Review: Groovin’ The Moo Maitland 2013
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Well, well, well. What is there to say about Groovin’ The Moo? As you should know by now it’s Australia’s ONLY regional touring music festival, which means one thing: highly excitable punters. I arrived super early (which I never do to festivals) to catch one of my favourite Sydney bands FISHING. The duo opened up [...]
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The Stafford Hotel, London
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London is a city of the future and the past. The Stafford, London uniquely combines the elegance of Victorian London with a modern five-star hotel experience. The outcome is an impressive, truly British hotel experience.
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Now you can be a royal ass with these classical knickers
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Ladies who love history, English royalty and awesome knickers should check these ladies pants on Five Go Mad — they’re the top selling products on the UK-based site at the moment and it’s not hard to see why. We totally see the appeal in dressing up your derriere with the likes of Elizabeth I, Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn. Of course, if you’re looking for something more contemporary, there are the David Cameron and Nick Clegg versions.
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Interview with Alt–J (∆) ahead of their Laneway shows
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Alt-J (∆) only released their debut album months ago, but the English lads are already considered favorites to take out the 2012 Mercury Prize. We sat down with drummer Thom Green to talk shrooms, finding video directors on the internet, and studying fine art.
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Crucial Fiction: Ron English’s upcoming solo exhibition
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Ron English, one of the most prolific and influential contemporary artists, will be premiering his new solo exhibition at the Opera Gallery in New York on November 1. His latest body of work is entitled Crucial Fiction, and his exhibit will be on display until November 2. In the meantime, here’s a little sneak peek at his newest work.
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Ron English on The Great Outdoor Art Shows
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Street Art is fast becoming an international institution, the likes of which the insular Art World has never seen. As a cultural phenomenon, Street Art has become something more akin to a stadium rap/rock concert than the sparsely attended pictures on walls model which has served as the Art World’s signature profile for some time now.
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Ron English writes about his latest art projects
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My solo show, Crucial Fiction, opens November 1 at Opera Gallery NYC. It’s a collaboration with my former self. I thought it was time to ask my inner child to help me remember what it was that he saw so that I could finally animate his vision. I also curated the Politics and Art November issue of Juxtapoz Magazine.
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Splendour in the Grass: event review
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A freak torrential downpour and hail storm on the first day may have turned Splendour in the Grass’s temporary home of Belongil fields – in NSWs beautiful Byron Bay – into a virtual slip ‘n slide. But that didn’t stop anyone from rocking their gumboots off. The rest of the weekend bought sunny days and loads of phenomenal local and international acts. The crowd crammed the GW McLennan tent to see opening act Chet Faker; Gossling’s angelic voice soared far across the mud-soaked lakes; while The Beautiful Girls (in one of their last shows ever) sent a chilled out crowed into a swaying spin.
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Japanese shoegaze and Britpop-influenced band Taffy
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I recently shot a Japanese band called Taffy for the British Music magazine, NME. It’s not rare for Japanese bands to sing in English, but ironically, few of them manage to have their music heard outside of Japan. However, Taffy are an exception. Their shoegaze and Britpop-influenced sound has really caught the eye of the [...]
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Grayson Perry’s tapestries tell the story of class mobility
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As an English ex-pat, I am always interested by opinions and stereotypes on what people think England is really like. So I was fascinated by Grayson Perry’s tapestries. The 2003 Turner prize winner went on a safari amongst the taste tribes of Britain to gather inspiration for his artworks, literally weaving the characters he met into a narrative partly inspired by Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress. He comments: ‘The tapestries tell the story of class mobility, for I think nothing has as strong an influence on our aesthetic taste as the social class in which we grow up’.
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Aikawa Masaru’s hand-painted CDs
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Aikawa Masaru reproduces CDs by hand on canvas. Each item is hand-painted: front and back cover, disc, lyrics, stickers, everything. On each of the CDs, he also sings the entire albums by himself. As he explains: ‘I have passionately and respectfully duplicated the music a cappella’. I’ve heard it and let me tell you, it’s so bad, it’s good.
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Creating French electronic music from Jelly
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We love jelly as much as we love music, and now it appears we can have both in one. According to French designers Raphaël Pluvinage and Marianne Cauvard: ‘Noisy jelly is a game where the player has to cook and shape his own musical material, based on coloured jelly’. Somebody will have to make sure that these yummy instruments don’t get gobbled up before the music is done.
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My Secret Playlist: by Team Ghost
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Team Ghost is the band formed by Nicolas Fromageau, a founding member of M83, alongside Anthony Gonzalez. After co-writing M83’s first two albums, M83 and the landmark Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts, he quit and left his native Antibes for Paris. Now he returns as Team Ghost, backed by multi-instrumentalist Christophe Guérin and producer/manager, Jean-Philippe Talaga (founder of Gooom Disques). It takes the M83 blueprint of electronica, shoegaze and cinematic, Eno-esque soundscapes and adds krautrock rhythms, the sleazy Suicide-like post-punk of JJ Burnel’s Euroman Cometh and the stark synth-pop of the French coldwave. [Read on below about the music that inspires Team Ghost, written in their own words]
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Your Heart: a new EP by Christa Vi
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East London-based Australian/German indie pop/folk artist Christa Vi combines folky songwriting with electronic elements and emotive vocals. Inspired by life’s hard knocks, long plane journeys, London’s noise pollution, the inner pain and beauty of others, overheard snippets of conversation and a slight fear of losing that feeling, the EP includes remixes by NuDisco producer Show [...]
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New York storefront illustration by Arthur Rackham
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New York is the most exciting place in the world. Anything at any time can startle or amaze you. I took this photo walking on the street in Soho. The illustration was inside a storefront and is the work of a late 19th Century English illustrator, Arthur Rackham. Only when I got home did I [...]
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