Part of Diego Brown and the Good Fairy has been performing Frankenmiracles on old suitcases.
Now a migration of suitcases is making its undead way along the conveyor belt of time towards N16’s very own white cube - Stoke Newington Library’s gallery.
It’s an amazing space made even amazinger by the Good talents of La Brown.
Talk about multimedia.
Here lies music, suitcases, old shoes, plaster, nails, bottles - we could go on.
But really you just need to come along and see-hear for yourself.
There will be music of all sorts.
And it’s free to get in.
Young and old. Narrow-minded and broad. Come along.
It’s here
Word of the month is Vuvuzela.
According to the newspapers Fifa is considering banning them because they’re too noisy. Like you go to a football match for a snooze. (Though come to think of it the group stages - with the worrying exception of Germany - have been a bit like watching paint watching paint dry.)
But still seems harsh to ban the entire 70,000 strong tribute band to Diego Brown and the Good Fairy, don’t you think? Especially as the poor dears haven’t even learnt the tune to “Look Basil! There Goes the Titanic”.
We say come on Fifa, play fair. Give our fans break. If they can’t practice over the summer how will they be ready to join us for our Autumn tour?
One bit of Diego Brown and the Good Fairy modelling an early version of the thing Fifa fears
Anyway, let’s assume you’re not actually in South Africa for a moment, presumably you still want a chance to blow you vuvuzela or something like it - eg a kazoo.
So get yourself along to the Islington Ecology Centre on Saturday 9 June at about 8pm for a run-through.
Islington Ecology Centre
Gillespie Park Nature Reserve
191 Drayton Park
London N5 1PH
Big thanks to everyone who came to Cross Kings on Thursday 28. Five bands, lots of singing, and an auction to boot.
Top lots were The Domesday book, sold for £20, the oven glove of love for £10 and Bruce Willis’s The Return of Bruno for £8.
We raised total of £150 for Friends of the Earth Haiti.
Next up for diego brown and the good fairy:
27 Feb 2010: Haverstock Arms, Hampstead
12 April 2010: Old Queen’s Head, Essex Road, N1
15 April 2010: West End Centre, Aldershot, Hampshire
If you happen to be reading this hooked up wirelessly in a steak house hotspot, take a mo to chew on this bonkers fact of the year:
the meat and dairy industry produces more climate corrupting pollution than all the planes, lorries and cars on the planet.
While you swallow, those of you who’ve known us for a while may remember Diego Brown and the Good Fairy playing a few gigs at a cabaret club in Soho a few years ago. Those eclectic and surreal events were organised by mysterious funny man Dan Antopolski - now an Edinburgh Fringe Festival award winner. (So we know someone really quite famous, OK?)
Not just a beardy face, Dan is also a talented musician, brilliant comic and now an environmental campaigner (how many hot things can one man do?) And lately he has been helping massively in putting together a line-up of very funny people on 12 November at the Hammersmith Apollo. They are:
- Chris Addison
- Dan Antopolski
- Hils Barker
- Marcus Brigstocke
- Richard Herring
- Russell Howard
- Stephen Merchant
- Francesca Martinez
- Lucy Porter
- Mark Watson
- And there will be a special guest appearance from Razorlight.
It’s all in support of Friends of the Earth’s new campaign to get the Government to stop being so silly about the meat and dairy industry. Silly in the sense that they pay £700 million every year to prop up factory farming when they should be spending that money on local and organic farmers. Because factory farming = rainforests on toast.
And get over to ticketmaster while there are still some tickets left for 12 November.
Or we won’t be your friends any more.
Love the Low-Meat High Protein Siblings.
