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?