Crosstown Lightnin’ played their first gig in a while, the first of many more the way things are looking. Charles Shaar Murray, Buffalo Bll Smith, Marc Jefferies and Pete Miles were tight as a gnat’s bum and rocked the swanky new W14 venue, Black Velvet, with their punky blues. Bex Marshall headlined with her 4-piece […]
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Quasi gal, quasi Byronic. It’s official — I write like the poetry dudes of old. I’m delighted and a bit stunned to read a wonderful review of my poetry collection, Reaching for my Gnu, in today’s Morning Star, written by writer and revolutionary teacher Chris Searle. Chris says of my poetry: “… a strange rendezvous of language,
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The Arrest of Ai WeiweiHampstead Theatre, London NW3 If martial arts functions by using your opponents’ weight against them, then artist Ai Weiwei must be the Bruce Lee of annoying the hell out of the Chinese government. He’s transformed dissidence into performance art, rendering him embarrassingly effective in resisting official persecution. Howard Brenton’s play The
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Love this piece about the punk movement in China. I think I was the first home-grown Chinese punk in Britain, hanging out at Vivienne Westwood’s shop Sex as a kiddie where she made me my first catsuit (pix above and below). It was my armour, a shiny carapace that expressed my champion alienation as a
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Had a lovely gig last night at the Morning Star‘s May Day celebrations in Kilburn, London. Also playing, singer songwriter Sean Taylor, a wonderful guitarist. Q Magazine called him, “A bluesey devotional intensity that rightly draws comparisons to John Martyn”. And they;’re right. Khamis and J-Mac were our DJs for the night, while Attila the
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