Shop At Maison Bertaux

Shop at Maison Bertaux is Soho's best kept secret...but word's spreading fast! We're now one year old and our regulars can't get enough of our APC, Sonia by Sonia Rykiel Eley Kishimoto and Obey with jewelry by Vivienne Westwood Yura and Princess Tina. You'll love our taste, you'll taste the cakes upstairs and then you'll be HOOKED!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Fancy meeting you?

Brilliant thing happened on Tuesday. This chap came in and he used to work in the shop.....when it was a Peep Show! And funnily enough, his reception post was exactly where my desk is. So my Madame persona isn't all that off the mark is it?! - I'm a Soho Madame but my ladies take their clothes off in the privacy of the dressing room for their own enjoyment and no-ones paying for the pleasure!

Maybe ladies there's a business opportunity there.....waddya think??????

Anyway we had a lovely chat - most unrepeatable to protect the names of the guilty! - and his girlfriend took a fancy to the place so we hope to see them again soon!

Madame x

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Happy Birthday Max!


We're a couple of swells.....they've tried to kill us with ice........high five.....oh nothing......none of which anyone but Max will understand! But anyway dude, have a rest from pulling ceilings down today and put on something nice and get your butt down to the George and Dragon tonite where we will celebrate with fine music and much alcohol!!!!! Anyone who wants to join us is most welcome! George and Dragon, 2 Hackney Road, E2.

Madame x

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Pass it on...

Lady Bunny has a great blog on her Myspace page http://www.myspace.com/ladybunnymusic, but I was compelled to pass on this message.....
"MTV just started accepting political ads. And the first political ad that millions of young people will see is a negative attack on Barack Obama—saying he's "worse than a flip-flopper" and accusing him of no longer being against the war.1 It's outrageous.

The Republicans' strategy is clear: kill the hope that's brought millions of new young voters out of the woodwork.

We can't let that happen. And as it turns out, we've got a funny, positive, hopeful way to fight back.

The "funniest ad" award winner in our Obama in 30 Seconds contest is a perfect counterpoint to the cynicism-mongering ad on MTV. Plus, it was made by actor (and MoveOn member) Rider Strong.

We just found out that we can run this ad on MTV and Comedy Central (as their first political ad ever) for $150,000. If 6000 of us contribute $25, we can do it. Can you check out the ad below—and if you like it, will you chip in to get it on the air?
"
So to make a donation to get the ad on the air, go to http://www.moveon.org/ and make a donation.

Was just having a conversation about how much MTV sucks yesterday....reality shows are now priority, not music which really is a depressing sign of our times. I still watch MTV2 but apparantly the ratings are really low....and I'm hardly their core demographic!......which begs the question: Does everyone out there actually WANT watch shows about the mundanities of
boring celebrity lives......? This isn't a rehearsal you know, don't waste precious hours watching Jodie Marsh or whoever wiping their a*** - please!.....aspire at least to quality tv like CSI, The Sheild....Family Guy.....America's Next Top Model.....um, Australia's Next Top Model.....aaah, what was I saying........??

Madame x



Madame xx

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Luchadora!

Nahid and I have been having such fun putting together short youtube films - she's drawing quite a fan-base!!! This is my favourite, I posted it this morning, if you're having a bad day have a butchers.....


Love it!!!!

Madame x

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Monday, July 28, 2008

D.I.S.C.O!

The theme was disco, the temperature was H.O.T., the walls were sweating and we danced all night long at the Ponystep party at Hoxton Bar and Grill last night!

I met Ima Doll and Liza Angst my dates for the night at the bus stop (if budget would've allowed I'd've ridden a white horse bare-backed Bianca Jagger-style but needs must), then realised my cork-heeled platforms were already starting to fall apart! Liza produced two band-aids which actually held the poor shoe fast as I did the hustle and bus-stopped over broken glass, dripping with sweat for the next four hours!

As I stooped to apply said plasters, two policemen appeared out of nowhere to ask what I was concealing in my shoe!! Ima thought they were the Fashion Police and they had received complaints that our disco outfits were too HOT and were causing a disturbance, but even more fabulous was that they thought I was stashing DRUGS in my platforms! So we really felt like extras out of Thank God it's Friday as we sashayed off with a cocky "We got away with it....!" Luckily they saw the joke, imagine if I'd ended up down the station for a strip-search! Hmmmm, imagine!.......

