awarded to Newseums. The Hype (before there's even anything to show for it) Award once again goes to Martin Scorsese. The Jack Sparrow Award goes to high street fashion pirate H&M. The Yawning Man Statuette is presented to over stimulated and underperforming kids. Tears Before Bedtime Award goes to French philosopher Andre Gorz for his incredibly moving letter to his wife, penned before their joint suicide. The Gullible Idiot Gong is for financial ostriches. The Put It Away Award goes to gun-toting US drivers. JG Ballard, Michael Tomasky and Bernard-Henri Levy can share the Architectural Digest Medal while the Impotence Award is shamefully dolled out to
admen, and Knitting and Tattoos jointly win a Microtrend Acknowledgment. A clear winner for the Art Corruption Award is the dollar. Pop Goes The Weasel Prize is waiting in the wings for the London art auctions to collect and Doris Salcedo gets a round of applause just for the craic (Ha Ha). Lastly, because this joke is wearing thin, Stand First of the Week goes to New York magazine, for "LCAMA chief says nyet, MET". We love it.
Finally, our header features two soldiers looking up at the neon lights of Piccadilly Circus in 1957. The film is part of the Free Cinema movement and will be screened on Friday at the Curzon Soho.
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Architecture:
Michiel Riedijk
Art:
David Shrigley: Worried Noodles (Hot Chip + Psapp...);
Frieze Art Fair 2007;
Glenn Branca
Benefit:
David Shrigley: Worried Noodles (Hot Chip + Psapp...)
Club:
Bang Face: The Black Dog (live) + Luke Vibert + DJ/rupture...;
Cobblestone Jazz (live) + Black Devil Disco Club (live) + Omar-S...
Concert:
David Shrigley: Worried Noodles (Hot Chip + Psapp...);
Glenn Branca;
Les Savy Far;
Prefuse 73;
Underworld;
Von Sudenfed
Dance:
Dance Umbrella 2007: Akram Khan + Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Shen Wei Dance Arts
DJ:
Bang Face: The Black Dog (live) + Luke Vibert + DJ/rupture...;
Cobblestone Jazz (live) + Black Devil Disco Club (live) + Omar-S...
Fashion:
Erin O'Connor
Festival:
Dance Umbrella 2007: Akram Khan + Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Shen Wei Dance Arts;
Experiment Marathon;
Frieze Art Fair 2007;
London Film Festival
Film:
Catherine Breillat: Romance;
David Shrigley: Worried Noodles (Hot Chip + Psapp...);
London Film Festival;
Night Haunts: Sukhdev Sandhu + Scanner;
The Counterfeiters
Performance:
Night Haunts: Sukhdev Sandhu + Scanner
Q&A:
Catherine Breillat: Romance
Reading:
Night Haunts: Sukhdev Sandhu + Scanner
Symposium:
Experiment Marathon
Talk:
AA Gill;
Antonio Negri;
David Shrigley: Worried Noodles (Hot Chip + Psapp...);
Erin O'Connor;
Michiel Riedijk;
Remembering Anna Politkovskaya (with Jon Snow + James Meek + Azar Nafisi);
Slavoj Zizek
Theatre:
Dealer's Choice;
Pure Gold;
Rhinoceros
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TALK ANTONIO NEGRI
Serpentine Gallery
Friday 12 October [7pm]
Kensington Gardens, W2 T:020 7298 1515 Tube: Knightsbridge/Lancaster Gate
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Antonio Negri is one part of that Bonnie and Clyde duo of Hardt and Negri, famous for Empire (2000) and Multitude (2004). The former, written before the world-changing events of 9/11, was, and still is, a zeitgeity work of socio-philosophy. It advances the notion that in our globalised times we -- that's right, all you citizenry out there -- are all part of Empire and its "counter-Empire" -- Empire being the trans-national forces of capitalism that now control and organise our planet. But for the anti-globalisation protestors, it seemed that this odd couple were the posterboy intellectuals for the counter-Empire. In its 413 pages, inspired by Foucault's biopolitics and Deleuze's fluid thinking, Empire proposes to be the Communist Manifesto for the 21st Century. Unlike his young American colleague, the Italian professor is a real-life revolutionary "hero". Having done time for his part in the Autonomia Operaia's (Workers' Autonomy) violent acts, Negri's -- and Hardt's -- sequel was inspired by Baruch Spinoza's idea of Multitude. |
