2019: A Momentous Year

Phew what a year for

bonesandtheaft

and 

Liver & Lights

Starting off with 

a new pair of shoes

for Copper,

 meeting the world

in March at the 

Star of Kings.....

 In June

we  finally played a long awaited gig at  Tate Britain!

A New Backdrop and  a new suit specially sewed for

the occasion... 

Sold out and bouncers turning people away!

We wish it were always thus!

I think most people who came thought 

it was a great gig tho...Big Thank You for

all you who turned out  and especially those who

brought cash and bought our

Brand New Album:

Mickey

The New Album is available still, should you be short of Xmas gifts...

from

https//bonesandtheaft.bandcamp.com

as are all our four albums in Vinyl, CD and download

and lots of other stuff...books tshirts badges and more books...

In fact, FOUR new  books made this year too!!

Including one one paperback 

containing the story of Mickey and all his

beautiful Glove paintings

...only a tenner, stuffed with colour

over 100 paintings illustrating the

One Shoe Mickey Project,- here is 

one I sold...sad to se any of them go really, 

but I feel the Mickey project is

complete now...so on to new things in the New Year

and Three hand made books I printed.

This one below, The Burger of Truth totally carved from

rubber stamps and given away free at the Totally Brilliant

One Shoe Mickey exhibition at Hart Club Gallery   

in Westminster Bridge Rd

 where we 

also played  a fantastic and very memorable gig....

Here is the Amazing  Hart Club Gallery window

with the Mickey costume, 

made of 200 dropped London Gloves

  

 fianlly...here is Liver & Lights No 59  in production during my 

Hart Club Residency...more details about this next year

Whats going to happen next year?

Lots!!!

We have plans for vinyl singles,

new songs, new books...

maybe even another house tour?

We will be hopefully be doing House gigs over 

a few weekends late spring early summer..

if you want us to come and play in your house, garden,

studio, shed or cellar...let us know and we

will try to fit you in!

Happy Xmas and New Year to all who have come to gigs, 

bought albums and generally supported us over a momentous year

lots of love,

OS Mickey

Hurricane Mike

Wingco Mullean

Admiral lord Biscuit

Prince Nawros

Bird Radio

and Arthur Bently

xxxxxxx

bonesandtheaft / Glove Paintings at Hart Club

Hart Club

&

Liver & Lights

presents

the Legendary 

Glove Paintings 

of

One Shoe Mickey,

and other works

by him,

collectively  comprising

Liver & Lights No 56 - 58

Hart Club 

95 Westminster Bridge Rd

London

SE1 7HR

Thursday 14th - Sunday 24th November 2019

Opening Hours

Thursday - Sunday from 11am - 7pm

Private View

Thursday 14th November 6 - 9 pm

(A free copy of Liver & Lights No 58 for the first

30 visitors on the night…)

with live performance by 

bonesandtheaft?

Friday 22nd November 2019 at 7 pm

contact: hanksoake@gmail.com

https://hartclub.org/ 

Liver and Lights is the collective name for the many interelated projects 

of the artist John Bently,

including, paintings, mischief, poetry, props, 

stage sets, costumes and legendary musical performances 

with the band bonesandtheaft, also incorporating 

the Liver & Lights series of artists publications, 

being 58 volumes in 38 years so far.

The current Liver and Lights project is called 

One Shoe Mickey and started out three years ago as a

 collection of lost gloves found on the streets of 

London and made into a costume.

The costume, when worn by the artist, becomes 

transformed into  the character One Shoe Mickey, 

a  heartbroken former refugee.  

His sanity seemingly unravelled by the horrors of the Long Road, 

he  believes the gloves are his lost family.  

Renowned filmmaker Chiara Ambrosio 

filmed  of him forlornly trudging the  wealthy Bloomsbury streets attempting to reunite 

the gloves with their lost partners, which you can see here:

https://vimeo.com/268938724

Back in his cardboard home,  

he makes many paintings of the gloves which he hopes 

will help to reunite them with their lost partners. 

In doing so Mickey receives a mysterious revelation 

that there is a One True Glove somewhere out there 

in the city that will unite all the 

gloves and heal all the divisions in the world by 

melting the borders between nations, creeds, colours and religions.

The band bonesandtheaft, empathising with his plight,   r

ecently created an album of songs to tell his story, 

with Mickey’s words  set to music composed by Ian Mckean. 

They also  created  two books containing all the 

lyrics and the paintings made by Mickey, 

being Liver & Lights nos 56 and 57.

This exhibition  at Hart Club gallery contains all 

the paintings made by Mickey and a new book written by 

him being 

Liver & Lights No 58:The Burger of Truth

…which will be given out Free to the first 30 

people who come to the private view on 

Thursday 14th November 2019  6-9 pm

Bonesandtheaft will also give a special performance 

of  the One Shoe Mickey song Cycle 

and other   favourite tunes on 

Friday 22nd Nov at 7 pm

“…..But the most amazing thing is how these books 

come to life through  bonesandtheaft, 

the performance wing of The Liver and Lights Scriptorium, 

in which Bently and his band play 

out the texts as songs as he enacts these characters while dressed in wonderful costumes”   S Bodman AN Mag

“John Bently declaims his compelling poetry 

while guitarist Ian Mckean and drummer David Beschizza

Fearlessly zigzag through punk anger and 

energy, progressive time shifts and classical 

guitar transcriptions of Alexander Scriabin. 

Exciting stirrings from the literary and musical DIY underground” 

Froots June 2016

“A scavenger of social archaeology”  Brixton Blog/Bugle  

“A mythical metropolis inhabited by a teeming population of sharply drawn, 

richly detailed  characters”. Aiden Dunne. The Irish Times

Hart Club is a new gallery in SE1 championing 

neurodiversity within the Arts. 

