Saturday 13 December 2008

PORTOBELLO WINTER FEST 19-21 DEC UNDER THE WESTWAY


hello my dears
here is a poster i made for the portolbello winter fest
that starts next friday
it should be fun
come on down if you can
i will have posters and paintings on sale
see thee onwards
kiss kiss
robert xx
The Portobello Road has long been a vibrant melting pot, combining all the myriad cultures that make up the modern metropolis of London. From billionaire financiers to Morrocan street vendors, this cheek by jowl symbiosis represents everything a city should be. Delving into the underbelly of Portobello, an area familiar as a home for artistic residents and trend-setting businesses alike, constantly evolving its unique style, the Portobello Winter Fest kicks off mid December 08 displaying an eclectic mix of music, art, culture and fashion.
The underbelly of the westway will be turned into a mini gallery with shows by the friends of the notting hill arts club including the almighty subway gallery, garageland magazine courtesy of transition gallery, members of le gun and many more from our twelve years of curating art shows. Come and buy before you browse at this unique setting and one off event
www.portobellawestfest.com

Friday 5 December 2008

THE RUBBISHMEN PLAY FIRST AND LAST GIG OF THE YEAR AT THE BLACK GARDENIA DEAn STREET SOHO ON WENSDAY THE 10TH OF DECEMBER R




HELLO DEARHEARTS
US THEE RUBBISHMEN WILL BE PLAYING OUR FIRST AND LAST GIG OF THE YEAR
AT THE BLACK GARDENIA 93 DEAN STREET ON WENSDAY THE 10TH OF DECEMBER
its a great little club Imagine Ronnie Scotts before the refurb, 'The Slow Club' of Blue Velvet or the neon glamour of Vegas and you're almost close to our sleazy paradise!
WE WILL BE DOING SOME DJING AS WELL FROM ABOUT 8 ONWARDS
AND WILL BE PLAYING AFTER NINE
THE CLUB STAYS OPEN TILL 1
SO COME ON DOWN AND HEAR THE RUBBISH WE WILL BE PLAYING
BYE FOR NOW
KISS KISS
ROBERT XX
WWW.THERUBBISHMEN.COM

http://www.myspace.com/blackgardenia93

Wednesday 12 November 2008

THE RUBBISHMEN ON RESONANCE 104.4 FM THIS SATURDAY 4.30




HERE ME NOW WE ARE ON RESONANCE THIS SATARURDAY ON A SHOW CALLED
OST

Sat Nov 15 4:30pm – Sat Nov 15 6:30pm
Created By
Resonance
Description
Today Jonny Trunk is joined by The Rubbishmen Of London. Artists, musicians and part of the underground "Le Gun" collective, this intriguing duo will be throwing away all their favorite film music this afternoon. And maybe chucking in some art at the same time.

http://www.trunkrecords.com
jonny@trunkrecords.com

HERERES SOME INFO ABOUT JONNY TRUNK
Writer, broadcaster, vague entrepeneur. Jonny left his job as an advertising creative back in 1995 to plough his own furrow. Since then he has started Trunk Records, the cult British record label that has brought us some of the most beautiful unreleased film music of all time - including The Wicker Man, Kes, The Clangers and Deep Throat. Trunk Records most recent release is a lost album of Hull library music composer, Basil Kirchin, called Abstractions Of The Industrial North. Jonny is one of the UK's leading experts in film music, and has written extensively about the genre across the music press. He also has the only dedicated film music radio show in the country, OST, which goes out every Saturday on Resonance FM in London to a fine and loyal following. With this huge knowledge on the subject but also a considerable collection of rare recordings, Jonny is often employed to source music for TV and advertising, recently finding the music for Channel 4's Banzai. Jonny is also an artist in his own right, having released his debut album, The Inside Outside last year to much critical acclaim - well four stars in Mojo and The Wire etc etc isn't bad. And as a result of all this music lark, Jonny is a busy DJ, hired for interesting fashion and art evenings. Over the last year Jonny has been working on a project known as Dirty Fan Male. Based on letters written to his sister who was a porn star, Jonny wrote, produced and took the show to the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe where it became the word of mouth hit. The book of the project, Dirty Fan Male; a life in rude letters is published later this year by HarperCollins. As a result of working for five years at Portobello Antiques market, Jonny has an unusual knowlege of works of art, especially those of a sexual nature. He held the first ever exhibition of British Porn Movie Posters in London in 1999 and another exhibition is planned for the new year.

