Friday, February 25, 2005
Singer Edwyn Collins 'very ill'
Get well soon Edwyn - we don't want to lose you.
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Get well soon Edwyn - we don't want to lose you.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Take your shoes off, and I will throw them in the lake
How fantastic is The Futureheads' cover of Kate Bush's The Hounds of Love?! Beautiful Northern pronunciation too - 'luv' and 'luving'. (They're Sunderlanders, like Kenickie.) And the video's great. Oh-o-o-oh-ohhh!
The real Kate Bush is due to reappear soon with a new album, hopefully before Mark Radcliffe runs out of cardboard for his Bushometer (counting how many days since Kate Bush hasn't returned Mark's request to visit the show)...
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How fantastic is The Futureheads' cover of Kate Bush's The Hounds of Love?! Beautiful Northern pronunciation too - 'luv' and 'luving'. (They're Sunderlanders, like Kenickie.) And the video's great. Oh-o-o-oh-ohhh!
The real Kate Bush is due to reappear soon with a new album, hopefully before Mark Radcliffe runs out of cardboard for his Bushometer (counting how many days since Kate Bush hasn't returned Mark's request to visit the show)...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Dang good stuff
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- The Sixty Two Group of Textile Artists' website - includes exhibition listings and a gallery to salivate over (if that's your bag, baby...).
- The Tokyo Street Style Japan Fashion Association website. Photos of trendy Japanese kids - interesting stuff, although the outfits I've looked at in their archives so far are nowhere near as wacky as what I've seen before in publications like the Fruits magazines and book. Have found a Fruits Livejournal Community too!
- The microsite for the Museum of London's London Look exhibition.
- Ollie & Nic's new Spring/Summer 2005 bags collection! I love it! (I loved last summer's stuff and was really miffed when I couldn't get excited about the Autumn/Winter collection.)
- Revisiting Mark Pawson's website. This man is the reason why I collect instructional diagrams from new plugs and stick them in a little book...
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Monday, February 07, 2005
Tell us exactly!
Thanks to Plums (and Ultraruby) for flagging this up: ‘Classy’: Kenickie, Northerness and Femininity, by Emma Jackson (the Artist Formerly Known As Emmy-Kate Montrose), who is now an undergraduate Sociology/Cultural Studies student at Goldsmiths. I've only had time to skim it so far but it looks like a really good read, and it's great to hear what Emma's doing these days. It's made me nostalgic for Kenickie though - can I have a moment to yearn just a little, please?
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Thanks to Plums (and Ultraruby) for flagging this up: ‘Classy’: Kenickie, Northerness and Femininity, by Emma Jackson (the Artist Formerly Known As Emmy-Kate Montrose), who is now an undergraduate Sociology/Cultural Studies student at Goldsmiths. I've only had time to skim it so far but it looks like a really good read, and it's great to hear what Emma's doing these days. It's made me nostalgic for Kenickie though - can I have a moment to yearn just a little, please?
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Sunday, February 06, 2005
With a bullet
Whilst researching virtual exhibitions at the National Railway Museum's site, I spotted this page on the Shinkansen bullet train, which reminded me of the witty and illuminating newsletters from Matt at Shinkansen Records which I used to enjoy reading in my fanzine days. Matt is now involved in writing Smoke: A London Peculiar, excerpts from which you can read on their site.
'If the words won’t come, I’ll simply stop, put on my coat, and set my controls for the heart of the city; the streets of London are teeming with untold and unimagined stories, we just need to step in their way. Other times, I’ll put on someone else’s coat, and hide in their wardrobe – people get really upset when they think their clothes have come alive...'
PS: Speaking of 'my fanzine days', I'm also shocked to note the name of this photographer - not the Stephen Eastwood who used to referee Planet Sound/The Void on Teletext, surely? And suddenly disappeared from said post with no warning? And interviewed Cyndi Lauper in her fabulous flat for Select magazine? Maybe just my imagination...
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Whilst researching virtual exhibitions at the National Railway Museum's site, I spotted this page on the Shinkansen bullet train, which reminded me of the witty and illuminating newsletters from Matt at Shinkansen Records which I used to enjoy reading in my fanzine days. Matt is now involved in writing Smoke: A London Peculiar, excerpts from which you can read on their site.
'If the words won’t come, I’ll simply stop, put on my coat, and set my controls for the heart of the city; the streets of London are teeming with untold and unimagined stories, we just need to step in their way. Other times, I’ll put on someone else’s coat, and hide in their wardrobe – people get really upset when they think their clothes have come alive...'
PS: Speaking of 'my fanzine days', I'm also shocked to note the name of this photographer - not the Stephen Eastwood who used to referee Planet Sound/The Void on Teletext, surely? And suddenly disappeared from said post with no warning? And interviewed Cyndi Lauper in her fabulous flat for Select magazine? Maybe just my imagination...
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Friday, February 04, 2005
Welcome to the world, Kobe and Arun!!!
And congratulations, Auntie Plums!!!
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And congratulations, Auntie Plums!!!
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