Sanguinearts Network Journal

Anyone on the South Coast is likely to know that its the Stokes Bay Festival this coming weekend, with a bit of an old skool crusty line up featuring the Saw Doctors, the Alabama 3 and the Levellers. I hear that the latter's new record is out in a couple of weeks and is something of a return to form: edgy and political along the lines of 'Levelling the Land'. www.stokesbayfestival.co.uk

Meanwhile in London the Innocent Smoothies Village Fete will be taking over Regents Park. I know where I would rather be, even if it isn't where I end up. www.innocentvillagefete.com

A bit further in the future is a weekend of music on the Southbank celebrating Heavenly Recordings reaching its age of majority. Names mentioned include Doves, Beth Orton, St. Etienne, Ed Harcourt, Edwyn Collins, Dot Allison and more. 12 - 14 Sept www.southbankcentre.co.uk

The Serpentine Gallery's Park Nights (in the Frank Gehry-designed Pavilion) feature a night of lectures, film and live music and performance from artists Steve Claydon, Lis Rhodes and Emily Wardill. 8 Aug from 8pm £5/4 www.ticketweb.co.uk / http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2008/05/park_nights_steven_claydon_lis.html 

Screenings at the Roxy this week include Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Weds 30th 8pm), and a Heath Ledger tribute double bill on Sunday. Thursday night there is their monthly live night with datapuddle, Tom Munday, Matt Stevens and Blinkin' Lab. www.roxybarandscreen.com

The Courtauld will be bringing together all their Cézannes for a show opening in October. Also in Somerset House from 17 Sept will be a show called Wouldn't it be Nice... Wishful Thinking in Art and Design: seemingly a playful crossover between said disciplines, installation environments and objects created by artists in a spirit of experimentation and play. Features Tobias Rehberger, Ryan Gander and Alicia Framis, amongst others. www.courtauld.ac.uk / www.somersethouse.org.uk

Did I mention Johnny Cash already? well anyway, he is the focus of a photo show at the Proud Central Gallery until 14 Sept. www.proud.co.uk

I hope you're enjoying the Sanguinearts Muxtape: www.sanguinearts.muxtape.com This was a mixed bag of things I had to hand from our broad back catalogue (I think it holds together though), but we hope to make more sound files available soon. The sound archive has stumbled a bit as the free hosting got bought out - we're doing this all on a budget you see - but there are other resources out there when I get the time to look into it...

Some Sanguinearts news: the screening at Tate Modern of the film of Duncan Ward's performance 'Antlers' sadly did not come about. We will still be making this available on DVD once edited and it may be screened elsewhere in future. Duncan continues to work on new performances.

More Sanguinearts music news: there has been some progress on the White Cliff Sands 3rd album, as some editing has been taking place of the recordings made last summer, with plans for some overdubs and further recording. On a similar line, we've been working with some of the negative PANDA archive material to put together a kind of best of sampler. We hope to have something to offer later in the year.

I've made some minor changes to the blog design, and there might be more to come, now that the technology and opportunity seems to be available. One thing you might not have noticed is that you can now receive our blog entries by RSS, direct to your computer desktop via gadgets, on your phone or other such readers.

Being at home with the boy has given me some interesting radio time: With Dizzee's danceable anthem currently at no.1 in the UK charts, and Wiley's 'Wearing my Rolex' tune doing the rounds, its like the grime scene has taken a strange old skool trip and reinvented hip house. Meanwhile my next door neighbour has been working on a comeback for the Rebel MC (remember Street Tuff?). I won't pretend to hate McFly's single, but at least its not like that awful Pigeon Detectives rubbish.

I was pleased to find you can read Art Review magazine online from their website for free. I hope a few other art/music magazines follow suit (although how can they make it economically viable? I suppose the advertisers still get the exposure, and it tends to be 1 issue behind the print version in shops).

