John Lee Bird has finished painting Martin from Selfish Cunt, Dusty Limits and This Tawdry Affair....and will be exhibiting at The book club Boutique on the 29th of June. view more
About me:
john lee bird lives in London. He once lived in Ipswich (in Suffolk) where he went to school, played with his cousins and liked to buy rabbits to afford him some time with his father while making the hutches for them.
He studied art at Ipswich College, dropped out to work in a record shop and ended up as the Manager and stayed there 5 years before throwing his arms up in the air and returning to study art properly. He then had a little accident and forgot to eat anything, and was forced to work in a record shop again (after he’d gotten a little fatter) whilst he saved money to go to university the next year.
He studied fine art at London Guildhall University – paying his way with part-time jobs at theatres and nightclubs – before graduating in 2000.
Since then he has worked as a duty manager in theatres and as a primary school teacher and now he works as a full-time artist; freelancing for different companies and most importantly to him, working on his own art. John lee bird is 33 years old.
john lee bird has exhibited work in his hometown of Ipswich, in Cambridge, Bristol, Southampton, Plymouth, and at Kielder in Northumberland. He has also had various solo exhibitions in London including: his degree show in 2000 at Guildhall University, in Gloucester Road 2002, at the Truman Brewery 2004, at the Start Centre in Woolwich 2004, at the Phoenix 369 Gallery (Edinburgh) 2005, at the 20th Century Theatre in Notting Hill 2006, at the Ubox Gallery Nov 2007 & Feb 2008, The Stratford Old Town Hall 2008, at Simon Carter April 2008 and shows regularly at his studio in East Ham.
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Who I'd like to meet: popstars, pornstars, artists, writers and degenerates...anyone to be included in future portraiture exhibitions
The albums below are all available now, including Tonight of the Living Dead, a dark ambient audio collage of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead.
Also, there's a free compilation album at the link below, hope you enjoy it. If you do, please consider reviewing it at Amazon and passing this link along...
Sick of wasting 200 quid at Glastonbury to wade about in muck on bad drugs watching Sting with a bunch of hippies?
There is an alternative.
And it's better than suicide.
You would be silly not to take it.
It is Club Hell.
It's The Party At The End Of The Line.
HEAT FROM A DEADSTAR
"Spooky guitars morph into the sound of crying monsters, and twisty time signatures barrage their way through brick walls...brings to mind My Bloody Valentine or the ethereality of early Mogwai. Currently holed up in Steve Albini’s studio in Chicago, HFADS are potentially stratospheric."
God Is In The TV
"Deadstar is a repository for all the emotions we don't know how to put into words... "
Etherised Zine
THE SUICIDAL BIRDS
PONY PACK
Two explosive Dutch girl bands. They are not like The Spice Girls. They are very angry about something. They could have easily taken out Courtney Love back in the day.
If you missed early Hole/The Breeders/Veruca Salt/the Riot Grrrl thing the first time 'round, see this. Or find 'em in Holland; last London show.
MARCIA MELLO A busking girl and her guitar playing ragtime pre-war blues from Provincetown, Massachusetts. Covers of people like Memphis Minnie, Blind Blake and Blind Lemon Jefferson...
"One of the best guitarists I've ever heard" - Nick Marsh (Urban Voodoo Machine/Flesh For Lulu)
DJ: KAMIKAZE U.T. (Corn Rocket Club: Badass Punk Rock n'Roll)
+ BEN HELL (Go-Go Mariachi Surf Garage Nonsense)..
If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive
breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can repattern itself to a
higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted
economic, environmental, or social collapse ... If the system could go
either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the
positive can tip the scales of evolution in favour of the enhancement
of life on Earth. Barbara Marx Hubbard.
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