This is my diary of the summer and what I have been up to since the Goldsmith final show.

Frieze Art Fair
This self-portrait was exhibted in the Resonance FM stall at Frieze Art Fair. The drawing was up for sale in a blind bidding auction to raise money for Resonance FM (so it's not like I am really selling out). You could also bid on a private performance in your front room. The auction is organized by Bob & Roberta Smith and also included work by Victor Mount, Leigh Clarke, Harry Pye, The Apathy Band, The Fucks and many others. Over £10,000 was raised for Resonance FM. I have no idea who brought my work. Is this in your living room?



The Blo’ Boys

Following their usual under rehearsed return to the stage at Frogstock the Blo’ Boys were invited to play at Studio 3 in Bury St. Edmunds by Bald Monkey Promotion. As usual we faced an unexpected change of line up 2 days before the gig but we didn’t let this stop us. The change of line-up resulted in a much darker and more disturbing sound. I think the Saturday night regulars who had dropped in for a few alcopops on the way to the Bruzilyuhs nightclub down the street were not expecting that amount of poetry and guitar distortion. Most of the audience left, but the few people who did stay will remember it for a long time. It was one of our better gigs.




Frogstock Festival



Once again hundreds of people descended on our family farm in Blo’ Norton for the Frogstock. The event was even bigger than ever and for the most part everything went very well, apart from a little trouble at the end of the evening. However it is probably the last Frogstock for the time being. Next summer I will be busy getting married. However I now have a set up a new Frogstock spin-off project in the Montague Arms in New Cross, London, where we will he having some of the stars of Frogstock perform on the SECOND THURSDAY of every month.
There are some more photos of Frogstock on facebook...



Vegetable Poetry



In September I was invited by Alex Lockett and Aspex Gallery to do a performance in an allotment in Portsmouth. For this show I wrote poems and drew pictures onto vegetables, I liked the idea of being throwing all the art on a compost heap at the end of the show.



The Quest for Wisdom



In July I was invited to back to the [deviant] Art Festival in Sweden (see July 2006 entry). We decided to travel via Venice Biennale so the [deviant] Arts Festival some of the other artist who had set up installation had been in Trollhatten for a couple of weeks by the time we arrived. The weather in Sweden was not as nice as Venice.
When I arrived I met my friend Charlie Tweed. In Sweden you get two types of beer. The supermarkets can only sell booze under 3.5% Alcohol know as ‘People’s Beer’. The other option is to make a trip to one of the special Off Licences and stock up on lots of extra strong larger and cider. When I arrived in Sweden, Charlie was drinking the strong stuff. He said his tent was full of cold rain water and the only way people were getting any sleep was to get drunk enough booze to pass out for a few hours. By the day of my show at the end of the two week festival most of the people had had enough and gone home if they could. However, I did manage to get the remaining few soggy tired hungover artists to write some poems about Norse Myths in my Poetry workshop and then read their works out at a Poetry Evening I hosted with Swedish poet Johan Lindeblom.

I did some research on Trollhatten using Wikipedia and discovered that the famous Trollhatten waterfall is claimed to be the mythical fountain of knowledge where Odin the Norse God drank and gained his great wisdom. I decided to give it a try myself. Afterward the Swedes said that they all pissed in it.