Thomastown part 4

 

                                                                The Eye Suit explained.....

 

 These next photos are of The Bridgebrook Arms in Thomastown (AKA The Red Door) probably the best pub in Ireland and thats saying something innit?......hope to play there next year...brilliant live music cinema and general all round so much atmosphere and freindliness you dont want to leave....

 

                                        This is an outdoor space so you can smoke in it!!!!

 

                                                Thats Barry the landlord serving the pints

McGarry and Bently at Grennan Mill thomastown Part 3

 

                                         John B hugging Veronica Harris at Grennan Mill  PV

 

 Chloe and Will after Will's epic swim in the Rhine...er...sorry, in the stream at the bottom of our 
                        lovely tree house, where we all stayed during the show in Ireland

 

               Stuff in exhibition relating to our lives....Kathys clothes and photos of kids and the                            van  and  graphics     from various gigs........and some costumes!!

 

                                             Andi McGarry's books and some drawings......

 

                        Routemaster set of recent road movies including the famous PENGE!!

 

                                           Some people looking at some other  people...

                                                                          
                                                                        Deptfordia!!!!

 

You might also like to see me showing off on The Burrow in Kilmore Quay with some found costumes? I can never resist a found costume!!!

 

 Here are some photos of our earth shatterringly wonderful show in Grennan Mill Craft School, Thomastown in county Kilkenny.....We had about two thousand visitors during the ten days of Killkenny Arts Festival...especially after we got a stunning review in the Irish Times.

 

 ....and heres what the mythically aserbic Aiden Dunne said about us:  " There's a fantastic, unstinting generosity to their displays....In his narratively dense work Bently, tending towards the monochromatic, describes a mythical metropolis inhabited by a teeming horde of sharply drawn, richly detailed characters. McGarry takes a different, more elemental route, a watery domain of sea, rain, islands, bobbing coracles and flowing colour. His paintings of figures, wraiths against the shifting, edgy light of the sea, are particularly outstanding."

 

 We had the time of our lives after that came out.......STOP PRESS...Bones & The Aft invited back to play next year....watch this space!!!...

Stars of the show, naturally were Kathy's wonderful clothes which narratively celebrate our lives in what we wear.....and also, strangely,  the scale models Bones & The Aft:

 

                                 These are some of Andi McGarry's wonderful hand made books.....

 

 ...and this is My Ancestors Came (Liver & Lights 40), another popular stopping point in the show and shown together in a big block for the first time......

These are my favourite moments from Latitude 2012.....

Wooden Shjips making the sun shine...

Keyboard player looks like me, said Arthur

Kilkenny Arts Festival 2012

 John Bently and Andi McGarry

Liver and Lights & Sun Moon and Stars-

an Exhibition

                                                                10-18^th August 2012

Grennan Mill Craft School

Mill Street, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland    

Workshop!-Last Call!!

Be inspired by two genuine enthusiasts…..

Andi McGarry and John Bently will hold two one day workshops during the exhibition on Tuesday 14^th and Wednesday 15^th August running from 10am until 5pm each day.

Set in a beautiful eighteenth century former flour mill in rural Ireland, participants will learn about and make all manner of visual books, both simple and complex, editioned and one of a kind. Learn about long lost printing methods and how to incorporate simple binding methods while capturing basic narratives in a book form. A selection of artist's books from the Wexford Artist's Book collection, and of course, the exhibition, will be on hand to help inspire, delight and surprise. Participants are encouraged to bring their own photos, words and brilliant  ideas, whilst we provide all the other tools and materials necessary to turn them into posterity!

Each workshop costs    90 Euros  per day.

Space is limited to ten per day so book now to avoid disappointment!

(When I posted this before I had my phone no. and email all wrong so check!!) 

contact: Andi on 00 353539129778 or John on 0755 4965 844

email: sunmoonandstarspress@hotmail.com  or  hanksoake@gmail.com

Bones Biogs:

Word-Gunner Bones  (AKA John Bently)- A Potted Resume

                                    

Sept 1957. Born Hexham, Northumberland

1960-1973. Travelled the world with army director of music dad, going to eleven schools in five countries, including Cyprus, Germany, Singapore and Hong Kong.
1964-66.Building dens, rafts and  weaponry  in Germany
Summer 1968. Poaching trout from River Otter in Devon. Falling in love with Mandy Sampson. Passing Eleven Plus. First appearance for school football team. Break arm falling out of tree.
1971. Form Illydre with Ian and Andrea Mckean and Paul Trew. Play first gig at Church of  Scotland New Years Eve under 14 party. Thrown out after three songs for lewd behaviour and incitement to riot

Aug 1974. Windsor Free Festival. Accompanied friends band White as White  and Twice as Dirty  who played through an ice cream van generator. I  got arrested for nothing and lived on scrounged  lentils  and pure love for  ten days. Returned home to find I’d failed all my O levels except English.
1975. Wordz. Create poetry mag  /fanzine with school friend Sherlock Reid. First live performances, sometimes with band Plumrose.

1976-1980. Art School. Don’t remember, usually drunk

                                            


1980.Moved to London. On the dole in Thatcher’s No Such Thing As society
1982. Bridget Riley. Employed as a studio assistant and sacked within six weeks due to inability to draw or think or  walk in a straight line
1983. Deptford.Discover the long lost kingdom of Deptfordia; a mythical ‘inner’ city, invisible to politicians.

 1984- Liver & Lights No 1 published. An exploration  of the possibilities of art in book form…47 episodes in 29 years so far….
1986. Met Andi McGarry in the pages of the Artists Newsletter Publication Supplement reviewed by Stephanie Brown, who champions both our work, and the art of the book in particular
1993 Create Artist Book Year Book with Stephanie Brown, Tania Peixoto and Stefan Szczelkun . Later, we pass it on to Sarah Bodman at UWE
2002. The afterrabbit/ Bonesandtheaft.  First live Afterrabbit gigs and beginning of collaboration with Alan and Phil Outram. Later morphing into Bones & The Aft with Ian Mckean and Admiral Lord Biscuit…..
2005. Buy camper van. Head for the coast, guitar in  back with Arthur and Freya (kids), Kathy in front with map.
2012. Grennan Mill Thomas town Ireland.  Big show  of 30 years work and sharing the stage with fellow traveller Andi Mcgarry