I saw something about My Vitriol playing somewhere (amusingly with that Suicide Slut Georgina Baillie as support - is that cynical or what?), and Faith No More reforming... obviously I'm more interested in the latter, but did I dream the last 10 years?
Artist, photographer and writer Chris Jones has released his 5th online publication called Articulates. Each page can be viewed on his website and then downloaded as a Word document for printing. Jones describes his output thus:
Generally, most of my work – writing, photography, or both – comes from working to see lightly, emotional tension, working to think lightly, and belief, then show this on the page. Specifically, Articulates, to me, is sorrow, formed in a migrant’s experiencing a city and its language. An attempt to articulate both, in the migrant’s own terms, who feels and thinks integration will not come, but believes it exists. It’s from this sorrow the pictures come.
Mr Teeth's new 7 track EP (at one time that'd be enough for an album [Ed.]) 'Broken Sunlight' is out now. Email us for copies.
John Korner's exhibition War Problems is on now at Victoria Miro until 24 January. www.victoria-miro.com
Go and see the animated feature film Waltz with Bashir in cinemas now. I went to see Quantum of Solace, which is not normally my kind of thing, but I quite enjoyed it; but I was surprised by how deeply melancholy it was.
13 Dec the Beatboxer Shlomo is on at the Southbank. Then on the 17th there's Teddy Thomas, Bert Jansch and Badly Drawn Boy amongst others. www.southbankcentre.co.uk
The Barbican have 'Twisted Christmas' on 11 Dec featuring Jarvis Cocker, Patrick Wolf and many others. Then on 13 Dec a special screening of the Flaming Lips' film 'Christmas on Mars' with a talk by the band's Wayne Coyne. www.barbican.co.uk
Jerwood Photography Awards on now at the Jerwood Space until 11 Dec. www.jerwoodspace.co.uk
If you're in Bristol the Kill Your Timid Notion tour hits the Arnolfini and Spike Island Tues to Thurs next week featuring experimental art, film and sound. And on Wednesday there is a talk from Jamie Shovlin. www.arnolfini.org.uk
Gigs coming up: Cradle of Filth 1 Dec The Forum Slipknot / Machine Head 3 Dec Hammersmith Apollo (I think I woke up in the shower) Wildhearts 10 Dec Hammersmith Apollo (ditto above) Sick of It All 11 Dec The Forum (my fingers form a bull horn as I type) Manu Chao 16 Dec The Forum The Wedding Present 18 Dec The Forum
These people from Israel representing a centre called MOBY emailed me out of the blue hoping I'd plug their call for submissions for an exhibition called Factory. So despite political reservations but in a spirit of openness, here's the link http://mobyinfo.googlepages.com/home. But do't blame me if there's anything dodgy about it; like I said, it was out of the blue.
