How was it for you?

Yes, tis the season to compile lists of all that you enjoyed most in 2009. And where betetr to post them than right here on the Lunecy Review…
so here’s the idea, in the comments below, or as a separate entry should you wish to elaborate, we would like to know what rocked your world, [...]

Joined Up: Contemporary Collaborative Drawing — The Vault Gallery

Reviewed by Kev McVeigh
“[Collaboration] kind of runs counter to the auteur theory but you have to look at it case by case” — William Gibson (1)
Case by case what is obvious in Joined Up is just how many ways of collaboration there are.  I am struck first of all that it is something odd in [...]

Mikey Kenney Speaks

Mikey–Is it true you only play in tune on your own recordings……. and a bit out of tune on everyone else’s? 
Surely you of all people, Dan Haywood, should know the answer to that one; when did I begin recording ‘New Hawks’ with you? It’s been a long time; it’s been like a 5000 piece jigsaw [...]

La Decision Doypack — Paul Rooney at The Storey Gallery

Reviewed by Kev McVeigh
La Decision Doypack is a 27 minute film presentation by Paul Rooney.  Prior to the showing viewers are shown into a waiting area, the resource room it is called.  There they can sit and wait or peruse books by Rooney or volumes by other writers and artists.  It seems a selection deliberately [...]

Richard Davis — An Apology

By Kev McVeigh
Having spoken to Richard Davis it appears that I may have conflated conversations I had with him and Joseph Glen initially, and subsequently misinterpreted my memory of those conversations to attribute remarks to Mr Davis that I accept he did not say.  
I have no desire to offend Mr Davis, whose work and ceaseless [...]

Local Artist Supported – A Reprise

Posted by Norman Hadley
In the summer, the Lunecy Review hosted some…er…. lively debate on the alacrity or otherwise with which big chains support local artists. What did the debate achieve? Well, it brought a torrent of traffic to the site, quadrupling advertising revenues from zero to zilch and that’s got to be good. But, even [...]

Superfluous — Adrian Pritchard — The Storey

Tucked away in the bold white Thomas Storey Room off the bar/reception area in The Storey is an art installation of vivid colour and motion by Adrian Pritchard. ‘Superfluous’ comes with approving comments by Lauren Laverne no less, not that that matters.
The work consists of a slowly rotating paint dispenser above a mesh from [...]

Spotlight Music & Words Collaboration

A workshop response by Norman Hadley

A delight deferred is a delight magnified. Someone probably already said that but, if not, it’s (c) me, OK?  See, I’ve wanted to join in the Music & Words Collaboration for years but Ron and Sarah have always billed it as a two-day shindig and the chances of getting that [...]

Kudos

For all you writers out there. Feeling competitive?

www.kudoswritingcompetitions.com

Mark Charlesworth – In Memory of Real Trees

Reviewed by Norman Hadley

 
Mark Charlesworth is a Ribble-based poet who has made the odd foray up to the Lunelands in search of a wider audience. You may have seen him at Spotlight in September and, if not, you can see him in action below.
Following on his from first collection Sunrise and Shorelines, In Memory of [...]