SO ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GET GET ON YOUR COMPUTER
AND CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW
I THINK THE SHOW IS REPEATED ON WENSDAY AT 3PM
http://resonancefm.com/listen
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST IS
A NEW WEEKLY WISDOME
TAKE CARE NOW MY LOVES
BEST WISHES
KISS KISS
ROBERT X
www.therubbishmen.com

Tuesday 11 November 2008

HERES LAST WEEKS WEEKLY RUBBISHMEN WISDOM ONLY A WEEK LATE


HELLO LOVES FORGOT TO POST UP LAST WEEKS WEEKLY
RUBBISHMEN WISDOM SO HERE IT TIS
A BIT OUT OF DATE NOW ME THINKS
BUT DONT PANIC MY FINE POPLES OF THE INTERWEB
A NEW ONE IS ON ITS WAY THIS WEEK
ALSO WE WILL BE LIVE ON A RADIO SHOW THIS SATURDAY
ON RESONANCE 104.4 FM
ON THE JONNEY TRUNK SHOW FROM 4.30 TO 6.30
SO BE SURE TO TUNE IN
BYE FOR NOW
KISS KISS

Monday 10 November 2008

LE GUN 4 CAN NOW BE BROUGHT FROM LE GUN WEBSITE




HAPPY MONDAY
ONE AND ALL TIS A GREY DAY OUTSIDE
WET AND COLD
BUT I BRING GOOD NEW
IN THAT LE GUN ISSUE 4 CAN NOW
BE BROUGHT FROM THE LE GUN WEBSITE
www.legun.co.uk
ITS THE BEST ISSUE TODATE AND FULL
OF LOTS OF ODD STUFFS AND POO
THATS ALL FOR NOW LOVES
SO BEST WISHES
KISS KISS
ROBERT X

Friday 7 November 2008

Pygmy Man-child Bertrand speaks on the set of The Rubbishmen's Adventures of Cervante's Adventures of Don Quixote!



Pygmy Man-child Bertrand speaks on the set of The Rubbishmen's Adventures of Cervante's Adventures of Don Quixote!
THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST TRAILERS OF THE RUBBISHMEN OF SOHOS NEW PROJECT
THAT WItCH I SPEAK OF The Rubbishmen's Adventures of Cervante's Adventures of Don Quixote!
SO WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE STUFFS
BYE FOR NOW
KISS KISS
ROBERT XX
www.therubbishmen.com

Monday 3 November 2008

SOME TWONK STOLE MY SKULL FROM NOTTINGHILL ARTS CLUB


HELLO LOVES
MY WEEKEND WAS AN ALL TIME LOW IN BED
WITH MAN FLU HANGEROVER AND HEARTBREAK
THEN TO TOP IT ALL ONE HAD TO GO AND TAKE
DOWN THE EXBO I HAD ON AT THE NOTTINGHILL
ARTS CLUB TELL ME WHY I DONT LIKE MONDAYS ....
ANYWAY DAVID WHO RUNS THE PLACE TOLD ME THAT
MY SKULL HAD BEEN STOLEN
IF THE TWONK WHO STOLE IT BY CHANCE EVER READS
THIS THAT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO MAKE
BUT I HOPE ITS FOUND A NEW HOME SOMWHERE
THE CID FIB AND INTERPOLE ALL HAVE BEEN
NOTTED SO WATCH OUT WHO EVER YOU ARE
TO THE REST OF YOU
BEST WISHES
ROBERT
KISS KISS

Thursday 30 October 2008

HELLO DEARHEARTS TIS WITH GREAT joy THAT I TELL OF NEW WEEKLY BLOG


TIS WITH GREAT joy THAT THEE OF
THE RUBBISHMENS NEW WEEKLY BLOG
EACH WEEK WE WILL UPLOAD SOME MORE WISDOM
ABOVE IS THE FIRST ONE
GOOD BYE FOR NOW
KISS KISS
ROBERT XX
www.therubbishmen.com

Sunday 26 October 2008

NEW RUBBISHMEN VIDEO THE RUBBISH INTERVIEW


HELLO ONE AND ALL
HERE IS A NEW VIDEO WE DID
ITS AN INTERVIEW WITH THE RUBBISHMEN
BY THE STAND UP COMDEY DORAIN CROOK
HOPE YOU ENJOY IT
BEST WISHES
KISS KISS
XXX
ROBERT

