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As some of you will know, I've been working on book about punk - part teenage diary, part serious reflections on the times, from the NF to Peter Sutcliffe. Here's a podcast interview on it, which you may like to listen to / like / share / whatever CC x
open.spotify.com/episode/3Lp…
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Congratulations young lady😀👍
Delighted to have two images included in the new FLOWERS exhibition by the Carlotta Gallery.
Foxgloves + Red Hot Poker
All the images chosen for the exhibition are here -
carlottagallery.co.uk/flower…
Delighted to have two images included in the new FLOWERS exhibition by the Carlotta Gallery.
Foxgloves + Red Hot Poker
All the images chosen for the exhibition are here -
carlottagallery.co.uk/flower…
Having enjoyed Matt Johnson's film 'Tony', went back to earlier film 'Blackberry' about the rise & fall of the once-famous mobile device that ruled the world - at least until the iPhone.
Highly entertaining businessworld lunacy.For fans of 'The Big Short'.
youtube.com/watch?v=cXL_HDzB…
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Just started Alice Cooper's autobiography. Already I can tell its going to be excellent. This is NOT going to be the usual "wild men live crazy" rock & roll read.
Book 22 / 2026
Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential
25+ years late to this great romp, but entered the world of AB very back to front, starting w/the film 'Tony' about his youth, followed by the docu 'Roadrunner' about his sad end. This is the deservedly 'spotlight' middle.
Ossie Clark & Celia Birtwell at the Fashion & Textile Museum was fashion & textile heaven! Went w/my friend Silka, over from Germany, &, despite both being tomboys, we loved the version of femininity on show - sophisticated, cool, sexy & a wonderful part of 70s cultural language.
So fantastic to see a friend who works so hard at her art (photography) getting a serious solo show and also a mention in The Guardian as a 'best of' from #PhotoMonth.
Congrats darling Lou Melchior - at Gallery46 in Whitechapel till 25 October!
Book 21 / 2026
Linda Rosenkrantz - Peter Hujar's Day
This slight slip of a book is a delight; also the inspo for the film of the same name (which I still cannot find to stream!)
The late Peter Hujar is a magician, whose photos (Raven Row '25) almost moved me to tears.
Art about artists is such a phenomenon. Not sure what it says about the ZeitGeist, but I love it!
Finally caught up with this gem by Richard Linklater. Don't love all Godard's work, but I do adore 'Breathless' - the making of which is the subject here -
youtube.com/watch?v=UufRzKVF…
I loved Oasis from the second I heard 'Supersonic'. Even though I was in my 30s already, I was hooked like a teenager. We bought everything & saw them over and over - Earls Court, Wembley, even taking our kids to see them in Cardiff, just so they could say they were there.
I had no great interest in getting tickets for the new dates (tho' I did sell an old tour t-shirt for £450!). The documentary, however, is fab. Great to hear all that populist optimism again.
youtube.com/watch?v=X9sIYLtg…
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Oh! The Beautiful South are trending.
Quite right.
Here's one of their magnificent cover versions.
youtube.com/watch?v=KEK3lbwr…
