EVENTS LISTINGS – 25th – 31st of January
by Thomas Eckhardt
BOOKS
STORYTAILS
The Pangea Project
Sunday January 31
What kind of people would we be if we didn’t plug our supporters? Gabriella Apicella, who writes many film reviews for us has started her very own storytelling evening called ‘Storytails’ and we are convinced it will be a huge success. As if you didn’t already live there, make sure you get yourself to Stoke Newington this Sunday evening, for at the Pangea Project ‘Storytails’ begins. People will be reading their stories out loud, and you will enjoy hearing them. That’s the idea. Submissions for the February installment will need to be sent in by February 18th. Go to www.storytails.org for more information.
MUSIC
Miike Snow, I Blame Coco & Alex Gardner
Wed Jan 27
The Tabernacle, Powis Square, London, W11 2AY
£10
It’s lovely when a bouncy Swede pops onto the scene. We loved the Cardigans, Europe and most recently I’m from Barcelona. Now enters Miike Snow, a Swedish indie-pop band that want to convince us of their trendy credentials. Don’t just take my word for it though. Have a look at the video for last year’s catchy single ‘Animal’.
Supporting them is I Blame Coco, a young lady who has just been given a six album deal with Island Records. Six albums? Who get’s a six album deal after doing next to nothing these days? Oh yes, that’s right, Sting’s daughter. She’s got a lovely voice has our Coco though, it sounds a bit like…erm…well…you know.
ART
ART-BIN
SOUTH LONDON GALLERY
29 January – 14 March
Michael Landy, the man who once destroyed all his possessions will from Friday start disposing of art into a 600m3 bin. People will bring their art, he will chuck it in the bin. He describes it as a ‘monument to creative failure’. http://www.southlondongallery.org/docs/exh/exhibition.jsp?id=164&view=future
FILM
MOVING TO MARS dir. Mat Whitecross
THE ICA
Until January 30
Apart from being generally positively reviewed, the thing that appeals to me about this documentary film about a group of Burmese people moving from their refugee camp in Thailand all the way to their new home in Sheffield is its length. 84mins. That should be the limit on any film. Apart from that I can only say that the trailer looks fantastic and that I would give it a watch.
This is what therealbangaio had to say about the trailer.
“How do they get more than halfway around the world as so called refugees? We are doing them a cultural disservice in settling them in a country so far removed from their own. The way that the UK is being forcefully changed by ultra leftist morons is criminal. I weep for the futures of my children in the new “theme park” of multiculti UK.”
Nobody said there would be a theme park!
