BAS VAN DEN HURK Organizing the non-obvious II Opening: March 18, 2010 | 8:30 pm After party curated by Bas van den Hurk. Whatbar # 8 THE NON-OBVIOUS-BAR The Boadicea 292-294 St. John Street London 8.30 – 12.00pm with: Femke de Vries (NL) Remco Torenbosch (NL) Hester Scheurwater (NL) Emma van der Put (NL) Michiel [...]
Whatbar # 8 THE NON-OBVIOUS-BAR
March 8, 2010
Cosey Fanni Tutti
October 13, 2009
Cosey Fanni Tutti is one of the icons of Independent Culture, working in music (Throbbing Gristle) and visual arts. This is an early work from 1976, called WOMANS ROLL.
Cool hip hop documentary
August 20, 2009
Dealing with the london hiphopscene in London, 1987. via The Walrus.
R.I.P. Michael Jackson 1958 – 2009
June 26, 2009
Last night, The King Of Pop Michael Jackson passed away. He was only 50 years old. To comfort you (and our Erik, who planned to attend one of the first shows in the O2 in London next month), even just a little bit, here is Silence is Sexy’s tribute to the mighty ‘Billy Jean’:
Spinal Tap World Tour
April 8, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXGbwIkvh38] The hard rock heroes from Spinal Tap are back! Rumours are they will embark on a massive world tour with one full show at the Wembley Arena, London. If you can’t make it to the show, watch the 1984 rockumentary ‘This Is Spinal Tap’. Good stuff.
Lot No: 198
March 17, 2009
Lot 198 of an upcoming auction at Bonhams, London, is an autograph full score of Bernard Herrmann’s music for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho, including the Murder in the Shower scene (‘The Murder’). “In this notorious sequence the strings end up playing a chord consisting of the notes E-flat, E-natural, F, and G-flat.” The first page [...]
Punk in London
March 2, 2009
[googlevideo=http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-3736504957959101475&hl=de] Is a documentary on Punk in London with The Clash (in München), The Adverts, X-Ray Spex, The Jam, The Boomtown Rats and The Lurkers.
Hokaben review
November 11, 2008
This weekend we went to the excellent Hokaben festival in London. It was a small scale ZXZW with artists like Sun Ra Arkestra, Chops, Dethscalator and Zun Zun Egui playing. The festival was held in 93 Feet East, a nice venue with 3 halls close to the Rough Trade record shop, in a cool part [...]
Hokaben festival
October 16, 2008
With ZXZW artists like Sun Ra Arkestra, Chops, Todd, Shitmat, Dethscalator, Hey Colossus, Zun Zun Egui, and Arabrot and favourite bands like Acid Mothers Temple, Fucked Up and Gravenhurst the London based Hokaben festival is definately worth a visit. Frank, Tijs and Joost will go there. Hope to see you there!!!
Ready for launch? New act added
May 7, 2008
THE new indie-sensation from England? We think it’s Hot Rocket so we’ve added them to the ZXZW line-up. Check it out: www.myspace.com/wearehotrocket www.wearehotrocket.com
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[Listen] (Not yet released) Ides of Gemini – Constantinople
May 22, 2012
“Imagine being followed by a choir of ghosts in ancient, desolated and haunted ruins of the city of Constantinople” is what we wrote about Ides of Gemini when we were announcing this band for our festival. During Incubate this band will play at Friday the 14th of September. Officially their new album will be released [...]