All The Same Mistakes

Today I am uploading something never previously available on the internet (AAArrrrggghhh WWOOOOOOO!) A recording of a song I finished writing about a year a go, that I've played at a bunch of gigs but never actually got round to recording it at all, but here it is for your listening and viewing pleasure, and I sincerely hope that you find it pleasurable!

Waving at You

So, to get to grips with my new ukulele, I have been learning other people's songs, this time Waving at You by the Mountain Goats. It felt like an appropriate song to sing so I sung it. I must say right now that I think the Mountain Goats are probably the most influential artist in my life over the past few years and the way that their/his music has comforted, inspired, challenged and counseled me has in large part defined my own approach to and beliefs surrounding the role of art making. Shunning creation as a culmination of academic research and the art object as a cypher for an already cryptic theoretical study, I have come to understand the work of art as a means of sharing experience that we might help each other learn and grow and bear up under the weight of life. So, thanks John! Anyway, here's the video:

the devil's on the run

theLost&Found started off life as a budget free gallery with a strong DIY ethic; the strongest in the world, some people said. Opening in an outhouse at my erstwhile home in Loughborough, the gallery evolved into a nomadic curatorial practice inhabiting studios, outhouses, churches, anywhere that would allow me to exhibit other people's work. Following the recent economic downturn and a hectic schedule, theLost&Found has become an online gallery of the things that I make. I had a few blogs on the go with the intention of uploading a weekly comic strip, a weekly music video, a weekly review of everyday life, a weekly critique of someone else's artwork. But the sheer volume of work that would require alongside a full time job and commissioned art projects and exhibitions has led me to scale down these seperate projects and condense them into one blog of generally creative stuff that doesn't fit on my portfolio web-site.

So with the introduction out of the way, here is the first entry: I write and perform music as one-man-band the Death of Me and having received a ukulele for Christmas I learnt to play a couple of other people's songs just to get used to wiggling my fingers in a new way.