2008 Gold

TY @ The Big Chill


Sam Sparro's take on Estelle's American Boy.
Super Gay. Super Good.


Santagold. More White glasses.

Merry Christmas East Dulwich

Hope you all have a wonderful time... Please feel free to print out, colour in and give to your breadbins and family. Enjoy. See you in 2009!

"Pull the Other One" Comedy Night...

Nissan QashQai Winner!!!

Not sure how this happened, but a few month ago I entered a competition to win a Nissan QashQai for 3months and 500 queen's chins. I had to prove my blogging worth and show that I can provide snazz-tastic places to go for arts, music and ting. So, yeh I won. total fluke i reckon.

If you need a lift or know of any good shiznit going on, let me know. it'd be muchas appreciated.

plus, if you'd like me to come to your party, want to feed me delicious fodder, have a gig/play or exhibition coming up give me a nudge, and i'll do my best to plug plug plug.

More From David Mach...

Havelock Walk Open Studios, originally uploaded by Hobnobrob.

Sculpture made of matches. Beautifully made. T'wud be a good burning performance piece no?

Havelock Walk Open Studios

Havelock Walk Open Studios, originally uploaded by Hobnobrob.

David Mach and a host of super artists opened their studios at Havelock Walk, Forrest Hill, just over yonder from East Dulwich.

Superb Collages, sculptures, mulled wine and friendly artists helped set the Christmas Mood.

A lot of the studios were lived in studios, amazingly warm. Perfectly integrating home and work, love and life. I'd love to live on Havelock Walk.

David Mach
www.havelockwalk.com

Santa Propping

Santa Kidnapped...

Hello Ben & Becks....

Last week I met Beck's & Ben at Shane's Wonderful birthday party. The Spalls set a high standard for Partying, and it was lovely to be invited to celebrate the life & times of Mamma Spall (hope the stubby plant is surviving!).

Back to Beck's & Ben. Check his store above... Becks mentioned Ben is a graffiti artist living in east Dulwich. I said that I do do a blog in East Dulwich and Now Ben is on the blog. Amazing. Still, check more of his stuff here. it's nice & gritty. Loving the Textures.Look forward to bumping into these peeps soon. and if youre reading this let me know about any plays you're in Becks....

Ben McKay Art

Dulwich Park Yum

We took a little stroll through Dulwich park last Sunday. T'were lovely it was. We played frisbee for the first time, checked out the nifty craft market next to the cafe that sold lots of nice mumsy stuff.... I bought a Bee Whistle and took a shine to this robot material....

Then we hit The Dulwich Park Picture Gallery, which was brilliant. You've got to check out the Saul Steinburg exhibition (thanks for the Recommendation Rosie!). it's 9 jib to get in, but well worth it. Fantastic Style, and experimentation with stamps, collage and cartoonesque maps. Love a good map.

Plus there's also a free "What are you like?" exhibition on. The idea is to ask various artist what they like; their favourite colour, place and get them to repsond in their style. There's loads of great artits who've contributed; brian eno, Quentin Blake & David Shrigley.


So yeh, go check it out. At first I thought the gallery was going to be a bit stuffy, with all the classic portrait pictures hung everywhere, but the have a good balance of contemporary snazz too. Nuff good.
www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk

Mutate

DSC00051.JPG, originally uploaded by Hobnobrob.

I Checked out the Mutate gallery in shoreditch last week. Some really good work on show by various street art pusher hustlers. There's loads more pics in my flickr....

Technically it was all good, but for me I, I felt like the street art scene hasn't moved on much since Banksy. It's all a bit apocolyptic, doom and gloom, artistic self harm style of subject matter. Fricking brighten up eh?

I don't know about you but I'd rather walk down a street and be confronted by something that makes me smile. Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time street art was on the street and not in a gallery.

Still I like this skull made of lots of pin badges.
...but would you hang it on your wall at home?

me neither.

Seen & Done Collage

Seen & Done Collage, originally uploaded by Hobnobrob.

I'm a self-confessed horder, here's some stuff I've bagged in and around London ville. Loving the Blue Peter badge. I've also started collecting postcards of the royal family, London Kitsch.

Discobox this Satursnacks....

Find the Party here
Sample the Discobox sound here

Lucky 7's

Lucky 7's, originally uploaded by Hobnobrob.

Lucky 7's at the Gowlett pub in Peckham is becoming something of a fortnightly love for moi et my East Dulwich breadbins. The general jist is that you bring 7 of your old or new 7inches (45rpm) and play them when your bingo ball is picked out of the basket.

Saying that, it doesn't always pan out like that. We generally get the last half hour slot, but boy do we rock it. Pete, pascale & myself have been known to spin some serious tunes to put the pool folk of their pot shots.

last week we played.... Sam Fox, Bizarre Inc, M'tune & a bit or Real to Real.

Golden Kate

Golden Kate, originally uploaded by Hobnobrob.

Poped across to the British Museum the t'other week and found Miss Moss has been re-created as a golden statue in a rather painful looking yoga snatch pack and pose. I love it. Kate Moss is like timeless yeh?

Romeo...

bit old now but, still worth a watch. Basement Jaxx @ Brixton last year...


Romeo Acappella from Rob Ellis on Vimeo.

Elephant & Castle Refresh...