I'm so glad we took the bulk of our photos at the beginning of the night when hair and make-up were still in place and hadn't slid to cheek and chin. Wasn't it Diana Ross who allowed photographers for the first ten minutes of a performance and then banished them quick-smart? This is a policy I shall be employing from now on, my photos later make me look like a frightening lady with freshly boiled head!

Ima's onesy deserves a moment's reflection, there's enough silk to fashion a parachute in this Marc Jacobs garment!

Amazing, non?
My jumpsuit was made by Stevie Stewart, based on one she made for Kylie, with help from Paul and Alison - and I sewed some of the buttons on!!! After dresses I think a jumpsuit is the most perfect garment, chuck it on and off you go! If I could have one in every jewel hue I'd never have to wonder what to wear out again!!

Ima and I started on the dancefloor but couldn't wait to move on up to the stage, there was more light to bounce off our outfits up there.....this is one of my favourite pictures of the night of Ima and Paloma, even with a palm full of sweat, Ima's make-up is amazing and I don't know how Paloma stayed looking so cool and pale, by now I looked like I'd gone a round with Andy Minska (I wish!)...

Talking of boxers, don't know who this beautiful bruiser is but we decided he was the male version of Ima and demanded a photo....he looks like he's used to being immortalised in black and white by Bruce Weber and was a little unsure but relented....

We ran into Bishi and Susanne who were conserving energy throwing shapes, which keeps you cooler than my spinning/hand clapping and even sometimes bouncing with excitement at the opening bars of Tasha Thomas or Liz Torres!

First prize for resilience would have to go to Lady Bunny who was guest-dj and had at least six wigs perched atop her head. That sequinned dress must've weighed about fifty pounds and those drag queens rarely stop at one pair of tights! Despite all this she out-danced all the club-kids easily AND kept her false eyelashes on all night! (note to self, must find out what foundation she uses....)

Miss Dee was in the house and I haven't seen this gorgeous troublemaker in years! True to form she'd removed her dress and shown me her matching underwear ensemble before I'd had a chance to introduce her to the girls, but they already felt intimate none the less....

I really haven't danced like that in a long time, we're having a bit of a disco revival n'est-ce pas? Well on my playlist it never went away of course....

Like Cinderalla, my glass slipper only gave out on me as I wobbled to the exit. I suddenly realised I was walking with a limp due to the whole cork sole being left a few feet behind me having given up the ghost. I turned to see a grinning chap with my sole in his palm which I snatched with as much dignity as I could muster and ran for a black cab. Slightly dismayed by the sight that greeted me in the bathroom mirror and wondered for how long I'd looked so disshevelled but hey....

A cold shower seemed to bring my colour down and since the boys are at my mum's I settled down with brie and crackers and Family Guy and cackled into my crackers.....

Madame xx

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Nature vs Nurture

This is quite wierd and hilarious....I used to do this tummy rippling thing when I was a kid, but I never taught the boys how to do it or even realised until the last couple of weeks that they can BOTH do it! Check this out....

I'm very much in the nature over nurture camp, and I think this proves my point!!!!

Madame x

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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Full English?

Etienne and I met for breakfast the other morning. He's been telling me about the "Regency Cafe" (17-19 Regency St, SW1) and how it's right up my alley....how right he was!

Estd. 1946 it really doesn't appear to have changed since that date. Creamy yellow tiles (one of those wonderful post-war colours like that dirty green with lots of grey in it, or rose with the same greyish lustre), red lino and formica tables, I couldn't believe I've not been here before.

Great breakfast menu...including bubble and squeak and black pudding!.....and the portions are ENORMOUS! My dinner the night before had consisted of humous and crackers and Etienne hadn't eaten at all as he fell asleep at 7pm and didn't wake until 8am (we lead very exciting lives!) so we both would've eaten a scabby donkey if it was arranged on a plate....but look at the spread! This is mine; scramble, bubble and squeak, mushrooms and tomatoes with a side of toast:

And Etienne's; frieds eggs, bacon, beans, tomato and a bit of my bubble and squeak with white toast:

Here he is about to attack!

We went for a wander around the area, alot of which seems unchanged for many years, there's a beautiful little 1950s launderette and I had a rummage in the local charity shop and came out the undisputed winner! I found a John Sex 12 inch which I saw him perform on a documentary about the New York underground scene and NEVER thought I would actually own, a Vicky Carr live album which has a genius spanish medley on it, and Frankie Vaughan 7 inch of Cabaret!!! All for the princely sum of £1.50!!!! Actually it was only a pound because the charming man serving me gave me 50p back!!! (Maybe he could sense my financial crisis!). I was so excited to get to the George and Dragon to spin my new tunes later that night!

