Art
Video Saturday – Free
Free play the Isle of Wight festival on 30th August 1970. Paul Kossof the lead guitarist died six years later on a flight from Los Angeles to New York from heart failure as a result of years of drug addiction, which must have been a bit of a disappointment to his father David Kossof who [...]
Video Saturday – Manfred Mann
Ah, 1976, Manfred Mann actually playing instruments and actually singing (watch and learn kids) to a Bruce Springsteen song assisted by special effects such as turning the lights on very bright or turning them off very dim and setting three small fireworks off at the end, but mainly just playing and singing in a very [...]
Video Saturday – The Who
Can’t believe that its 11 or 12 years since we went to see The Who at Sheffield Arena, but it was, because John Entwhistle was still playing bass – where did those ten years go ? The band were on stage for at least two hours, played almost every song that I’ve ever heard them [...]
The hardest bit is photographing the bloody thing
A4 sized, acrylic on canvas textured primed paper You see, the problem is not painting the picture, its the photographing of it afterwards when you want to list it on a gallery web site. The actual painting doesn’t look anything like the photograph above, its much darker (deliberately), the greens are much duller apart from [...]
Painting in acrylics, but in a watercolour style
A4 size, acrylic on canvas textured, primed paper Its easy to do of course for acrylic paint is water based, its what makes it so easy to use and its why it should be the first choice of anyone wanting to start to paint for “true” watercolour is such a bitch to master (in fact [...]
Video Saturday – The Hollies
Gather around brethren, for I am about to impart knowledge garnered from the 1970s with a heavy heart by use of that popular beat combo The Hollies and in particular that slave to fashion who was their frontman, Allan Clarke. You see them above in 1975 singing one of their huge global hit parade hit [...]
Video Saturday – Bob Dylan
Fine lyrics for a country in yet another recession, with no plan to get back out, some young posh kids in charge of the country with no work experience and daddy’s inheritance to fall back on when they’ve finally screwed everyone – and £9 billion spent on a two week competition to see who can [...]
Video Saturday – George Harrison
Probably my favourite George Harrison song, its the O level song, the one I revised, or what I jokingly called revising, to in April/May of 1973, those weeks after the Easter break when you hadn’t left school yet but they told you that they’d done with teaching you any more and all you had to [...]
Video Saturday – The Faces
Why oh why oh why, do we always revert to 1973, the O level year, we were 16 years old, ballsy, had hair, listened to this sort of music, didn’t care if it was badly mimed on Top of The Pops. I had hair like that and Ron Wood didn’t have a crease on his [...]