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FILM / PERFORMANCE / READING NIGHT HAUNTS: SUKHDEV SANDHU + SCANNER
Curzon Soho
Friday 12 October [music + drinks: 9pm / reading + films + Scanner: 11:15pm]
93-107 Shaftesbury Ave., W1 T:0870.756.4620 Tube: Leicester Sq./Piccadilly
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Reclaiming the city from dusk until dawn, Night Haunts began life as a net project with writer Sukhdev Sandhu revitalising the mystery and ghosts of London nights, accompanied by visuals (Mind Unit) and sound by flaneur (Scanner). A journey into the urban heart of darkness, Night Haunts is now published in book form, taking you through the sewers and across the skies in a police helicopter, via exorcisms, taxi ranks, night workers and Samaritans, capturing the shadows of London, at once filthy, beautiful, violent, comical and dreamy. At this special late night movie event, London night-time films will be screened, interspersed by readings from Sandhu and live music from Scanner. Jesus Blood was the inspiration for the now legendary work by composer Gavin Bryars, Nice Time captures Piccadilly Circus in 1957, whilst Boys From The Brown Stuff documents the sewage "flushers" of the city. You'll never see or hear London the same again. |
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FESTIVAL / SYMPOSIUM EXPERIMENT MARATHON
Serpentine Gallery
Saturday 13 October [13/10 12pm - 11pm and 14/10 10am - 3pm]
Kensington Gardens, W2 T:020 7298 1515 Tube: Knightsbridge/Lancaster Gate
general £20 (one day) £35 (both days) | concessions £15 (one day) |
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Autumn might be here but alfresco nights in the park are not quite over yet. The Experiment Marathon is presented by Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist and will take place in Eliasson's "Swiss chalet gone wild" pavilion. The focus this year is on experimentation rather than interviews and the pressing topic of the day that will rally scientists, artists and architects is "What we have in common is that we are different". Israel Rosenfield and Luc Steels, of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, will team up with a group of high class nerds who will explore the brain's interpretation of reality, the colour of the sky, and phantom limbs. If pop psychology is more your thing, join John Brockman, Simon Baron-Cohen and Steven Pinker as they test the claim "Do women have more empathy than men?" Whoever wins gets to be the first in line for Pedro Reyes' Three Way Kissing Booth, a public experiment on the permutations of male and female desire.
NB: the Experiment Marathon runs on both 13/10 and 14/10. |
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THEATRE PURE GOLD
Soho Theatre
Saturday 13 October [7:30pm]
21 Dean St., W1 T:020.7478.0100 Tube: Tottenham Court Rd./Leicester Sq.
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Pure Gold reminds us that life is as much about choices as it is about people who help us to make them and stay with us when we fail. Simon lives with his family in a council estate in Deptford. For him London is not a glamorous cosmopolitan metropolis but a harsh place to get by in. After unfairly loosing his job and consequently his self-confidence, Simon grows closer to his cousin Paul, who believes that "it's only bad money when it ain't yours". Michael Bhim's play is a well-crafted and confident debut with a strong sense of direction. Even though it deals with sensitive issues of everyday racism, economic injustice and family problems, Bhim manages to balance it with a well measured dose of humour, which makes the whole experience entertaining and highly thought provoking at the same time. The production, directed by Indhu Rubasingham and co-produced by Soho Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company, has an immense capacity for emotional empathy.
NB: runs till 20/10. |
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ART / BENEFIT / CONCERT / FILM / TALK DAVID SHRIGLEY: WORRIED NOODLES (HOT CHIP + PSAPP...)
