Sanguinearts Network Journal

Duncan is playing a gig as New Low in support of a compilation on which he features: Our Pheromones Are All Loose, on Encaustic Records, available via 4th Harmonic. See him live in action with a sound-art installation on Weds 28 Nov at the Glue Rooms at the Amersham Arms (388 New Cross Road SE14). Entry £3

Also our friends in Temperatures are playing at Unit 103  Greenwich Commercial Centre (44 Greenwich High Road SE10) on Sat 24 Nov, along with a bunch of other favourites with wierd names. Go there from 8pm and pay £3 www.utrophia.net www.heatretentionrecords.com

Chris Jones has new work at www.lighthinking.com

Operations of Sounds is a sonic and visual intervention into the Old Operating Theatre Museum (9a St Thomas Street SE1) by Inheritance Projects, plus an accompanying film programme. 28 Nov - 15 Dec, £5.25 admission to museum. On the final night there is a special sound performance too.

RCA Secret opens today at the Royal College of Art - a mixture of postcard-sized works by known artists and students, all £40 to buy at the sale on the 24th. www.rca.ac.uk/secret

Jerwood Photography Awards now on, hot on the heels of the Drawing Prize. Jerwood Space 171 Union Street SE1, until 9 December www.jerwoodspace.co.uk plus the installation there I blogged about a few days ago.

Billy Childish is Dead is an evening of film and live performance at the Barbican 21 Nov 20:30 £8.50

Evening!

Cheers to those at the open mic last week who witnessed the second performance by Spiral Architects (or Spiral Architect – the debate is on) which was the first to include myself in the frame on theramin and pedals, but rest assured we’re hoping it wont be the last. It was all very random and very much a loose jam thing going on in the end with Ross/Paul/myself being joined by barman Johnny Leg playing guitar, Nick the piercer on Sax, and some random bloke adding random vocals.

The performance is available on www.somefoolwitha.com/fawcett under the Open Mic 7th November heading… I’m sure we all have our own comments on the gig, but I shall leave it to you the listener to make up your own mind.

There was also a nice variety of other music that night too from Motorhead tribute Over the Top through to Dave Auton’s solo acoustic set so please check them all. The site also includes the previous Spiral Architects performance somewhere so feel free to check it out. Sets to download from other evenings out at our favorite pub include such as the killer performance from the Autons on 5th October along with other top local bands including Bubble Dubble and Cool Banana.

So onto other websites I have recently enjoyed (for completely unbiased reasons!) including www.hackwriters.com and in particular the two links already quoted below by Dave, for short stories by the lovely Tessa Foley so please cast your eyes over these and support your future idols.

The new look www.dustedbreaks.com has now launched, keeping dance music alive, the crew have been responsible for a number of top breaks nights in and around Pompey area and beyond, including guest DJ’s over the years such as Red Jerry and DJ Hyper. Having recently sweated it out at V-Bar, the dusted breaks site includes audio streams and pod casts in order for you to enjoy some of the fine beats these folk have to offer, along with a number of quality games and unflattering photos.

I’ve been a bit slack on visiting my other home of the Wedge recently (www.wedgewood-rooms.co.uk), but with the Buzzcocks and Dirty DC looking likely to be visits on the horizon I’m sure gig reviews will come along in the near future.

What else, well it looks like my Power of the Octopus EP thing has gone down well with Ben and Dave so thank you loads for the positive feedback - apparently the artwork is almost ready… so if any one else wants a copy of the CD give Benjamin_Sanguine or myself a shout.

Catch you later.

K

See Seb Patane's 'So this is Song Kills Fascists' (part of Tate Britain's Art Now series) for its beautiful combination of scratchy drawings, avant-garde sound and the interesting interview film performed by a hypnotist. until 13 Jan 2008 more info

The current show at Stolen Space Gallery on Brick Lane is called Nineteeneightyfouria, new works by Shepard Fairey. Until 25 Nov more info

The 10th Festival of German Films is on from 23-29 November at the Curzon Soho more info

Café Gallery Open (Southwark Park) is on from 21 Nov until 9 Dec www.cafegalleryprojects.org

Thomas Zipp's Planet Caravan at the South London Gallery: "A futuristic world fair takes its title from a record by British heavy metal pioneers, Black Sabbath, and explores mankind's tendency to represent universal truths and ideas through science, philosophy, religion and art." 16 Nov - 13 Jan 2008 www.southlondongallery.org

Sunday night Jackie-O-Motherfucker play Cargo (Rivington Street EC2) along with Axolotl, Sound of the Exquisite Corpse and more. 3pm £8 www.cargo-london.com

Well, I never did write that INLAND EMPIRE review. The moment seems to have passed now, so I'll leave that for another time. Perhaps in the new year?