Tuesday 21 October 2008

RUBBISHMEN NEW ZINE OUT NOW AND SOME NEW PHOTOS




HELLO THE GOOD PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
HOPE ALL IS WELL AND GOOD WITH YOU ALL
IAM JUST DROPING A BLOG TO TELL YOU ALL ABOUT
THE RUBBISHMEN PAMPHLET/ZINE THAT IS NOW
OUT AND CAN BE BROUGHT FROM ROUGH TRADE EAST SHOP
AND STREET SELLERS IN THE THE WESTEND AND SOON SOME
SHOPS IN SOHO NOT SURE WHICH ONES YET
AS FOR THE RUBBISHMEN WE ARE PLANING A GIG AND VIDEO SHOWING AND SPECIAL
GUESTS AND THE LIKE
SOMETIME BERFORE THE END OF THE YEAR
SO WATCH THE SKYS FOR MORE INFORMATION
ALSO BE SURE TO VIST ARE WEBSITE
WWW.THERUBBISHMEN.COM
ABOVE ARE SOME GREAT PHOTOS OF THE RUBBISHMEN BY THE FAB MAN THAT IS
JAMIE MCLEOD THEY WHERE TAKEN A FEW MONTHS AGO IN AND AROUND
OUR BIN IN SOHO FOR MORE JAMIE GO TO
www.jamiemcleod.co.uk
OK THEN MUST DASH
BEST WISHES
KISS KISS
ROBERT XXX

Monday 13 October 2008




HELLO POP PICKERS TIS ME YES MR RUBBISH
BACK FROM THE DEAD I COME WITH A NEW
RUBBISHMEN VIDEO TIS I COVER OF THE
LIBETAINES HIT WHAT PETEY DID
HOPE YOU ENJOY IT
KISS KISS
WWW.THERUBBISHMEN.COM
ALSO WE HAVE ANEW FANZINE THAT WILL
BE ALL GOOD SHOPE SOMEWHERE SOON
SO KEEP ON KEEPING ON
BEST WISHES
ROBERT
KISS KISS

Friday 26 September 2008

just back from jersey plc le gun exbo


hello loves
its been a while
ive just got back
from the land of my birth
jersey legun
did a show in some old police cells
in the old court in st helier
it was a good little show
we got are photo in the local rag
and was taken out for dinner
and the alike
will update the blog with
some photos when i get
them
good night all
kiss kiss
robert
www.legun.co.uk

Thursday 4 September 2008

MORE NEWISH DRAWINGS PART 2





HELLO LOVES
HERE ARE SOME MORE
NEWISH DRAWINGS
ALL FOR SALE ALL POSTCARD SIZE
AND ALL PEN AND INK
AND CAN BE SEEN IN THE FLESH
AT THE LE GUN SHOW
NOW ON AT THE ROCHALLE SCHOOL
SHOREDITCH www.legun.co.uk
KISS KISS
ROBERT X

Wednesday 3 September 2008

john mf casey art show at nog brick lane 14th september


hear me now
a young man called john mf casey
will showing his wares at nog on bricklane
on the 14th september
if about please pop down and see his works
or check out his myspace http://www.myspace.com/jmfcasey
John M F Casey – Swindler of the Abyss

14 September – 8 October 2008
Nog Gallery, 182 Brick Lane, London E1 6SA, +44 (0)2077394134
Opening on Sunday 14 September 2008, 6 – 9 pm

Monday 1 September 2008

HERE ARE SOME NEWISH DRAWINGS part 1






HELLO OUT THERE
HERE ARE SOME NEW DRAWINGS
WHEN I SAY NEW THERE NOT THAT
NEW BUT THIS THERE FIRST OUTTING
ON THE WEBBERBLOGLOT INTERTHING
SO HERE THEY ARE
SOME OF THEM CAN BE SEEN
IN THE FLESH AT THE LE GUN EXBO
THAT IS ON AT THE MOMENT
THERE ALL POSTCARD SIZE AND
PEN AND INK
AND THE ALL FOR SALE
IF ANYONES INTERESTED
JUST DROP ME AN
EMAIL
BEST WISHES
ROBERT XX
www.legun.co.uk

Saturday 30 August 2008

SHORT RUBBISHMEN VIDEO FROM LAST YEARS ART CAR BOOT FAIR


The Rubbishmen from eviltwin on Vimeo.
HELLO DEARS
HERE IS A LITTLE VIDEO
I FOUND ON THE WEBBBY
OF THE RUBBISHMEN
AT THE ART CAR BOOTFAIR LAST
YEAR
WE ARE A BIT
DRUNKED ME THINKS
MORE RUBBISHMEN NEWS
WE ARE WORKING
ON OUR NEXT FANZINE
AND LOTS OF NEW STUFFS
WATCH THIS SPACE
AND OUR WEBSITE
KISS KISS
ROBERT XX
www.therubbishmen.com


ROBERT

Friday 29 August 2008

review of le gun exhibition





here is a review
of the le gun show
i found on a website
its very nice
and here are some
photo from a blog
kiss kiss
robert xx


You presumably already know about the collective of illustrators that is Le Gun, and their superb book/magazine of illustrations, and other artistic goings on. Well, this time they've put on a show.

