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| INSIDE ISSUE NUMBER 9
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THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES
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FILM
| BRIGHTON ROCK | | Tuesday 6 August (4:30pm, 7pm & 9pm) | | @ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly |
| | Price: general £6.50 | concessions £5.50 |
| Links: ICA | Brighton Rock | BBC on Attenborough | BBC on Hartnell |
Brighton Rock is one of the classic British gangster films, one often considered a true British film noir. Based on the Graham Greene novel of the same name - one of his finest thrillers - it was adapted to the screen in collaboration with Terence Rattigan of The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version. Starring legendary Richard Attenborough and William Hartnell, the film may be somewhat outdated in terms of both language and violence, and some find the close ties of Greene with Catholicism somewhat disconcerting - but the movie retains its value in an important chapter of British cinema history - the gangster movie.
NB: This film is being screened on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 4:30pm, 7pm & 9pm (ends 08.08). | |
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FILM / SIGNING
| CHRISTOPHER LEE | | Tuesday 6 August (5pm) | | @ Forbidden Planet, 71-75 New Oxford St., WC1 (020.7420.3666) Tube: Tottenham Court Rd. |
| | Price: FREE |
| Links: Lee Website | Lee Interview | BBC Lee Interview | Nicholas Cage and The Wicker Man |
| Before Buffy made vampires cool, they were cool because they were evil, that is, the ultimate screen villain, the first "Men in Black". The great shame of being a kid today is that they'll grow up with Christopher Lee
as either Saruman or Count Dooku
(what kinda name is that?) from Lord of the Rings and Episode II respectively. If you were a Bond fan in the seventies, he was Francisco Scaramanga - The Man with the Golden Gun, a white Dr.No, and let's not forget that classic: The Wicker Man... but under all these skins, there lies the ultimate villain, the ultimate anti-hero... forget Darth Vader, forget Saruman and definitely forget Dooku, it's always gonna be DRACULA! Now here's a chance to press the flesh with the man who pulled the cape from under Bela Lugosi. He'll be doing a signing at the Forbidden Planet for the video/DVD release of the Lord of the Rings... don't get too close, it may still be love at first bite. | |
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CONCERT
| BEACHWOOD SPARKS & JEFFREY LEWIS | | Tuesday 6 August (7.30pm) | | @ The Spitz, Old Spitalfields Market, 109 Commercial St., E1 (020.7392.9032) Tube: Aldgate East/Liverpool St. |
| | Price: £7 advance |
| Links: Spitz | Beachwood Sparks | Jeffrey Lewis |
| Anti-folk songwriter and comic book artist Jeffrey Lewis hails from Rough Trade's New York collective (A.R.E Weapons, Strokes etc). His debut album The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane comes cloaked in his own, mixed up comic-art (Lewis has also provided artwork for Moldy Peaches sleeves) and is a lo-fi, philosophical affair of everyday observations delivered in an impassive yet engaging style. Tonight he appears alongside dreamy, laid back Californian lovelies, Beachwood Sparks who play sun drenched pop in the same vein as Teenage Fanclub, Buffalo Springfield and Gram Parsons. This is the sound of the summer. | |
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ART
| OBSERVER HODGE PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARD | | Wednesday 7 August (Mon to Fri 10am - 5pm; Sat 11am - 5pm) | | @ The Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Rd., EC1 (020 7886 9898) Tube: Farringdon |
| | Price: FREE |
| Links: The Newsroom | The Award | The Judges | The Winners |
| The Observer Hodge Photographic Award has taken its name from photographer David Hodge who died due to injuries sustained whilst covering the Brixton Riots in 1985. For the last 16 years, the award has honoured photojournalists from all over the world. All of the short-listed and award winning photographers have one thing in common - they are all under thirty, as was David Hodge when he died. Only a strong sense of coherence and meaning within a series of shots can be judged a winner - and it is these winning images that will be displayed at the Newsroom from this Wednesday. | |
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CONCERT
| LIARS | | Wednesday 7 August (7.30pm) | | @ Dingwalls, Middle Yard,Camden Lock, NW1 (020.7267.1577) Tube: Camden/Chalk farm |
| | Price: £9 |
| Links: Liars | Concert Review | Miss Black America | Some Product | Joan of Ass | Disastronaut |
Liars play funk fuelled disco punk that makes you want to pogo, throw vogue shapes and scream "YESSSSSS" from the bottom of your lungs. They are the definitive "VoGo" band (a vogueing and pogoeing mash-up!). Bass lines and drum patterns that spew fun, demented guitar licks and a freakishly tall antipodean singer who captures your heart and mind and pummels them into compliance with weird ass lyrics like "This Dirt Makes That Mud". Part of New York's No Wave scene, including The Rapture and Yeahs, the band created a storm of excitement over here on their last tour. Go along, if only to see models in a mosh pit! Support comes from emo Brit band Miss Black America, art rock subverters Some Product and sleaze-core favourites Joan Of Ass.
