My work has always been about memory, history, nostalgia. About family. About places, and how we are connected to them. About conversations, and stories, and little stolen snatches of narrative. About being British, connected to the South Coast, about an ...Read More
Originally written for the Worthing Community website - this comprehensive Tank Girl biog was the site's most popular page, so when that site was lost I moved it to my old blog, I Hate Dan Thompson, where it's had 37,695 ...Read More
The a, b, c, of Empty Shops “The fact that the trees are in blossom very briefly is what makes them important to us.” Tim Anselm (The Beekeepers blog, 1st Apil 2009) This is an agenda for people using empty shops, ...Read More
Last Saturday, Revolutionary Music and CoMA hosted a free workshop as part of the Ice Prince Arts Festival, marking the first anniversary of over 2000 tons of timber being washed up on Worthing beach. I've never quite got to ...Read More
I've been trying something different for the last six months. Random Rules was a small, independent music store just off Warwick Street, Worthing's 'cafe quarter'. After a promising start about two years ago, sales were dropping. The owner didn't want to ...Read More
Bill Drummond said: “All recorded music has run its course. Dispense with all previous forms of music and music-making and start again” Bill Drummond is right. How many times have you bought a CD only to find that the recording you now ...Read More
So - Worthing will get a new arts festival in September 2009, a year from now. Made In Worthing will showcase contemporary visual and live arts, music and literature, produced by local artists, companies and groups - and will continue the ...Read More
This piece of research is described as 'significant' and 'surprising'. The only surprise is that writing such a bunch of stereotypes took any research, rather than being done down the pub. Nathan and I could have written this for far ...Read More
I've been sitting in Revolutionary Music for six months, and haven't quite got the fanzine off the ground. It shouldn't be difficult; I know how to, and enjoy, writing; I have lots to write about. Now, though, I have a partner ...Read More
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="289" caption="Bill Drummond's The17 Manifesto"][/caption] Bill Drummond has just launched his latest book, The17. It takes, as its starting point, the idea that 'all recorded music has run its course. Dispense with all previous forms of music and music-making ...Read More