A queue? A bloody great big queue greets us as we try and enter the show, hidden away on Arnold Circus behind Shoreditch Church, like a lost location in a children's book. Thankfully the queue is only for the bar, and we move through the first room: a place of mirrors, stuffed animal heads (one even with a fag nonchalantly hanging from its mouth), and the bar. Into a completely cardboard thirtieseque drawing room. Yes, thats right everything is cardboard and marker pen. Lightfittings, paintings on the wall, books on the bookshelf. There is even a cardboard piano in the corner. After marvelling at this, we passed through a decidedly Alice In Wonderland-like small door into the next space.

A space consisting of a huge mural running from one side of the room, right round to the other. It starts at an underground station (zone 7, and interzone only, of course) and moving through the sea-side, then sea through north Africa adorned with decidedly interwar scenes of decadence. At the end of this is more conventionally framed illustrations, albeit mostly conventional in frame only.

This really is such a superb conversion of the aesthetic of the already excellent Le Gun into a more 3D exhibition/installation, we fear that we shall be gushing about it in the manner of an excited 6th former for months to come. If you miss it, you'll only read about it in years to come and kick yourself that you didn't go.
londonist.com

By Oliver Gili

LE GUN 'The Family' Exhibition, Rochelle School, Club Row, Arnold Circus, Shoreditch, E2 7ES. Daily 12 till 6pm from Wednesday 27th August till Friday 5th September.
www.legun.co.uk

Sunday 24 August 2008

LONDON CALLING ONLY DAYS TO LE GUN BASH ON 27TH AUGUST


HELLO LORDS AND LADYS OF LONDON TOWN
TIS ALL GO AT THE LE GUN EXBO HQ THINGS ARE
STILL BEING MADE WORK IS BEING MADE MESS IS BEING
MADE ALL HANDS ARE ON DECK.SO IF YOU ARE ABOUT
ON WENSDAY EVENING POP DOWN TO THE EXBO
HERES ALL THE INFO
LE GUN ‘The Family’ Exhibition
LE GUN Issue #4

27 August 2008 - Private View & Launch


Exhibition venue
Rochelle School, Club Row
Arnold Circus, Shoreditch 
London E2 7ES

Daily 12 till 6pm
27th August till 4th September

//

Issue #4 of the narrative art annual LE GUN will be distributed worldwide from September 2008. The launch will coincide with an exhibition and temporary arts club taking place at the Rochelle School in Arnold Circus, Shoreditch titled
LE GUN ‘The Family’

‘Dear patrons, please charge your glasses and drink heartily 
for tomorrow you may die’

In the exhibition, the warped collective imagination of LE GUN presents a dysfunctional family of many generations, including a man with a crab on his head, the leopard walking heiress Marchesa Casati, and the original fat boy actor Joe Cobb. Raised on the the streets of parallel metropolis Legundon, an eccentrically Anglo-Saxon place of loose women, gin and cream cakes, and Francis Bacon’s butchers shop, they are an unusual dynasty. LE GUN’s gigantic black and white ink drawings record the families journey from their home cities murky streets and dens of vice, across a wild unchartered ocean to an outlandish Interzone of mind bending intoxicants and bordellos, and the jungle funeral of unloved street urchin Caliper Boy.

//

Private View and Launch Party at the Rochelle School
Wednesday 27 August from 5pm

Extended launch party at Cargo till late.