Outside the Frieze Art Fair...

check www.friezeartfair.com/

Roger Hiorns "Seizure"

Big Roger filled a flat due to be culled in south london with copper sulphate. No idea what it all meant, but I like the idea of creating something beautiful and arresting knowing that it will be demolished in the near future. Shame it's only going to be replaced by more pre-fab flats.

check www.artangel.org.uk

Night Strolls along the Southbank...

Respect to the Fallen...

Chin Chin...

Forget Xbox and Sky Tv, I'll take a bag of googley eyes any time.

Discobox @ the Seabright Arms

ok so it's not east dulwich, but it is still the east (just Hackney)

this is a brilliant night and your very own Bill Brewster is djing on sat 6th of december. so get yer sen out of east dulwich for a night.

PARTY INFO:
Date: 6th December 2008 9pm - 3am
Guest DJ: Bill Brewster (Low Life / djhistory.com )
Residents: Toru (Discobox / Vinyl Junkies), Andy Newcombe (Discobox / It's All Good)
Music policy: Disco
Sound: NCA 8K rig
Door: £5 before 10pm, £7 after
Where: The Basement, Sebright Arms, 34 Coate Street, E2 9AG Tel: 020 7729 0937
Map: here
Nearest Tube: Bethnal Green
Info: www.discoboxmusic.co.uk

check the facebook group here

ps. the bottom right picture is a russian guy dancing into some mirrors at the russian bar in shoreditch. propper weird in there, nothing to do with discobox

Beware!!!

It's a dog muck minefield out there.

Get your Pleasure Bus Art

Yes Yes, the pleasure bus tour may well have ground to a halt back in September after a month long adventure taking in some of the best and worst of the UK, but if you didn't make it you can check out our adventure here or buy some ltd edition artworks from here



This is me and my partner in crime Nick modeling our pleasure bus tour t-shirts. check check.

Hello East...

Smile Poster

.......found at Space Station 65, the art gallery that never appears to be open on N Cross Rd.

All up in your face....

I really hope DJ stupid exists. If you know DJ Stupid, will you ask them to send me a mixtape?

Autumnal

Yes, Yes, back to walking through Battersnatch park to go to work. Still, there's some beautiful autumnal action in the foilage. Autumnal is a very popular word in our gaff. Autumnal hmmmm.

Little Guards of number 30

Anitque...

The Antique shop half way up North Cross Rd market is always a good place to pop in. Snaffle old school bog brushes, stuffed squirrels, musty furniture and whatnot. It's truly a treasure trove of well made old stuff. Lovejoy eat your heart out.

MuTate Britain...

Looks like it could be full of arty goodness.

Thanks J...

Big thanks to Jeremy, who managed to earn zero points for posting on the blog. Apologies to all 5 of you, who read "hello east dulwich".

There's been a severe attack of slack from myself too, since coming back from the pleasure bus tour. but have no fear, there will be more nonsense coming your way. believe.

Say Hello to Jeremy...

I'm off on this Pleasure Bus Tour, so Jeremy is taking over for a bit. Jeremy is an East Dulwich Regular, a smashing chap & a reet good laugh. He's scared of Moth's, eats grissle & has recently fallen off his bike, so be gentle with him. Enjoy J.

Street Art Exhibition

If you haven't already been to the Po-Tatey Modern to check the Street Art exhibition then do, it's good.

Loving Sixeart

Proper Love the Sun me...

Crane Get's Stuck

I was on my way to East Dulwich Train Station, then I wasn't. A lorry with a big crane on the back had forgotten that a bridge was there. Still I wasn't bitter. I like the walk to Peckham Rye.

Street Cleaner & Leaf Blower Chat

A beautifully observed moment captured by Schninkle McFinkle.

Horniman's Plunder

Nicola's been on about the Horniman Museum for a while now, so we popped along to take it all in, and there's a lot to take in. What struck me straight away was a similar feeling I have when I look round the British Museum. A sense of Awe then a smack of guilt. There's lots of wonderful stuff in here, but everything feels like it's got there through a rather sinister story ie. Horniman either killed it or nicked it. Still, on a positive note, there's a bee hive inside. We played spot the Queen Bee for while. Then gave up & banged the Indian musical instruments with the kids.

FREE Party...

I'm heading off on an adventure on wedsnesday 13th of August & want you to join me & my buddy nick at our FREE Pleasure Bus Tour Launch Party. Check The Pleasure Bus Tour to see what's going on. There'll be a free disco, art work for sale & hopefully some free bizzle to snizzle. Come, Say hello.

NYC in ED

We found this classic NYC taxi on our meander up to Forrest Hill. I had to move the bins and everything to get this picture. The local shop keeper wasn't too impressed. I put them back though. I don't reckon this car moves much though. Sad eh?

Goose Green Fest

We wandered across to the Goose green Carnival, got involved in the candy floss free for all, bought a book showing a monkey giving birth for 20p, won a pair of fluffy handcuffs on the tombola & found the best dancer we've seen in a long time. See Below. Good all round really.

Respect

Respect from Rob Ellis on Vimeo.
Simon are you watching?

Well I never!

The T'other week we innocently headed for Bar Story, in Peckham. We like Story as it's full of quirky art folk who enjoy the less conventional forms of entertainment. They've also got an art gallery in the back, underneath Peckham Rye Train station. We wandered in to what appeared to be an artistic appreciation of the female body, or a soft porn shoot to some. Interesting huh?