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Mike Georgiades – Acoustic

When a guitar is played well, the style or type of music becomes irrelevant. Fantastic craft – I hate him! (Just jealous really.)
From MySpace: Mike Georgiades is a guitarist and composer from London. His beautiful acoustic guitar arrangements offer strong melodies combined with Mike’s eclectic guitar style, with influences ranging from classical and latin jazz through to contemporary bands and dance based music. Mike currently has a publishing deal with Boosey & Hawkes and is collaborating with producers Alexis Smith and Joe Henderson for film and TV rental music.

Lotte Kestner – China Mountain

Had a very long day yesterday – Devon to London and back again. I’ve had very little sleep and the house is very quiet so it is time to follow up on ‘old’ emails, send apologies and catch up. This could be that mundane chore that finally puts me to sleep – Nope!
Silber Records have a stable of fine thoroughbreds including Lotte Kestner… You can get Lotte Kestner’s download release China Mountain direct from Silber here
The blurb about this project reads: ‘Lotte Kestner is the solo project of Anna-Lynne Williams (Trespassers Williams). A cross between White Chalk era PJ Harvey & early Joan Baez, she sings songs that would be equally at home on a beatnik’s record player, a hippy’s 8-track, or some hipster’s iPod. Minimal, sparse, majestic. Guitar & voice tell stories of hope for love & loss of love & the difficult navigations of human relationships.‘
I get what the press release is trying to say but actually this stuff is not totally referential, yes there are the obvious folky references but it is different. I get really bored with mediocre acoustic guitar music. I hate the caterwauling and badly strummed out of tune, out of time six and twelve string (the twelve stringed ones are worse) songs that proliferate the Internet and street corners of our world. Come the revolution all the guilty will be lined up against the wall…. Lotte Kestner is safe…

VV MORGUE – An accidental find.

I got very bored this afternoon, checked ‘Faceache’ and found a link to this band Vv Morgue. I have listened to them before and sort of forgot how much I liked their tracks. This is all put right now, I have book marked them (myspace). How very, very fab.

This what is said on ReverbNation: Vv Morgue was started in 2006 as a solo project by Genevieve (Vv) Loveland. Vv bored with the local music scene in San Diego decided to take it upon herself to start a revolution. This meant that she would do anything to get people to dance as dance is the way to get things started. She would show up with nothing more than herself a crazy costume fake blood and a microphone. Singing and dancing wildly to playback she had recorded at home. Art and performance went hand in hand and by the end of 2008 she had a full band backing her up (not that she needed it lol) but non the less the full band Vv Morgue was born Current line up: Vv Loveland Vox synths, Voodoo Elvis, drums, Ariq Sangre, Bass….

‘Stalk with me/ Pretty Half Datascraper‘ Is a fantastic track which I have played over and over again – but then you know I love analogue, dark, gothicish stuff. Well worth listening to. ‘Run For Your Life’ – most splendid.

The Book of Were-Wolves – The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould


The Book of Were-Wolves By Sabine Baring-Gould was originally published in 1865, is the original source book for all werewolf books and movies. Read this and you will know where everybody gets there ‘latest’ plot line from. It is probably the most often cited book on Lycanthropy.
The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) was an English hagiographer (the study of Saints) antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography lists more than 1240 separate publications, this list continues to grow. His family home, Lew Trenchard Manor near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he restyled it. Lew Trenchard Manor is now a hotel and restaurant. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being “Onward, Christian Soldiers” and “Now the Day Is Over”.  Over the road from the family home is the church where  Baring-Gould  delivered his sermons and the churchyard is the last resting place for his mortal remains.

He also translated the carol “Gabriel’s Message” from Basque to English. He habitually wrote standing up, and his desk can be seen in the manor (see the image below).

Sabine Baring-Gould's desk
During the nineteenth century, when belief in werewolves in many communities in Europe was fairly common place; Baring-Gould used his first hand experience of his own visit to a rural village in Italy, where local inhabitants warn him not to venture out alone after sunset (sounds like the plot of a Hammer horror movie from the 1970’s). Stories, myths and legends are documented in the book from all over the world, each having the same peculiar references to the phenomenon of ‘Shape-shifting”.

For more information on Sabine Baring-Gould follow the link. Sabine Baring-Gould (2010, August 1). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 08:40, August 8, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sabine_Baring-Gould&oldid=376515664

I would like to see one in a hospital or surgery.

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, markers, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint. An artist who practices or works in drawing may be referred to as a draftsman or draughtsman.

A small amount of material is released onto the two dimensional medium which leaves a visible mark—the process is similar to that of painting. The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials such as cardboard, plastic, leather, canvas and board, may be used. Temporary drawings may be made on a blackboard or whiteboard, or indeed almost anything. The medium has also become popular as a means of public expression via graffiti art, because of the easy availability of permanent markers.*

The Radiographer

430mm x 700mm

Vinyl, acrylic and oil paint on corrugated card.

(Woolacombe July 2002)

This is the first in a series of ‘drawings’ I made using coloured transparent tapes. A good friend of mine was working at the North Devon Hospital and this was the catalyst for these drawings. The hierarchy of the hospital system fascinated me. I would really like to see one or all of this series exhibited in a hospital or surgery.

The Consultant

540mm x 790mm

Vinyl, acrylic and oil paint on corrugated card. (Woolacombe July 2002)

I have included part of my MA Proposal below. I think it might explain where my experiments with vinyl tape are leading me.

There are eight images in the ‘Hospital’ series.

*Drawing. (2010, July 29). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 09:14, August 7, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drawing&oldid=376032008