Giveaway: We have two Liars T-shirts and some badges to give away. They'll go to two randomly picked winners who can tell us the name of their debut album (it's not out in the UK yet).
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ART / TALK
| LOCATION: UK | | Wednesday 7 August (6:30pm) | | @ Gimpel Fils, 30 Davies St., W1K (020.7493.2488) Tube: Green Park |
| | Price: FREE |
| Links: Gimpel Fils |
| We've just languished in a summer of World Cup excess and Commonwealth games... both these events make our world smaller and larger: the greatest South American team beat our team in Asia, while we drank Belgian beers and ate Asian delicacies from Sainsbury's. Truly we live in a global community, but is our identity diluted now that we can describe the chicken Tikka Masala as a national dish and that the second largest Man U. supporter club outside England is to be found in Singapore? Artists describe the world, ask questions of it and ourselves, our world and their world. What a world it's becoming... In conjunction with a photography exhibition Location: UK, Gimpel Fils is hosting a panel discussion on the idea of the UK, identity and how artists describe it. That is, it's about our place in the world. Speakers include Third Text and Contemporary editor Richard Dyer, Charlotte Cotton V&A curator of photography, and of course an artist, Hannah Starkey. Artists in the show include: Richard Billingham, Corinne Day, Tom Hunter, Sarah Lucas, Martin Parr, Mark Wallinger... | |
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THEATRE
| DANCE BEAR DANCE | | Thursday 8 August (8pm) | | @ Arch 12a, Gales Gardens E2 (020.7739.9905) Tube: Bethnal Green |
| | Price: general £15 | concessions £10 | students £10 |
| Links: Shunt | Shunt Events | Dance Bear Dance |
Shunt is a collection of 10 artists working to create site specific performances in London's most derelict of venues. After bringing us Tennis Show at the Bargehouse, and The Ballad of Bobby Francois, we now have three days left (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) to see Dance Bear Dance performed at their resident space in Bethnal Green. With music by Conspiracy, video by Susanne Dietz and excellent use of space and props, we are taken between the United Nations, casinos and terrorism by an inventive journey and theatrical experience.
NB: Dance Bear Dance is only on for three more days - Thursday 08.08, Friday 09.08 and Saturday 10.08 | |
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ART
| KARLHEINZ WEINBERGER | | Friday 9 August (Mon to Sat 11am - 6pm; Sun 12pm - 6pm) | | @ Photographer's Gallery , 5 & 8 Great Newport St., WC2 (020.7831.1772) Tube: Leicester Square |
| | Price: FREE |
| Links: Photographers' Gallery | Karlheinz Weinberger | Eyestorm on Weinberger |
| Karlheinz Weinberger has never before had a solo exhibition outside Switzerland. Even though he has been working since the late 1950s, his work was only fairly recently discovered. The self-taught photographer has since been praised not only for his photographic abilities, but also for the sociological importance of his work due to the documentary-like style of his efforts. Taking mainly portraits - both emotionally charged and informative - Weinberger followed a group of teenage rebels for almost four decades, documenting their lives and the changing Swiss environment in which they resided. | |
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FILM
| UNDERGROUND ZERO | | Friday 9 August (Call for times) | | @ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly |
| | Price: general £6.50 | concessions £5.50 |
| Links: ICA | Underground Zero |
The project Underground Zero: Independent filmmakers respond to 9-11 was constructed to create an alternative view on the destruction of the World Trade Centre - and, encompassing 13 different documentary shorts, Underground Zero is the result of this quest. The thirteen shorts include a range of perspectives on the tragedy. Different social, cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds are represented establishing a broad range of views - but most importantly, Underground Zero dares to ask the questions the American media - and more often than not the British media - neglected to pose.
