Sunday 28th June
Hello world. This is the cake, let's eat it. I'm listening to: 'Preliminaries' by Iggy Pop. How about you?
Saturday 27th June
Ricky gets Tricky with the beast machines as they recover from a close proximity blast of lightning attack. Screens go down at Studio Hyde & modems at the Lemon shuffle off this mortal coil. All the street lights are out as we drive through the dark searching for a radio station that can feed our insatiable need for sonic pleasures. I got a big bag of CD's sat under my table fresh in from America. The table is strewn with words & incomplete lines from yet to be released new works from the heads of Smith & Hyde. They sit there on the table, staring back & grinning at me every morning, running round my brain in loops. Tagging onto the ends of half eaten sentences that blow my way off the streets. Word soup. Text pie. Something to leave on a low heat over night between the ears whilst you are sleeping. Keep your eyes on the road.
Friday 26th June
The Lemon was a great place to be yesterday. The sky was hot, blue & infinite. The energy was up. The grooves fizzed & jumped. The kind've day you go home feeling like you're loads been lightened, which it hasn't but I'm not gonna get picky. Midnight radio spread the news of the passing of another passenger of Mother Earth. We rise to complex emotions. Remembering a little boy & a sound that lifted us as it jumped out the radio.
Thursday 25th June
At the Lemon the music's loud under a blue sky too big to fit into the eye. Filming barley ripples in a gentle breeze for the onstage screens. The boys behind the scenes wrestle beast machines into submission on another long day. Things you'll never see, details you'll never know happen daily out here, just as they have done for months & years before. In preparation for kicking off the joyous celebrations we come out into the world to experience with you. How's your day been?
Listening to Dandy Livingstone
Wednesday 24th June
The girl with the legs up to the sky luvvy-hugged the man with the tan as the boy with the banana
pushed past, running to get into the dirty hole beneath the city. The City's hot-n-sticky, built for believers & hunter-gatherers - breathers of dust ...(more...)
Tuesday 23rd June
At the Lemon they got grooves the size of Wales. Smith-n-Pricey wrestle them into submission.
The new beast machine fights back but is no match for masters of groove. Bare with me on the
story of life underground beneath the feet of Liverpool street/ It's been a long day & my brain
needs to switch off. Checking out the art of Adrian Ghenie who has an extraordinary show at
the Haunch of Venison gallery in London.
Monday 22nd June
Out at the Lemon we got big skies & good vibes. Today, shaking down the new gear with brothers
Smith & Price we rattle the groove-bone & let the electricity flow. Did I tell you the story of the toilets
under Liverpool street? Maybe tomorrow. Today we got the paintings of Daniel Belardinelli to feed on.
