All Together Now

A blogworthy week of music events in the lead up to the Flying Mountain Extravaganza gig on Friday 22nd June at the Green Room Manchester…………with The Good Hurt as the house band.
Monday 18th June
Get a text from rapper Brother Ghazi that’s he’s pulling out of the show on Friday because he’s seeing family in Liverpool. [...]

Pre Sleeping Beauty

A sleeping beauty is always brought to life first in the eye of the beholder.
Gazing on a lover as they slumber.
Watching the seemingly endless calm
wash upon their brow
like waves on an empty moonlit beach.

The only coloured kid at school has had the
eyes of many stare onto her waking face.
Transporting their world on [...]

Romantic Interlude

I went into the Manchester Civil Art Gallery the other day and the one painting that transfixed me was this one of the Greek Legend Sappo – an 1877 painting by Charles-August Mengin (1853-1933).
…i bought the postcard and took it home for a quid – stuck it on the side of my peripheral vision on [...]

Robert Johnson, the Crossroads and Malkauns

These past few days I have had the strong image of Robert Johnson, the famous blues legend, waiting at the Crossroads to meet the devil and trade him his soul so that he could play the guitar better than everyone.The legend goes :
“If you want to learn how to make songs yourself, you take your [...]

Metropolis, Dada’ism and the Rise of the Machine.

Art, Technology and Social Feedback Loops

“The mediator between the brain and the hand should be the heart”

This essay is an attempt to discuss issues regarding technology, culture and art how the artists palette was extended to include technology and cultural samples. This extension of art and society was once borne out of [...]