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"A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're happy
And I meet you at the cemetery gates
Oh, Keats and Yeats are on your side"
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I just felt like uploading a picture. Do you ever just feel like uploading a picture? Like, contributing to the internet in anyway somehow reminds the the rest of the world that you still exist? That you're still around making stuff?
Mural of The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke on The Wheatsheaf pub, corner of Oak Street and Brightwell Walk, Manchester 27-11-24
To coincide with Pancreatic Cancer Day
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The Smiths
CD + Postcard :
The Smiths
The Headmaster Ritual
Rough Trade
RTT 215
Sleeve . Morrissey
Star . Viv Nicholson
Use Hearing Protection
GMA
The last of the famous international playboys turned 50 today.
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So, I have been messing around with some different lighting ideas. For this, I hung a white sheet from the ceiling. I placed 2 flashes about 6' behind it and set them to full power. The shot I was actually trying to get was completely different than this. What I had in my mind and what I was getting out of the camera didn't match up :-(
Before I tore it all down, I shot this one, just for shits and giggles. One take, didn't even check it on the camera. So, after going through all the shots of what I was trying to get and getting pissed cause they all sucked, I came across this one. The lighting really caught my eye. I have no idea why it even worked the way it did. I was expecting nothing more then a silhouette. Anyway...this is my mistake that turned into a success. I love it when that happens.
Hope you all have a sweet weekend. It sounds like the snow might be flying around here soon!
I can't wait :-)
Day One of Coachella Music Festival Johnny Marr!!! He even played Smiths songs!
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A bike in Trinity College.
Life goes on here in Dublin.
And here's one of the greatest songs ever written...
"Good times for a change
See, the luck I've had
Can make a good man
Turn bad
So please please please
Let me, let me, let me
Let me get what I want
This time
Haven't had a dream in a long time
See, the life I've had
Can make a good man bad
So for once in my life
Let me get what I want
Lord knows, it would be the first time
Lord knows, it would be the first time."
(The Smiths - "Please please please let me get what I want")
I just adore this perfect Christmas gift from Lia with all my faves, framed and about to be hung up!
"A new print celebrating our 40 year-long love affair with post-punk bands. We’ve reimagined 48 seminal post-punk albums as a series of postage stamps beginning in 1977 with Television’s massively influential album Marquee Moon.
Other classic albums featured include Devo and their 1978 album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, Joy Division and Unknown Pleasures, Throbbing Gristle and 20 Jazz Funk Greats. The Teardrop Explodes and Kilimanjaro, Echo & The Bunnyman and Porcupine, Talking Heads and Remain in Light, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Juju, The Cure and Pornography, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Psychocandy and The Smiths and The Queen is Dead.
Each stamp features a graphic inspired by the album (or tracks on the album), the date of release, the label it was released on and its running time."
4 colour litho print with silver foil
120gsm KeayKolour China White uncoated paper
H80 x W60cm
Week 3.
Sorry this took a little long, it's been a busy week since i've moved back to London.
Anyway I was inspired while listening to The Smiths, "There is a light that never goes out" which is an incredible song. I've been going through a rough time but I know that no matter how hopeless things bet, there is still that little light.
Originally i wanted fairy lights coming out my mouth but that failed so this happened.
The Smiths
CD :
The Smiths
Louder Than Bombs
Rough Trade
ROUGH255
Sleeve . Morrissey
Art Co-ordination . Joe Slee
Cover Star . Shelagh Delaney
Postcard :
Yoshitomo Nara
Too Young To Die
2001
Use Hearing Protection
GMA
The Smiths
CD :
Sonic Youth
Goo
Geffen
1990
Artwork . Raymond Pettibon
Postcard :
Peter Stämpfli
Gala
Huile Sur Toile
1965
Use Hearing Protection
GMA
'The Smiths' formed six years after the start of the British punk rock scene, and perhaps projected into their way-of-being three elements from this cultural dynamic: a sense of make-do or DIY, a sense of commentating from outside of society (unemployment culture included), and a sense of opinion generated from polemical example.