So now Etienne and I have decided we're going to meet regularly for breakfast dates! There are so many wonderful cafes we want to try - any suggestions welcome! - and it's a meal out for around a fiver so you can't go wrong really. Maybe we could make it a Breakfast Club? Anyone coming?

Cheers!


Madame x

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Great Look

Stevie sent this picture she took of Duke at the Heath on Sunday today - hadn't noticed quite how insanely wonderful his outfit was....like a raver/wrestler in a bonnet!

.....and you can't knock those crocs!

I need some camera advise please. I want one that shoots to 300 dpi quality, is small....and takes great pictures! I've got a Canon digital Ixus 60 now which I've abused rather and is on its last legs I'm afraid. I want to learn more but I don't want a camera that'll scare me off!!! Any hints would be greatly appreciated....

Madame xx

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Saturday, July 12, 2008

Nice Price

Now I've caught up on my blogbacklog or cured my "blogstipation" as Superduck so charmingly put it, I can finally get around to telling you what a wonderful time was had by all on Wednesday night at Tramp - YES Tramp! - at the Topman launch of Antony Price's "Priceless" range which will be hitting the store this Autumn.

Max and Paul's "Look Presents...." second fashion foray is perfectly timed....I predict there'll be skinny boys in bands stepping out in their best purple suits or their tight Artful Dodger waistcoats anytime soon.....it's always great to see sexy menswear, and all to rare a sight, and lest we forget, Antony was responsible for Brian Ferry's male sex-siren image throughout the seventies. Whenever you see the footage of Roxy Music on Top of the Pops from those days it's astounding how outrageously sexy Ferry still looks. Timeless. Eyeshadow, tight tight pants, tiger jacket and gravity-defying quiff.....endless legs......half-shut eyes as though remembering some earlier liason or just turned on by the music....a real man in great make up is not a look carried off by more than a handful of beauties....Marc Bolan, David Bowie, David Johansson......delicious.

Anyhoo, back to me. I had the HONOUR of wearing an Antony Price Crawford suit to the party. A pinstripe vamp of a suit it is obviously based on the Joan of the same name, has shoulders that could take your eye out and is going to be available on Saville Row later this year. Max is responsible for my Cinderella moment, he put me on the phone to Antony and once he'd been convinced I was going to make "some effort" with the hair and make up and do my best to do him proud he gave in....

Everyone dressed as befits the stomping ground of Joan Collins and Oliver Tobias....

Nahid and Bev scored very high in the babe stakes....

As did Roy and Julien......they went from animated chatter to a sexy smoulder in less than a second!

Lady Bunny caused a photographer's scrum in which Stevie Stewart got trampled, here she is with Antony....

....and Jonjo who was utterly starstruck like I've never seen him before!

Pam was wearing a shiny Hogg Couture number, looking as incredible as always, here with Daryoush - what a couple of stunners!

At the dinner before the party I think we had the best table (obviously the head table with Brian Ferry, Antony, Philip Green and Nicky Haslam came a close second), I spent most of the time cackling with the i-D girls and forking little tastes off their plates...whilst trying to earwig on Andrew Davis's confessional down the other end of the table (I'll never be able to stop calling him Tilly, much to his chagrin I'm sure...)

Paul Gorman was working a new glasses and houndstooth (dogtooth? whattooth?) combo which worked very well and the tailor responsible, Mr Mark Powell was resplendent in pinstripe - mopping my look!

So far so delightful....although when the ladies of the House of Maison B get together it can get a bit rowdy...



Not to mention the boys...Nathaniel quickly forgot his "no smiling in photos" declaration....

Sarah forgot she doesn't smoke....or at least she and Phil started a toothpick smoking game which ran and ran and we all found hi-larious....

I felt very proud of Max for pulling the whole Priceless gig off, he's worked so hard....

Really enjoyed hanging with the girls...

...and the boys....

Ate every scrap of my roast pineapple with coconut ice-cream!

Perhaps overdid it a bit.....

But in the best way.....it's not often I get to see so many of my friends in one place, and for that place to be legendary Tramp, with a slap up meal thrown in, this was one happy Madame......


Wonder if they'll make me an honourary member......think not....

Madame xxx

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Drag King no.2

Here's another contender for most convincing drag king...

What is it with the West End stage and all these smooth-skinned leading 'men' with feminine features? Or is it just me......?

Madame x

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The book what i contributed to....

