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Damo Suzuki + Janis Murray and Isla Angus

Back room at 78 Bar, 26 October 2003

In the 78 Bar, after Damo had played his gig there.

#Damo Suzuki #Janis Murray #Isla Angus #78 Bar

Erase Errata + Elanor Taylor

In the Crystal Palace Pub, 12 October 2003

During their Crystal Palace european tour, prior to their gig at Optimo

#Erase Errata #Elanor Taylor

Jakob Kolding + Stevie Jones

In Anne-Marie’s flat, 10 October 2002

After Jakob showed new work in the group exhibition Greyscale ZMYK at Tramway.

Jakob Kolding: I like some of the villains especially from Batman, of these kind of comic strips, because they are really like clichés of like out of Freud or something. That sort of genealogy thing, like the psychopath. Two-Face is obviously the schizophrenic. I like them because they are really easy symbols. […] The Joker I like because he's just such an image of some bad guy who's behind it all, but for no apparent reason, somehow, just because he's mad, and I really like that image of him as the bad guy. I mean, maybe in the 1970s he would have been a capitalist, but here he’s The Joker because it’s really hard to find out who the bad guy is, who is below all these different ideas of structure.

#Jakob Kolding #Stevie Jones #tramway

Ryan Kidwell aka Cex + Natasha Noramly

Before Ryan’s gig at Nice ‘N’ Sleazy, 9 June 2002

Natasha Noramly: Scottish audiences love to heckle, is that, would that bother you at all?

Ryan Kidwell: It depends. I like hecklers, to a point, I guess. I mean I definitely don't want to get punched in the face if I can help it. But, on the other hand, I guess there's a certain point that once you've passed it, if you don't get punched in the face then it's disappointing, like you've failed.

#Ryan Kidwell #cex #Natasha Noramly

Russell A Potter + Mary Redmond

At The Carnarvon Bar, 31 May 2002

Before Russell Potters talk, "Vernacular Technologies: Folk Music in the Age of Digital Reproduction," at Pearl Union, featuring the Harry Smith’s Edited Anthology of American Folk Music.

Russell A Potter: Sometimes there's a particular story that strikes you in a certain way, and you think, ‘that's a story about more than one person.’ And it might be story that gets very little attention. One of the books I've picked is a historic story of Minik, the New York Eskimo, who was brought from the Arctic and then just completely forgotten. And not only was he forgotten at the time, but he was forgotten all over again because people didn't even know that he had existed. So that’s where I think history and the study of history is a kind of insurgency. You're repairing the damage that forgetfulness has done. You're forcing people to remember things they don't want to remember, that they don't think immediately have anything to do with them.

#Carnarvon Bar #Russell A Potter #Mary Redmond

Bert Jansch + Mary Redmond

In the Special Room, Mitchell Library, 16 May 2002

After Bert Jansch’s concert at Pearl Union Library Project, Mitchell Library.

Bert Jansch: I lived in Hammersmith for a while. There was a guy who would sweep the streets. And he wasn't a dustman or anything, he just he had his own little patch. And he used to wake up in the morning and come down and he'd clean up all the pavements and pick up all the cigarette butts, and he did that all day long. Every day, all week.

Mary Redmond: That was the place he lived and then he was wanting to live.

Bert Jansch: Yes. And I wrote a song about that, I mean you can't let a story like that go. That was two albums ago. He's an Irishman, or I think he's Irish, he's got a, it sounds as if, or it's either contrived or he's wants to be an Irishman.

#Bert Jansch #Mary Redmond

Trina Robbins + Katy Dove

At Trina's Hotel Terrace, 5 May 2002

After Trina Robbins slide talk for Pearl Union at the Mitchell Library

Trina Robbins: There are things that I can't do, you know. I can't do graphic violence. I can't do violent sex. I can't do misogyny. I can't. Back in the 1970's, the Underground Boys Club, they were doing this little books, very hardcore pornographic books, very misogynistic, very violent. And I was actually invited into one of those books. And these people were like the inner circle of the boys club, the Underground Boys Club, some guy actually invited me to contribute to one of these books. I thought 'My God, I'm being invited to contribute to a book put out by the inner circle of the Comics Boys Club,’ and I thought and thought and thought about it, and you know I couldn't do it. It's like it was a physical impossibility. I can't do that. I can't.

www.trinarobbins.com

#Trina Robbins #Katy Dove

Art Of Fighting + Robert Dallas Gray

In the 13th Note Cafe, 18 October 2001.

Recorded before Art of Fighting's gig, part of an extensive European tour.

#art of fighting #13th note cafe #Robert Dallas Gray

Emil Schult + Will Bradley

Opening day of Emil Schult’s New Paintings exhibition, Lloyd Jerome Gallery, 8 September 2001.

#emil schult #will bradley

Mark Leckey + Anne-Marie Copestake

In the 13th Note Club toilet (it was the quietest room we could find), 16 August 2001.

After Mark Leckey's talk and before his gig, with Donatella, at the 13th Note Club.

#mark leckey #anne-marie copestake #13th Note

Pipilotti Rist + Caroline Woodley

Tramway office, ten days after the opening of Show a Leg, Pipilotti's exhibition of new video work at Tramway, 24 May 2001.

Pipilotti Rist talks about her video installation ‘Show a Leg’ (2001) at the Tramway gallery in an edition of Channel 6 Broadcasting’s television show, ‘Art in Scotland’.

#Pipilotti Rist #Caroline Woodley #Tramway

Le Tigre + Scott Myles

At the 13th Note Club, 2 December 2000

In the tiny dressing room during soundcheck prior to their gig, Kathleen had a cold, they had been touring for several weeks.

Kathleen Hanna: An economically viable underground is something that's gonna open the doors for everyone to be able to make art. There's this whole division of, like, either you're a capitalist or you are an anti-capitalist. The whole idea of class as it's discussed in the year 2000 by underground punks is completely ludicrous. The whole idea that if you give stuff away for free you're anti-classist? That makes absolutely no sense. Who can afford to give stuff away for free? The rich people. Therefore the kids who don't have money are the ones who are signing to major labels, getting totally ripped off by these people and getting called sellouts. That doesn't make any sense, you know what I mean? It’s, like, only the independently wealthy people can afford not to be sellouts.

#Le Tigre #Scott Myles #13th Note

Ellen Cantor + Cathy Wilkes