NB: Ends Thursday 15.08
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FILM / Q&A
| LANTANA | | Friday 9 August (6:30pm) | | @ Curzon Soho, 93-107 Shaftesbury Ave., W1 (020.7439.4805) Tube: Leicester Square/Piccadilly |
| | Price: £6.50 |
| Links: Curzon | Lantana Website | Ray Lawrence (Director) Interview | Salon on Lantana |
Lantana is one of those movies that stays with you - it lingers in your mind for weeks, only to pop up at the strangest of times. It is a movie of great humanity and sensitivity. We are faced with realistic and beautiful depictions of characters (especially male). A fairly low-budget film, despite a cast including Geoffrey Rush, Anthony LaPaglia and Barbara Hershey, Lantana took Australia by storm upon its release last year, and is finally due for release in the UK. Catch the preview at the Curzon this week.
NB: Following this sneak preview screening there will be a Q&A with Anthony LaPaglia.
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DJ
| BEN OSBORNE AND SI BEGG | | Friday 9 August (Terrace Bar from 10pm - 12.30am) | | @ National Theatre, South Bank, SE1 (020 7452 3400) Tube: Embankment/Waterloo |
| | Price: FREE |
| Links: National Theatre | National Theatre Events | Si Begg | S.I. Futures | Si Begg Interview |
| If you've spent the evening at the Lyttelton, the Cottesloe or the Olivier, or you simply wish to spend a summer night relaxing on Sir Denys Lasdun's terrace bar overlooking the Thames, with superb views across to Somerset House and the river curving up to St Paul's, why not join Ben Osborne, who on the 2nd and 4th Friday of the month throughout summer has been presenting an evening of UK Garage through to gentle Drum and Bass. This week he is joined by Si Begg (aka S.I. Futures), whose work is renowned for its originality and innovation in the world of electronic music and dance. It is eclectic and covers a lot of ground but always maintains an attitude of experimentalism and cross-genre inter-breeding. | |
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CLUB
| MIDNIGHT FEAST | | Saturday 10 August (9pm - 6am) | | @ Battersea Barge, 9 Elms Lane - Behind the Fedex building Tube: Vauxhall |
| | Price: £10 advance tickets |
Boat parties... they're all at it - but how many do you know that go on all night, where you can move from a sumptuous two deck barge to the permanent mooring of a tree lined chillout garden. Fairly Liquid, responsible for ten years of Rhythm Method parties, has teamed up with Bear Productions to bring you Midnight feast - a night of Carmen Miranda tropical glamour. Beats from from Simon Warrington (Scaramanga), Hamish (Out of loop Recordings), Prince John Shephard (Cayman Islands) and the original Rhythm Method crew digging deep to bring you tek sounds and deep house, from Chicago to Latin and underground disco.
NB: This party will sell out so make sure you call Lizz or Rachel 07930 372 423 / 07796 041787 for tickets
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ART
| SIGNAL PROJECT | | Sunday 11 August (6pm) | | @ Cargo, Kingsland Viaduct, 83 Rivington St., EC2 (020.7739.3440) Tube: Old St./Liverpool St. |
| | Price: £3 |
| Links: Signal Project | Temper Interview | Images |
Graffiti art originated in the late 1960's, and has since developed from being regarded as mindless vandalism to become a recognised art form. The Signal Project: Lookout is showcasing work from some of the worlds leading "writers". From Temper, an artist whose work has appeared not only on millions of Sprite cans, bottles and album covers, but has also graced the office walls of Saatchi & Saatchi, to the homegrown London talent of Solo One, whose parcel stickers you'll no doubt recognise.
