From model combine harvester collectors to people who walk backwards (reverse pedestrianism) to painters of the extraordinary...Not necessarily personalities, but people who are pioneers in their own worlds.....shifting reality to other places...who knows..
Music
Bonzo Dog band meets Throbbing Gristle meets Richard Cheese.
Movies
Scart Trio make films by playing 2 films simultaneously and scart them through a series of analogue technologies, making hallucinatory psychedelic manifestations..SEEING IS WITNESSING (currently presenting live shows in the UK). This is not VJing!!! Show real out soon.
Television
TV Nation meets Disinformation (TV series).
Books
Currently reading
Sorcerer's Apprentice by Tahir Shah.
Phenomena, Book of Wonders by John Michell.
Eccentrics by David Weeks.
Heroes
Flint Jack, Fossil Forger 1850's.
Dr. Roland C Miller who coined the term 'Performance Art' in the UK (1960's). Now in exile here in the UK.
Those who dare to go on an Art Strike!?
A continuation of eccentricness and the cult of the world's first newspaper continue to grow!
SECOND EDITION -ISSUE NO.1b, THE HOPEFULLY HOT SEASON 2008 IS OUT NOW - visit eccentriccity.co.uk for more details.
40 contributors, 40 pages of eccentric news and views...
FULL DETAILS www.eccentriccity.co.uk
A Postman’s Diary
The MoonWalking Club
Useless inventions
Random Food
The Wolverhampton hermit
The Art of pregnancy
Is Debra naïve?
A Catfish specimen hunter and much much more
Harry Palmer (eccentric researcher and co-publisher) and along with Mr Simon Walker (eccentric researcher and co-publisher), have created a world first - a news collective (The Eccentric City) and we ARE VERY KEEN to establish an eccentric community - through our newspaper and blogs, talks etc..etc..etc... So please get in touch with us.
FIRST EDITION - Issue No.1 2006-2007 The Cold Season in the UK 7th December 2006:
If you want to get your hands on a copy, then please visit other site:
www.eccentriccity.co.uk
ECCENTRIC CLASSIFIEDS
are now available to purchase via the website.
Another full radio interview on the Julia Hankin Show BBC Radio Newcastle, 16th Feb 2007 describes the newspaper as'Probably the most unusual newspaper in the UK today.'
You can download this interview at www.eccentriccity.co.uk in the Sneeky Peek section of the website.
Who I'd like to meet: We always happy to hear about those who REALLY live and work outside of the centre.....From Stick Collectors to Rocket Scientists to Electroplating the Dead Victoriana....WE ARE INTERESTED....
Eccentric correspondence statement as follows:
'Enthusiastic hunters and promoters of eccentric activity present a new newspaper offering texts, artworks and musings et al – in the context of eccentricity. We wish not to present eccentrics as people celebrity or personality, but the thrust of ideas, observations, opinions and research. Above all, we want to present the eccentric voice that is now enclosed within the fabric of this newspaper, unfolding a city – a place that eccentrics occupy'.
We do have a direct email, so you can also get hold of me there: Email us at eccentriccity@hotmail.co.uk
THE £1 ARTS COMMISSION SCHEME LAUNCHED AT SUBURBIA, PALL MALL, LONDON, MARCH 2008. FULL DETAILS ON OUR MAIN WEBSITE.
OUR FIRST £1 COMMISSION by Simon Raven is below:
Proudly presenting Simon Raven’s Masters of The Universe film entitled ‘Eccentric City.’
‘Edited sound and footage of a performance in which a Tibetan singing bowl is played on the 'The Universe' big wheel ride in Nottingham.Made April 2008
'Tis excellent to find another periodical to wile away the hours whilst drinking in the Bedknobs & Broomsticks (our local Angela Lansbury-themed public house).
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