CosmiKnot

Last Night Dec 19th I was joined on stage by the legend Foz? Together we meandered our way through the origins of our band David Devant and His Spirit Wife. I made a power point of various pieces of evidence for our existence. Foz kept the historical anchor points in position and I riffed on the themes of coincidence, accident and Day dreaming. It seemed to form some kind of cohesive sense of what we do as a group. And this was further enhanced by the arrival of the Professor. Thanks to Fred Pipes for filming this . Iceman levitates Cocky Young'un at The Rock public house circa 1992

Ah I thought, gingerly easing myself from bed into the day ahead. It’s obvious really. What went wrong with Communism is what went wrong with Modernism. It became inextricably joined at the hip with a functionalist morality. Puritanism. This is part of a false dichotomy presented everyday by the presiding left-brain culture - you are either functional or a messy over-indulgence. So with the superscale version of Communism we see a drive to strip away the excess until we are left with what is necessary. Who is fit to say what is necessary? Of course there are echoes of the drive to purify culture of the excesses of the bourgeois that we find in the French revolution. Fragonard painted the Swing just before the Revolution made him an anachronism and the sleek timeless message of classicism replaced the intimate and anecdotal. Commentary of the Swing often focuses on the name of the commissioning patron (?) and the story of how another artist (?) turned down the work thus giving Fragonard...