But It's Not Me part 2 PHOTOS!!!

The moment it stopped...Leeds

We used to sit and eat cheap chocolate bars from Sainsbury's. I was young, I didn't care. He was tall, skinny and a bit funny looking but I liked it. We would drive around in his battered old camper van and listen to Tom Vek on tapes that we have recorded over. He would always eat fish finger sandwiches for his tea. I used to wear his old t-shirts when I went out dancing.

One night we were laying in bed and it all happened at once. He's met someone else, her name's Emily, She's nothing like me and that was it. He left....

I wonder if he still remembers....

Check out the website...

But it's not me...part 2

So the website is all up to date!!! Listen to our sound installation made for one person at a time 'But its not me...part 1' and check out photos from the performance 'But it's not me...part 2' which was performed as part of the 1st LARRY LOVES YOU event. And keep informed with all of larry's adventures...

http://www.larrysgoodbye.co.uk/notme.html

2ND LARRY LOVES YOU

LARRY LOVES YOU
-an evening of performance, art and short films -@ BAR KICK
(127 Shoreditch High Stree, E1 6JE)
9th September 2008, 8.30pm – 11pm (doors 7.30pm)
tickets £5

Larry’s Goodbye wanted to give the good people of London something they deserve – a night of art of all sorts. They invited their friends (and those who are yet to become their friends) and asked them to switch on their light bulbs, get their brushes rolling, their cameras snapping, their guitars playing… The result is Larry Loves You – an evening of performance, art and short films created by London’s emerging artists. Find something you haven’t worn in a while, dust it off and come down to play at Bar Kick. You know you want to…Keep checking the blog for more details..

http://www.newworknetwork.org.uk/modules/event/viewevent.php?eveid=1386

Call for artists for the 2nd LARRY LOVES YOU...

LARRY LOVES YOU
- Call for Artists -

Are you an artist? Would you like to show your work to a wide range of people in the heart of the East End? Larry's Goodbye are looking for people to collaborate with us on our new event ‘LARRY LOVES YOU’. It will take place every second Tuesday of the month. The venue is Bar Kick on Shoreditch High Street. Please click on the link to our blog for pictures.

(http://larrysgoodbye.blogspot.com/2008/07/larry-loves-you-venue.html)

We would like to offer a range of work such as: Performances, Art, Photography, Live Music, Video Installations and Short films...

About us:
We want our audience to work hard to experience the work and the site is something we use to create our performances. We expect the artists who want to collaborate with us to feel the same.

The next event will take place 9th September 2008

- GUDIELINES -
Please submit a short paragraph on what you do, why you would want to be part of this event and maybe a secret for Larry since he quite likes them…

Please include
Name -
Contact Number -
Email -
Website –
Documentation of previous work (Video, images)
Any Tech Requirements –

IMPORTANT
*You must be available 8th September all day from 11am) to set up and 9th September for the actual event (from 6.30pm-11.30pm)

*As much as this is an opportunity to showcase your work an important aspect of this event is to collaborate with the other artists. We expect you to help with setting up of your own work and other artist’s work. This is a group effort to make the space a place where all the work can exist alongside each other and compliment each other. Important note the venue is a bar not a gallery.

*It is important to us that you consider your audience when making your work. We would like to know how you would integrate your work at an event that will have live performances and music. How would you use the space and where will your audience be? How would the space affect your work?

* We expect help with the publicity of the event through flyering (We will provide these two weeks before the event) and placing a link for the event on your own personal website.

*It is important to bring as many people as possible for networking opportunities for all involved, as well as allowing your work to be seen by as many people as possible.

*This project is unfunded therefore is an unpaid opportunity and there will be no guest list. All tickets are £5 excluding artists.

Please email you proposal no later than 20th August 2008

Email: threedots@larrysgoodbye.co.uk

THANK YOU...

A huge thank you to everybody who came to the first LARRY LOVES YOU last night. We had a great time and enjoyed performing our new piece 'But it's not me part 1 + 2'. A special little thank you to Steph, Frank, Ashley, John, Kevin, Milk, Two sugars and all the artists involved. Photographs coming soon... Any feedback is welcome threedots@larrysgoodbye.co.uk

Artists for Larry Loves you - 12th August

LARRY LOVES YOU
- an evening of performance, live music, art and short films -
@ BAR KICK (127 Shoreditch High Stree, E1 6JE
12th August 2008, 7.30pm – midnight (doors 7pm)
tickets £5

Larry’s Goodbye wanted to give the good people of London something they deserve – a night of art of all sorts. They invited their friends (and those who are yet to become their friends) and asked them to switch on their light bulbs, get their brushes rolling, their cameras snapping, their guitars playing… The result is Larry Loves You – and evening of performance, live music, art and short films created by London’s emerging artists.