Scala
Sunday 14 October [3 - 11pm]
275-277 Pentonville Rd., N1 T:020.7833.2022 Tube: King's Cross
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Catch London electro outfit Hot Chip, performance artist Simon Bookish, indie rock duo Psapp, the Brazilian freak-folk of Cibelle, and the precocious talent of singer-songwriter James Chadwick, among others, at a live showcase in aid of Amnesty International's Protect The Human Week. Inspired by Glaswegian artist David Shrigley's illustrated book of imaginary songs, Worried Noodles ("The Empty Sleeve"), this eclectic group of musicians and singer-songwriters, signed to independent record label Tomlab, will bring to life Shrigley's surreal doodles and musings. A chance to hear Hot Chip's toe-tapping anthem "Over And Over", and see Shrigley and his animations in the flesh, in the comforting knowledge that all proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the charity.
NB: on 13/10 (6pm) at the Curzon Soho catch David Shrigley as he introduces several of his films and takes questions from the audience. (This event is programmed in conjunction with the launch of Shrigley's latest book Ants Have Sex In Your Beer.) |
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FILM THE COUNTERFEITERS
Monday 15 October
various cinemas across London
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A shockingly true story about a counterfeiting operation in Nazi Germany that very nearly tipped the scales. The Counterfeiters follows an exceptionally gifted Russian/Jewish forger through the stomach-twistingly surreal experience faced by those privileged few detainees, lucky enough to have been members of the reprographics industry before the war, who had been chosen for Operation Bernhard. The characters, many of them thinly veiled surrogates for the real players in this incidental elite, move through the film with the frenetic exhaustion of men rapidly descending on their doom at the hands of their captors. Some shared an intense hatred for each other that manifested in spontaneous and catastrophic ways, while others teetered on an ethical precipice, with grim circumspection and their own survival in mind. Themes of altruism and despair permeate this incredibly stylish and deeply engaging film, and -- with one or two exceptions -- the events depicted are historically accurate. The acting is excellent, the story compelling, and the atmosphere created by director Stefan Ruzowitzky before and after the war is somehow both romantic and convincing.
NB: on 12/10 (6:30pm) at the Curzon Soho catch Stefan Ruzowitzky in conversation after the screening. The Counterfeiters is released in London on 12/10. For other good films check out the London Film Festival (17/10 till 01/11). |
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CONCERT PREFUSE 73
Scala
Tuesday 16 October [7:30pm]
275-277 Pentonville Rd., N1 T:020.7833.2022 Tube: King's Cross
12.50 (advance) |
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Renowned hip-hop producer and artist Guillermo Scott Herren has steadily acquired the iconic status of underground genius over the past decade. Prefuse 73 is perhaps his most accomplished musical alias -- a fusillade of dirty beats, soulful moans, glitch infused electronica and subtly bewitching, beat-boxing hip-hop. Essentially Prefuse 73 is a hip-hop project, but a very progressive form of the genre -- sampled raps are distorted, spliced and shredded to entwine with highly textured organic beats. A list of previous collaborators -- Ghostface, Aesop Rock, Blonde Redhead, El-P, Battles' Tyondai Braxton and Four Tet -- should give an idea of the spirit of invention and creativity of Prefuse 73's vision. If you're a Warp Records fan you'll probably already be an admirer of his work. If, by chance, he has passed you by then this gig -- which will presumably showcase his new album Preparations -- is a great opportunity to be converted. |
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FESTIVAL / FILM LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
Wednesday 17 October [17/10 till 01/11]
various locations
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The Times BFI London Film Festival has returned with a deluge of cinematica to stay out the occupation of London's West End and independent picture houses over the weeks to come. Despite the odd change to the regularly scheduled programme, the LFF has drawn the best and brightest (not to mention biggest blockbusters-to-be) to the capital, boasting a varied schedule that reaches from a live-action Disney flick to a 2 hour-long excuse for Steve Buscemi to make out with Sienna Miller, and no less than a dozen sincere and timely investigations into the sweeping impact the Iraq war has had on lives around the world. Some real gems can be turned up, for anyone willing to dig for them, so we thought we would make it a little easier and do the digging for you.
