Remember last summer?
Leigh Folk Festival?
Someone at the back shot this of us wilting in the heat!! Glorious!
Monday, 20 January 2014
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Bones &The Aft 2014
Bones & The Aft,
A celebration of DIY
culture and a rough mixture of art, street poetry and eccentric electric pop music,
Bones & The Aft really are band like no other, sometimes described as Primal Rock Theatre with their homemade
costumes, elaborate pop–up stage sets, stark state-of-the-nation storytelling
and virtuoso musicianship. They are:
Admiral Lord Biscuit
has played drums with Ivich Lives, the Doctors of Love,
Florence Welch, Rum Shebeen and many others. Half accomplished multi
instrumentalist and half Mad Inventor, he is the current holder of the London South Bank Centre International Piano
Scrapheap Challenge trophy. There is nothing he cannot play!!
Ian Mckean.
Making his name in the eighties with Generation X offshoot
Twenty Flight Rockers and later the Virgin signed Balaam and the Angel,
guitarist Mckean provides raw yet sensitive guitarscapes to contain and enhance
the emotionally charged observational
storytelling of…
John Bently,
provider of words, costumes and hand painted sets. Although his association with Mckean
stretches back to their schooldays, Bently is best known for his
internationally collected long running series of art in book form, The Liver and Lights Scriptorium. Bones
and the Aft are these books brought to life, by a fearlessly entertaining,
memorably passionate performer….
“A mythical metropolis inhabited by a teeming
population of sharply drawn, richly detailed
characters”.
Aiden Dunne. The Irish Times
“A
heart-warmingly honest and funny portrayal of the romance, nightmares and sheer
mundane hell of travel.” Jon
Lander. Bookartbookshop, London
“…. an
intriguing, if left-field guitar-dominated experimental poetry-to-music venture
from Bones & The Aft.” FRoots
Magazine
“….think a mixture of Charles Dickens
and BBCs ‘The Office’ (weird I know, but go with it). He captures the rather
beautiful melancholy and mundane theatricality of city living.” Lucy Binnington. Brixton Blog.
www.liverandlights.co.uk
email hanksoake@gmail.com
tel 07554965844
Monday, 9 December 2013
Dear Friends and Loyal Supporters
Why not purchase a
Liver & Lights
for your loved one this Christmas-Thrill them with
Tales of Teenage Suicide and Racist Dogs,
London Transport
Heroin Addicts,
Piracy,
Cannibalism, Pillage and Penge
Real Life Gauranteed!!!
Liver & Lights No 51: Geno
(£23 inc postage)
available now
The Bones & The Aft Debut Album: The Ear
in hand made cover with fold out family tree
available still -
in hand made physical (£15) and neu fangled (£5) download form:
Before Purchasing, read this lovely review
in the Brixton Blog that tells you just how worth it we are!!
Merry Christmas
Stanley Bowens
and His Jolly Afts
The Books
The People,
Andi McGarry and
Kathy
Books
More Books...
Yellow Moon In Brockwell Park
Trousers
This photo was actually taken by Oliver Briggs
despite being occassionally advertised otherwise...
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Saturday, 9 November 2013
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Monday, 21 October 2013
I was at Art College with Geno Crewsy,
who, with his band the Crewsy Fixers
was a wonderfully wild unforgettable
performer on a mission to
save Rock and Roll from
phoneyness and complication
and return it to its wild hillbilly roots…..
Liver &
Lights No 51.
Is a tribute to
GENO
who died recently,
tragically young
like so many of his heroes,
Some of whom are rendered here
as block prints along with the band
and other treats, 20 illustrations in all
-some hand printed.
A song, also contained in the book
is currently being rehearsed for
future performance
and recording....
An edition of 100. Hardback,
Black cloth binding,
6” x 4”
Pre publication subscription is
£20.00
(plus £3.00 postage)
(but free if you order more than one)
Payable by cheque to:
Liver & Lights
Scriptorium
229 Railton Rd
London SE24 0LX
(…and please include your name and address
somewhere in the envelope!)
Or by Paypal to:
hanksoake@gmail.com
Or by hand at our gig
at Camden Enterprise
Sat 2nd November
8pm
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