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The Manchester Connection 1976-1992

If you're in London and you have some spare time to see a small exhibition, I'd recommend you one at the Movie & Poster Art Gallery, 5mn walk from Goodge street tube station (1 Colville Place, W1).

It's open until early December and it features plenty of original artworks (framed posters & album covers) from the Manchester creative scene of the post-punk era.
You will see some great artworks designed by the very inspiring Peter Saville, who designed many many records sleeves for Factory Records. It includes bands like Joy Division, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Morissey and so on...

You can also buy the prints. Here are few posters I would loooove to get (but unfortunately some of them are already sold out and a bit pricey):

Original Factory promo poster for Joy Division - Art Direction Peter Saville, Photography Trevor Key, Typography Brett Wickens.
Amazing work on the colours/typography and photography.

NEW ORDER - FINE TIME, 1988
Original Factory poster, 20"x30" - Design by PSA.
Dichromat: Trevor Key and Peter Saville.

THE STONE ROSES - FOOLS GOLD, 1989
Original Silvertone promo poster, 23"x16.5" - Artwork by John Squire (best known as the guitarist of the Stones Roses, great painter heavily influenced by the action painting technique of Jackson Pollock).

FACTD 50 NEW ORDER - MOVEMENT
Original CD cover proofs, 8"x13" each - Design by Peter Saville and Grafica Industria.

For more details, click here:
http://www.rock-explosion.com/manchester.html

Some rock chicks that worth a listen:

- Patti Smith
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- PJ Harvey
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- Siouxsie
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Charles Burns is an american cartoonist with a very strong graphic style.
I like his work, hypnotic, dark and meticulous:

Here are some songs to listen to if you are falling asleep:

If you don't know what to do on a cloudy Sunday afternoon in London, visit the Somerset House in Charing Cross, for the Rene Gruau exhibition. It's on until the 9th of January 2011.
He was a fashion illustrator and he did illustrations for magazines, parisian clubs and also collaborated with Christian Dior on many advertising projects in the 50's.
He is one of my favourite illustrator; his drawing style is minimal but striking, delicate and strong, sophisticated and timeless. For a man I think he has a very surprising and feminine drawing style:

Let's go back to the 90's with"Around The World" from Daft Punk.
The clip was made by Michel Gondry. I remember watching this video on TV when I was a kid, I found it so bizarre & hypnotic:


It's amazing how modern their stuff are still 10 years later!