Art By Various Musicians Of the Above Persuasion. Opening party featuring performances by Athletico Spizz Karaoke 14, The Bermondsey Joyriders Featuring the Action Men, Hackney Secular Choir.
We arrived at this gallery exhibition opening come party come show just in time to see the Hackney Secular Choir who performed while we queued up to get a beer! They are a 10 voice choir or at least they were for this performance who opened with a very cool version of the Buzzcocks Ever Fallen In Love that would have been great fun if everyone there for the art opening had shut up and listened, but playing acapella and acoustic made that a bit unlikely as we stood in the beer queue listening they then did a very cool version of Another Girl Another Planet by the Only Ones that pretty much got drowned out by all the chatter. They then closed there set with a Teenage Kicks that worked pretty well and encouraging a sing a long seemed to cut some of the chatter back. I'd like to see them again with an audience that wants to hear them sing.
Once we finished getting our beers we had a look at the art and I have to say I was most impressed by Gary Lammin's paintings even if we thought one of them may have been a tad overpriced at £280000 or was it a typo. My favourite section was the paintings by Gerry Laffy that were very cool indeed especially the Japanese one that looked like a samurai playing snooker. Now what about a Girl reunion Gerry.
Knox's paintings seemed to be the ones that didn't sell in the show we last saw them in at the Rebellion festival someone must want that Iggy Pop portrait surely. Joni Belaruski's painting was also very cool twist on a Pierrot style theme and it was good to see the original artwork for the last couple of Taurus Trakker albums. All in the art show is worth a look if you happen to be in Crucifix Lane this week.
Garry Lammin wandered onto the stage and slung on his guitar and started playing what almost sounded like an improvised piece going on about God Save The Queen and other assorted punk references as Chris Musto wandered on to play some drums and a Woman whose name I didn't catch walked out to do some fire Breathing and Martin Stacey strolled up and picked up a far less flashy than normal Bass Guitar just as the Action men appeared in Gorilla suits to invade the stage and destroy the bands equipment they did their best to try to smash the guitars but they didn't quite succeed but it was quite an interesting performance and the shortest set I've seen The Bermondsey Joyriders play.
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Which meant it was time to look at more of the art and hang out In the very hot gallery and before long they introduced the evenings next special guest Spizz who was performing Karaoke style to backing tracks and as ever decked out in his full Spizz uniform with the glowing lights et al as he belted out Where's Captain Kirk that got most of the crowd to listen rather than just continuing to chatter and he followed that with a little sales pitch for his new single and the artwork that's for sale and did a cool version of City Of Eyes that brought the performance side of the event to a close as far as we could tell.
Either way it was far too hot in the gallery so we decamped with most of the people there to the pub across the road. A cool opening party and the art show is well worth a visit if you happen to be in the London Bridge Bermondsey area before it closes on September 26.
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