Nahid and I went along to Beyond the Valley the other night for a beer and a few canapes to celebrate the new book by Fletcher and Hay, "When Fletcher and Hay met...." which is a charming collection of contributions from Jenny Dyson, Christopher Kane, Martin Parr, Toyin.....and among others your very own Madame! We were all asked "What are you thinking about...?"

Some people have written something, answered with an image, or both in my case....I really enjoyed flicking through, and coming across mates like Princess Julia and Jenny Dyson, it's great to dip into....

I onlly took a couple of pictures but there's lots on Urban Junkies here. There's a limited first edition of 350 and I'm not sure where they're available - I would presume Beyond the Valley are selling some as their creative director Kate Harwood contributed.

Above is my bit....really pleased with how it turned out.

Madame x

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Friday, July 11, 2008

I wanna go to Dollywood!!!

I've been excited about going to see Dolly Parton for seven months!!! Alex got tickets for a Christmas present and promised to take me, and now the night had finally arrived!!! I always get excited when getting together with Alex as we don't see so much of each other now she's moved to the country, so I could hardly contain myself as you can imagine....

After watching some of the Federer/Nadal match we decided Federer would fare better if we weren't staring at him putting him off (obviously we were wrong about that)......besides, we didn't know how the boats to the O2 centre worked but had been assured the trip only took four minutes!! (actually it's forty!)....so I took Alex on my crafty cut-through where Nathaniel and I used to skate late at night (he on skateboard and me on rollerskates), and as we wandered into the tunnel we wondered aloud where the graffiti exhibition was then realised we were right in the middle of it! So we could take in a street art show literally on our way to Dolly! Marvellous!

There were some really effective pieces like the one above, and some great excuses for mucking about...


It was a bit of an art-dash but I was so pleased we saw it...

A bit masculine overall, would've been lovely to see a bit of Fafi in there...

Then on to the boat which was luckily just pulling up and off we went!

It was brilliant people-watching on the boat, the obvious Dolly fans in plastic cowboy hats and as many sequins, rhinestones and silver leather as they could pile onto their bodies! We sat outside and enjoyed a wonderful London sightseeing tour....Alex used to work in this big silver lump when she was something in the city - that lady has had so many lifetimes!!!

Then we came upon the eyesore that is the Dome, but we looked on it with kinder eyes as it had a real live Angel inside it! We rushed up the gangplank and into the venue as she was starting her first song!

No, we weren't this close! She was amazing amazing AMAZING!!!! Her singing voice is bell-like, absolutely perfect and she is incredibly musical, wandering around the stage to sit at the piano, play guitar, penny whistle or something approaching a harp! I've never seen anyone with such musical prowess but Polly Harvey - in fact she IS the Polly Harvey of Country! If anyone reading this has ever heard me dj, they know that rather often I play my prized, pink 12 inch Dolly Parton disco record, "Burnin'" - it is seminal....and she only came on to that very number after the intermission!!!!! I could've died and gone to heaven!!!! I mean everyone from Kiss to Ethel Merman made a disco record (and I'm not knocking 'em - love 'em!), but it was the LAST song I expected to hear as well as the one I wanted to hear the MOST!!!!!!

Now I want to go to Dollywood!!!!

Madame xxxx

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Spring?

So this is the time of year when we get to look at NEXT spring's offerings clothingwise.....which is why I hopped on the Eurostar, or rather dragged my carcass onto it - it was the morning after Ponystep - and curled up in my seat nodding between sleep and consciousness all the way to Paris to see A.P.C......

And this is what I saw...

I always enjoy appointments with Iris, she knows the collection back to front and is fun to hang out with too, so time passes really quickly.....and she notices when I'm flagging and brings on the super-strong coffee!!! We met for a quick vin blanc before my train and I caught up on what she's been up to outside of A.P.C. She's a super-talented illustrator, check out her website here. Last time we were in Paris she was very excited because she had directed her first pop video and the band suddenly became really popular and had a big hit in France, so her video was all over town! This is it, for BB Brunes....

I missed Hughes this time, was hoping to pop into the shop to see him and then the time just flew, but I got to see Olivier (in glasses in the film) and Iris told me he makes music too but is very shy.....will he kill me hyperlinking you to his myspace here I wonder? I hope not!

Lovely creative people, lovely clothes, sushi, good coffee, vin blanc.....and a secret doorway to who knows where?

