Harry’s Place Arts

Hello dear Harry’s Place Arts reader.  As you will have noticed, there have been no reviews by me the last two months.  This has not been a capitulation to the enormity of the task, merely a re-grouping while I was enjoying adventures in the housing market.  These now completed, I shall soon be returning to [...]

Last night I went to see Tel Aviv garage rock power trio Monotonix at the Luminaire. It was the second time I’d seen them - the first time was at a bit of an artwank gig at the Corsica Studios a few months back.  I had enjoyed them massively that time, but I couldn’t quite [...]

My friend Jo’s band Sugarmonkey have just released their new video which I hope you’ll like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEEnrXeVln0

In fact. I hope you like it enough to head out to the Roadhouse in Covent Garden, London on 23rd November 2008 to catch the band live at a benefit gig they’re playing to raise funds for Pilgrim’s Hospices, which provide [...]

RIP Mitch Mitchell
Jimi Hendrix died in 1971, Noel Redding died in 2003, and now the last surviving member of the rock powerhouse, the Jimi Hendrix Experience has died, aged 61, apparently of natural causes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLx0sJymw-Q

It seems that the rock pioneers of the 50s and sixties - the ones that didn’t burn out ealy - are now [...]

If you watch the video at this BBC story about Guitar Hero, you’ll hear Jason ‘Jay’ James, from Bullet for My Valentine, say:
You get involved playing the notes.
Let’s make this clear, You get involved in “playing” the notes in Guitar Hero in the same way you get involved with fine art by doing painting by [...]

This is a guest post by Fabian from Israel

I have been a fan of The Cure since 1992, when I gradually started buying up their back-catalogue. I can say that I listen to and enjoy all their albums from 1979 to 1992 - when they produced the major opus Wish (my favorite together with Disintegration). Since [...]

The video to promote Bob Dylan’s latest release - Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - is just superb. Perhaps it’s because it stars Harry Dean Stanton, but it has that ‘Paris, Texas‘ ambiance about it… well, I think so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=917NgUORqyI

I saw it at Amazon.com, but they don’t allow you to embed video on external [...]

I’m sure (most) readers will join me in wishing poor old Nils Lofgren a speedy convalescence after his scheduled twin-hip replacements, made necessary by eccentric dancing and decades of antics like Exhibit A:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su959eEFnnA

Of course, there are plenty of great Nils performances to watch on YouTube, particularly the man in action with Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, [...]

The North Sea Radio Orchestra at the Roundhouse last year
In the past couple of days, I’ve booked tickets for the following:

two different shows by the North Sea Radio Orchestra, one supporting the excellent Ted Barnes at the Purcell Room on the 27th SEPTEMBER [EDIT - apologies for putting wrong date previously] (with a free open [...]

It’s like Nigo / Bathing Ape paying tribute to hip hop artists - only for people who wouldn’t be seen dead in sport shoes.

According to French cobblers Bluedy, Stephin Merritt made the most beautiful album of the 20th century, the Magnetic Fields‘  69 Love Songs (1999), and he is the company’s favourite musician, so they [...]