Punk rock is today perhaps famous for its blanket nihilisms: “Anarchy in the UK”, “White riot”, “No future” - all with varied forms of the Vivian Westwood dress-sense. Aside this ultra-vivid self-created stigma, the late 70s musical/cultural movement of UK Punk had created lyrical and musical vignettes that stayed on record players and transferred to C60 chrome mix-tapes: “Easy germ free adolescence” ('X-Ray Spex' 78) plotted a closed 'existential' in the life of an individual; 'Lost in a supermarket' ('The Clash' 79) was another vignette, but this time describing a poetic angle into a modern life that many could relate to, and, as a third example - “Love comes in spurts” ('The Voidoids' 76) - featuring a lyric that uses 'childish' shock word-play and active double-meanings to register and parody existing lyrical convention, whilst describing certain truisms. It can be said that depictions of highly specific sentiments; unusual but collective views on the modern world and the shock use of words and their dynamic meanings became the terrain of the 'post punk', 'DIY' Manchester band - 'The Smiths'.
With the lyrical whit of their singer Morrissey, 'The Smiths' kept a punkist sense of polemical charge (“The Queen is Dead”; “Hang the DJ” and “Meat is Murder”) whilst systematically developing individual and social themes. If musical skills were often missing (or denied) during UK Punk, then the Post Punk years saw an overt return of musical virtuosity (hand in hand with groups higher on idea and form than musical technicity). One nest of guitar skills hovered around the New York City band 'The Voidoids' with Tom Verlain, Robert Quine and Richard Lloyd all important Post Punk guitar stylists (even if US 'Post Punk' arrived before UK Punk - for example 'Pere Ubu' 1975). Around 1980 in Manchester England, a man who could match 'Nick Drake' for reserve produced a low-key, but much listened to record titled “The return of the Durutti Column” (a Spanish civil war reference in the name and title) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pddox1SYHko. 'The Durutti Column's Vini Reilly's meticulous detailing of guitar melody was perhaps matched across the city of Manchester by the extraordinary guitar style of Johnny Marr – the principle co-songwriter to 'The Smiths', whose style became clearly visible as early as 'The Smith's' second single. Marr's sense of shimmering detailing is also clearly apparent in the example of this moving lens test.
Fireworks are of so many colours and effects, and the post punk DIY musical alternatives were varied. Despite their differences, there are a few bands that help to put 'The Smiths' into an early context. 'Vic Godard's Subway Sect' had perhaps started out as a British version of 'The Voidoids' ('Double negative' 1978 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fsYYG_Qf0Q) and had evolved by 1981 into melodic anti pop www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cgzwQBtFaA an approach perhaps akin to the relationship between 'New Wave cinema' and traditional cinema. Again from 1981, the group 'Orange Juice' were inhabiting melody and lyric without the desire to provide 'expected' popularist results: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmpNSpzx2wI. 'The Smiths' projected aside many groups, Dandyisms, deconstructions and observations and, with some of the lyrical landscapes of Morrissey, were one of the groups that held on longest to the polemical side of punk rock. With the guitar of Johnny Marr, they were also one of the groups that pushed furthest from initial DIY ethics into artistic, holistic and highly developed forms. By the release of 'The Queen is Dead' in 1986 they had refined their idiosyncrasies to such an extent that they had produced a record that could be compared against the very “classic” albums they were initially reflecting against.
