Offbeatphenia
Calling all Offbeats in Brighton! Jo Horsman, 3:AM‘s Steve Finbow, Melissa Mann, Sara Crowley and Martin Reed will read their stories to a backdrop of specially commissioned photos. It’s at Sparks, Jo Horsman’s flash fiction extravaganza Upstairs at Three and Ten, Steine Street, on 14 October (entrance: £5). [L-R: Steve Finbow, Jo Horsman, Joseph Ridgwell […]
Bobby Sands Street
Trailer for Steve McQueen‘s forthcoming H-Blocks film Hunger. (3:AM interview with Bending the Bars author John Barker here)
More McCarthyism
Our friend Tom McCarthy has a busy schedule next week. On Friday 17th October at 3 p.m., he will be in conversation with Alasdair Gray, at the Frieze Art Fair. On Saturday 18th October at 5.40 p.m., he will deliver the International Necronautical Society’s Proclamation on Art and Democracy at the Serpentine’s Manifesto Marathon (just […]
Sohoitis IX: The 3:AM PP – Sometimes You Just Have To Go
“I believe this place is full of bum-pushing faggots?” Did Sebastian really say that? Sebastian Horsley opened his set, thank god I could stop him after nine and half more minutes I thought, watching the gay contingent of the Green Carnation shift uneasily in their seats. Sebastian was Non Fiction for the night: who the fuck was going to be able to follow that diatribe AGAINST saving the planet? I could see people thinking, “He’s worse than Sarah Palin!”. There was only one man for the job, rough and tuff: Tim Wells on poetry, romanticising Betty Grable’s arse into looking like a bag of groceries…
Sophie Parkin reviews the first 3:AM/Pen Pusher event at London’s Green Carnation.
His royal master of images
There’s an Alan Aldridge exhibition on at the Design Museum coinciding with Thames & Hudson’s publication of The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes. Best known for his groovy work with The Beatles, Aldridge tells Computer Arts where he got his ideas: My third eye [taps forehead gently]. It sounds pretentious, but I’m a very visual artist. […]