Debutant Disco has been selected as one of 20 finalists (out of 600 + entries) to possibly contribute music to a short film by leading Spanish director Jaume Balagueró.
If you have a MySpace account, you can vote (every day until 23 May 2010) for the song Young Blood.
Just follow this link; http://www.myspace.com/wikipeli
Since being short-listed a couple of days ago, the band has had over 2,000 song plays on MySpace over the weekend!
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WW Gallery invites you to attend the We Love 77 TimeOut First Thursdays event on 4th March 6-9pm with Zillah Minx talking about her film ‘She’s a Punk Rocker’ & Ginette Baker reading from her new book ‘It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Memoirs of a Rockstar’s Daughter 1974 – 1987. See our website for more information:
http://www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com/77.htm
The exhibition is OPEN DAILY from Sat 20 Feb – Sun 21st March and is
being held at WW Gallery’s pop-up venue:
The Merchant’s Hall, 46 Essex Road, London
N1 8LN (entrance on Packington Street)
Part play, part gig & part art installation, is brought to you by Mick Gordon & Billy Bragg from 19 April to 12 May at Wellcome Collection.
Check out the trailer, this play raises the issues that is in the back of most peoples heads, and its refreshing to see artists tackling issues that you would expect political leaders to be tackling. Timingly comes out before the UK general election.
Pressure Drop asks a central question: What makes me who I am? It explores the individual, familial, social and political reference points which make a person definable and recognisable to themselves and others here in the UK. ‘Pressure Drop’ takes us to the heart of one family’s struggle to ‘define home’.
This passionate drama written by acclaimed writer and theatre director Mick Gordon was inspired from singer-songwriter Billy Bragg and his book ‘The Progressive Patriot’, Bragg explores what it means to be English in contemporary Britain. Reflecting on his family, their history and revisiting the music that originally inspired him, Bragg challenges versions of patriotism proposed by the far right. For the production he will write and perform new work.
“I have never done anything like this before, mixing songs with theatre is a totally new experience for me,” said Bragg.
Billy Bragg recently threatened to withhold his tax payments unless the government stops banks using taxpayers’ money to pay their employees big bonuses. Good to see someone who can, make a stand !!
Gorillaz artist Jamie Hewlett teams up with Oxfam to fight climate change:: Oxfam GB.
Jamie Hewlett – the artist behind Tank Girl and Gorillaz – visited Bangladesh with Oxfam, to see for himself how climate change is already costing lives.
The experience inspired a series of watercolours, now showing as part of the Under Water Colours exhibition in London (details below). Limited edition prints of the watercolours are now available to buy in aid of our work in Bangladesh and Nepal. (more…)
The Prodigy returned this year selling over a million copies of new album ‘Invaders Must Die’ and playing a string of devastating live shows across the world that turn any gig into a festival and any festival into an snarling, pogoing orgy of full on rave power.
The small Bavarian town of Straubing has been invaded by 1,250 fascist garden gnomes with their stubby right arms raised in a Hitler salute – all in the name of art.
