If banning alcohol on the underground is the worst legislation passed during Boris Johnson’s reign at City Hall, we should all be relieved. The appointment of Tim ‘Prince of Darkness’ Parker as the new boss of Transport For London does not bode well for the future of the tube network on the more serious issues of staffing and safety. But anyway, there’s a pre-drinking ban party being ‘organised’ (in a very loose sense of the word) for the last evening before the ban comes into force on the Circle Line. The event is reminiscent of the Circle Line parties ‘organised’ by legendary Anarchitect collective Space Hijackers during the early years of this decade and looks like it should be a lot of fun. Bring dinner jacket and Pimms!
{May 23, 2008} Last Orders On The Underground
{May 18, 2008} Foals on Boris
This made my day. From the Foals’ Myspace:
in less than a week we’re flying back to london from new york. the jet-lag is one thing, and the pressures of playing a huge bbc festival after no sleep is another, but the fear that we’ll be flying into a city that isn’t so much a newly fascist city-state than one big gilded joke of a newspaper column made rotten flesh–by which i mean it’s probably going to smell a bit worse–is i would say the biggest of all. boris “picaninny” johnson, we salute you–sort of like we’d salute any smug self-satisfied old-etonian holding a statute-book to our head. congratulations, and good luck with the olympics.
at least when california elected a clown as governor they elected one who’d made his name as a muscle-man. boris appears to have been elected simply because he has blond hair.
Damn straight.
{March 15, 2008} More Art Exhibitions
While we’re promoting art exhibitions, the British Library currently has an excellent exhibition entitled Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900 - 1937. The exhibition explores the ‘-ism’ movements of the early twentieth century- Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Surrealism- and their impact, which can be seen in the artwork of bands such as Franz Ferdinand, New Order and the Sex Pistols. Also, here’s advance notice of 1968 and All That, a conference and bookfair to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Situationist uprising in Paris, which takes place on May 10th. Both events are in central London and are free, though for the latter you need to register by email first.
As Samuel Johnson once said, when a man is tired of London…
