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Sep. 19th, 2009 03:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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There's a big Momus feature today in The Guardian Review. It's written by Brian Dillon, and, with impeccably lucid style and all the right references, covers my entire career, from Edinburgh 1980 to Berlin 2010. The records and books are reviewed as if they're all essentially part of the same enterprise, which I think they are, and Dillon sees me becoming a sort of Ivor Cutler figure in later life, a fate I'd be happy to embrace (Cutler is a hero of mine; perhaps when I met him at the Photographers Gallery cafe ten years ago I was meeting my future). I'm in Madrid for the next four days. There's a lot happening in the Spanish capital this weekend, with a big council-sponsored festival called La Noche En Blanco, White Night. That's being countered by an alternative protest event called 364 Noches Sin Blanca, 364 Nights Without White, in which independent artists complain about Madrid's cultural scene the rest of the year round. Somewhere amidst all that, I play a Momus show at La Pequeña Bety, Calle Reina 4, Madrid.
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Date: 2009-09-19 03:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-19 03:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-19 04:19 am (UTC)Interesting to hear about La Noche En Blanco and its shadow event. We have an equivalent event here in Toronto (Nuit Blanche) and I don't much like the idea of having one night set aside for art, exploration and playfulness -- which of course implies a separation those things from life's every day business for the rest of the year. I'm not too concerned, though - I do see enough evidence from the youngsters here to convince me that the other 364 days aren't going completely to waste.
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Date: 2009-09-19 07:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-19 07:36 am (UTC)http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-momus20-2009sep20,0,142716.story
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Date: 2009-09-19 07:44 am (UTC)Seminary Cooperative review (http://blog.semcoop.com/2009/09/18/400/)
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Date: 2009-09-19 08:04 am (UTC)Momus
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Date: 2009-09-19 10:42 am (UTC)gary
on translation
Date: 2009-09-19 01:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-19 03:22 pm (UTC)Oh and good article - that man knows his Momus!
Anonymous
Date: 2009-09-19 03:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-19 07:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-19 07:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-20 12:16 am (UTC)Word of the day:
Date: 2009-09-20 01:22 am (UTC)Re: Word of the day:
Date: 2009-09-20 01:40 am (UTC)~ The beaver-wrasslin' Yank
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Date: 2009-09-20 02:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-20 08:26 pm (UTC)Seminary
Date: 2009-09-20 09:04 pm (UTC)Los Angeles Times wasn't bad, definitely better written than what I've come to expect from them.
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Date: 2009-09-20 11:56 pm (UTC)I cant really say I see the "anti-morissey" part. I understand where he was trying to go with it... but... not exactly fitting.... imho
so, wheres the Joseph Beuys photo? have you posted it on Click Opera before?
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Date: 2009-09-21 08:12 am (UTC)imomus beuys
and it should pop up.
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Date: 2009-09-21 08:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-21 09:37 pm (UTC)flaterry well deserved.
Date: 2009-09-21 11:25 pm (UTC)you will never find a more(in my opinion) intelligent and knowledgeable critique.your whole career in a few paragraphs.so succinct .come clean momus you
a, must have helped write it
b, paid him
c,have something scandalous on him
d, or as i said..be him.
anyway its about time. being a fan for twenty years it makes me feel vindicated and proud god knows how youe ego must feel.
nice one cove.
DennisVega
Date: 2009-10-09 09:20 pm (UTC)Your site was extremely interesting, especially since I was searching for thoughts on this subject last Thursday.