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Ashford Antics
Apr. 19th, 2006 08:24 pmWell another day in the Ashford area.This time the village of Kingsnorth which is quite nice - decent pub though which serves yummy food.On the train journey from Brighton
i read the recently purchased (from Snoopers)complete Alfred Jarry "Ubu Plays" which is a classic proto-surrealist text which looks forward to Hugo Ball,Kurt Schwitters and The Dada and Surrealist movement. Strange stories - no wonder David Thomas named his art-punk band Pere Ubu. Influenced as they were by dada and surrealist ideas as well as the Situationists they defined a moment in agit-prop confrontation in the USA with the mass culture as much as Throbbing Gristle did over here. The book was a slim £2.50 and well worth reading.
Dug out another digital photo from last years Market Researchers party at the chinese restaurant in Haywards Heath. Compared to the previous year (2004) i found the food a bit disappointing.Anyway the photo is of the lovely Eve receiving a present i think.
After the lovely Eve dropped me off at Ashford station i had missed the train back to Brighton so i went via Charing Cross. I popped into Rough Trade just off Charing Cross Road in the heart of Covent garden (Neals Yard to be precise) and bought two CD's very cheaply in their sale and the latest Sound Projector magazine (#14). The 2 CD's are first of all - Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne and Toshinori Kondo "Jazz Bunker" (Leo Golden Years of New Jazz 2000) - a double CD of free improv foe £3 and Giorgio Gaslini "Enigma" (Soul Note 2001) for £4.
Fopp is close by and hence popped in and bought "Tarnation" DVD which sounds really good.
i read the recently purchased (from Snoopers)complete Alfred Jarry "Ubu Plays" which is a classic proto-surrealist text which looks forward to Hugo Ball,Kurt Schwitters and The Dada and Surrealist movement. Strange stories - no wonder David Thomas named his art-punk band Pere Ubu. Influenced as they were by dada and surrealist ideas as well as the Situationists they defined a moment in agit-prop confrontation in the USA with the mass culture as much as Throbbing Gristle did over here. The book was a slim £2.50 and well worth reading.
Dug out another digital photo from last years Market Researchers party at the chinese restaurant in Haywards Heath. Compared to the previous year (2004) i found the food a bit disappointing.Anyway the photo is of the lovely Eve receiving a present i think.
After the lovely Eve dropped me off at Ashford station i had missed the train back to Brighton so i went via Charing Cross. I popped into Rough Trade just off Charing Cross Road in the heart of Covent garden (Neals Yard to be precise) and bought two CD's very cheaply in their sale and the latest Sound Projector magazine (#14). The 2 CD's are first of all - Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne and Toshinori Kondo "Jazz Bunker" (Leo Golden Years of New Jazz 2000) - a double CD of free improv foe £3 and Giorgio Gaslini "Enigma" (Soul Note 2001) for £4.
Fopp is close by and hence popped in and bought "Tarnation" DVD which sounds really good.
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