Back for good? · 6 August 2006, 07:46 · File under: Distracting
Blogging really has got the better of us recently. So little time, and so much time away from a computer makes it difficult. The mind is willing, but the keyboard just isn’t there… or something.
These last few months have been getting busier and busier with our Silent Sound project, the new work we’re making for the Liverpool Biennial. It’s without doubt the largest project we’ve ever worked on, and the closer it gets the more you realise just how short a day really is. Anyway, enough of that, the very last thing the world needs is more blog posts about how difficult it is to find the time for blogging. Must try harder. Enough said…
Working on Silent Sound is an amazing experience. We’re the same old control-freaks we’ve always been, which can be tough when you’re working with such a large (by our standards) group of people, but they’re some of the nicest people we’ve ever met and we really are thrilled and excited to be working with all of them. We’re now in the final few weeks run-up to the performance and the installation, which is a pretty scary time, but also the most exciting, and a real motivation comes from the sheer buzz of the deadline looming large. Who needs skydiving?
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And in at number seven... · 12 January 2006, 08:06 · File under: Distracting Reading
Clearly it’d be a thousand times better if it were Simon Bates reading it out loud but, alas, no… Ah well.
Outside Left magazine has just run what we can only assume is their first ever (last ever?) “Top Ten Art Double Acts” poll.
And in at number seven…
Check out the whole article over at www.outsideleft.com
Remember kids... · 12 November 2005, 20:51 · File under: Distracting
anyoneelseisn'tyou.com · 28 October 2005, 07:14 · File under: Making Distracting
So, last night was the opening for our show at George Rodger Gallery in Maidstone. It’s the same show that was at The Hospital in Covent Garden back in June/July this year.
Today we’ve just launched a new online project to accompany the show, it was commissioned by JJ Charleworth, exhibitions curator at the University College for the Creative Arts.
We’ve never made a ‘project’ online before, so it’s a slightly strange experience. But good. All good. The project’s here:
Please stop by and add a song to the tracklisting – and feel free to pass the link around, the more contributions the better!
Monkey yard sale · 6 October 2005, 06:17 · File under: Distracting
Buy the monkey, buy the monkey!
What Creation Records band are you? · 21 July 2005, 04:16 · File under: Distracting
Surely something everyone should know.
quizilla.com/users/aLieOne/quizzes/
Result:
You are Slowdive…
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Fat Reg‚Äôs Festies · 14 April 2005, 05:06 · File under: Reading Distracting
Stumbling around on the internet the other evening I happened upon a web site called Fat Reg’s Festies. It’s basically a site built by some bloke who’s been to loads of music festivals. What’s really interesting though is he’s got pretty comprehensive line-ups for sad gits to trawl through trying to remember what bands they saw and which they missed. Reading 1990 is a good one, Telescopes on the main stage! The Fall, Jane’s Addiction, Loop, the Bad Seeds and The Cramps all on the main stage, and a load of long-forgotten rubbish on the Mean Fiddler Stage (Man from Delmonte, anyone…) An odd year as well though with Jesus Jones, Neds Atomic Dustbi, An Emotional Fish and Stereo MC’s all taking up valuable mainstage space as well.
The following year at Reading was like a world gone mad, with the main stage engulfed with sheer lunacy… Neds Atomic Dustbin (were no lessons learn’t the year before?), The Family Cat, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Fat Lady Sings, Carter USM (excuse me? On straight after THE FALL on Saturday night?) Try explaining that to the grandchildren. Iggy Pop headlining is clearly right and proper. Have you seen how far down the bill the Stooges are this year? The world should be ashamed, very ashamed… The Sisters of Mercy headlining Sunday night was an inspired choice, but James on the Saturday? At least there was Edwyn Collins on the other stage. Reading hasn’t appealed for a long, long time… and it doesn’t look like the line up is going to do much to change that this year. Iron Maiden headlining the Sunday could be fun… but it’ll take more than that to get me us a tent. Things sure don’t look promising for the future either, with Clear Channel taking over Mean Fiddler.
Reading really never has been a good idea since it became an “indie” festival at the end of the eighties, unless you’re about fifteen years old in which case it’s great fun. You only really need to look at the Glastonbury line up this year to see the difference… White Stripes, Kylie and New Order – now they’re proper headline acts! It’s a shame this Fat Reg bloke didn’t take such a fancy to Glastonbury… that’d be an interesting site.
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And about time too‚Ķ · 12 April 2005, 20:13 · File under: Distracting
Okay, so this is getting embarassing. Something like six months, and not a word. So, there seems to be a couple of options here – a) give the whole thing up as a bad idea b) climb back on the horse.
So, here we are, galloping back (a gag, see?) into action. And frankly, what could be a better return than this:
www.amyhughes.org/lego/church/index.html
A return to form, no?
If you say so‚Ķ · 21 May 2004, 18:48 · File under: Distracting
So, Andy Kaufman’s not dead then? I guess he’d need to not be, I mean, otherwise who else could possibly be writing his weblog?
