I drfited through the Peter Doig show at Tate Britain today - I liked it very much and will go back. Also Tate Modern has a Duchamp Man Ray Picabia show opening on Thursday so that's probably worth seeing www.tate.org.uk
Forward diary date: open studios on Telegraph Hill SE14/SE4 visit www.thehill.org.uk/festival/Open%20Studios%20Flyer%202.pdf for more info.
New Litro out now, featuring 'Venice ... City of Secrets' by Trevor Ray and 'Part of the Process' by Karina Mellinger www.litro.co.uk
Make sure you get the Jim Bob album 'A Humpty Dumpty Thing', as it's marvellous: all the great storytelling we've come to love him for, but also some great tunes. I personally found it hard not to break into a run when listening to 'Battling the Bottle..', which sounds a lot better without the YouTube video which was circulated a while back. The CD comes in a hardback cover with a short story inside about a dystopian near future where the arts have been nationalised into a kind of compulsory jury service. www.jim-bob.co.uk
Shame I didn't get round to telling you all about the King of Spain gig at the George Tavern (Save the George Tavern!) yesterday. Thursday is their poetry night, Saturday experimental music from SkumShot Productions and on Sunday French Electronic folk from Double U.
www.myspace.com/thegeorgetavern
Massive Atttack have been confirmed as this year's Meltdown curators at the Southbank Centre. They are looking a bit long in the tooth, but then aren't we all... www.southbankcentre.co.uk
More new albums this year: Portishead; Breeders; REM - could be good; Goldfrapp - out next week; Billy Bragg.