We commission original artwork that focuses 

on collaboration and celebrating 

the intersection of ideas and differences 

in artistic approaches and ways of thinking. 

Hart Club’s focus is to inclusively represent 

neurodivergent artists to make and exhibit w

ork as a means to building confidence, community 

and wellbeing. We also work to facilitate 

collaboration and forge working relationships 

between established artists and talented 

neurodivergent artists so as to explore the benefits 

of this creative exchange.

Living Room Gig 2019

Brixton Bugle

We have a little review of our new album 

in this months issue of

local paper The Brixton Bugle....

which is very welcome obviously.

BUT

As is the way with all reviews about us, it seems, 

a number of key details are wholly incorrect.....

Please do not be put off by reading that

The Late at Tate Britain 

wherein we are launching our album is 

solely for 18 - 25 year olds..

It is organised by a collective of 18 - 25 year olds...

(and they do a fantastic job...) but its open to all..

Secondly, they have left Bird Radio off 

the list of members of the band...poor old Mikey!

Be assured..he is on the album and 

will be appearing with us on June 7th.

Its pretty near all tickets gone for that

so if you still want one you need to let me know quick

as I have just got back some returns from people

who now can't make it...but only a few!!

Late at The Tate (Britain)

bonesandtheaft? 

will be performing live at

TATE BRITAIN

(as part of 

Late at the Tate)  

FRIDAY 7TH JUNE 2019

In the Library Reading Room

on the ground floor behind the toilets

(where my talk was before Xmas…)

Its a free event but limited to 100 people

so you will need a ticket to get in...

If you definitely think you want to come to the show

please  email me now  with your postal address and I will 

post you some lovingly hand printed souvinir tickets!

There will be a limited amount available on the door 

on the night……

The music starts at 8pm sharp…

Although tickets will be available at 7 pm on the door…

There's lots of other stuff happening for you to see...

Art, DJ's, poets, performances and food and drink

all over the Tate and its open till 10 pm!! 

The show will be the official launch of our new book and album:

Mickey: A London Song Cycle

Liver & Lighs No 56 is available from here:

https://bonesandtheaft.blogspot.com/2018/06/new-book-here.html

bonesandtheaft? Mickey.Our brand album is available 

as CD or download from here:

https://bonesandtheaft.bandcamp.com/

at the TATE again.....

As you were!

bonesandtheaft?

will be officially launching their new record

MICKEY

during a special live performance at

TATE BRITAIN

as part of the amazing

Late at the Tate 

series of events

on FRIDAY 7TH JUNE 2019

Its a free event and its in the Library Reading Room

on the ground floor behind the toilets

(where my talk was before Xmas...)

Its a free event but limited to 100 people

so you will need a ticket to get in...

If you are definitely coming email me now  

with your postal address and I

will post you some  lovingly hand printed tickets!

There will be a limited amount available on the door

on the night but I can't guarantee there'll be any left.

The music start sat 8pm sharp...tickets will be available at 7 pm

on the door....there's lots of other stuff happening for you to see...

Art, DJ's, poets, performances and food and drink

all over the Tate and its open till 10 pm!! 

Mickey album finally available!!!

Liver & Lights No 57 is:

MICKEY

bonesandtheaft?

“Mickey gets things all mixed up,

the front is back, the taking’s giving.

His brain can’t take the stress, 

cant take the strain of modern living…” 

         A limited edition signed CD:        

£10 plus £2.00 postage

Please order now!!

paypal at:

paypal.me/bonesandtheaft

Cheque  payable to: 

liver & Lights  

(by post to  229 Railton Rd, London, SE 24 0LX)

Bank details for direct payments  on request from:

hanksoake@gmail.com

Ian Mckean: Guitars, keyboards   

Admiral Lord Biscuit : Drums   

Arthur Bently: Alto Saxophone 

John Bently: Words, vocals  

Bird Radio: Flute, Keyboards

Music mostly composed by Ian Mckean, 
with additional Ideas from 

Bird Radio,  Arthur Bently and Lord Biscuit. 

Track two : Music by A. Scriabin. ( Prelude No. 5 Opus 11 ), 

transcribed for guitar by Ian Mckean. 

Words by John Bently.  

Cover Photos by Chiara Ambrosio

“undoubtedly the bands masterpiece…..”   

Based on the  poems recently published as 

Liver & Lights No 56. One Shoe Michael; 

A London Song Cycle, 

we are proud to finally deliver  to the world 

a brand new album of thematically 

linked songs relating to the life and times 

of the mythical One Shoe Mickey, 

a former refugee now living in London.  

Mickey has taken a bang or two in his hard life, 

and his brains are a bit  scrambled, but not his heart. 

His heart has been made more human by his hardships 

and his odd pronouncements seem, despite their mixedupness, 

to make more sense  than any politician.

Mickey sets out every day from his cardboard home

 in search of the One True Glove, reputed to be lost somewhere

 in the ancient and mythical city of London.
These ten songs tell of his daily trudges

 along our well trodden streets, 
searching, always searching, for his lost family, 

among the fallen  gloves and trodden  snails of London.

These songs also commemorate some of the people he meets 

along the way; their infinite capacity for kindness, and selflessness 

despite their daily struggle.

Liver & Lights No 56. One Shoe Michael, 

containing all the lyrics and Mickey’s glove paintings  

in full colour reproduction, 

is still available for £10.00…Special Offer!!  

Buy the Book and CD together for only £15.00 plus £2.00 postage…

paypal.me/bonesandtheaft

If you've already paid...I haven't forgotten

.....in the post shortly!!!!