By then I'll have taken a short break to Milan in order to see the David Lynch show 'The Air Is On Fire' at the Triennale di Milano. This covers pretty much everything that Lynch has produced over the years outside of the feature films we all know and love - hopefully this will include a few Angriest Dog In The World strips!

I would like to talk about the Carter USM show at Brixton last week, but it seems that's been covered already. It was an absolutely amazing experience and although part of me would like it repeated, it was a great way to bow out, finally, ten years after the split. It was great to see The Sultans again too - I completely missed out on these guys the first time around and it was only at their comeback gigs last year that I came to know them. Think I might look into seeing them when they play London next. Check the website for up to date news! www.sultansofping.com

Talking of live performances, I must mention briefly that Mr Teeth was on the stage last night! Seems he's getting rather prolific these days, what with the Power of the Octopus EP having just been come out. Admittedly it was only a short performance, throwing in some trippy theramin noises to the mix at a loose semi-improvised jam down at the Fawcett Inn's Open-Mic night, but it was good to have our friends up there doing something.

Keith isn't the only one it seems. Our good friend Tessa has been writing in a creative fashion over the past few weeks, and you can check out what she's doing at the Hack Writers website: http://www.hackwriters.com/familylife.htm
http://www.hackwriters.com/hysteriaTF.htm

Thanks to Keith and Dave for their CDs (and everyone for their birthday gifts and greetings). Keith's compilation is an eclectic mix - from opera to end of the pier blues via Ozzy Osbourne - personal favourites are Wooden Shjips (I was just reading about them in the Wire) and Lolly and Ross (is that a Mr Teeth performance perchance?). Keith's new CD Power of the Octopus is great, seems much longer than 15mins and shows much maturity in production and braveness in its combining or sources: blues, noise, psychedelia. Get your copy now!

Carter USM + Sultans of Ping @ Brixton Academy Fri 2 Nov
There was a great degree of anticipation about this event - the farewell gig Carter never played when they split in '98. And their audience has not gone away, just got more consolidated judging by the interest in their solo projects. So to a sold out Brixton Academy Dave and I went, catching up in the bars from Elephant to Brixton via Camberwell, seeing more Carter shirts the closer we got. To arrive to CARTER USM SOLD OUT in big lights through the darkness was a wonderful feeling, and we were certainly in the mood for dancing.

Sultans have been having something of a revival in the past year or so, and we saw them at the Highbury Garage a while back - a smaller but otherwise packed venue, great atmosphere and possibly one of the greatest glam punk performances you're ever likely to see. In this venue with only half the crowd inside it was hard to recapture that atmosphere, but plenty of people were dancing and singing their ever clever words. This was the point at which I probably felt the most free and intimate with the music during the night, and able to dance in some space; but after only what seemed like a handful of songs they were off and I spent the next half an hour trying to get drinks from the bar - about 20% of which ended up on the floor, my hands and people's shirts by the time I found my way back.

The moment Carter took the stage there was an enormous surge and just like the old days we were being shoved ever forward and this way and that. Crowd surfers set off doing their tumbling thing despite the charmingly ineffective icons. After a song or two it was clear to me that i) I couldn't really see the stage, especially without my glasses on which I couldn't afford for them to get crushed; and ii) I wasn't really enjoying the experience like I used to and would prefer to be able to see and jump and shout without fearing for my safety. So I moved back to where the girls and couples and other woosies like me were enjoying the music.

I can't think of one song they didn't play, and the only one they did play which I didn't know Dave told me and I realised it was an early one I'd heard the name of. The show was accompanied with great lighting and image/film back drops.  Les did lots of guitaring but the focus was as ever mainly on Jim. For 'England' Jim came on in a crown and robes, after which Les returned in the shorts, T-shirt and cycling cap of olden times and enjoyed his first beer in 3 months. Indeed, they both looked very healthy and fit, and perhaps more comfortable with their aukward looks than ever before. They played for about 2 hours with the ubiquitous encore (more like a brief rest for a breather before continuing), but at the end I just felt like I'd had a really good time and it was right to end it there. No need to compare it with times before, no regrets, no wishing it was still 1993. We still have the records and the t-shirts, and lots of other great things have come since. And Jim's recent solo work matches his writing talent with new tenderness.

