I had the good fortune to be at The Grove Hotel recently for a friend’s birthday celebrations. Anyone knowing this swanky modern hotel will know that it’s been designed with a large selection of modern art and sculpture as part of its decor – I’ve put a few shots of interesting pieces up on my [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Copper bowl bird bath
Posted in Visual art, tagged bird bath, copper, copper pipe, garden art, the grove hotel, watford on August 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Big Saw, Little Saw
Posted in Visual art, tagged garden, garden art, garden ornaments, rust, rusty, saw, saws, sculpture on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a couple of new garden ornaments I’ve just slung together – my usual theme of rusty things stuck on the top of equally rusty poles!
I’ve had these old saws lying around for a while now and had intended to remove the wooden handles, but decided at the last minute I quite liked them left [...]
Peculiar Percussion Range #3 – Opera features ‘Lagerphone’ !
Posted in Music, tagged bottle tops, david brude, freedom boot, groanbox boys, hammersmith, lagerphone, piosenki, riverside studios on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I went to a performance of my composer friend David Bruce’s new song set/opera Piosenki at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith at the weekend.- most excellent it was too!!
Featured in the piece is David’s ‘lagerphone’, a crazy percussion instrument made from three spade handles, bells and lots of metal disks / bottle tops!
Here is a [...]
Handle bargain!
Posted in Visual art, tagged brass, case, handles, steampunk on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Look what I’ve just bought in the sale at my local B+Q DIY Store for 10p – that’s 0.10 of an English pound, people!
Not only were they dirt cheap, but I also thought they would be perfect for my Steampunk Carrying Case project.
I forgot to put anything in there for scale again, but the handles [...]
Old drawers made into new furniture…
Posted in Stuff, tagged drawers, furniture, laminate, schubladen on August 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I was kicking back this Sunday and reading one of the Sunday supplements – in it was an article concerning people who had been made redundant in the recent recession and used the opportunity to set up their own craft businesses.
One that really caught my eye was the following website (it’s in German unfortunately so [...]
New musical project does its first proper gig…
Posted in Music, tagged acoustic, alan andrews, clive batkin, Gerald Roberts, hot air balloon, instrumental, jazz, Music, world music on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For what seems like ages now I’ve been writing and rehearsing with my stupendous nylon-sting guitar playing friend Gerald Roberts. Having done the tortuous bit (ie all the squabbling, negotiating and compromising needed to get an initial set of tunes together), we finally got around to getting some gigs…
Having played at a friends party (many [...]
Hej from Sweden!
Posted in Stuff, tagged Gothenburg, guesthouse, Lysekil, sweden on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve not posted for a week or so, as I’ve been having a little trip away to visit a very old friend in sunny (or as it proved, rather wet and stormy ) Sweden!
My mate lives a few Kms outside a smallish town on the coast called Lysekil, a couple of hours outside Gothenburg. He [...]