Madame xx

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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Great Lakes

Last week I was off work to go on our annual family sojourn to the Lake District. Apart from two years when we went to Guernsey, we spent every summer there for as long as I can remember as a kid. We stayed at a farm in Carlisle for a few years where we saw kittens being born in the barn by day and made our nighties make static sparks against the nylon sheets at night (hours of fun!), then about twenty years ago my mum and dad bought a timeshare in Langdale. Apart from three years ago when my dad passed away, we've been every year, in fact it we decided the following year we really wanted to keep it up partly because it was the part of the country he came from and loved so much. We also see our American cousins who have kids around Duke and Joe's age and it's amazing seeing them all grow and get to be firmer friends every year.



Lots of exciting "firsts" this time: Nathaniel and the boys went canooing to the island where they filmed Swallows and Amazons, the highlight of which was the hot chocolate when they got there....

The bigger kids jumped off the rocks and I reckon Joe and Duke will be chomping at the bit to have a go at that next year....

My mum bought a Nintendo and Nanny Van bought one a few weeks ago so the boys had a few sessions with their new plastic babysitters...


But we went swimming every day and the boys even swam for the first time ever without arm bands! They can only go a few strokes before realising constant motion is the key and under they go but the will is now there to swim which I'm so happy about. I was a pretty amazing swimmer as a kid, in fact my poor mum used to take me training at 6am before school every morning....actually, maybe I shouldn't be encouraging the swimming thing too much.....!

Always good to be home.

Madame xxx

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Monday, July 07, 2008

Bedroom Wrestling

Just HAD to share this picture one of my ladyfriends sent of her in her new Mexican wrestling mask.....I'm not naming names of course although it doesn't take a whole lotta imagination to guess who she is!

Oh I do love a lady who can wear a wrestling mask or even a pair of pussycat ears going about her daily business.....

Madame xxx

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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Ponystepping!

Even though I was conscious of having to get up at the crack of a sparrow's fart on Monday morning for my Paris trip to view Spring A.P.C. (of which more next week when I get a chance to edit my movie!), I had the best time djing and then dancing myself dizzy at the Ponystep party on Sunday night!



Richard might've regretted his choice when we realised the decks weren't hooked up, as NO-ONE except me djs with vinyl anymore! Torches were found, leads untangled then hooked up and finally we were motoring! Matthew Stone, Pedro "Busy P" Winter and Hanna Hanra were also djing....In fact Hanra "Hair" Hanra might be more appropriate! Amazing bleach puff going on!




Caught up with lots of old friends....Here's Cybil Rouge and Link Leisure. Now, they won't thank me for telling you this but I've known them close on twenty years!!!! WTF!!!! When I arrived in London from Coventry in the late eighties, one of the places we used to hang out was Freud's on Shaftesbury Avenue. Link was there alot and we became friends and through him I met Matthew Glamorre and his crowd and got asked to take part in a show they were putting on for Easter at Heaven. Cybil was God, perched topless on a huge scaffolding "skirt" which was covered with fabric with an all over multi-vagina design. The centre of each design was split so that Cybil could "give birth" to various club kids....now we get to my part; on either side of the stage were spinning crucifixes with a girl tied to the front and back in full-on crucified position. The only direction we were given was to atttempt to can-can and SMILE!!!! It was a triumph! And was probably the moment when I realised London was definately for me!


Cassia, Lili and I hung out danced a lot, did lots of kissing...


Great to see Gwen, who really could have a party on her own in a paper bag...

What a beautiful, effusive, sparkling lady!!!
And I got myself snapped by Alistair Allan - how does he do it? I've never seen a bad picture of ANYBODY!


MadameX

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High Time on the Heath!

I always like to tell you about my London days out, because I've realised it's too easy to live in this fabulous town and not make the most of it. As they say "Tired of London? Tired of Life!!!", and it can be true in a way because we're so lucky to live here, especially for the stuff we can do for free, the museums, the parks....and when you actually bother to haul your carcass out of the home for the day for a London adventure it truly is a tonic!!!

Stevie and I never see each other enough, she's always working on some creative endeavour, running up costumes for Kylie and her dancers, Michael Clark and Co, on location doing costumes on a film, ad campaign or pop video.......she makes multi-tasking an art form and I'm constantly blown away by her...so we decided to grab an afternoon at Hampstead Heath, she always walks her dog Mucky there anyway, and it gives me a chance to run the boys into the ground a bit......



It's amazing how the boys visibly unwind as soon as we hit wide open natural spaces. The animal takes over and they roll in the grass, whoop while shaking sticks in the air and just play...no fighting, just battles, and somehow the usual ear curdling velocity of their voices is absorbed into the rest of the wildlife.....almost!