ITS GOING TO BE A SMASHING NIGHT
I TELL THEE
KISS KISS
ROBERT X
www.legun.co.uk

Thursday 21 August 2008

I HAVE TWO PAINTINGS IN mysteryspot collective SHOW


HELLO LOVES
I HAVE TWO BITS OF ART WORK
IN A SHOW BY THE MYSTERY SPOT COLLECTIVE
THE SHOW IS ON AT INDO IN WHITECHAPPLE
CHECK OUT THE BLOG
AND IF YOUR DOWN IN THAT PART OF TOWN POP IN
BEST WISHES
KISS KISS
ROBERT X
www.mysteryspotcollective.blogspot.com

Wednesday 20 August 2008

LE GUN SELLS OUT

hello loves
here is a blog about
how le gun has sold out
just a week to go
till the le gun exbo
lots of things to be
getting on with
bye for now



Le Gun ‘sells out’
But are they cut out for mainstream publishing success?
Published on Thursday, 14 August, 2008 | 2:00 pm
Above: D&AD guest finds someone to take home. (Who is this? let us know!) Photograph: Christine Donnier-Valentin.
There were bizarre scenes at the D&AD Awards this summer, writes Luke Pendrell, as the increasingly ebullient ‘creatives’ conversed, danced and ultimately departed with a variety of two-dimensional characters. Not account managers, but life-size cardboard cut-outs made by Le Gun, the London-based collective of designers and illustrators featured in ‘Garage Band’ in the Summer 2007 issue of Eye (no. 64 vol. 16). Over the past year the Le Gun members have managed to continue their distinctly independent approach while balancing the pressures of economic survival and creative autonomy with a wry sense of humour.


In addition to populating D&AD’s ceremony with hundreds of monochrome figures – an inspired commission from Matt Willey’s Studio8 (see ‘Wanted: self-images’, Eye no. 66) – Le Gun’s illustrators and designers have produced visuals for Madness’s vaudeville-inspired show The Liberty of Norton Folgate at the Hackney Empire and created a series of limited edition T-shirts for fashion label The Duffer of St George.
Perhaps more significantly, the collective has signed a deal with Mark Batty Publisher, which (they hope), will secure the long-term future of their occasional publication, also called Le Gun, with its rolling, seamless (and ad-free) montage of images and texts. The deal will enable future editions of the magazine to be published in its distinctive large format (343 x 245mm). The first three editions, now out of print, are to be republished in a single volume. Their activities are documented regularly on their blog.
Le Gun #4 is to be launched on 27 August with an exhibition and ‘temporary arts club’ entitled ‘LE GUN: The Family’. This promises ‘a rich and slippery harvest of pictures and words’, including work by Andrzej Klimowski, Will Sweeney, Paul Noble, Barry Miles, Sebastian Horsley, Richard Milward, Iain Sinclair and Michael Smith.
Below: two- and three-dimensional party people (who?) at the D&AD Awards, summer 2008. Photograph: Carl Court.

Le Gun no. 4, out August 2008.

Sunday 10 August 2008

VIDEO FOR BABYSHAMBLES FRENCH DOG BLUES





HELLO LOVES

Our good friend David Mullett has just directed this video for Babyshambles new single French Dog Blues. The video is set in the LE GUN Shoe Shop of Curiosities in Hackney. The video stars befezzed shopkeeper Robert Rubbish, and the drawings of the gin swilling French Dog and of Peter Doherty and the band are by Neal Fox, and animated by Ron Winter and his friends in New York.
LAST YEAR THIS VIDEO WAS MADE I LIKE IT IT REMINDS ME OF THE OLD SHOP AND LAST SUMMER
WE DID MEET BABYSHAMBLES THEY CAME TO THE SHOP FOR A PHOTO SHOOT
BUT ALAS PETER WAS BEING KEPT IN A POLICE CELL IN BEATHNAL GREEN
POOR CHAP.THEN WE WENT OUT FOR A CAMDEN DRINK UP WITH THEM
WHICH WAS NICE.
DAVID MULLETT IS NOW LIVING IN THE STATES TRYING TO GET A SUNTAN ON
HIS ASS WHILE WE ARE STILL IN WET AND GREY LONDON.
FOR MORE MULLETT MAGIC CHECK OUT HIS WEBSITE
KISS KISS
ROBERTX
www.mullett.tv/
www.FrenchDogBlues.com
www.myspace.com/french_dog_blues
www.legun.co.uk

