5 times I tried to write about Cock and Bull

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On train stations

When Jeremy Deller was commissioned to make a living memorial to the Battle of the Somme, he didn’t stage it in a graveyard or a town square. Not a church or a hospital or a pub. He didn’t take it to veterans’ clubs, nor even to the actual killing fields, already permanently memorialised for…

Been to Edinburgh

5 nights. First time in 5 years. I can’t really tell if it’s changed. Because I’ve changed.

Last time I was booked in to between 7 and 9 shows a day even before I arrived. Then every night I went back to my room to write about the things I’d seen that day. Reading it…

Gunshots and starlight

The week that Britain voted to leave the EU, Jimmy Cauty’s Aftermath Dislocation Principle — a tabletop scene of a post-riot capitalism, the lights of Chicken Cottage shining through dust and streetlamp glare — was parked outside my office. It had previously been on full display at…

Up&Down&Through

Some original pop art I bought

At Battersea Car Boot today, I spent £4 on an original piece of pop art from 1997. Consisting of 5 limited edition Spice Girls crisp packets (Walkers, cheese and chive flavour), each lovingly mounted on a backing painted with red acrylic, these were sold to me direct from…