Views from the margins

I’m listening to The Red Guitars’ single Good Technology via a music streaming service on my phone. For a moment I stepped back in time – or did the past simply catch up on me?   From Hull -The Red Guitars   Recorded in 1983  The Red Guitars were a self-defined...

Politician I highly respect, one active between the two world wars. I'm talking about Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim. I don't understand politics very well, but it seems to me that nice people are not involved, with the exception of Caligula. But all I know about him...

Just What Is It That Makes Today's Zine’s So Different?  What makes zines different today could be the regionalistic aspect: in the last few years there seems to be a growing trend towards localised, tradition and folk oriented zines, which could be a way for people...

NOTES FROM A GALLERY 2 WALLS & MASKS   After the first night of Band of Holy Joy’s action at Gallery 46 I was really looking forward to whatever came next. I’m glad to say I wasn’t disappointed. Yesterday I’d been pretty near overwhelmed by the intense...

NOISE BEAUTY PASSION HOLY JOY/NOTES FROM A GALLERY, pts 1-2 How do we respond to the madness of the last year – embrace the craziness? Hang on to the remaining threads of normality? None of the above? Lockdown restrictions have made life especially difficult for...

Its early in the morning and I am waking up to a fog of thoughts, trying to assemble them into some kind of structure for another day in Lockdown UK. I know the current restrictions are for the good of  us all, that's  a no brainer as far as I'm concerned, but It’s a...