SKUNK ANANSIE at The Astoria, London on January 22nd 1995 (c) Mick Mercer. Please join my Substack - free to subscribe - for daily Goth, Post-Punk and Indie reviews and photos.
Despite an appendectomy two days prior, I’m still on a high from Saturday night’s great double bill of @rideox4official and @thecharlatans at @historytoronto. • • • #igerstoronto #toronto #ontario #canada #livemusic #shorgaze #ukindie #madchester #concert #rideband #rideox4 #charlatans #charlatansuk #historytoronto (at History Toronto) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoWPw6WtjJK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
The band Fontaines D.C. have had a presence in music since 2017, after meeting in a pub and bonding over their combined love of poetry. I first discovered them this year, after accidently missing their set at Latitude festival in July I decided to dig deeper in their music - however it just made me more annoyed at myself for forgetting about them when they were live. So, if you get the opportunity... GO AND SEE THEM LIVE!!!
Their latest album’s title “Skinty Fia”, is an old Irish phrase meaning “the damnation of the deer”- which signifies the Dublin quintet’s views on the loss of tradition and the modern culture of Ireland. The animosity of the extinct Irish Elk on the cover of the album resembles the bands stand-offish nature and their ever-evolving relationship with Irish culture and tradition. Despite the band moving to London two years ago it is very much evident that they have not lost touch with their roots. With “Skinty Fia” being their third album and their most experimental, its is a more than acceptable follow up from their last albums; “A Heroes Death” (2020) and “Dogrel” (2019). It is clear that the band show their interest in traditional and classical literature through their music - Chatten describing his influences as James Joyce and William Butler Yeats.
The first track on the album “In ár gCroíthe go deo” is a ethereal fall down the rabbit hole of the album. The meaning behind the title of this track is steeped in contentiousness between English and Irish communities to this day. The family of an Irish woman living in Coventry wanted a Celtic cross bearing these words on her gravestone, with the meaning “in our hearts forever”- an ode to her Irish heritage. However, the Church on England contested this saying the gravestone could be viewed as “a political statement” (BBC NEWS) and insisted on an English translation. This eerie track was written to honour the family, and after they won on the grounds of racial discrimination.
My favourite track on the album is “Roman Holiday”, in his own words, Lead singer Grian Chatten -in an interview with Rolling Stone, said about Roman Holiday:
“I think it’s about wanting to sort of go out and embrace London as an Irish person. […] The reason I use the word “embrace,” trying to talk about this, is because in a sense, especially when you surround yourselves or almost insulate yourself with people who are from the same area as you in a new country — most of my friends here are from Dublin as well — the effect is that you begin to look for it or love it. You want reminders of the fact that you’re part of this group of people that are still sort of mocked and told to go home. At some point, you start to wear as like a badge of honour, and that’s what that song is. It’s a celebration of that flipping, from it being a bad thing into a positive thing.”
The music video for “Jackie down the line” - the fourth track on the album captures themes of desire with a modernist twist on a Shakespearian classic. We see a puck like character adorned with a red pointed hat and a adidas tracksuit on dropping roses- a well know symbol of lust and desire, on a sleeping Titania. When collecting more and more of these roses and displaying his increasing desire for his unsuspecting lover, he stumbles across other women indicative of Titania’s servant fairies – Titania discovers the two parties engaging with each other and uses her power and violence (in the form of a bow and arrow) to kill both the people and their desire.
Overall the album is a reflection on their steady rise to post punk greatness and is a guarenteed great listen.
“Intervenções Urbanas por Mulungú Cultural”
Muralismo
Pintura e revitalização de quadra esportiva pública.
Praça da Fortuna, Vila Gustavo (SP)
Brasil - Agosto/2023
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Intervenções Urbanas é umas das frentes de atuação do coletivo Mulungú Cultural que visa a estimular a população ao debate e reflexão ao ocupar e interagir de diversas maneiras com o espaço público.
Nesta intervenção foi utilizada como linguagem principal as artes visuais através da obra da artista Camila Moritugui. A construção da obra teve como conceito as reflexões que circundam a ocupação do espaço público, como a sensação de pertencimento e ressignificação do meio.
Através da intervenção, em conjunto com os moradores locais a todo momento, foi possível criar novas funções para a quadra que, agora, além de sua função inicial esportiva, possui um caráter artístico e outras possibilidades de uso como eventos e reuniões pela população em geral.
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Ficha técnica
Produção executiva: Ukindi produções
Coordenação geral e produção criativa: Dara Roberto
Artista visual: Camila Moritugui
Captação e fotografia: Victor Brum / Alexandre Ramalho
Realização: Mulungú Cultural
frequently find an old age guy as i visit library. then, he fart with big sound every time. and today. would some fart around me tomorrow ? yeah, it's me . #sunday #night #morrissey #everydayislikesunday #thesmiths #ukindie #indiemusic #manchester #covid_19 #小室圭 #防弾少年団 #bts #熊田曜子 #多様性 #sdgs #梅雨入り #感染 #周庭 #agneschow #hongkong #hk #wonton #wontonnoodles #雲呑 #雲呑麺 #香港 #香港加油 #加油 #加齢 #加齢臭 https://www.instagram.com/p/CQEA2VQnVZ-/?utm_medium=tumblr
Record 2072. #PopWillEatItself #DefConOne #TheDoomsdayPowermix #12inch The Doomsday Powermix remix of PWEI's Def Con One. This is a really nice remix on Australian label "Possum" who were responsible for breaking British acid house to Australia. #pwei #grebo #ukindie #vinyl #records #nowspinning #vinyljunkie #vinylcollection #vinylcommunity #recordcollection #vinyligclub https://www.instagram.com/p/B9lwI6mpHLo/?igshid=hyqngpag4x45
DAISY CHAINSAW at The Dome, Tufnell Park on January 17th 1991(c) Mick Mercer. Please join my Substack - free to subscribe - for daily Goth, Post-Punk and Indie reviews and photos.
"DA ZABUMBA AO PANDEIRO É UM TOQUE"
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"Da Zabumba ao Pandeiro é um toque" trata-se de uma intervenção realizada pela artista visual Camila Moritugui em comemoração ao dia do forró e do samba, gêneros musicais que marcam a identidade brasileira e traduzem as influências ancestrais, bem como movimentos nacionais espontâneos ricos em harmonia, ritmo, percussão, envolvimento, ânimo, história e tradição. A intervenção se dá através da pintura de painéis solos, modulares, que juntos formam um único painel, como uma espécie de mosaico. A obra é, além do convite à reflexão e interação com a arte em espaço público, uma homenagem a esses dois gêneros musicais tão ricos e importantes nacional e internacionalmente e, também, uma forma de manutenção artística-histórico-cultural destes que são patrimônios culturais imateriais brasileiro. A pintura foi pensada para a Casa de Cultura da Vila Guilherme - Casarão e agora compõe seu acervo de obras e também serve como elemento cenográfico.
FICHA TÉCNICA
Intervenção Visual: Da Zabumba ao Pandeiro é um toque
Artista Visual: Camila Moritugui
Produção Geral: Dara Roberto
Produção Artística e Executiva: Ukindi Produções
Projeto Mobiliário - Painéis: Dara Roberto
Captação e Edição: Alexandre Ramalho
Direção Criativa e de Arte: Ukindi Produções e Camila Moritugui
Realização: Secretaria Municipal de Cultura, Casa de Cultura Vila Guilherme - Casarão e Ukindi Produções
São Paulo, Brasil.
Dezembro/2022