Friday 8 August 2008

LE GUN EXBO AFTERPARTY FLYER FOR THE 27TH OF AUGUST



hello one and all
here is the flyer for the le gun exbo after party
links to all bands and djs below
this should be a cracker
cant wait
hope to see you all there
kiss kiss
robert x


http://www.myspace.com/agaskodoteliverek

http://www.myspace.com/beggarsband

http://www.myspace.com/transsib

http://www.myspace.com/nervousstephen

http://www.myspace.com/subjectmusic

www.cargo-london.com

http://www.legun.co.uk

Wednesday 6 August 2008

roBERT RUBBISH MEETS JAMES ENSOR BELGIUM GREATEST PAINTER


MEET JAMES ENSOR 

"I dont do early mornings " I have been heard to say on more than one occassion and this was the second in two days. The day before being a six o'clock in the morning early morning.Today was not so bad it was eight or something like that, the time of day best not experienced unless still up in a jolly spirt and partying from the night past.Orange juice for breakfast, cornflakes, bread rolls and jam. This was living, I was largeing it three stars style in the city of Brusells home of the EU.Today was my second day in the lowlands of europe, Belgium. Across the table from me sat my faithful travel comrade and long suffering friend she was tucking into scrambled egg and meats she opted for apple juice.This trip had been waiting to happen for five years and some.The little things like jobs, time and money had put a stop on it happening until now. After breakfast we gathered togther are maps and personal effects. I emptied the contents of Miss Nina's blue Nike retro bowling bag on to my bed and transfered a number of items from my bag that I brought over for this outing plus a microphone and camcorder.

Then we were off on a ten minute walk across town to central station only stoping once at a tourist infomation centre for young people where Miss Nina did pick up some trendy maps for young people, maps for all Belgium's major cities. It did puzzle me why Oostende didn't seem to be represented with it's own 'down with it' map, maybe it was totally uncool. I thought good, then it will quiet and dead. The sun was out and it was going to be a hot one "I don't like hot weather" I have been heard to say every time it gets to the temperature I deem too hot. Miss Nina filmed my approach to central station and a few token shots standing outside, then we took the train bound for Oostende.
An hour later we pulled into the fair port of Oostende. A few shoots of getting off the train and then we followed the herd of people out on to the hot promenade. "My word what a lot of people" I thought. We walked a bit more, it was sea-side hell, Belgium style. I remarked to Miss Nina with a hint of ironic miff "We have arrived in the Belgium Riviera" a few yards down the promenade I changed my mind, "we are in the costal Belgium." Everywhere you looked there was balcony lined apartment blocks, micro versions of the Costas. On ground level, the Belgians feasted on frites and creatures from the murky seas across the way. Giant sea-gulls attacked the diners. We ventured on towards the casino where the tourist information office was housed. I knew of the casino from a documentry on Marvin Gaye's time he spent in Oostende.I had been watching it on you tube recently, it had been played to me one night many years before, that in the early hours of a post club boozy night. Where upon the Gaye obsessive was giving me a blow by blow account of Marvins life and music I have Clarence Clearwater a Jersey blues man for first turning me on to Oostende. Marvin had come to Oostende to get his life together and get off hard drugs. Living in Oostende would drive most people to hard drugs.

We turned the corner of the promenade, there was some roller disco thing going on with someone dressed in a giant rabbit costume and an emcee giving his all over the euro pop. Finally we got to the tourist office looking at the brochures there where none with any reference to James Ensor (the reson why we had come all the way here). After asking we where given a map and the kind lady behind the desk showed us where his museum was, the modern art museum and his grave. We set off through the back streets of Oostende (it was cooler then the sun trap of the promenade) the buildings we passed en route where modern, bland holiday apartments most of Oostende's fine Victorian splendor was gone. The only old buildings we saw where depleted and in state of decay or waiting to be replaced by new shite.
Ahoy the James Ensor museum was in full view. It was in a row of Victorian houses that had seemed to be in good shape. The museum was closed so we took a bit of flim and made our way across town to the modern art museum to see some of the great mans work. It was getting hotter, I was starting to wilt. The sweat ran down my forehead. My forehead frazzled in the sun. We found the museum and purchased two tickets. I happened to ask the lady on the desk about what ensor work they had, she repiled "There are no Ensor originals in this museum. It then dawned on me that we had come to the wrong museum. Too late now, so we looked around the museum at the wonderful Belgian modern art bought some postcards and where then off out into the burning Belgium sun.

