Music, music, music, books, PHOTOGRAPHY, books and somewhat obviously - reading them. BECKETT, SARTRE, DOSTOEVSKY make me happy. DANCING a bit, shoegazing a bit, existentialist tendencies, headphones.
Music
Dylan, The Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, PAVEMENT, GodSpeed You! Black Emperor, BATTLES, BJORK, MONO, Arab Strap, MOGWAI, Leonard Cohen, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, RIDE, Joy Division, Lift to Experience, JOSH T PEARSON, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Spacemen 3, OXES, Boards of Canada, Can, The Cocteau Twins, ENABLERS, Wire, DEAD MEADOW, Cats and Cats and Cats, Explosions in the sky, Bardo Pond, Hella, Youthmovie Sountrack Strategies, KINSKI, 65DaysofStatic, Do make say think, Contriva, Fridge, A Silver Mt. Zion, Saul Williams, Sage Francis, Les Savy Fav, Hood, The Brian JonesTown Massacre, The Cure, THE SMITHS, the great and misunderstood work of Pulp, Syd Barrett, Deerhoof, Bat for Lashes, Jesus and Mary Chain, MAZZY STAR, Hope Sandoval, Slowdive, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Polly Jean Harvey, COLLEEN, Boredoms, Favours for Sailors, Jeniferever, This Mortal Coil, Joanna Newsom, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, George Harrison, Dirty Three, Kill me tomorrow, Led Zeppelin, Lightning Bolt, Acid Mothers Temple, The Sex Pistols, PiL, Patti Smith, Television, Bowery Electric, Gorky's, SFA, cLOUDDEAD, Why?
Here are some live photos I've taken of some of the bands mentioned above:
www.myspace.com/lucyjohnstonphotography
www.lucyjohnston.co.uk
www.flickr.com/photos/lucylovestodance/
Movies
Dogme 95 (Festen, Dancer in the Dark to name but a few!), Won Kar Wai films, Withnail and i... Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, The Labyrinth, pretty much everything bu the Coen brothers....i'm shit at watching films.
Books
READ THESE: Le Nausee - Jean Paul Sartre (my most favourite book), Camus (The Plague being my second favourite), Crime and punishment, Notes from Underground, House of the Dead - Dostoyevesky, absolutely EVERYTHING by Beckett (i love him more than anything), STEPPENWOLF - Hermann Hesse (everyone should read this book - it is absolutely beautiful and inspiring and plain fucking AMAZING). Zola's L'oeuvre (breaks your heart). Robert Musil, Raymond Carver, Kafka, Orwell, Colette, De Beauvoir, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut.
I'm constantly building my portfolio so i'm always available for live gig work, promo shots etc. Just drop me a line! There's loads of my work dotted around DiS and Myspace on various band sites so keep an eye out!
I help out (promo/booking/dj) with a new series of music nights held by Concentration Face. If you're interested in playing or just interested in checking us out & see what fantastic nights we have to offer, drop me a line or check us out!
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Boo. Heya Lucy happy to see you this friday would we be if you can make it to the Hope & Anchor for BK&D show. We''ll be on around 9-9.30... Much love. X
Benjamin Brunel plays at the mighty Club Clang at London’s Wilmington Arms, Islington on Thurs Feb 26, along with O. Children and Dark Captain. Light Captain. Come! Be our friend!
yo! will be back in london town around the 13th July...am thinking of going to see clockcleaner and big naturals if ya up for it? Am gutted that missing clockcleaner in bristol as was meant to be playing with prepostpre but im in italy! doh!x
EYES Cosmic sensory overload of electro/R&B/pop/outsider free jazz worship! Totally good, totally label mates of Xiu Xiu and totally from Chicago, USA.
SKITANJA Highly melodic psychedelic no-holds barred punk and noise on fuzz guitar, trumpet, manic keyboard and insane pre-recorded tracks from Bournemouth.
PFAFF The ultimate one man band. Pfaff plays guitar, drums, bass and sings. He does everything and now he'll be doing it for you.
sorry dear but dont know where in pics comment..this is all i use really, as i dont like facebook. no atp for me this time, don't like the bands enough..but should be good! + i went to fest in holland in April already..yest went to see yeasayer at ULU and it was great! have you heard of them? lots of Love, speak soon! x
hey babes!nice to hear from you stranger! ;) and thanks for the lovely pics message.. how's you these days my dear? let me know if you fancy a drink sometime in this lovely summer days..! x x x
lucy! i shall be in london from saturday - wednesday! i'll be seeing martin and dianne, so if you want to have a drink or something, just get in touch with me through them <3
li'l Lucy how are you doing??. Thought the Risky Crew had forgotten you. We're about to head into a studio with some new material, slightly heavier with that pop tinge that you know and love. We've added a couple of tracks to download on our space if you are at all interested, Hope you are well. Keep on keeping on xx
