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Winston Smith’s Graphic Anarchy in London

Winston Smith and his legendary and timeless collage art will return to London for a one-off appearance at Orbital Comics Gallery in London on May 19. This rare appearance will be one-night only affair between 5-7pm open to all.

Graphic Anarchy:  40 years of Underground Punk “Art” will see San Franciscan artist Smith, who has graced the world with his unique vision for his own works and sleeves for music artists such as Green Day, Ben Harper and Dead Kennedys (to name just a few), in London town to share a beer and some of his controversial art works at 8, Great Newport Street. This visit is to celebrate the triumph of Anarchism over the tedious outdated Monarchy, who won’t be in attendance this time as they have a Royal Wedding to televise on the same evening.

Winston will be joined by his pal, John Heartfield representing the brilliant anti-Nazi photo-montage art of his granddad of the same name.  Both friends will host an interview/panel discussion conducted by the one and only Savage Pencil, including a Q&A from the public.

Winston will have a collection of signed, limited edition Iris Prints on display including a selection of rare rock posters and signed book pages from his three volume set published by Last Gasp of San Francisco. Hob-knob with the hoi polloi and check out Winston’s new 24-page show catalogue, created especially for this event. It’ll either be a collector’s paradise or a scenester’s hell. Like they say: One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

There will also be a viewing the following day on Sunday, May 20 until 7pm but there’s no telling when Winnie will show up that day. It all depends on how bad his hangover is. So come on Saturday the 19th while he’s still semi-coherent. 5pm till 7pm, or until whenever the Hop Daemon craft beer runs out.

 

 

Erasure 24-Track Live Album

Erasure (Andy Bell and Vince Clarke) will release World Be Live - a 24-track live album recorded in London in February during the band's World Be Gone tour on July 6. World be Live will be available in 2CD, 3-vinyl and download formats, and completes a trilogy of albums that began in 2017 with the release of Erasure's seventeenth studio album World Be Gone, and continued with World Beyond, their post-classical reworking of the songs from World Be Gone recorded in collaboration with Echo Collective and released in March this year.

World Be Live was recorded across two shows at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith at the close of Erasure's sold out UK World Be Gone tour which saw the award-winning songwriters play hits from across their career in a show that included live versions of the timeless pop hits, ‘Sometimes’, ‘Oh L’Amour’, ‘Ship of Fools’, ‘Chains of Love’, ‘Blue Savannah’ and ‘Stop!’, alongside a cover of Blondie’s ‘Atomic’ and tracks from World Be Gone, including ‘Love You To The Sky’.

Erasure, who recently accepted the Icon Award at Attitude’s 2017 award ceremony, have released a staggering number of albums, including 5 UK Number 1s, and 35 UK Top 40 singles. World Be Gone went to Number 6 in the UK Official Albums Chart, giving the enduring BRIT and Ivor Novello winning pop duo their highest album chart position since 1994’s I Say I Say I Say.

 

 

 

 

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