Did i mention twas hot? We made our way across town to the Ensor museum, it was housed on one of the few nice streets in Oostend that had seemed to have kept some of its Victorian splender. The museum had been home to the Ensor family. James' Grandparents had lived there and ran a shop selling seaside gifts, chinese curios and carnival masks. This place had been a big influence on him and the subject matter in his work. We entered the museum. The ground floor was  like it had been when Ensor himself had kept it as a curious installation. There were old shelves that housed many carnival masks and a large wooden and glass cabinet that now housed many books on Ensor. A nice man behind the counter greeted us. We gave him some Euros, he gave us some museum information. We wandered around the groundfloor, there were some strange hybrid skulled lizard or monkey type things in an a glass case, in the corner was a top hat and old coat resting on a hatstand, next to it was a grand cabinet with photos of Ensor in houses he had lived in as well as curious objects.We ascended the stairs to the first floor where there was a wax work of an old fisherman based on one of Ensors paintings. It was very creepy and very life like. Next we entered a red room with lots of glass cabinets and a large bronze bust of Ensor. The cabinet in the centre of the room was home to a cast of Ensor's death mask and one of his old palettes. Harmonia music was piped through the room adding an odd ambience to the whole place. We rose to next level that housed two rooms. They had been decorated in the style the house was in when he lived in it. On the walls hung reproductions of his paintings. The next room was a magnificent affair with blue flocked wallpaper, with a harmonium like the one Ensor used to play with a collection of masks resting on it.The wall the harmonium was against featured a  scaled reproduction of his most famous work 'Christ Entering Brussels' the room also featured an easel and a couple of couches and a dining table with a macabre assembled figure of a woman sitting on it and a moody looking staff member sat on one of the couches, very scary.

After looking at the room for a while we descend down to the shop and bought some postcards.Then it was off to see Ensor's final resting place. We walked to the famous casino and took a tram six stops to a sand dune area near the airport. We searched around and found an old church next to a campsite but there was no sign of a graveyard. I was totally cheesed off. We had already gone to the wrong gallery with no Ensor paintings and now we had come to the wrong church and to top it off did I mention the heat? There was no rest from this cruel sun. The sound of the music from an ice-cream van filled the air so I deciced to buy some refreshments and asked the icecream lady if by chance she knew of the grave of Ensor. She did indeed and gave us directions. Onwards, ever onwards we did go. Down a cycle track, dodged the masses of Oostende's biking OAPs. At last the church made its' self clear to us.  Entering the church-yard I was very excited and ordered my director of photograhy to document this event. I slung the blue Nike bowling bag over my shoulder and set off on a quest to find Ensors grave. 
It didn't take long as there where only a handful of graves in this place. There it was. A three foot high granite monument. By now I was giddy with excitement, sun damage and dehydration. I made my approach down the gravel path stopping at the foot of the tomb, paid my respects with the sign of the cross. I took the bag from my shoulder and took out a plastic skull that I brought as a gift. Placed it on the top of the tomb then took out a note I had written on the tram on an envelope from the modern art museum it read as follows: 
DEAR MR ENSOR 
                                                             HOPE YOU ARE WELL
                                                               I CAME TO OOSTENDE
                                                               TO SEE SOME OF YOUR STUFF
                                                               THERE WAS NONE 
                                                               SO HERES A GRIFT
                                                               KISS KISS
                                                               ROBERT XX


I put the bag over my shoulder and left the the tomb, we then made our way back to Oostende and then onwards to Bruges.
                                                                         LE FIN 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ensor
THANKS TO NINA FOR EDITING THE TEXT
HOPE ALL IS WELL WITH YOU ALL
IN CYDERSPACE
TILL THE NEXT TIME
KISS KISS
ROBERT XX

Friday 1 August 2008

IVE JUST BEEN TO BELGIUM TWAS WONDERFULL





HELLO MY LOVES
JUST SPENT THREE DAYS IN BELGIUM
IT HAS BEEN A WISH FOR ME FOR SOME TIME TO VIST THE FINE LOWLANDS OF ERUOPE THAT BEING BELGIUM
SO THIS WEEK I WENT OVER THERE AND CHECKED IT OUT WONDERED AROUND BURSSELLS
BRUGES AND NOT FORGETTING THE SEA SIDE TOWN OF OOSTENDE HOW COULD ANYONE FORGET IT.
SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO SPEND THERE HOILDAYS IN FAR OFF LANDS GIVE ME THREE DAYS IN BELGIUM
THATS FINE WITH ME. BELGIUM HAS BROUGHT THE WORLD SOME GREAT THINGS LIKE CHIPS TIN TIN THE SMURFS BEER AND JAMES ENSOR TO NAME A FEW. AND ON THE SUBJECT OF JAMES ENSOR THAT IS WHY I WENT TO OOSTENDE TO SEE THE JAMES ENSOR MUSEUM WHICH WAS VERY GOOD INDEED ALSO FILMED SOME VIDEO THAT MIGHT MAKE ITS WAY TO BECOMING A LITTLE DITTY ABOUT THE GREAT MAN SO KEEP WATCHING THIS SPACE.BURSSELLS IS A GOOD PLACE WITH LOTS OF CUTE THINGS TO LOOK AT AND EXPLORE.I MUST GO BACK TO THIS FAIR LAND SOON.
WELL BYE FOR NOW
BEST WISHES
ROBERT
KISS KISS