The Lookout exhibition is a unique opportunity to see graffiti in its freshest and most creative state.
NB: The opening night starts at 6pm and accompanying the visual stimulants, a host of dj's will supply a laid back soundtrack to the evening and you can grab a bite to eat from the bbq (Signal Project ends 11.10).
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CONCERT
| WORLD SK8 MASTERS | | Sunday 11 August | | @ London Arena, Limeharbour E14 (020.7538.1212) |
| | Price: general £12 | concessions £10 | students £8 |
| Links: London Arena/Tickets | World SK8 Masters | Tony Hawk | Z-Boys | Fingathing |
If you know your skateboard culture, then two words: "Tony" & "Hawk". If you
don't, well the great thing
about skateboarding, like underground comics, is that despite films and
documentaries it's never really caught the
zeitgeist. Now, how cool is that? Thing is, skateboarding really started as
a kinda land-surfing for American
kids in the seventies, and there's been no "Big Wednesday" for it yet - save
Dogtown and Z-Boys.
We're at a point now where 30-something skateboarders exist, so maybe
Fingathing is for them... but then maybe
skateboarding isn't an outsider activity at all. Let's face it - it
sure-as-hell beats rollerblading.
NB: Skateboarding starts at 4pm (ten of the worlds best will be there) and Fingathing come on at 9pm | |
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CONCERT
| MCALMONT & BUTLER | | Tuesday 13 August (7:30pm) | | @ Scala, 275-277 Pentonville Rd., N1 (020.7833.2022) Tube: Kings Cross |
| | Price: £10 |
| Links: Scala Info & Tickets | M&B | Bernard Butler | NME on M&B |
| If Yes wasn't the best piece of nu-soul since Stax turned into Styx, we don't know what was. The glorious "wall of sound" strings, falsetto and a chorus that Goffin and King forgot. The unlikely lad pairing of the two made perfect, insane pop sense - the best idea since Bing and Bowie sang "ra-pa-pa-pa" around the Christmas tree. Butler - the enfant terrible of Britpop whose guitar was (just) more highly strung than he was, Mcalmont - the flamboyant frontman who was ready to jump into Dusty's heels and replicate her god sent timbre. It was a true marvel to behold. And then, like most pop fantasy pairings (Rickie Lee & Tom Waits, PJ & Cave, Cohen & Joni) it was over quicker than it took for their 7" to spin its fabulous dream-like web. But now they're back, and it's not for the money or the sake of the kids, it's for them. With a promising single Falling
and a new album
(released on 12.08), it looks like they're in it for the long haul this time. So go to the show and be prepared to fall in love all over again.
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ART
| BEACHCOMBERS | | Ends Thursday 15 August (Wed to Sun 12pm - 6pm) | | @ Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall St., SE11 (020.7582.6848) Tube: Oval |
| | Price: FREE |
| Links: Gasworks | Info/Images on Show | Catriona Jeffries | GF @ CAG | BJ @ CAG | Bounce |
| Three Vancouver based artists (Geoffrey Farmer, Brian Jungen and Myfanwy MacLeod) exhibit at Gasworks in a show curated by Katherine Stout for The Drawing Room. Katherine is a curator to watch, with a number of interesting projects under her belt already.
A Canadian sitcom from the sixties and seventies donates its name to this latest venture: the multicultural cast of characters in Beachcombers make their living scavaging and salvaging, and the artists here happily beachcombe the mainstream of pop culture. Their work is typically hybrid, often humorous, and always light of touch. Utilizing video, drawing and sculpture they produce some startling/amusing transformations that are never less than thought provoking. Long known for its independent art scene, it looks like Vancouver's new generation of visual artists are well on their way to making their mark. | |
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ART
| FRITH STREET GALLERY GROUP SHOW | | Ends Friday 9 August (Tue to Fri 10am - 6pm; Sat 11am - 4pm) | | @ Frith Street Gallery, 59-60 Frith St., W1D (020.7494.1550) Tube: Tottenham Court Rd. |
| | Price: FREE |
| Links: Frith Street Gallery | BBC on Banner | Tate on Dean |
A strong showing from the gallery's artists, in this, a summer sampler that includes amongst others: Fiona Banner, Bernard Frize, Tacita Dean, Annelies Strba, Jackie Irvine and John Riddy. Fiona Banner, shortlisted for The Turner Prize this year, is best known for her wordscapes which can be written descriptions of entire feature films - in her own words! Of late she has turned her attention to porn movies, a subject she has described as finding immensely boring (not a formal observation...) and tremendously fascinating. Don't overlook the painting
by French painter Bernard Frize - an important artist rarely seen in the UK, and mores the pity, his seductive, highly chromatic and intellectually rigorous work is a joy. Afterwards why not get yourself an espresso at Bar Italia just across the street and enjoy one of the best cafes in town.
