@clockopera performing @93feeteast – Playground with @Waylayers and Citadels – pics

Just a few pics from a great night watching Clock Opera’s last gig of the year back at 93 Fet East where I last saw them on June 10 2009 along with Magic and Fur, A.Human and others.

This time around as they headlined they had Waylayers, Citadels and Citizens (thelast band I didnt get any images of as they were first on).

Once and For All still pushes all the right buttons and they ahd a great team up with Simon Dawes on visuals for the last two tarcks which can only bode for bigger and more spectacular things in the future.

Clock Opera ( @clockopera) at Barfly in Camden – Time Out London Sessions – 1st November

The single launched tonight and went off with a big bang.

Guy and the band gave the crowd exactly what they came for and some.

So much so that I wasn’t really taking pictures anymore, just enjoying tracks which are now classics to me and some new melodies that they have come up with that are just as captivating.

Clock Opera at The Queen at Hoxton – 23 October 2010

Clock Opera have a new single coming out. It’s called ‘Once and for all’ and you can get it from Kitsune Records from the 1st of November.

They are also playing Time Out Sessions at Barfly on the very same day as the single release so you can probably get yourself a signed copy there.

And last night they played at The Queen At Hoxton in Shoreditch.

Here’s a few pics from that so be sure to check them out, they have been hot for 2010 and they will will be explosive for 2011.

SF Magazine Cover Scans – Part 3 – Warren Ellis and Original Light

1983, O Levels just out of the way, a pile of SF novels and comics that just kept getting bigger and a search for fellow minded fanboys (I was influenced by the American writers who talked so lovingly of having Heinlein or Sturgeon on the letters pages of the very same mags that they went on to write for and stories of SF conventions that made you jealous that you were in Southend in the 1980′s and not in New York in the 1930′s).

So a fellow at school, Matt, he of the V for vendetta logo on his bag and his slight Guy Fawkes demeanor, told me about the stuff he was doing. Sounded cool. So a meeting was arranged, there were like minded people in Southend, people who enjoyed SF and thought they would be able to do it for themselves.

SF Magazine Cover Scans – Part 2

Moving away from the printed word in magazines for this post and into art work.

A selection of British magazines reprinting American stories. Published in the 1960s and 1970s.

There is a whole load of stuff that could be written about magazines like these. The subject matter very simplistic compared to comics today but for it’s time very mind expanding to the right person.