The Painting of Modern Life @ Hayward Gallery
This exhibition takes its title from an essay by Beaudelaire, but really it begins with the democratisation of photography and its impact on modern painting. The earliest paintings shown by artists working 'after' photography are by Warhol and Richter, from which we proceed through Artschwager, Hockney, Hamilton, Kippenberger and other greats, to more recent works by Tuymans, Dumas, Sasnal, Morley etc.

I didn't really expect to like it as much as I did, but I felt more and more sensitivity as the exhibition proceeded. Particular favourites were Wilhelm Sasnal's train station and petrol stations, Richter's Jackie-O 'Woman with Umbrella', Vija Celmins' 'Freeway', Richard Hamilton's 'Mother and Child', Robert Bechtle's '61 Pontiac', all the Franz Gertsch, Luc Tuymans' Hitler 'Die Wandeling', all the Peter Doig, Eberhard Havekost's 'Luft' which looks like Duncan, and 'American Lip Gloss, BO6'. Kippenberger and Hockneys were disappointing - perhaps not the best choices of their work - and Dumas should be outed as a fraud; but a great exhibition, especially the added insights in the free guide, which is better read afterwards.

I popped into the BFI Southbank and saw the Mark Lewis art films on show. I particularly liked 'Isosceles' and 'Downtown: Tilt, Zoom, and Pan' - more inspiration for my new ventures in filmmaking.

This weekend is a 'Beat Weekend' with the London International Poetry and Song Festival at the Marquee: 3 days of music and poetry celebrating 50 years of Kerouac and Cassidy. Line up includes Arthur Brown, Pete Jagger, Seb Rochford, and comedy from Jeremy Hardy amongst others.

Nosce Te Ipsum: Tempus Fugit  is an exhibition about the links between Magic, Medicine and Religion by Lorraine Clarke at the Truman Brewery , Brick Lane E1 from 16 Nov to 25 Nov (daily 1-9pm). www.nosce-te-ipsum.co.uk

check out Deptford animator, film-maker, photographer, decorator (?) and artist Chris Getliffe: www.getliffe.com

Ten Years celebrates the period of time the Emily Tsingou Gallery has been around (all the time we've been in London, Dunx), with a rotating programme of works by all the artists, including Vanessa Beecroft, Gilbert and George,  Fischli & Weiss, Keith Coventry, Julie Verhoeven, Martin Kippenberger and loads more. www.emilytsingougallery.com

Point A > B is a digital art installation at the Jerwood Space and the CCA in Glasgow (10 Nov - 9 Dec) www.jerwoodspace.co.uk

Whitechapel Laboratory: Langlands and Bell
forthcoming Whitechapel Friday nights include: 9 Nov Upset the Rhythm (new sounds from USA); 16 Nov Where the Wild Things Are (female artists); 23 Nov It's About Time (Rhythm, hip hop DJs); 30 Nov Open City (indie folk); 7 Dec eclectic Le Gun publication night; 14 Dec Sex Pistol Glenn Matlock + guests.
www.whitechapel.org

24-HOUR PARTY PEOPLE?
Friday 9 November, 8pm, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall £8
Lemn Sissay brings Manchester-loving poets, authors and musicians to celebrate the city with DJ Dave Haslam and guests.
RATIONAL REC GOES SOUTH
Saturday 10 November, 7.30pm, The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall £5
Interdisciplinary arts occasion combining film, text, performance, debate and new music leaves Bethnal Green for a night on the Southbank www.southbankcentre.co.uk
ALL MODERN ART IS LEFT WING – DISCUSS
Wednesday 14 November, 6.30pm, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
'The Right conserves and the Left creates' (AA Gill). An Art Fund debate with Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry, Conservative Minister for Culture Ed Vaizey, cultural commentator Munira Mirza and rising artist Jonathan Yeo. Chaired by Tim Marlow, Director of Exhibitions at White Cube.
£12 from The Art Fund Box Office: 08700 503688

Arnolfini (Bristol) www.arnolfini.org.uk
Forthcoming this autumn: Franco B performance, Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle films in full, Will Self in conversation, as well as exhibitions, films and much more.