NB: Other artists included in the show are amongst others: Tacita Dean, Cornelia Parker, Dayanita Singh, and Annelies Strba (show ends on Friday 09.08)
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THEATRE
| VINCENT IN BRIXTON | | Ends Saturday 26 October (Mon to Sat 7:30pm; Matinees Weds and Sat 2:30pm) | | @ Wyndham's Theatre, Charing Cross Rd., WC2 (020.7369.1736) Tube: Leicester Square |
| | Price: £7.50 - £35.00 |
| Links: Info/Seating Plan/Tickets | Review | Wright Interview | Eyre Bio | Another Review |
| Vincent in Brixton is Nicholas Wright's account of Vincent Van Gogh's brief stay in London working as an art-dealer and the part this played in his development as a painter. Loosely based on letters written to his younger brother Theo back in Holland, the play works on the assumption that, in Wright's words, "young men writing home..[are] less than frank about their most formative experiences"; and therefore that Vincent's relationship with his landlady and her daughter were much more complex than he would ever admit to. Richard Eyre's direction is apt, and the supporting cast warmly endearing, but all are outdone by Jochum ten Haaf's fantastic portrayal of Van Gogh himself and the inexorable movement towards the self-destruction that his genius demands. His performance alone is unmissable. Vincent in Brixton premiered at the National Theatre in April and, due to popular demand, now begins a run at the Wyndham's Theatre (Ends 26.10). | |
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GROOVETECH STREAMS |
BOOK REVIEW |
HIPHOP:
Dr. Rubberfunk (Funkydown Productions) |
DOWNTEMPO:
Halflife Show with Wrong Tom (Halflife) |
TECHNO:
Sativae Show with Steve Glencross & Phil from Subhead (Sativae)
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Creative Island
Inspired Design from Great Britain
John Sorrell
Laurence King
Buy Creative Island £25
Great Britain is a very small country on the world map yet it is a power-house in terms of design and is often described as the "the design studio of the world". Our little country has managed to excel in pretty much all design disciplines (from architecture, to fashion, to industrial design, to new media). Creative Island celebrates this - covering over 25 types of design and showcasing over 100 recent projects. The list of people in this book reads like a "Who's Who" of contemporary innovation - Alsop, Ron Arad, Aston Martin, Arup, Conran, The Economist
, Glyndebourne Opera, Inflate, McLaren Formulae One, Stella McCartney, Wallace & Gromit, Rachel Whiteread McCartney... The book is by John Sorrell who was Charirman of the UK Design Council from 1994 to 2000 and also co-founded Newell and Sorrell (nee Newell). Giveaway: We have one copy of Creative Island to give away. It'll go to one randomly picked winner who can tell us the name of the design trade show that takes place at the end of September here in London.
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| HEADER |
Gavin Turk
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| STAFF |
Julien Dobbs-Higginson, Andreas Hesse, Iain Macleod, Simonida Tomovic, James Waite
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Malika Browne, Chris Clarke, Charlotte Dobbs-Higginson, Claire Easterman, Priya Elangasinghe, Emma
Elia-Shaul, Amit Green, Eamon Hamilton, Clifford Leo Harris, Marine Hugonnier, Magnus
Larsson, Ingrid Lunden, Sarah McDermott, Jo Osborne, David Rhodes, Graeme Ross, Ingvild Rytter, Sherman Sam, Charlie Sorrel, Henrietta Thompson, Jane Tobin, Mo White
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