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25/5/2009

slo-mo #2

Filed under: Art, Artists, Audio, Events, Film, General, Life, Music, Projections, Video, dj, flyers & posters — site admin ( mr_hopkinson ) @ 10:31 am

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24/4/2009

Motor Nureone Disease Benefit Events, Saturday 16th of May

Filed under: Art, Artists, Cube, Events, Food, General, Life, Music, dj, flyers & posters, performance — site admin ( mr_hopkinson ) @ 4:11 pm

Patrick Joyce, an old friend of The Cube was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease last year. He is doing a sponsored half marathon ( in a wheelchair pushed by others ) next month to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association ( www.mndassociation.org ) , who have given him a stairlift. As their funds are used to supply equipment, and research the condition – he wants to reimburse them towards the research side.

In support of him we are doing 2 events at The Cube on Saturday the 16th of May ( a week before the marathon ). A rare outing of Annabel Other’s Bristol Art Library ( TBAL ) . . .

. . . which will come along with a raffle, featuring BAFTA level prizes, and cake stand , with cakes made by a BAFTA winner standard baker.

In the evening there’s a cut price party night chock-full of delights . . .

Minotaur Shock : http://www.myspace.com/minotaurshock

Dennis Teeth : http://www.myspace.com/mrdennisteeth

I Know I Have No Collar : http://www.myspace.com/iknowihavenocollar

Dagger Brothers : http://www.myspace.com/thedaggerbrothers

VI : http://www.bristol-channel.org/index.html/

Hope to see you there . . .

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15/1/2009

Fascinating Virtue

Filed under: Events, General, Mr Hopkinson personas, Music, Stories, dj — zuleika @ 5:26 pm

For those of you who missed it a fascinating facsimile of events can be found by following these links:

You Tube Videos of Boxcar Aldous Huxley and Men Diamler

Blog review

“K pointed out that often, when you go out on New Yearâ€™s Eve, it can be a bit of a compromise: you go out to something that you wouldnâ€™t normally go to, just because you feel you should be going out somewhere. Fascinating Virtue was an event weâ€™d be excited to go to any day of the year.” /

Hurrah!

Sorry don’t know why this is all links!?

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16/9/2007

Even better than the real thing

Filed under: Art, Bar, Cube, Events, Food, General, Gossip, Music, dj, feminism, performance — site admin ( mr_hopkinson ) @ 6:37 pm

Last week I enjoyed one of the best nights out at the Cube for a long time – the “Cube Cola all spirits night”. This was the ‘first’ Cube Cola birthday party – though, slightly confusingly, not their first year – it was, according to the exquisitely James-Vickery-designed programme, “celebrating almost 4 years on the path to food science enlightenment”. The Cube Cola project is by Kate Rich and Kayle Brandon . . .

. . . and is based around providing a viable alternative to branded cola, manufactured from scratch. There is more info here, and here. The evening also celebrated many other home-spun products: food stuffs . . .

. . . some presented quite straightforwardly and deliciously, others with a bit more attached ( notably Jelena Stanovnik’s extremely good pie-chart Chocolate cake, which marks out the proportions of recorded religions in the UK as part of the ‘Life In The UK’ project by Jelena, Kate and Rasha Shaheen – who I’d previously seen give their presentation at Spike Island and Blackout at Shambala ); and also some clothes – in the form of some very versatile garments by Sylvia Zidek, including her specially designed trousers that level the pissing-field to make dignified street-urination as easy for women as men.

Kush DJ’ed infectious afro-beat in the bar . . .

. . . and Suffolk band The Pancakes played on their home-made instruments in the auditorium . . .

. . . creating a very warm village fÃªte type feel, though with their casual references to murder, along with a live on-stage demonstration of the aforementioned feminist piss-pants, it was all kept just on the right side of too cosy.

There was a healthy crowd despite stiff competition from a sort-of homecoming gig by The Goxxip ( Cube associates Local Kid memorably brought them over here before they blew up in the mainstream ) and everything just seemed to fall into place to make a perfect entertaining and thought provoking evening that I couldn’t quiet imagine happening anywhere else . . . thank The Cube !

Later in the week, and probably because it was mid-week, the tribute night for Anthony H Wilson, wasn’t so well attended. Possibly just as well as the promised Karaoke Orchestra couldn’t make it, and my proposed contribution ( a compilation of YouTube clips transferred to DVD ) wasn’t ready too . . . not unlike the various mythologically-behind-schedule-Peter-Saville-moments chronicalled in ‘24 hour Party People‘, which we did get to screen from the DVD with Tony Wilson’s commentary ( a great idea from Hog ), after showing some performances recorded in the HaÃ§ienda from the FAC71 vhs I bought second-hand as a young teenager.

Having searched around the net for bits and pieces the pretty obvious parallels in attitude, and more than occasional ineptitude, between the Cube and the Manchester music scene Tony Wilson was so associated with, seem even more blatant to me, and hopefully we’ll schedule another more party friendly, and suitably irreverent celebration night later in the year . . .

. . . meanwhile here’s links to a little gem I uncovered that was made for Channel 4 in the 80’s [ it's split into 7 parts ] . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyk5FwrbcgQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffeORmsUKL0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VnGxoz5RZk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laD5czT58gk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93qAiUIFysE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FveqO3T-2to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An013JKUgcY

. . . which, if nothing else ( presuming you’ve seen 24hr Party People ), should draw attention at just how good Paddy Considine was at playing Rob Gretton !

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28/10/2006

Happy Birthday To Us!

Filed under: Fire, General, Music, Richie Paradise, Volunteers, dj, performance — richie paradise @ 3:20 pm

Mr Hopkinson
Ok, firstto whoever got pissy ‘cus I asked people to move out of the back room kitcheny area to help the bar staff, get over it.
Secondly to the guy who grabbed my friend’s wife’s ass, totally and utterly out of order and unacceptable at The Cube (and anywhere else for that).
Phew, got all that off my chest, now to the fun…..

Well of course everyone who is anyone was there:
Barry and Sam Polly and Richard
Richie Paradise Tomoko Takahashi

Even some celeb’s turned up.
lazaro celebrities

Music by Punksi, Danni and this chap Dj ? was truely fantastic. Well done Chaps, you had the bar packed with alot of happy smiley people
In the Bar

Bar staff did a sterling job, I’m glad to say my Paradise Punch went down rather well. It’s a vague version of a Sea Breeze if you’re interested, Rum instead of Vodka.Brin even had time to do some fire eating in the garden where a gruesome gang enjoyed his Satanic mastery
Outside

I’m afraid I missed the first act The Dagger Brothers but I heard they were simply marvellous. Later we were introduced to Time Travellers turned Techno Mentalists VexKiddy

See and hear for yourselves

We were then introduced to, I think, The Brian Epstein Mind Masturbator, a device that reads your thought waves and turns them into music. The lady wearing the device occasionaly works at my skool, so at least she’s used to oddities and potentially dangerous scenarios.
The device was bought out by ‘Barbara’ (aka Ali), a fine specimen of a girl, front Barbara and back Bottom

Anywow let’s have a look and see just what’s inside the young ladies head:

Quite insane and quite quite marvelous.

Well my chariot arrived and I headed off leaving everyone to carry on the Birthday fun.

Huge thanks to Sarah and Mark for organising the whole thing.

Hey, it’s been intimate Richie Paradise

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