The lineup for Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Festival is up & it’s bangin.
Just confirmed are Floating points, Gaslamp killer, Orchestre Poly-Rhytmo de Cotonou & shitloads more.
It’s on a private beach in france which beats a field in Kildare anyday.
Respect to floating points for bringing vinyl to Dublin on Saturday night. Bangin set & no serato.
Xlr8r just put up a new mix
From last years Butter & on the bill for this years Sonar.
Dapper chap Daedelus is playing for free tomorrow night at the launch of Choicecuts new site. Check it for details
Our mate Od Alex is having a show in London – i would highly recommend going – hes awesome ! heres the official press bit
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Solo show by London based artist Alex Young.
Traversing the boundaries of Fine Art, Illustration, and Graffiti, Alex Young’s latest body of work investigates the social phenomena of ‘alter-ego’s’, informed by the artist’s own experiences as both a graffiti writer and purveyor of Fine Art.
Alex Young’s finely detailed pointillist style portraits feature at the centre of A.K.A, deriving from a series of personal interviews with a range of pseudonymous characters, from burlesque dancers to heavy metal guitarists. His resultant monolithic portraits, whilst photorealistic from afar, on closer inspection offer a wealth of illustrative detail and subtle nuances, alluding to the subjects ‘performed’ identity. Adorning his portraits with multi-layered symbolism and imagery, Young elicits a multitude of narrative strands in these thought-provoking and complex paintings.
Rendered primarily in spray paint, Young’s medium of choice points to years of dedication as a graffiti writer – an endeavour committed to alongside his time spent in formal art training. Compelled to highlight others who nurture such a dual-personality, and the social prejudices and stereotypes that necessitate this ‘alter-ego’ phenomena, A.K.A is an acutely sociological examination of the all too often bigoted and judgemental nature of collective social consciousness.
A.K.A will also feature installations of fine-detail painted animal skulls, inspired by Young’s love of tattoo imagery and the macabre allure of Mexican sugar skulls. From popular culture to Classical and Contemporary Art disciplines, A.K.A will once again exhibit Young’s inimitable ability to coalesce an unbounded range of influences.
Succeeding his hugely successful debut ‘Exhibitionism’ at the Grenade Gallery in 2008, Young’s new body of work looks to set to expand his artistic and conceptual horizons to even loftier new heights.
On Thursday 1st April, 2010 London Miles welcomes you to join us in east London for the opening reception of A.K.A and an evening with the artist, Alex Young.
If you’re in the west for Easter check the Community Skratch Games 2010. Scratch madness in a bar full of german beer over 3 nights. A nice way to get shitfaced
With Floating Points coming to Dublin Easter Saturday, check out the rest of the EGLO family on SpineTV. Fatima’s new ep is in the shops this weekend.
Two St. Paddys day efforts from Nike & Supra. The Air Force 1s are pretty boring & lazy effort compared to these badboys & supra just have 1 pic up a week before they go on sale.
The legends John Giles, Eamon Dunphy and Bill O’Herlihy are getting their portraits revealed in Pygmalion this evening at 8pm.
Followed by tunes from Beatdown guests Twoc, Fruitman & Jace Manhattan.
As part of some Heineken thing – Foals are playing in Dublin 14th May in The Academy . . . I cant fuckin wait – this new tune is totally different for them , but in general theyre bangin ‘