Prolific songwriters, 'The Smiths' took subject to swathes of British youth, and were another input of inspiration for a new generation of musicians. Postcard, Pop Aural and Rough Trade layered under Creation, Domino and Sarah, and new bands evolved without a close proximity to Punk rock. Contemporary journalists (including ones associated with Manchester's Guardian), muse, relay and decree that it is now time to stop listening to the work of Morressey. The Smiths split in 1987, and in the decades since, Morrissey has remained loyal to his polemical approach to social subjects. I certainly never wanted to hang a DJ, but played the song. One of the tracks that we should apparently be boycotting is a recently released duet with Thelma Houston: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cB93OUF_sA
The track “Some girls are bigger than others' comes from the 1986 record and is a construction with the most minimal idea of verse, and thus arrives almost straight into the chorus, with a slightly detached and minimal refrain. The lyric takes a line that can be associated with both male machismo and the observational naivety of a small child: playing the idea straight as the thought of a young male adult faced by the enormity of mankind's diversity. By referring to the ice age, the lyric also points out that these differences come from the depths of the human race and are not a modern celebrity surface.
"From the ice-age to the dole-age, there is but one concern. I have just discovered; some girls are bigger than others... "
For the images in the lens test I replaced the 'girls' of the song with the animate 'bodies' of 'mother earth', as reflected by her waterfalls. The shots involve a variety of lenses and locations either side of the Pyrénées.
AJM 13.03.20
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My Name is Coral
I live in Manchester, UK
And we brought the world
The Smiths !
I would go out tonight, but I haven't got a stitch to wear...
P.S: Yes, that is my real handwriting.
P.P.S: I bite my nails so that's why they look all crappy.
P.P.P.S: This is for Amy Spanos' Around The World Project
This is week four of a year in self portraits.
"Entire coachloads of off-duty gas fitters from Bolton will risk death to get on the stage to try to either shake his hand, or to hug him, or to kiss him, or whatever. Almost as though they feel that, you know, some kind of ritual communion with Morrissey will enable them to contact a part of their emotions that they normally feel distanced from."
A GMA Bug Series
Postcard :
A Ladybird 'Easy-Reading' Book
'People At Work'
The Soldier
Ladybird
1966
Illustration by John Berry
CD :
The Smiths
Meat Is Murder
Rough Trade
ROUGH81
Sleeve by Morrissey
Use Hearing Protection
GMA
Come on!!!! SMITHS REUNION FTW?!?!?!
I should note this is a diptych. It really hasn't happened yet. Well, it sort of has re-occurringly in my dreams actually but not in any sort of current reality. It makes me so sad that these two can't get together over a nice tea, talk amongst themselves and come to the conclusion that a Smiths reunion would be amazing for everyone alive.
And while we're at it, here's a dream tracklist:
1. How Soon is Now (THINK OF THAT AS A BEGINNING!!)
2. Ask
3. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
4. Cemetry Gates
5. William, It Was Really Nothing
6. This Charming Man
7. Hand in Glove
8.Panic
9. What DIfference Does it Make?
10.Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before
11. Bigmouth Strikes Again
12. Meat is Murder
13. Last Night I Dreamt That Someone Loved Me
14. Sheila Take a Bow
15.Girfriend in a Coma
16. I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
17. There is a Light That Never Goes Out
18. I Know It's Over
(What an ending, right??!?! Right?!! It's so amazing in my head!)
I surely hope I don't actually have to give you a link to hear the Smiths, right? No, esteemed friend, I'm sure you know their songs by heart.
Also, my friend Paige K. Parsons took this shot of Johnny Marr eating a popsicle! Go look at it! It's amazing!
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Holga 120CFN, Kodak Portra 400NC. 29 April 2013. B setting for 2 seconds.
Johnny Marr at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC.
Si si si si, otro especial de INDIE HOY!:
esta vez es el turno de darle lugar a bandas, que marcaron generaciones....
- The smiths
- Pulp
- Blur
- Talking Heads
- Echo and the bunnymen
Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
I'm tired and I
I want to go to bed
Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
And then leave me alone
Don't try to wake me in the morning
'Cos I will be gone
Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I will feel so glad to go
Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
I don't want to wake up
On my own anymore
Sing to me
Sing to me
I don't want to wake up
On my own anymore
Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I really want to go
There is another world
There is a better world
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Well...
Bye bye
Bye bye
Bye...