Find something you haven’t worn in a while, dust it off and come down to play at Bar Kick. You know you want to…

Artists Taking Part:

- Milk, Two Sugars -
Northern Mob

‘Milk, Two Sugars’ began as a need for attention coupled with a fear of obscurity. A love of drawing and a desire to communicate the deficient wisdom and combined wit of two exceptionally unfunny people is the motivation to create an array of visually stunning and ultimately forgettable images.

“We paint, make films and write a bit. We could make all the work sound really interesting and profound or we can treat it as cheap and throwaway. We like it when someone makes their own conclusion. We aren’t here to harangue or convince you that we feel pain. Art should be fun and funny and it can be both without being drained of all serious meaning.We have fun. We enjoy what we do. It isn’t important where we fit in to contemporary culture, in all honesty we really don’t seek a place at the table. We’d be happier under the table tying shoelaces together or standing before the court of the ‘glitterarti-farti’ with a microphone and some really horrible and pointless jokes. We’d prefer to be heckled by them than invited to dine. We don’t like artists that much.”
http://www.milktwosugars.org/

- Clare Simmonds -
'Mark Spitz', 'Hemel Girl', 'Hangover', 'Bobby George'

I love to paint unusual people, the overly beautiful don’t interest me, and even the celebrities I have painted aren’t perfect. I tend to paint people I know from photographs that are “accidental” in that they weren’t intended as reference or studies. Found objects are a major part of my work as they suit the tacky, gaudy subjects and also because I love to paint on wood. I go and scour charity shops, skips or car boot sales looking for interesting surfaces, the size and shape directs the painting. My paintings all have a sense of kitsch Britishness that is both humorous but sometimes jarring to the viewer.

http://www.degreeart.com/newsite/artist.php?id=259

- Jessica Jane Charleston -
‘The beast is loose and prowling everywhere'

Photography by day, drawings by night.

- Priya Chohan -
'Water Fossils 3 and 4'

Chohan is interested in the physicality and processes of material, using wax, clay, lead and graphite to make organic forms and create solid traces of ephemeral events. She is interested in the motion of the tide and how this relates to her own understanding of the notion of time passing. Influenced by philosophy, particularly Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas about the rhizome, and Bachelard’s 'Poetics of Space' she tries to understand her relationship with the space around her and the natural environment through experimenting with material and line. She works across painting and sculpture regarding her works as drawing, with respect to the immediacy and directness with which she makes them.

- Helen Grundy + Angel Stripe -
'Pitter Patter'

Helen is an object maker/installation artist/ experimental animator who specialises in working site specifically. In all of Helen’s work her underlying desire is to explore the space that exists between the two emotional states of comfort and discomfort. Helen often references the vulnerability of the body, the anxiety of loss and the inevitability of death in my work but presents these themes to an audience by using humour, playfulness and wonder. Helen’s aim is to present the often upsetting facts of life to viewers in a manner that does not shock them but instead amuses or delights them. Helen strives to create an arena where an audience can comfortably consider the uncomfortable.

Angel Stripe is a contemporary artist working in photography, video, & projection installation, having previously worked in multi-media and sound art. Her current work explores the hierarchy of subject matter, specifically questioning kitsch and the domestic through the examination of stereotypes. She employs subversion through the juxtaposition of kitsch and abject elements, and uses scale changes to puncture familiarity.

"The underlying concern of my practice is controlling the uncontrollable, particularly with reference to states of mind. It is currently informed by investigations into gender constructs, the kitsch aesthetic and the abject. I have also started to include my self in the work, to explore the performative. More recently this has extended to examining the idea of human becoming-animal, the idea of hybrids being useful in expressing mental states. I am interested in investigating how taking on board animal characteristics & behaviours can help us to extend our access and description of our own state of being."

- Matthew Giraudeau -

'Specific Cultural Reference #1', 'Two Friends', 'Specific Cultural Reference #2, 'Pandas', 'Specific Cultural Reference #3, 'Unnon'

Matthew Giraudeau is a filmmaker, writer and performance artist. His work deals with the epistemological struggle that faces us every day. What do we know and how do we know it? We all exist within this gulf between belief and knowledge, its just most of us choose to ignore it. There is no solution to the problem, only ways of becoming at ease with it. Stuck floating between reality and theory is an ugly place called ‘funny’. Matthew Giraudeau sits on a chair that is slightly too small for him, in an ill-fitting suit, within that chinless realm. Humour allows us to be both within and without. Matthew Giraudeau's work attempts to transcend the reactionary nature of humour in an ultimately doomed attempt to place value at the centre of action.

