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Two Wings fly high at the Betsey Trotwood

17/4/2012

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Isn’t it nice when you feel like you’ve discovered something no one else knows about? It’s all yours and it makes it all the more enjoyable for it! I had one of those Cash in the Attic type moments when I was listening to the radio past the midnight hour. I was chopping between iplayer radio buttons and on BBC Radio 2 I heard this voice. It was such wailing lovelorn voice and with symbols and drums, trumpets and it has this teenagy achey sixties vibe to it, I’d convinced myself it was Lulu’s long lost sister.

I only caught it half way through but I got the name of the band, Two Wings and found out a London gig was a few weeks off and as fate would have it 10 minutes round the corner from where I work. That and the fact that they came from Glasgow, my home for 6 years, a place which has an amazing music culture, especially when it comes to guitar bands, meant I prebooked. Yes, that’s how much I wanted in on this. 


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For the Love of God: How Squeamish Nicola Missed the Hirst Retrospective

16/4/2012

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For the Love of God Image: Ian Bauer
Easter Mondays are always quiet but at least the shops are open.  Due to the soggy weather and my weekend of lazy hibernation I decided not to hit Sainsbury’s for the discounted Easter Eggs just yet. Instead I’d make the most of this freebie of a day and double whammy the Tate Modern!

I wanted/felt obliged to see the Damien Hirst retrospective. Damien Hirst has been kicking about since he popped up as one of the Young British Artists back in the very British 1990’s. Hirst is now a pop culture staple - dead animals, assistants and diamonds (not to mention hefty price tags) have made him infamous. Right now he’s probably sitting on his pile of cash going bwahaha! 


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Dr Gunther von Hagens's Animal House

11/4/2012

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The least gruesome anatomical study. Image: Brett Jordan
I was a teenager when I went to see the Body Worlds exhibition – skinned corpses plastinated and displayed in various poses. It sounds gruesome, but it didn’t strike me as anything other than fascinating. But I forgot about it until recently, when I visited the Natural History Museum in London to see a similar trick repeated with animals.

Both exhibits are created by self-styled master of plastination (and living reincarnation of Rembrandt’s Dr Tulp), Dr Gunther von Hagens.


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