LOVE ON THE ISLE OF DOGS pictures

Desperado Housewives

The Desperado Housewives are Kath Tait, Helen McCookerybook and Jude Cowan Montague.

This is our lockdown piece, a collaborative song and video which shows our anarchist leanings.

Crumpsall Riddle

Looking After The Duck, the album recorded by Steven Ball and me under the name Crumpsall Riddle, is attracting quite a bit of attention and some critical praise. I'll dedicate this post to reviews of and other news about the album and update it as and when there is something new.

It's out on CD from Wormhole World.




Here's an interview we recorded with Andy N for Spoken Label:

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/crumpsall-riddle-spoken-label-april-2020


Reviews:

 ...a masterful craft, spilling an abundance of emotion without superimposition or myriad sound designs; rather seizing the breath of the listener through an adventure of minimal instrumentation: structuring scenic palpation’s.  

- Anti: Music Review

 If people just had ten precent of expressive freedom as Crumpsall Riddle have accumulated over here, the world would be already a much more fascinating and wonderful place!

- Yeah I Know It Sucks

...like speed reading somebody else’s book collection whilst listening to the Bagpuss soundtrack as whistling Jack Smith rifles through your girlfriend’s knickers drawer just out of view...  

- Monolith Cocktail 

What a triumph of beauty! One of my albums of the year and comes with the highest possible recommendation from TQ zine.

- TQ Zine issue 30

 

     - The Wire Magazine issue 437

 

Grateful to @thewiremagazine for pointing me in the direction of this eccentric, fragile and surprising set of songs @WormholeWorld

    - Tom Clayton on Twitter

 

Sketches from Luigi's farm near Atina

 

 

 

 

 

sample sketches from a great day out at the farm

rainy August day

thank you to Maria Teresa and to Luigi

Atina Art Residency 8 - 17 August

curated by Rekha Sameer

Exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale 15-16 August

some pictures from the residency by Susana Lopez Fernandez

ANIMALLAGES - with Daniel Lehan - @ Poetry Cafe

Exhibition at the Poetry Café with Daniel Lehan. Visual Poetry.

Lehan’s collaged tales of true romance trail the bears, birds and other beasts he encountered on his travels through Canada and London. Montague has cut up her award-winning monoprints and rearranged them to create suggestive, cinematic fragments. The exhibition ran until 15^th August 2015. Jude and Daniel presented an evening event and performance of Animallages at The Poetry Café on Monday 20th July, 6.30pm-9pm.

Joint collage between myself and Daniel Lehan.

'Dolly of the Dell'

Yoshka and Dreen - Cos Chapman is Dreen, Andrew Stys is Yoshka