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…rainy streets, neon signs, disused stations and broken lines…
After the headliners pulled out with the gig looming up fast, it looked like we’d be looking at an empty stage on Friday, but we managed to hastily assemble a great bill just in time. A big thank you to all the acts!
First up was Matt M who employed a huge pair of wooden clogs to provide a stage-thumping percussive accompaniment.
These proved a major hit with the crowd!
If you’ve only a passing interest in Britain’s railways, its architecture or industrial past, you should find Subterranea Brittanica’s Closed Stations site an invaluable and compelling resource.
Brixton’s got some awesome venues, and on any just about any given night you can find some great stuff going on.
Last night I checked out the excellent Lost Cavalry at the Brixton Windmill, and then strolled down the hill to check out a new band at the Prince Albert on Coldharbour Lane. It was an ace night!
Here’s some photos:
The Lost Cavalry onstage at the Windmill.
In the 1960s and 70s amateur snapper Derek Fairbrother made over 20 photographic time-lapse sequences showing the demolition of old buildings and their replacement by new buildings and road systems in Birmingham’s city centre.
Gasp as delightful Victorian Gothic buildings in Chamberlain Square with real architectural worth get crushed into dust and sigh as vast slabs of civic concrete go up in their place.
We’ve been documenting the demise of equally beautiful buildings in the Brixton history part of the site, and it’s sad to see what’s replaced some of the fine workmanship of the past.
Polish artist Miroslaw Balka’s sculpture – entitled ‘How It Is’ – dominates the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, standing 13 metres high by 30 metres long, and balanced on 2 metre stilts.
We took a look yesterday and rather liked the piece. If you fancy checking it out, you’ve only got till the 5th April, 2010.
This is only on until the 5th of April, so get down to the British Museum sharpish if you want to check out some superb political posters from the great age of Mexican printmaking.
We’re slowly working our way over every bridge out of Manhattan – we’ve strutted over the Manhattan Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, the George Washington Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge, and a while ago we finally got to walk over the Queensboro Bridge (aka the 59th Street Bridge) on our way to the P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center.
Here’s a few photos:
Looking like it’s sprouted from the set of Bladerunner is London’s newest high-rise apartment block, the ‘Razor.’
The 148 metre-tall high-tech tower will feature built-in wind turbines – a world first – and they’re expected to generate 50MWh annually, adding up to 8% of the building’s electricity needs.
Situated by Jackson Avenue at Crane Street and Davis Street in Long Island City, 5 Pointz claims to be the “world’s premiere ‘graffiti Mecca,’ showcasing aerosol artists from around the globe.
Just about every inch of its façade and surrounds has been painted on, and all with the consent of the owner.
Photographers taking photographs of photographs at the Getty Gallery, by Oxford Circus.
