Autechre 2010: Oversteps
IDM luminary, Autechre, is back with a new release and beautiful sleeve art again, thanks to The Designers Republic™.
Their combined European Tour includes a stopover at BLOC 2010, a new electronic music festival in the UK, with a lineup that has everyone: Grandmaster Flash, Roots Manuva, Anti-Pop Consortium, Zinc, Flying Lotus, Kode 9, D:Bridge, Instra:Mental, Breakage, Joy Orbison and really, the list is endless for this gathering of other heavyweights I would kill to see!
OBEY + Smokey Robinson + Deitch’s Last Show
Starting the week off with some perrrfect news as 2 of America’s Heros, Motown God, Smokey Robinson and Design Giant, Shepard Fairey, come together for a model portrait!
Gearing up for his first fine art show, “Vision of America”, at contemporary art gallery, Deitch Projects (that’s hosted artists + shows in the past like Legendary: Keith Haring, Yoko Ono, Gang Gang Dance, to an honourary show for the late Dash Snow), Fairey works on a gold/black + “color” version of each of the two poster prints, with Fairey and Smokey signatures lining them all!
It’s definitely great to hear that Fairey is finally putting up a “proper” show, but most of all, that it features some leading figures in today’s society including, the Dalai Lama and political activist Aung San Suu Kyi as a closing show to the gallery’s existence (find out more here). Some points to consider as the message this move makes.
some great news, via [worldfamousdesignjunkies]
Toy Factory’s “To Kill A Mockingbird”
From its humbling beginnings as a puppetry theatre company, Toy Factory has come a long way with it’s original and edgy productions. The company now does its take on one of literature’s classics – To Kill A Mockingbird. With Goh Boon Teck leading the strong cast of both veteran and promising actors from television and theatre, audiences will be riveted by the gritty and intense look at human behaviour, gone wrong.
We love Toy Factory’s take on this literary classic and we’re giving away 3 pairs of tickets so you can enjoy it too! To win a pair, tell us who is the director for this edgy restaging of To Kill A Mockingbird. Email your answer to laura@zoukclub.com with the subject “Toy Factory’s To Kill A Mockingbird” with your full name, NRIC number and mobile number. Contest closes Sunday 14 February!
Tea With Horse Meat Disco
‘Spooning With Rosie’ and the ‘HorseMeat Disco Tea’, a short film where Rosie bakes cakes for the ‘Horse Meat Disco’ crew who are regulars at her Brixton cafe. She bakes some favorites for the boys and invites them for tea, cake and chats in the back garden at her place.
Horse Meat Disco debuts this Fri, 29 Jan at Velvet Underground.
DELI Boutique: New Merchandise Alert!
RAISE ‘EM IN THE AIR!
Zouk lighters are available in Yellow, Pink and Blue. Available exclusively at Zouk DELI Boutique. Grab them, while you can!
Letter Press
Mikey Burton, “wants to make beautiful things for awesome people.”
If i had my way, letterpress and any sort of modernisation that kills the character in tradition would be abolished. Perhaps another article in another time, though right now, Mikey Burton does pretty lovely work with letterpress.
Win exclusive tickets to catch The Killers live in concert!
The multi-platinum VMA Award-winning, Grammy-nominated band hailing from Las Vegas will (finally!) be making their much anticipated debut here in Singapore! After bursting out on the indie music scene with their hit single “Mr Brightside” in 2003, 4 studio albums which sold over millions of copies, and overwhelming requests from media and fans, The Killers will be performing at the Indoor Stadium on 24th January for one night only.
Having churned out numerous, chart-topping hits like “Human”, “Spaceman” and “When You Were Young”, their tracks are not only a staple on commercial radio, but also a favourite with dance music DJs (check out Tiesto’s remix of “Spaceman”), proving the versatility of their music. Needless to say, the hype about the concert is at a fever pitch, and tickets to the show have been completely SOLD OUT.
ReadySet Glo with the Bloody Beetroots
The electro duo came and conquered, spinning to a smashing, packed out crowd. What better way to spend New Year’s day than with the music mayhem here?
And just before the pandemonium started, the Topshop & Topman fashion crew spotted and spied these fashion good lookers, each walking away with a little reward!