Wild Is The Wind

Venice on Monday for the week - lots of coverage on www.dazeddigital.com throughout the week. 

I'm just a leaf in this wind:

An Interlude

Berlin was an incredible trip - amazing turn out for the screening and accidental and deeply entertaining discovery of the Kleine Nachtrevue afterwards for a small bunch of us. Mid book deadline at the moment. Look to Dazed for my picks of this week. Dont even want to talk about Margaret Thatcher's funeral - an awful person who was a terrible prime minister and encouraged a culture of greed we still feel today. Instead here's a mod playlist I'm listening to remind myself of my 17 year old self and distract myself from work.

Fantasy gigs

Enough of art. I wish I'd seen these people play live:

Drug themed music of the day

I havent caned it in years (despite my continued fascination by the legacy of psychedelic, rave and all that) but these songs do it on my behalf:

Tonight's Mountain Action

In honour of tonight when I warm up for KINDNESS at Summit Going On, here are three mountain songs. Only one of these is an actual good song. The other two are hilarious either aurally or visually.... guess which?

Flashback

I have been doing way too much research on rave and acid house as background for an upcoming exhibition, resulting in a feeling that time is disintegrating and I dont know what decade it is. Here's a flashback from the post-modern blur of music in my psyche. Dirty party records! (with a beautiful bit of ghetto house from Cajmere above)

AWOL

I've been MIA the past month... drowning in work, conceiving two exciting new shows for 2012, installing art collections, watching Black Mirror religiously, reading my favourite book of the year (designed by my new favourite designer Brian Roettinger) 'The Secret War Between Uploading and Downloading', and playing music for drunk women (see the bottom of this post)...

I have seen a few highly recommended shows though. A great solo show 'focal-plane' from Yuri Pattison at SON Gallery in Peckham which played around with the architectural arse-end of technology showing brilliantly presented films within ageing vitrines, and large photographic prints taped to the wall from odd locations Pattison had found on his world travels. The focal plane tumblr site to accompany it was a brilliant offshoot where you can get a feel of the works.

Paul Noble's mammoth show at Gagosian Gallery was completely different - a sea of super intense drawings from his fantasy city Nobson that you could stare at for years and not see every detail. There were some great giant pink marble faeces sculptures too.

After that dose of culture here are the top ten tracks that have feature in my music for drunk women sets... I say that proudly as I think this demographic has the best taste.

1 Pony by Ginuwine

2 Erotic City by Prince

3 Heads High by Mr Vegas

4 Gucci Gucci by Kreayshawn

5 Still Dre by Dr Dre

6 Orange Juice by EarlWolf

7 Ignition (remix) by R Kelly

8 Me Ting Deh by Lady Saw

9 (Not Just) Knee Deep by Funkadelic

10 Somebody Else's Guy by Jocelyn Brown

Oi

As much as I'm enjoying missing the snow, stumbling on this song reminded me how much I love London...

Audio Avoidance

Been focusing on a massive feature this week so enough with art. Here's the songs I've been listening to while working (with some not so always straight forward links...)

Jackson 5: Got to Be There

Devo: Whip It (this link makes me feel a little sick but i had to put it)

Guns and Roses: Sweet Child of Mine

Snopp Dogg: Ain't No Fun

The Gap Band: Burn Rubber on Me

Orion: Ritmo de Juventud (Orion Edit)

Otis Redding: I Love You More Than Words Can Say

Slave: Just A Touch of Love

Judy Garland and Barbara Streisand: Get Happy/Happy Days