We're all pulsing tights and wicked art this week!
This weekend sees the third Hackney Wicked art festival take over Hackney Wick with open galleries, artist studios, live music & art events, film screenings and flea markets. It's their most ambitious to date - way to go! For those of you who enjoy the passion and sensuality of dance, taut, pert bodies, athletic endurance, physical articulation that cuts the air to pieces, then dear reader - you will be wanting to see Carlos Acosta, at the ENO! The acclaimed Cuban dancer is the worlds best - and we have a pair of tickets to see him and his thighs of a thousand stallions storm the London stage! Now, he might not be your cup of tea at all... you may rather find your self slouched in a theatre, slightly drunk and finding great pleasure in mocking all around you - then, we suggest checking out Dylan Moran's latest work at the Leicester Square theatre - from tonight! Tickets are shifting fast... you know what to do.
Last week, we looked ahead to the Indian summer, the months of September and October, pointing you in the direction of two terrific highlights to earmark for your diary: Alpha-ville, London's new Festival of Digital Arts & Culture (17 & 18 Sept) and the Twin Peaks Weekender at BAC (23 & 24 Oct). This week however, we turn to a musical and visual sensation - The Irrepressibles at the Scala (30 Sept). You may have seen them at one of the many summer festivals, the V&A or at the Southbank. Their sound has been compared to early David Bowie, Kate Bush, Anthony & The Johnsons and even Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band. We like!
Blogs - The artist and writer Zoe Catherine Kendall exposes heart warming thoughts of that summer love with great tenderness. Helen Black reviews 'No Idea' at the Young Vic, and Herb Wright reviews the Surreal exhibition at the Barbican (until Sept). Leslie Deere interviews David Toop (think of Flying Lizards, plus countless other creative projects), the renowned musician, writer and sound curator. Together they discussed 'Blow Up', the current exhibition at Flat Time House in South London, which he co-curated with Tony Herrington of The Wire.
Notices - Alpha-ville 2010, London's International Festival of Digital Art and Culture launches this September - read all about it here! And! If you're a Digital Film maker - enter the Alpha-ville competition and have your work screened at the Festival!
Upcoming & Upbeat
Untold, Ben UFO, Envy & more hit The Rest Is Noise as part of the Beck's Vier Music Inspires Art Tour!!
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 | A night of Dirty Sleazy live bands, wild vinyl and unhinged good times! WITH: THE VINYL STITCHES / HELIUM & EGGS |
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 | Kung-fu carnage? Martial-arts mayhem? Yes please! Send us Uma Thurman and Bruce Lee, let them take over the screens in a double bill of rampaging revenge and savage stand-offs! Hell yeah! |
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 | Wow, what a dazzling line-up for this year’s Field Day! Offering up a melange of bands and DJs for any music lover. Featuring Phoenix, Caribou, The Fall, Chilly Gonzales and so much more! |
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 | Join BAFTA in welcoming Guy Hamilton, a true legend of British movie business. |
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 | Until 31 Jul. Inspired by Bergman’s film and adapted for the stage, Through A Glass Darkly follows the mentally ill Karin, who is torn between two worlds and her relationship with her father, brother and husband. |
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 | Future Cinema presents a very special screening tribute to the late, great Dennis Hopper with a unique screening of David Lynch’s 1986 cult classic Blue Velvet. |
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 | Lisa & Rachael wanted to make a theatre show but couldn’t think of an idea. So, armed with a tape recorder, they went to the streets & asked people to take a good look at them & imagine what their show could be about. |
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Jimmy Edgar, Hundreds in Hands & more hit The Rest Is Noise as part of the Beck's Vier Music Inspires Art Tour!!
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 | The first rule of the Underground Rebel Bingo Club is that you don't talk about the Underground Rebel Bingo Club. It's dangerously addictive stuff and we suspect the authorities are watching.... |
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 | Sketchbook magazine are holding a final knees up to celebrate the end of their residence at Kingly Court. |
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 | Until 21 Aug. A cracking 1996 Young Vic revival by Joe Hill-Gibbins confirms the play as a classic of mother and daughter warfare, reminding us once again what a gift McDonagh has for horrifically funny black comedy. |
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 | La John Joseph shares indiscretions during ones formative years in glamorous Liverpool, with reworked classics from Suede, Hole and PJ Harvey. |
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 | Looking for your randy-nuns-going-mad-up-a-moutaintop fix? Then look no further. 'Black Narcissus' is the film for you. |
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 | 4-28 Aug. Dazzling disco, cabaret, circus & a marvelous line up of cabaret guest stars, Agent Lynch plays host to Studio 64, feat. burly-pole sensation Glory Pearl, Showgirl supreme Kitty Bang Bang, Dusty Limits & more! |
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