Thursday 15 February 2024

 


Ceasefire!

Solidarity  with 

artists in Gaza!


An event organised by UAL staff, students 

and alumni in solidarity with artists in Gaza, 

featuring speakers 

and Palestinian artists, alongside UK performers, 

poets and live music to celebrate and show solidarity 

with artists under attack in Gaza…


Artists and speakers including:


Rahul Patel, 

Alia MAsak (PACBI)

Rida Hamidou

Kawami Samara

Oreet Ashery

Liver & Lights Live

(Arthur Bently, John Bently 

& Mikey Kirkpatrick)

Bird Radio

Lily Barson

Ahmet Masoud

Sami Abu Wardeh (Comedy Set)

Aser el Saqqa

Alice Watts

Hamja Ahson


Monday 26th February  

at 6-9pm    

  

Wilsons Rd Lecture Theatre 

Camberwell College of Art 

Wilsons Rd, Camberwell,

London  SE5


   Free entrance but  tickets   

from Eventbrite link below

https://bit.ly/4buGPr1

(PS  Beautiful  hands image  

by current UAL

student Alex Ambrozy)

Monday 17 July 2023

All The Paperbacks, so far.......



Liver & Lights No  27. 
Concerning the Poetry of Lost Things

So  here are  the front covers of all
11 Liver & Lights  paperbacks,
(Plus Freya's  Foundation Logbook 
which is in
the spirit  of Liver and Lights  
and she is my daughter after all!)
going back to the first 
Compendium volume
Songs of The Shandy Valley  
published 
by the much mourned 
Maliceaforethought Press in 1991

I have  copies of most 
of these books
although some are very rare now
and they are all still 
only £10.00 each  plus 
£2 postage!

Most of them are available 
on our bandcamp page 
and thats the easiest
way to buy them:


or message me
on hanksoake@gmail.com
  

Liver & Lights No 23 100 people



From Herne Hill to 
The Plains of Penge.
Book art Bookshop Publications
A Compendium of L&L's No. 30-55


Songs of The Shandy Valley 
Malice aforethought Press 1991
A Compendium of L&L's no's 1-10


Liver & Lights No 29
A handful of Memories, Dundee


Freya Bently. Pink Logbook
(A Foundation Diary)


Liver & Lights No.25 
A Book of Fife Heroes) 


This is a Paperback. 
Magpie press
A Compendium of Liver & Lights No's 11.20
 

All 12 paperbacks! If you buy  the whole
set it will be only £50...including all the rarities
bargain of the century!!!
and there are only a few  sets!




Liver & Lights No 56
One Shoe Micheal:
A London Song Cycle


Liver & Lights No. 62
The New world of Slingy Gaw


Liver & Lights No 60
A202
From Kennington to New Cross

Monday 10 July 2023

Waterloo Festival Sat 15th July




SO!....onwards and 
upwards ever!
The Bonesandtheaft  
Summer Tour
of 
'Architecturallly Interesting Venues'
continues with our 
last gig of the summer -
at St Johns Waterloo 
as part of
Waterloo Festival and 
supported by the
'highly interesting'
weirdos from 
Ashleys Fit Up
7-10pm

Entrance and tickets are
pay what you can afford:

just come!  Bring cash!

and proceeded  from 4-6
by live perfforamces  from
the brilliant young musos
from Mikey Kirkpatricks
Alchemy project
details here:


and finally...here  are some

photos taken by the inimitable Englishman
at the Cressingham Gardens Gig
(aka Pop Estates Photography)
plenty gooduns particulary
of Crunchy Bat.....

PS these are the paintings I done
of theCressingham Estate
£300 each  50%
to the  fund  to save the estate
email me if you are interested
acrylic on wood
14 x 10 Approx











 

Friday 7 July 2023

The Blue of Our Sky..


So...in 2003  a  band called
The After Rabbit
containing  erstwhile members 
of Oliver Cherer's
Dollboy project:

Synths: Alan Outram

Drums: Phil Outram

Synths, Theramin: Oliver Cherer


were joined by poet and singer

J Bently


to release some tasty tracks...

which quickly  faded

into obscurity......


one of these racks


The Blue Of Our Sky


has been rescued from

the  dustbin of time by


EFFRASOUND RECORDS


and you can now  buy it on 

very limited  edition  (100 copies ) vinyl

from here!  :


https://effrasound.bandcamp.com/


Effrasound  also gave 

the files to numerous

modern brilliant musical artistes to

do 'Versions'

namely  Lark, Alex Burey, 

Ollie Briggs

and Mauve Zone  

(Whose amazing version 

is also available on the 

B side of the single) 


and others,

and these are all 

available  to download

here too:


https://effrasound.bandcamp.com/




 

Tuesday 4 July 2023

Cressingham Gardens





Next Two Gigs!

This SUNDAY  supporting
New Bird Radio Album 
launch at

The Old Church

Old Church St

Stoke Newington

5-9pm

tickets £5 on door

(also via eventbrite)




followed by Saturday 15th July at
St Johns Waterloo
with
Ashleys Fit Up
a Circus Celebration!
7-10 Pm
its a pay what you can afford gig
(tickets on eventbrite)


FINALLY!

we done great at 
Cressingham Fundraiser-
we raised about £800
They need more tho!

So BUY  one of
my Cressingham Series Paintings
for £300
and I will donate half the dosh 
to the fund-
email me at
hanksoake@gmail.com
if you are interested













PLUS
postcards  in sets of these four
all proceeds to the fund
are
£3 plus £1 postage
also email me if you are 
interested



Monday 12 June 2023

 










RE: Cressingham Gardens estate-
these are four paintings of 
(or views from)
the estate....
  " Although  Lambeth are now doing
basic rerpairs  the threat of demolition
hasnt  gone away as they are  doing further
'consultation' on the issue...."

and we are doing a fundraiser  for them
on July 1st:  Info  below
in the meantime  you can  
buy these paintings:
they are  approx 14 x 10 inches 
Acrylic on  plywood

£300  each

I will donate 50% to the
fund

ALSO
there are still copies of the book:

Liver & Lights No 65. Clearance: 

The view from Cressingham Gdns

A book comparing the diabolical  

attempts by Lambeth council  

to  evict residents and demolish the 

Cressingham Gardens Estate with the  

diabolical Highland clearances 

of   the past…

Drawings by Arthur Bently and 

John Bently of Cressingham  Gardens 

Estate and Boreraig Cleared Village 

on the isle of Skye…..  £20.00


also %50 donation
for all remaining copies sold

Paypal  to
hanksoake@gmail.com

Effrasound Presents

Save Cressingham Gardens!

The Rotunda Hall

Cressingham Gardens Estate

London SW2

(Top of Brockwell Park)

Fundraising gig with 

all proceeds to

Save Cressingham Fund..

.a threatened with demolition

estate where ordinary folks live…..


Saturday  1st July

6-10 pm

Boneandtheaft!  

Plus

Crunchy Bat!!

Plus DJs Ken and Ken


Tickets  £6  in advance from:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../events/641966197177/tickets