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The Return of the Return of Fu Man Chu

18/07/2012

‘Yellow peril gets nearer’ is a newspaper headline I remember from my distant youth. In those politically incorrect days it may have referred to a new strain of Asian Flu or a Chinese incursion...

Yann Novak/Robert Crouch: Fata Morgana

11/07/2012

Yann Novak’s last artwork, the album Presence, was an impressive tableau of ambient noise, deeply evocative and intriguing, yet desperately missing a visual element. A multimedia artist working...

Tinsel Edwards & Twinkle Troughton: A Mini Retrospective

06/07/2012

A kidnapped banker, an some escaped fairies and a body of work that has sprung from a duo of artists who’ve collaborated since childhood…. Until the 19th July, artists Tinsel Edwards...

Viva le Rock/Gypsy Hotel: The Garage

30/06/2012

I’ve always found Highbury Garage (I’m still refusing to call it Relentless Garage) a rather sterile venue, but when the evening began with a male unicyclist, Count Adriano Fettuchini, stripping...

Kangding Ray Monad XI

30/06/2012

Monad XI is the latest in the Stroboscopic Arfects label's ongoing experimental series and marks a further development in the label's thoughtful aesthetics....

Ian Francis: 10,000 Years from Now

08/06/2012

The degraded space shown in Francis' work appears aged, as the layered scenes hang on the canvas, caught in motion, peeling with time and abrasive in action. ...

Supersonic festival 2012 Lineup

07/06/2012

Supersonic festival is the most intensely purifying music event of any year. 2012 brings us a resplendent line-up of discordant wonder that is an absolutely must for any discerning music fan....

CONCEPTION: An exhibition to create dialogue and duplicity

05/06/2012

Two artists, two cultures, two cities, two media. In this two-part exhibition spanning London and Belfast, the vibrant, acid coloured figurative canvases of Darren MacPherson are hung alongside...

UFOMammut: instinctual tones – interview.

28/05/2012

With a name that combines the weighty presence of an extinct mammal and the fancy of controversial space vehicles expect herbal smoke tinged religious commentary, long hair, and unhurried...

Sex and Death – Exhibition

15/05/2012

This spring, 20 Earlham Street will host a celebration of art and design, bringing their worlds together in a dynamic and holistic way to explore the historically recurring relationship between...

On The Nature Of Self-Defeating Convictions

05/05/2012

A missive to an estranged southern friend Although I have resided in New York City for many years, I was born in the Deep South. On a daily basis, I negotiate Manhattan's gridded streets and...

Supersonic festival Celebrates 10 years

01/05/2012

Supersonic is one of Trebuchet's favourite festivals of the year. It's so good that normally people are blown away by the music… there is just too much unmissable greatness. ...

Acclaimed poet Brendan Cleary in cult magazine relaunch!

30/04/2012

Like the lust of my midnight phoenix bad poetry seems to die and be reborn every three years. There'll be some event, movie, appointment that brings it into the public eye and...

Sam Sparro – release several million remixes and a video

23/04/2012

Sam Sparro – 'I wish I Never Met You' – New single released 4th June 2012 Pop crooning and magical realism. It's as though Gabriel García Márquez...

Touchstone at The Duchess, York

12/04/2012

Playing progressive rock with the emphasis on rock, Touchstone have achieved much in the past few years. They've now got three full-length studio albums and an American festival appearance under...

Orbital: Wonky

11/04/2012

'boredom, indifference, embarrassment and even disgust', Codex Europa reviews Orbital's Wonky In August 1993 I saw Orbital give a memorable show in a tent at the Deptford Free Festival....

Electric Deluxe Releases [Techno]

28/03/2012

Codex Europa reviews a series of techno releases on Speedy J's Electric Deluxe imprint Speedy J's Electric Deluxe is a reliable label that continues to issue a steady flow of thoughtful,...

And, like many gobby kids with a sharp wit and an audience, he gets carried away at times. 'Picking fatties with big racks/ to lick their piss flaps/ like Johnny Vegas in drag' flies past, sexist and...

Polymath

10/03/2012

Polymath, 14th April 2012, GV Art Gallery, 49 Chiltern Street, Marylebone, London W1U 6LY ....

Giorgio Gigli & Obtane: Review

01/03/2012

Giorgio Gigli & Obtane: A Sad Wandering Dreamer Trapped In Contemporary Memory Architectures Sometimes techno titles are totally irrelevant to the sounds and some producers even prefer simply to...

Legendary J.D. Wilkes: interview

14/02/2012

The Legendary Shack Shakers never miss and have wowed the hardy fools of the hip underground over the course of six energetic punk blues albums. Inteview with JD Wilkes...

Ronin: Interview

08/02/2012

Interview with OVO drummer Bruno Dorella about with dark folk group Ronin...

Ernesto Neto: Spaces of Transformation, Edges of the World

28/01/2012

Ernesto Neto is a quirky and charismatic artist who has fascinated me with his tactile, porous artworks for years. His talk for ‘Topology at Tate Modern’ began with a lyrical wordplay on...

Eyvind Kang: The Narrow Garden

19/01/2012

The fine folded pressures of the lidless eye. Renowned through his collaborations with John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Trey Spruance, Eyvind Kang has become the go-to violin guy for a certain strain of...

Fawlty Towers Syndrome

11/01/2012

The melancholic experience of visiting a declining English hotel out of season reveals some suggestivaly ominous parallels with the current state of the nation. After almost forty years, John Cleese...

Trailer Trash Tracys: Ester

30/12/2011

Painful though it may be to recall, it was summer once. Cool drinks were sipped at pavement cafes, flesh was bared and balding scalps reddened and peeled in the light of the now-forgotten sun....

DJ Food: The Search Engine

19/12/2011

This is the land, where nothing changes, the land of red buses & blue blooded babies, This is the place, where pensioners are raped, And the hearts are being cut, from the welfare state, Let the...

Riots and Rods of Iron: An Academic in Africa

14/12/2011

It is both a curse and a blessing that we don’t know what other people think of us. I am much better than I used to be, but I know that I still spend much of my time in conversation with an...

Panic Room: Live Review

08/12/2011

Panic Room have come a long way since their first live appearances back in 2008. The band emerged from the ashes of the first incarnation of celtic proggers Karnataka, with that band's...