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Mon 22 Oct 2007
…and the beat of the day is
Now kids, gather around as Biz Markie schools you on the basics of beat boxing. No sh*t, Biz Markie on Yo Gabba Gabba. Go practice that till the next session of Biz’s Beat of the Day. bah-bye..
Thu 22 Feb 2007
Did I tell you I was in Singapore for the Good Vibrations Festival? I didn’t? I was, though. I had fun. You weren’t there? For shame. You should’ve been. Oh, you know about the acts who performed, right? Ursula 1000? Cut Copy? Agrikulture? Cicada? Electrico? Jurassic 5? The Beastie Boys? No? Sigh.
Oh, hey! I have […]
Tue 23 Jan 2007
The Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival in sunny/smoggy California has always been a hotbed for pop music’s greatest, slowly inching itself closer to Glastonbury and - gasp! - Woodstock status. Now, Coachella has been the stage on which many band reunions have taken place, at the rate of at least once a year: 2001’s […]
Tue 14 Nov 2006
Yauatcha is the gorgeous all-day teahouse and dim sum restaurant run by Alan Yau, the owner of Hakkasan, Britain’s only Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant. Located in Soho, for the Power Station’s exhibition, Yauatcha opened a satelitte outlet in the Pavilion. Queues of gourmands predictably formed, all eager to tuck into eaterie’s 24 varieties of dim sum and wash […]
Tue 14 Nov 2006
Toyo Ito, is a Japanese architect with a rep. Known for creating extreme concept buildings, his thing is erecting interactive structures like the Tower Of Winds. Located in Yokohama, by day it looks similar to a stacked cans of beans but by night takes on the form of a tubular graphic equaliser, with lights and reflective surfaces that capture the moods […]
Tue 14 Nov 2006
Battersea Power Station is doomed. Its roof is gone, its long glass windows shattered, its cavernous heart empty, except for its iron ribs and red bricks. And today, sunshine, long shadows and the queues which have lined up for a last look at an imposing monument to industrialisation before it gets turned into an indoor playground for adults with expense accounts. It takes me 45 […]
Mon 13 Nov 2006
London is my muse. I can exit an aircraft at 6am in the morning, after a 13 hour flight, a three hour layover and a vicious line of questioning from immigration and still jump in the shower and hit the streets from dusk til dawn every single day until my flight ticket says my number is up. And […]
Mon 22 Oct 2007
…and the beat of the day is
Now kids, gather around as Biz Markie schools you on the basics of beat boxing. No sh*t, Biz Markie on Yo Gabba Gabba. Go practice that till the next session of Biz’s Beat of the Day. bah-bye..
Thu 22 Feb 2007
Did I tell you I was in Singapore for the Good Vibrations Festival? I didn’t? I was, though. I had fun. You weren’t there? For shame. You should’ve been. Oh, you know about the acts who performed, right? Ursula 1000? Cut Copy? Agrikulture? Cicada? Electrico? Jurassic 5? The Beastie Boys? No? Sigh.
Oh, hey! I have […]
Tue 23 Jan 2007
The Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival in sunny/smoggy California has always been a hotbed for pop music’s greatest, slowly inching itself closer to Glastonbury and - gasp! - Woodstock status. Now, Coachella has been the stage on which many band reunions have taken place, at the rate of at least once a year: 2001’s […]
Tue 14 Nov 2006
Yauatcha is the gorgeous all-day teahouse and dim sum restaurant run by Alan Yau, the owner of Hakkasan, Britain’s only Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant. Located in Soho, for the Power Station’s exhibition, Yauatcha opened a satelitte outlet in the Pavilion. Queues of gourmands predictably formed, all eager to tuck into eaterie’s 24 varieties of dim sum and wash […]
Tue 14 Nov 2006
Toyo Ito, is a Japanese architect with a rep. Known for creating extreme concept buildings, his thing is erecting interactive structures like the Tower Of Winds. Located in Yokohama, by day it looks similar to a stacked cans of beans but by night takes on the form of a tubular graphic equaliser, with lights and reflective surfaces that capture the moods […]
Tue 14 Nov 2006
Battersea Power Station is doomed. Its roof is gone, its long glass windows shattered, its cavernous heart empty, except for its iron ribs and red bricks. And today, sunshine, long shadows and the queues which have lined up for a last look at an imposing monument to industrialisation before it gets turned into an indoor playground for adults with expense accounts. It takes me 45 […]
Mon 13 Nov 2006
London is my muse. I can exit an aircraft at 6am in the morning, after a 13 hour flight, a three hour layover and a vicious line of questioning from immigration and still jump in the shower and hit the streets from dusk til dawn every single day until my flight ticket says my number is up. And […]