Sunday 27 July 2008

THIS VIDEO MAKES ME SMILE A LOT THE DAMNED ON THE OLD GREY BBC 1979




HELLO MY LOVE
JUST PUT THIS LITTLE MASTER WORK ON THE OLD BLOG
TIS THE DAMNED THE BEST ENGLISH PUNK BAND
THE BASH STREET KIDS OF PUNK.
THIS VIDEO BRINGS JOY TO EACH TIME I WATCH IT
ITS THE BEST THING ON YOU TUBE YOU CAN KEEP THE
SKATEBOARDING CATS AND AMY WINEHOUSE BEING CRACKPOTTY
THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT PURE SKILL THE MAKING OF SWEET MUSIC
ALSO IF ONE LOOKS CLOSER THE CAPTAIN IS WEARING A TSHIRT THAT
REMINDS ME OF A BRIT ARTISTS FAMOUS MASTER WORK?
ANYWAY MUST DASH
SONGS OF PRAZSE IS ON BBC 1
KISS KISS
ROBERTxx

Thursday 24 July 2008

THE RUBBISHMEN OF SOHO AT 2007 ART CAR BOOT FAIR SINGING THE LIBERTINES


THIS WONDEFULL VIDEO WAS MADE BY A LADY CALLED ANNE MCCLOY OR SOMEPRODUCT http://www.youtube.com/someproduct
THIS VIDEO IS FLIMED AT LAST YEARS ART CAR BOOT FAIR IN BRICK LANE
WE THE RUBBISHMEN
WHERE ASKED TO PLAY A GIG AND THAT WE DID TO A VERY LARGE CROWD
AFTER ONE SONG A VERY SMALLER CROWD AFTER TWO SONGS A VERY VERY SMALL
CROWD AFTER THaT A FEW MATES.SO AFTER THAT WE TOOK SHELTER FROM THE PUBLIC AND
TOPPED UP OUR LEVELS WITH SOME DRINKS AND THEN WE SAW A KAROKIE MACHAINE AND
DID DO A Libertines classic'Cant Stand Me AND WHAT FUN WE HAD AS YOU SEE I THINK IAM
SUFFERING FROM DAMAGE SUNSTOKE AND LACK OF SLEEP.SO THIS IS MY FIRST VIDEO POST
I LOOK FORWARDS TO BRINGING YOU LOTS MORE
GOOD NIGHT SWEETHEARTS
KISS KISS
ROBERT X
www.therubbishmen.com
www.myspace.com/thelibertines
www.frenchdogblues.com
www.artcarbootfair.com
http://www.myspace.com/someproduct

Wednesday 23 July 2008

LE GUN family exhibition 27th poster


HELLO LOVE EGGS
NEWS ON THE LE GUN EXHIBITION HERE IS A LITTLE POSTER
we will be having the exhibition at the
Rochelle School, Club Row, Arnold Circus, Shoreditch. E2 7ES ...
WE ARE SORTING OUT BANDS AND DJS FOR THE AFTER PARTY
AT CARGO SHOREDITICH
SO WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE INFO
www.legun.co.uk
www.afoundation.org.uk/rochelle/

Monday 21 July 2008

MADNESS HACKNEY EMPIRE JUNE 24th 2008







le gun was asked by a group of philanthropists named Madness to produce visuals for their vaudeville inspired show 'The Liberty of Norton Folgate' at the Hackney Empire. We collaborated with Stomp on illustrated, animated and typographic projections and the whole extravaganza was filmed by Julian Temple.
here are some photos of the night with our art work in full view behide the band
cant recall much of the night i think i had had one too many green gins in a green room
in soho before hand
it was good hot and sweaty fun in the heart of hackney
i did meet the man from the crystal maze
you known the one with the bald head
iam sure i must of told him i "LOVED HIS WORK"
thanks to chaz smash for all the drinks and love
he has put our way since we first meet him
many moons ago.
kiss kiss
look out for the long player madness lp 'The Liberty of Norton Folgate'
in all good shops soon

for more madness go to
www.madness.co.uk
www.myspace.com/madnessofficial
www.legun.co.uk
www.stomp.co.uk/
photos by steve from stomp

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