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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

ian dury and conceptual art.....do what john!

 ian dury poet painter ex walthamstow and rca friend of peter blake...ian studied at both walthamstow and the rca....fine art painting........peter blake his teacher and later his friend taught at both institutions.....i too was an art student in the 60s.....as soon as i heard ian first records i was hooked....a poet....a punk funk poet......his wacky eccentric dress code....he was a performance and an installation all at the same time...a great stage presence and what a band.....the blockheads...so tight they nearly explode......chaz jankals percussive piano really making the music drive along....coupled with ians words that created exceptional surrealist images....tantalising stories......quirky scenarios......essex in the raw...the places had a ring to them for me some where of real memories....my grandparents lived in becontreee and later barking....we used to wait for the bus at the dutch little just outside brentwood....i remember romford cattle matket as a child...my uncle stewart and aunty ivy lived on the harold hill estate for many years.....they had a telly that used to play up so stewart used to give it a thump and that seemed to fix it......my uncle jack lived in bilericay...........upminster the end of the district line......many years later i taught at what was brentwood college of higfher education....and lived in a college house on ivy lodge lane right by the dutch little....coincidence or what...........ians lyrics combined with music were a perfect combination....i have a kind of affinity with ian ...the blockheads.... and essex........desert island discs was a sublime treat...i have a copy on video and listen to it often.
i wonder what he would have made of conceptual art......any ideas??????? i would like to find some images of ians paintings....can anyone help???????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-JIzWFfsPk       

1 comment:

Wastedpapiers said...

Hi charlie. Gordon Law and Cindy gave me your website address and I found your blog via that. Gordon used to teach me painting and drawing at Southend Art School in the 60's. Halycon days! I met Ian briefly back then when he came to the school for the day. He must have been at the RCA at the time.
I have a prog on my audio blog of Ian as a guest on the late Charlie Gillett radio show which may interest you-

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