The Festival kicks off with Cronenberg's edgy new thriller Eastern Promises, which leads midwife Naomi Watts, following criminal Viggo Mortensen, into the seamy underworld of Eastern European organised crime.
Ang Lee's new period drama Lust, Caution is set in 1942, during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Tang Wei give spectacularly subtle, yet powerful performances, as a seemingly well-to-do woman infiltrates the life of a Japanese collaborator only to become emotionally entangled.
One of the most talked about and eagerly anticipated films in the Festival, Todd Haynes' unconventional biopic I'm Not There brings six actors (including Cate Blanchett) together to play the different aspects of the life of legendary singer and songwriter Bob Dylan. The truths in this movie lie in their telling, and the cast conspire to spin a gripping yarn. Beautifully shot, and with a soundtrack that is suitably stunning, this is definitely one of the ones to watch.
Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck appear in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a moody and penetrating film about the legendary gentleman outlaw (Pitt) and his associate and eventual slayer, Robert Ford (Affleck). A genuinely novel take on the western, The Assassination of Jesse James is stylish and subtle in its unique telling of a classic tale.
City of Men, inspired by the eponymous Brazilian television series that followed the hugely successful and ultra-violent City of God, tells the intertwining tales of two boys who have grown up together on a favela in Rio, as they struggle in times of high tension and extreme violence in their community to come to terms with issues of family, identity and friendship.
Antony Gormley's towering inferno of a sculpture, Waste Man, sets the backdrop for part of this eerie and unsettling retelling of the biblical story of Moses in Penny Woodcock's Exodus. Set in contemporary Margate, immigrant families are sequestered into a ghetto quadrant established in Margate's Dreamland theme park. In true Old Testament style, Exodus manages to cover all the narrative bases, and to draw parallels between seemingly timeless problems.
Set on the Arctic tundra, Far North is a clean and compelling tale about the survival of two women who must stake out a territory for themselves in the unforgiving wasteland that is their home, as it is invaded by interlopers of various kinds. The story is a simple telling of a complex dilemma, and the sensitivity of the cast is set off beautifully against the backdrop.
Super-stylish and surprisingly sharp-edged, Persepolis tells the story of a free-thinking young girl growing up in Iran in the '70s and '80s. With a slick and simple animated style, the film reveals a side of Iran's culture that is a refreshing contrast to much of we see in the West. Tough questions are asked and answered with an easy delivery and perceptive humour that can only be achieved though animation.
Brian De Palma's controversial new film Redacted deals with the dissemination of information and the innate human cruelty that blossoms in wartime. The investigation into a brutal rape and murder case is explored through surveillance footage, YouTube style web postings, video diaries and blog entries, all of which portray with clinical accuracy the horrors of war.
Christian Bale plays an American POW in Laos circa 1965 in Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn. A well-timed analysis of wartime conundra, Rescue Dawn is an exemplary execution of Herzog's edgy and visually dazzling directorial style. Rallying the troops in a POW camp also provides an interesting soapbox from which to comment on the current climate.
You, The Living is a quirky comedy that twines the tragedies and comedies of life together in a series of theatrical vignettes set in a collection of grimy interiors. The film is absurdly funny and honest, and leaves you with a little more substance than your standard feel-good comedy.
A low-budget indie film that has been getting a lot of attention, Jetsam is a psychological thriller that begins with two survivors of an unidentified disaster at sea, a man and a woman, who immediately wake on the beach and take chase. The film begins to unravel, from the woman's slowly returning memory, a story that delves into the darker parts of the human heart and ends in disaster.
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ARCHITECTURE / TALK MICHIEL RIEDIJK
Tate Modern
Wednesday 17 October [7pm]
Bankside, SE1 T:020.7887.8888 Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars
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Dutch architects are a flagrantly creative bunch. After the world wide fame of Rem Koolhaas, his Rotterdam practice of OMA and the clusters of bold architecture practices that followed, the consistently prolific, impressively creative output of this watery landmass deserves closer attention. The new boys in town are Rotterdam practice Neutelings Riedijk, who come to Tate Modern to present their newly realised Netherlands Institute For Sound And Vision. Here, the attention-grabbing aesthetic of the televisual landscape is commented on through a glass facade that portrays famous moments on the Dutch box. The collaboration with graphic designer Jaap Drupsteen has made a bold, poppy, deliciously back handed dig at the flashy silliness of popular culture, that's well worth a second look.