There was a bit of cloud which kept getting burnt away....although there was chill enough in the air for Joe to request my McQueen cardigan which he trailed through the shrubs like a George at Asda hoodie!

Mucky really is the most wonderful character. She's a rescue dog so has a few issues like cowering when children get too near her with a stick and nipping at their feet if they get too cocky on her turf (actually really funny, she just does warning nips because she's grown to like them and warns other dogs off when they get too near her boys!).



Our picnic wasn't a lavish affair, I just grabbed popcorn, Babybels and fruit and off we went, but the point is to grab the sunshine where you can get it and have a run about. We even saw a Heron standing like a statue in the pond, but it didn't have a hope of snaring a fish with you-know- who having a dip a few feet away!!!



Such fun!

Madame xxx

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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

STEPHEN FOWLER EXHIBITION

My friend Stephen Fowler is about to have a new exhibition - this time at The Horse Hospital. Let's hope I make it to the opening on Friday without having to stand outside 'in the fresh air' and lean on a car because I was worried I would pass out and die from too much drinking the night before, then end up at Tsouni's birthday by accident with a bottle of Lucozade in my hand and end up playing musical statues til 5 in the morning watching Amph and Alex T wrestle in their socks. [Like I did and the last one...]

The Chamber of Pop Culture Is Proud To
Present:

'Instead of wives, they shall have toads" 
An exhibition by Stephen Fowler

Exhibition
Saturday 5th July - Saturday 26th July, 12-6pm
Mon-Sat 
Private View Friday 4th July, 6.30pm till late


The artist will be in residence on Thursday, Friday
& Saturday of each
week.



Stephen Fowler is a Folk Artist of extraordinary complexity, who over the past 5 years has created a vast body of work illustrating a deep emotional journey of personal identity. Discovering Fowler's work is literally like leafing through the pages of a giant eclectic scrapbook, which at first glance could have been created half a century ago, Fowler's multifarious practice embraces many traditional crafts, forgotten techniques and skills that belong to bygone age, drawing freely from the worlds of Dada, Surrealism, Constructivism, Abstract Expressionism, Outsider Art and Steam Punk to create his own diverse and rich aesthetic.

From naïve paintings of remote architecture, places of worship and hospitals, to moving portraits of troubled individuals, plant life and shell fish, Fowler presents us with a chronicle of assorted drawings, paintings, prints, posters, intricate handmade bookworks, leaflets, flyers, badges, sculptures, found objects and ephemera which reflect his various obsessions for graphics, poetry, old records, photographs, film.

"Instead of wives, they shall have toads" puts forth a meloncholy and playful world engendered carefully and lovingly 
by this sensitive artist. 

Fowler is well known for his creative collaboration with: The Murri Folk Club, Tapestry Music Festival, Tatty Devine, Zeel, Mark Pawson, Rob Ryan & Rocky Alvarez.

To accompany the exhibition there will be a programme of film and live music events. Curated by the artist.

FILM NIGHTS +
EVENTS


Wednesday 9th
July, 7.30pm

£5-£4 mems/concs 
We Have No
Art 
1967 26 minutes 
+
Mary's Day 
1964 12
minutes
Two documentaries on the Artist, Teacher, Nun; Sister
Corita. 
+
Danielson: A Family Movie (or, Make a Joyful
Noise HERE)
2006 105 minutes
Starring Danielson Famile & Sufjan Stevens with cameos from Steve Albini, Rick Moody, David Garland and DANIEL JOHNSTON.

Tuesday 15th
July 7:30pm

£5-£4 mems/concs
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum 
Directed by Lynn Shores
1940 B/W 66 minutes
Wax figures, hidden rooms, secret passage ways and pelting rain.
Sidney Toler stars as Charlie Chan in this claustrophobic museum setting.
+
The Bat Whispers 
Directed by Roland
West
B/W 83 minutes 1930
An old dark house melodrama.

Friday 25th July
7:30pm

£7/£5 members & concessions 

Home Made Record Sleeve Performance
(D.Js Nervous Stephen and Rocky play records from 'Home made records sleeves volumes 1 and 2' books, as corresponding record sleeves are projected). 
+
William Fowler Band 
(Post Barrett Space Folk)
Monogram
(Old Timey tunes)
The Country Teasers
(The Fall meets The Carter Family)


The Chamber of Pop Culture - "SERVING UP POPCULTURE FOR 15 YEARS
The Horse Hospital - Colonnade - Bloomsbury - London - WC1N 1HX
phone 44(0)207 833 3644
The Horse Hospital

xx Emma

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