Auto Italia South East gallery has a new show on until 3 August: A History of 2 Mountains / One the Original / Two a Copy / Both Equally Heavy II; featuring copies of works by Duchamp, Broodthaers and others. Its off Old Kent Road in a former car garage, opens Sats and Suns. www.autoitaliasoutheast.org

Union gallery has a new show called Tonight Forget About Your Houses and Cars, all about the idea of apocalypse. On until 13 Sept www.uniongallery.com

Catch Susan Hiller's The Last Silent Movie at Matt's Gallery this weekend and next. www.mattsgallery.org

See Mat Collishaw's installation show Shooting Stars at Haunch of Venison before 31 August www.haunchofvenison.com

2007 Turner Prize-nominee Nathan Coley has a sculpture/installation show at the De La Warr Pavillion in Bexhill on Sea until 14 September www.dlwp.com

See a survey of paintings by Keith Coventry (1990s to present day) in the café of the Hiscox insurance group in the city, until 6 Sept http://www.hiscox.com/ViewCMSPage.aspx?viewmode=Live&viewtype=ViewPressReleaseDetail&pressreleaseID=51f8c51a-7f07-4a9a-b8e1-be2b3d26d87e

Two exhibitions at the Camden Arts Centre on Finchley Road: Chantal Akerman film works and Anya Galaccio's sculpture. Both end 14 Sept www.camdenartscentre.org

The Barbican has some interesting music planned for the Autumn: Tricky plays 6 Oct, and a kind of Scott Walker tribute act: his songs from Tilt and Drift, his band, but guest vocalists ( 13 - 15 Nov incl); Herbie Hancock 19 Nov. www.barbican.org.uk

Those of you who know the East End's George Tavern will be pleased to note it escaped being made into trendy flats; This weekend is the Acid Gallery Festival with 3 days of psychadelic soul-pop-punk; and coming up next weekend is the GoMad festival - "3 days of Music, Art and Performance". Find the George Tavern on Facebook or at www.myspace.com/georgetavern (or something like that, they're definitely on there).

Check out the inaugual Sanguinearts Muxtape: http://sanguinearts.muxtape.com

featuring Sanguine, benjamin_sanguine, New Low, White Cliff Sands, Mr Teeth and Saneman

Ok people, it's been a little while so a few things I wish to mention so hopefully I wont take up too much of your time.

Well last night despite locking myself out the house and taking an unexpected day off as a result was pretty good fun - it was open mic down the Fawcett, my good friend Marsha decided to at the last minute step up for her live singing debut and took to the mic with myself on acoustic guitar along with Nick (Cool Bananna, Spiral Architects, Self Inflicted) on the tenor sax and Paul (Spiral Architects) on conga drum part way through. We played a very short improv set of a bluesy nature and it seemed to go ok so hopefully we can try again another time!

Spiral Architects have also been asked last minute to support Self Inflicted tomorrow night (3rd July) again at the Fawcett. We're planning on playing pretty much all our set I believe, and the last time we did so was the post-solstice party recently to a pub full of people who hadnt slept since arriving back from the previous nights antics up at stone hendge, this also included five of the band. Bizarely from what I can gather we seemed to play really well, for the most part, without the sleep deprived passing out which was a bonus. There is a recording so will advise once available for your listening (dis)pleasure.

More music this weekend also comes in the form of a day on the farm with Neil Young, which I will be attending and is mentioned elsewhere on these pages. Neil Young recently has been playing in the region of 2.5 hour sets combining both acoustic and electric performances, so along with an eclectic mix of other bands playing (Primal Scream, Guillemots, Supergrass, Rufus Wainright and more) it should be a great mini-festival.

The recently attended Ministry gig was, although really good, some what lacking in the cross section of all there material as originally billed - instead focusing mainly on the last three anti-Bush driven albums before ending on the classic NWO. The encore should in my mind pulled out the bag some old school Ministry but instead was a number of covers including What a Wonderful World (which lets face it no-one is ever going to do better than Joey Ramones version!). So fairwell to Ministry.

New music...

Aidan Moffat has released an amazingly depressing yet beautiful album in the form of I Can Hear Your Heart. It's a short story, which you have to read the accompanying book in order to set the scene for the spoken word audio disc. It really is amazing, the guy (who for ten years wrote and performed as one half of scottish miserablists Arab Strab) is a genius and as he is also working on a project with Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai there can only be more in the pipeline.

I had a copy of No Age passed onto me recently too, they are a great band whom prove you can judge some things on appearances. The cd artwork contains lots of old metal bands albums on tape (remember cassettes kids?) and although not a metal band themselves the rawness and catchy riffs make this an album that I haven't got bored of listening to.

Will Oldam has also released a beautiful masterpiece in Lie Down the Light, again under the guise of Bonnie "Prince" Billy this album provides very stripped down songs yet you almost hear something different with each listen.

Sigur Ros have a new album out, which I can't believe I haven't bought yet... I do believe however it will be damn good. It contains their first track sung in English and is produced by either Flood or Youth (I always get those two confused).

Any way, before I start reviewing albums I am yet to purchase I will sign off.

Peace, love, unity.
Mr Teeth