NB: also of note is Matthias Sauerbruch in conversation with both Nikolaus Hirsch (Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch) and Jan Liesegang (studio Raumlabor) discussing the emerging concerns within German architecture at the RA on 22/10 at 6:30pm. |
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CONCERT UNDERWORLD
Roundhouse
Wednesday 17 October [17/10, 18/10 and 19/10 at 7pm]
Chalk Farm Rd., NW1 T:0870.389.1846 Tube: Chalk Farm
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With the fifth studio album from Karl Hyde and Rick Smith hot out of
the oven, Underworld return to more traditional gigs -- breaking a five-year absence that has been spent dabbling in film scores, internet broadcasts and even publishing their own journal. Oblivion With Bells (out on the 15th) is an engaging journey across soundscapes that are often massive, colouring their characteristically ambient beats with a vast palette of acoustic, electronic and vocal sounds. The result is epic techno, rich as a Brian Eno composition and with the sort of attention to detail Richie Hawtin -- who they cite as an influence -- would be proud of. Even post-Darren Emerson, Underworld have been a deft hand at production, and this time is no different. The various moods of their latest offering are layered subtly enough to allow them to move between urgent, pulsing riffs and gaping urban requiems. Played live it promises to be positively levitating.
NB: Underworld perform at Roundhouse for three nights, 17/10, 18/10 and 19/10. |
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TALK REMEMBERING ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA (WITH JON SNOW + JAMES MEEK + AZAR NAFISI)
Purcell Room
Wednesday 17 October [8:15pm]
South Bank Centre, SE1 T:020.7960.4242 Tube: Waterloo/Embankment
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Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was gunned down in her apartment block on Vladimir Putin's birthday a year ago. A fierce critic of the Chechen conflict and President Putin, she had previously survived a poisoning and a mock execution by Chechen rebels. When Alexander Litvinenko later accused Putin of ordering her murder, he subsequently died from polonium poisoning. Jon Snow, who wrote the forward to Politkovskaya's last book, A Russian Diary, which she never saw published, celebrates her legacy as human rights protester with novelist James Meek, former resident of Russia, who has reported from Chechnya, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, and is the author of The People's Act Of Love, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Also joining them is Azar Nafisi, who was denounced in Iran for writing the bestseller Reading Lolita In Tehran: A Memoir In Books, about the constraints on women under the Islamic Republic. Together they discuss the necessity of free speech and the importance of revealing the truth. An important event, particularly while a dictatorship in Burma has shut down the internet and continues to murder dissidents. |
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FASHION / TALK ERIN O'CONNOR
V&A Museum
Friday 19 October [7:15pm]
Cromwell Rd., SW7 T:020.7942.2000 Tube: South Kensington
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Before she was dancing about on The Orient Express (or wherever M&S currently have commanded her languid frame), Erin O'Connor was a gloriously extraordinary example (with her painfully thin, androgynous frame, pale skin and raven hair) of haute couture's fascination with bizarre, controversial and shocking notions of beauty, style and glamour. But as an internationally acclaimed model she has transcended the borders of beauty norms -- from fashion freak to household familiarity. As part of the V&A's exploration of the rise of the cult of the model in its illuminating and beautiful Golden Age Of Couture exhibition, O'Connor holds court at one of the museum's Friday night symposiums. She's reputedly articulate, open and bright, so it should be interesting to gain some perspective from her position in the eye of the storm.
