Hippie dippie twisted beats

March 13, 2009 - Leave a Response

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Thursday night = exhibition openings, booklaunches, vernissages…It can be a bit of a potluck thing especially when there’s a performance/recital involved. That so happened to be the case this Thursday at OFR (great little Art/design/fashion bookshop with a small exhibition space) near Republique. Total hippie/spaced out vibe hit your nose (incense) followed by your eyes (see above) or maybe your ears at the same time. Mark Borthwick, photographer and  experimental artist was doing a musical recital with chimes and guitar. He was also having a good giggle  with himself which was a relief. Nothing worse than Artists taking themselves too seriously.

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Friday Frolics

February 28, 2009 - Leave a Response

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Forget going clubbing on a Friday night (totally overated, best nights are Sunday – Thursday anyway). It was down to the V&A for their monthly Friday late event. The theme was Home sweet home with a range of events around the love of all things homely. Think 1950s nostalgie, Bree from Desperate housewives, Martha Stewart but all with an Arty twist of course.

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Khookie London calling

February 27, 2009 - Leave a Response

Tip for all those Londoners this Friday evening:

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OFF Food

February 26, 2009 - One Response

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OFF food, moi jamais ;-) Well Monday it was off to OFF. Think Glastonbury for chefs and foodists. The two day festival took place in Deauville (Paris’s 21st arrondissement, many Parisians have second homes there). Omnivore, the organisiers brought together some of the crème de la crème of the gastronomic scene aswell as some young up and coming talent.

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Last night’s lesson: small people don’t mosh well

February 21, 2009 - Leave a Response

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Last night happened to be the third day running I ended up at the Nouveau casino (Wednesday: the very crazy glaswegian this, Thursday: a surreal shoot for them). Nouveau Casino, a small venue in the 11th/Oberkampf area is right next to the Café Charbon. For the album launch of Beat Torrent (French turntablist duo DJ Pfel & DJ Atom – won 4 x World DMC Team Champions as part of C2C) they put the two spaces together. Making a kind of ‘chilled’ café area (pictured above with DJ B-Loo) and than an absolute carnage main area in the nouveau casino space. Read the rest of this entry »