-Kevin Konak-

Kevin Konak writes music because it's the only thing he can do, and he likes it. He writes songs to tell stories. The less you know, the more you can make up and the more you'll understand.

“I saw an old friend yesterday. I went back in time and traveled to every single place I had been happy at. I saw some people lying on the floor, carefully looking for lost times. I decided to do the same. So I tried to learn magic and I sang some songs.”
www.myspace.com/kevinkonak

AND OF COURSE LARRY...

Larry will be performing a new show

'But it's not me...' part 1 + part 2

Check the website out for more details...
http://www.larrysgoodbye.co.uk/

If you ask me I will tell you...

Photographs from My site / In Space 3... Thanks to Andy Eaton

Happy Lover

Imagine if one day I was to come up to you and although I don't usually do this, give you my number. I say I think you look like you might have something interesting to say and you call me the next day. Or would you leave it for a couple of days only to not appear 'desperate'? I knew it! I'm glad you called, I say and I ask you to meet me at Regent's park. We walk for a while and you do have plenty of interesting things to say. You almost trip over a large rock on the ground and I laugh. You instantly go red in the face. We continue talking at the Monkey and the Doughnut and I tell you how I hated school, that I used to have a St Bernard's dog and that it took me a while to figure out what I want to do in life. You tell me how you've always wanted to travel to... Where is it again? Yes, and how if you ever end up going I should come with you. And I say I'd love to. And then, all of a sudden, our hands meet and my heart starts racing. And I know...
The flat we find is small and quite damp. I keep complaining how cold I am and it drives you insane. Your mum doesn't like me and I hate you for not sticking up for me when she talks badly of me (and I know that she does). The fridge is always empty and we're always late with paying the bills. Your work's not going well and you're constantly irritable and I...? What do I do that annoys you?
50 years 3 months and 17 days later, (it's 18th July 2058) I'm 75 and you are? It's a hot summer's day and we're out in the garden. I'm making Pimm's and lemonade and you're making a hell of a racket in the shed. “What are you fixing”, I shout, “the bike or that blue chair without a seat?” You come out and I hug you. “What's that for”, you ask. “No reason”, I say, “I'm happy”.

Sad Lover...

Imagine if one day I was to call you out of the blue. It's been a while and you were not expecting it but you're glad I called. And so am I. We meet at Primrose Hill and have a picnic. I bring rum and coke and oh yes cigarettes. We both forget to bring food so we sit and eat a chocolate bar I have in my bag and smoke. Do you smoke? Yes - what cigarettes? We share our cigarettes. I prefer yours to mine. No - well you don’t like smoking but you say you don’t mind if I do. And you smile. We sit on the grass and listen to Bloc Party on my iPod. And talk for hours. We end up staying there until 4 in the morning. I have no money for a cab home and you live around the corner so you let me stay in your flat. You give me an old t-shirt to wear and we both sleep on top of the covers. I don’t want to go to sleep, I just want to talk to you. I leave before you wake up because I have to go to work so I take your t-shirt so I have an excuse to see you again…
The next day you call me to say that your going to Manchester for your friend’s birthday. Do you have a friend in Manchester? (No - where outside London?) Yes - you ask if I want to go. Of course I do. You book the tickets and we get the train. On the journey we drink wine and talk about our childhoods. We spend the evening talking and you laugh at how much more of a northerner I become after a few drinks. In the morning we go to a tiny little café at the end of the street. We drink coffee and write stories on napkins which we leave on the table for the waitress. On the journey back we’re chatting away and then you brush the hair away from my eyes and kiss me. We stop and look. In this moment nothing else matters…
It’s been 4 years 2 months and 10 days, it’s now 11th June 2012 and I’m 26. How old are you? I tell you I really want to move to South America to travel and I ask if you want to come with me? We stay in my friend Felipe’s house in Chile. We dance on the beach, we draw pictures of everything we see, write postcards we forget to send, try to speak Spanish, badly of course, (yours is always better than mine) and we meet random people.
One night you say that you are bored of me and have met someone else. Her name is Julia, she’s older and excites you and you're going back to England with her. I will always remember the look on your face when you told me…