NB: The Golden Age Of Couture runs till 06/01/08. |
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CONCERT LES SAVY FAR
Scala
Monday 22 October [7pm]
275-277 Pentonville Rd., N1 T:020.7833.2022 Tube: King's Cross
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Iconic indie rock band Les Savy Fav bring their Brooklyn party to
London town and you would be a fool not to crash it. Playing songs
from their first album in six long years, Let's Be Friends is a satisfying return to gritty, aggressive guitars but introduces a new elegance to their subversive yet danceable sound. Smart and self aware, Les Savy Fav are responsible for jumpstarting many a bandwagon and we can expect this album to spawn a tide of fresh imitators. But no one can catch up with singer Tim Harrington's live stage antics: a man who demands crowd participation, you had better be ready to drop to your knees and give him 20 sit-ups, prepare for his kisses or to catch the bald and bearded behemoth as he swings from the rafters.
NB: sniff out their secret gig to be held a day or two before their Scala show to test if you have the moves to keep up. (Hint: Shoreditch.) |
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CLUB / DJ COBBLESTONE JAZZ (LIVE) + BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB (LIVE) + OMAR-S...
Fabric
Monday 22 October [10pm - 10am]
77A Charterhouse St., EC1 T:020.7344.4444 Tube: Farringdon
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The summer has seen a period of transition in London clubs, with several popular venues recently closing and the July smoking ban providing the idiotic situation of clubbers dropping a tenner to spend most of their nights outside chugging Lucky Strikes leaving dancefloors empty. In amongst all this, there is predictably one constant in the shape of Fabric. Fabric's birthday weekend only serves to demonstrate further their stranglehold on London clubbing -- with Adventure In The Beetroot Field providing the shocking new on Thursday, and fans of the amen break more than catered for on Friday night. The more discerning sounds, however, can be found on Saturday night with live performances from Cobblestone Jazz and Black Devil Disco Club (whose recent In Dub album is certainly worth checking out) and a ridiculously rich line up of DJs providing a splendid variation of the house techno sound. Special mention should go to New York's fuzzy disco pioneers Rub n Tug, Bpitch Control's Ellen Allien and Detroit underground legend Omar-S -- this is only his third ever appearance in London! |
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TALK AA GILL
Daunt Books
Thursday 18 October [7pm]
83 Marylebone High St., W1 T:020.7224.2295 Tube: Baker St./Bond St.
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AA Gill (Adrian Anthony in case you've ever wondered) is nothing if not controversial in his reviews. Legal action was taken against him after he wrote an article on Albania and he has also insulted the Welsh, the Channel Islands, viewers of Countdown, Richard Branson and Germans to name a few. He was, moreover, famously ejected with his dining partner, Joan Collins, from Gordon Ramsay's restaurant Aubergine. Restaurant critic for the Sunday Times' Style section and Tatler, Gill's articles are renowned for their humour, satire and bite. Table Talk is a delicious collection of his writings from the last 10 years. Whether you like your food debates raw, appetizing or well-done, this event with the UK's most poisonous critic should get you salivating. Bon appetit! |
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CONCERT VON SUDENFED
Heaven
Thursday 18 October [7:30pm]
Under the Arches, Villiers St., WC2 T:020.7930.2020 Tube: Charing Cross
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It's taken nearly 30 years but it appears that the mercurial Mark E Smith has finally found his match. Having ruled his band The Fall with an iron fist, hiring and firing at will, it was quite a shock to find the post-punk tyrant fronting an unlikely partnership with German electronic duo Mouse on Mars. An even greater shock came when the resulting collaborative effort, under the name Von Sudenfed, turned out to be the best work any of the parties involved had produced for many years; in the experimental electronic rhythms and melodies Smith may have found the perfect foil for his lyrical stream of consciousness. Knowing Smith's capricious nature it's probably too much to expect the whole thing to last too long and there's a very good chance this London show could be the second and last performance the group will make in London, all of which makes it even more of an unmissable event. |
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FILM / Q&A CATHERINE BREILLAT: ROMANCE
Barbican Centre
Wednesday 24 October [6:30pm]
Barbican Centre, EC2 T:020.7638.8891 Tube: Barbican
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Explicit, provocative and banned in several countries, Catherine Breillat's Romance (1999) follows a young woman, Marie, as she embarks on a provocative voyage of sexual self-discovery. One of the films chosen for the Barbican's latest season, Seduced -- Sex And Censorship In The Cinema, the work continues to prompt debates about obscenity, pornography and cinematic representations of sex. And for once, at this special Q&A, the filmmaker herself will lead the discussion. Having appeared in Last Tango In Paris (also screening as part of the programme), Breillat is no stranger to controversy. Indeed, her first film was shelved for 25 years after backers became uneasy with the film's exploration of a young girl's sexual initiation. With female sexuality acting as a recurring theme in Breillat's films (Virgin, A ma soeur!), expect a lively debate about gender, identity, power and pleasure.
