The Primer: When does graffiti become street art?
Uploaded 3rd June 2008
As the Tate Modern open their Street Art exhibition, urban geographer and street art expert, Luke Dickens, gives us his view live from New York City. Cedar Lewisohn, curator of the exhibition also joins us in the studio.
Our architectural correspondent, Benedict O'Looney, makes an empassioned plea to save a Victorian school and live music comes from Nouvelle Croix.
The Jazzheadchronicles
Uploaded 19th June 2008
On this week’s edition of the Jazzhead Chronicles, Mickey plays a distinctly jazzy selection, from Acid Jazz, to Afrobeat Grooves. Listen out for more information on the line up for the I Love Peckham dance stage...
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Nouvelle Croix
are a Gypsy Jazz band from New Cross. Justin and George join us for an amazing performance.
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Whrs Nick and New Jack City
dismantle our studio with a tiny army of laser-beam shooting androids…and a set of drums.
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You can catch all of the musicians and artists in their respective The Primer.
Friern School: The Waverley School was built as the Friern School in 1896 by T.J. Bailey, a noted British architect who led the London School Board architects department in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is now proposed that the building be demolished to make way for a new school. However, the Peckham Society strongly opposes this move. To find out why, tune into June's edition of The Primer, which is live at 7pm on June 2nd or available on-demand from June 3rd.
Ben Perry will shortly finish a BA in Criticism, Communication & Curation at Central Saint Martins and will be taking an MA programme in Historical Research at Birkbeck in the autumn. His current research is focused on middle-class life in mid-Victorian London and the modern-life panoramas of William Powell Frith (1819-1909).
Alice White, a graduate from Chelsea College of Art and Design, has exhibited successfully in London, her first solo show in Carnaby St led to a review in the Independent newspaper. An artist at the renowned Bussey Building in Peckham since 2005, Alice is also a tutor at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. For further information, please visit www.alicewhiteart.com.
Jazzheadchronic Mickey Smith - Jazzheadchronic is DJ Mickey Smith a pioneering DJ, Producer and Music Promoter. He also works as a Writer for Film & Television and is a multi award winning Art Director & Graphic Designer. Finally... he is both Creative Director of Tribal Broadcast Records and Executive Creative Director of The Chronic Love Foundation [CLF]. As Digital Sound Scientist and DJ, Mickey has been dropping it hard and eclectic since 1992 under the name DJ Mickey Smith and now produces his own unique 'solo' music projects under the apt moniker of Jazzheadchronic. He is also one half of live Acousti-lectric band The Culture Chronics.
From Peckham Vision to The Office for Metropolitan Alternatives, find out who’s had their fix.
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The finest in Jazz and world music.
One hour packed full of the finest latin music there is.
Spoken word and live music in the neutral zone.
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