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A Casual Bombing in Nigeria

21/06/2011

On the 16th of June there was a bomb blast in Abuja, at the police headquarters. At the time of writing this they had not released the figures for the number of dead yet, except to confirm that...

Wiley – 100% Publishing

21/06/2011

'East London grime credibility or West Coast glamour, who cares? Just PICK ONE and get on with it!' ...

Savage Nomads, Don’t Wait Animate, White Powder Gold – Live

15/06/2011

The constant hybridisation of music is the fuel that drives innovation. The problem is that decontextualising sounds and themes from other genres can make them meaningless or seem weakly pastiche,...

Somewhere Somehow We Repair – Body Studio

10/06/2011

Mary George's group exhibition in a fully functioning gym juxtaposes the static with the kinetic, the delicate with the strong, the physically aspirational with the spiritually contemplative. At...

René, Can We Begin A Dream Collaboration Project?

03/06/2011

Human language is like a cracked kettle drum on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when what we long to do is make music that will move the stars to pity. -Gustave Flaubert Descartes,...

Kindest Lines – Covered in Dust

02/06/2011

Not quite the Dirty South… Kindest Lines are from New Orleans. This, in itself, is totally irrelevant. In spite of the Big Easy’s fine traditions of blues, jazz and southern rock, they...

Sublime Simplicity: Miroslav Tichy & Shimabuku

28/05/2011

Miroslav Tichy & Shimabuku at the Wilkinson Gallery strips the world bare and celebrates the uncomplicated and beautiful. Another month, another First Thursday. Galleries on the surprisingly...

Leaving The Church of Free Market Miracles

27/05/2011

Where does one find succor and seeds of renewal in times such as these? Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the...

Lillian Bassman – Enter the Boutique

21/05/2011

I don't go to boutiques. I don't check out fashion photography either. But this is something different. There's a world in here. Standing outside the Donna Karan boutique off Regent...

Gold-Bears – Are You Falling in Love?

16/05/2011

What's that sound in my ears? The Gold-Bear's debut album is messing with my head. And my hands are dancing too! The Gold-Bears have been developing their sound for a number of years. Formed...

Going Nowhere?

15/05/2011

Nowhere is an arts-based event inspired by the infamous Burning Man, but is Nowhere a quaint “Euro-taster” or an event in itself? For the last eight years the Spanish desert has been lit...

On the Brink of Democracy

27/04/2011

Nigeria is a confusing country for the stranger, and the situation only gets worse when you start looking at politics. As such I’m not going to try and give you a nicely crafted or...

Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds – 100 Club

22/04/2011

Underground legend Kid Congo Powers headed a night of Nugget’s era golden rock and roll....

Fighting Bias with Bias: The David Pakman Show.

15/04/2011

Reaching millions across the globe, David Pakman is the head of a non-corporate political talk show recorded from a small studio in Massachusetts. Predominantly syndicated across the US through...

Establishing ‘Conflict’ in the Ivory Coast

07/04/2011

As the situation in the Ivory Coast draws to a predictably bloody conclusion, it seems worth asking– why did it take so long for the Western media to cotton on to the situation? After...

Doss Blockos: Oz Beer goes Underground

06/04/2011

Doss Blockos have created something special, a street culture inspired brewery hidden in amongst the urban snorescapes of Melbourne. Pretty much epitomising everything Trebuchet admires; righteous...

Politics in Imperial Nigeria

03/04/2011

Last night I was invited to a dinner hosted in Debare’s honour, to celebrate the opening of the university. The meal was arranged by his friends and associates, all of roughly the same...

Prostitutes in Nigeria

01/04/2011

After a few days here, despite all the doom-laden warnings, I was fairly confident that spotting Nigerian prostitutes wasn’t going to be much of a problem. The Grand Mirage – a kind...

Day Of Rage: Diary of a Female Protester

29/03/2011

On a day when thousands took to the street and hundreds took up arms against capitalism, one woman marched, chanted and ran alongside them. I recorded my journey through the streets of London, where...

Attack of the Stereotypes

07/03/2011

Attack of the Stereotypes In a dark, dark town there was a dark, dark street, And on the dark, dark street there was a dark, dark building And in the dark, dark building were… BRIGHT JAPANESE...

Miranda Donovan – The Home Unleashed

02/03/2011

Miranda Donovan - The Home Unleashed - Lazarides Gallery, 24th Feb – 23rd March 2011...

Venetian Snares – XOYO

26/02/2011

Ecstatic breaks and camaraderie, Venetian Snares rocks London. XOYO, Old Street, 23/2/11...

Salem in Stoke Newington: Delaine Le Bas

06/02/2011

It is a rare occasion when one encounters a Minnie Mouse doll and is simultaneously delighted and extremely disturbed. Welcome to Delaine Le Bas’s Witchunt: a riot of joyful colour and texture,...

Shea Seger – Borderline

03/02/2011

From the heights to the home, the light remains undimmed. Shea Seger has had a long strange road on her musical journey. In 2001 the plucky Texan waif seemed set for a long life on the broad stage;...

How do I look: Robert Mapplethorpe?

27/01/2011

Glossy photographs in glossy frames create the perfect environment for glossy fashionistas in Alison Jaques gallery. ‘Curated by Scissor Sisters’. Need the gay fashion pack know more?...

Stateless – Matilda

24/01/2011

Who are Stateless? Do they even know? Just how much can be crammed into a band’s sound? Can anyone try to cover, absorb and assimilate everything in their lives, minds and playlists while still...

Small is Beautiful

19/12/2010

Small is Beautiful XXVII and Gyunel Rustamova in Cork Street galleries, Dry the River and Clare Maguire at The Social. 14th December One small step for artists but a giant leap for free arts...

Trouble with Curating?

15/12/2010

Ben Street’s Gifted at the Josh Lilley Gallery answers the ICA’S question; why do we need curators? December 2010. Outside the great student fees debate rages. Placards set to one side, a...

‘I Want to Fuck You’ – Derrick Santini

10/12/2010

The Maurice Einhardt NEU Gallery 10/12/10 to 29/01/2011. Redchurch Street, Shoreditch A crowd is gathered in Redchurch Street. This is not uncommon, nor is it rare for the crowd to be enjoying an art...