NB: this special screening and the Seduced -- Sex And Censorship In The Cinema season have been programmed in conjunction with the Barbican's Seduced -- Art And Sex From Antiquity To Now exhibition (12/10 till 27/01/08). |
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TALK SLAVOJ ZIZEK
ICA
Friday 26 October [6:30pm]
The Mall, SW1 T:020.7930.3647 Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly Circus
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Resistance is futile. It could be argued that the politics of any society are largely decided by and their benefits visited upon the ruling classes: a narrow selection of its members who will benefit most immediately from its policies. Thus, political ideologies from one ruler to the next have the capacity to impact very little upon the lifestyle of those outside the political arenas established by those in power. The idea persists that these interstitial spaces are provinces of a new type of defense, located in those territories that fall outside of the political sphere of influence. Slavoj Zizek argues, however, that these are in fact ideological spaces, created in symbiosis with the state and manifested throughout political and popular culture. The failure of the resistance to supplant the state is not also the formula for its success. The failure to occupy the same political space as the government it seeks to unseat has not provided an alternative social territory outside the reach of the state, but a critical impasse -- the ramifications of which are the inescapable parody of the radical left. |
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THEATRE DEALER'S CHOICE
Menier Chocolate Factory
Ends Saturday 17 November [Tue to Sat at 8pm / Sat and Sun at 3:30pm]
51-53 Southwark St., SE1 T:020.7907.7060 Tube: London Bridge
£22.50 |
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Gambling as a metaphor for life, where the stakes are high, the fall out bad and the winner likely to take all, is a tough one to pull off, simply because it's such a damn good metaphor -- it's that much easier to trip over cliches. But Patrick Marber's sharp, slick and funny play -- a meditation on the relationships between various business, familial, emotional and financial dependants -- is a pretty failsafe bet, and this production deals the dialogue with winning flare. Behind the scenes at a London restaurant, five men plan an after hours poker game. As the banter bounces around before the cards are dealt, the nuances in every relationship become clear -- influences, desires, manipulations, addictions and compulsions. When the gambling begins, the issues play out with dangerous ferocity, exacerbated by the late arrival of a new player, who is secretly a professional. The stakes suddenly ratchet up a notch, and money's no longer the issue. Deal yourself in.
NB: runs till 17/11. |
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THEATRE RHINOCEROS
Royal Court
Ends Saturday 15 December [Mon to Sat 7:30pm and Sat matinee 2:30pm]
Sloane Square, SW1 T:020.7565.5000 Tube: Sloane Square
£10 - £25 |
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Royal Court Event Info Review Another One One More
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The Royal Court's international season gets off to a great start with a revival of Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros, premiered by the Royal Court in 1960. Benedict Cumberbatch portrays Berenger, a diffident but willing clerk. Among the cafe tables of his French provincial town there suddenly appear more and more rhinoceroses, causing destruction and chaos. Meanwhile, the inhabitants turn one by one from human to rhino. Jasper Britton's metamorphosis from prim clerk with a bad headache to snorting beast breaking up the furniture is particularly spectacular. It is a gripping production all round, leaving you hoping throughout that the trajectory of disintegration established in the opening scene will be avoided, and humanity saved, whether by love or the fire brigade. But the scenery, along with one's hopes for a happy outcome, are progressively demolished as the rhinos take over the world. By the end only Berenger is left, half-hoping he will retain his humanity, half-despairing of joining this strange new world. A disquieting study in the power of conformism.
NB: runs till 15/12. |
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