Balkan Grill at Moshpit

Paul Hayward had his belated birthday party at Moshpit on 11 April, so I drew some of the acts before heading off to the festival of Josh at the Red Rattler

 Balkan Grill

 Whateva

Festival of Josh

 Josh Shipton's birthday extravaganza at the Red Rattler  on the 11th of April featuring a few of his many bands

 Delusions of Grandeur

 

 The Blue Eyed Ravens

Delirium Tremens

 Eva's birthday party was at Old is the New New on Sunday. WhatEva played by we were all dancing but I drew Delirium Tremens and the jam at the end

 Delirium Tremens. featuring Dave Turner and John Maddox

 Jam with Philip Ricketson, Paul Hayward's hair, Vince O'Malley, and John Maddox

Gawaa Electronica

 Gawaa had his birthday in the gallery at Alpha. He played an electronic set on some Instruments and devices he has found around Newtown

 Gawaa on stage.

 

He was followed by Bukhu educating us a bit about Mongolian culture through throat singing and playing the horsehead fiddle. The strings are made from horsehair as is the string on the bow

 

 Bukhu

Cringefest

A few drawings from Cringefest last saturday (28 March) at Red rattler

 

Sister Ursuline

 

Doctor Robot

 

The Lost Futures, with the Clown Bride

 

 Josh heads everywhere

Car Pile

Modern cars float so well. Here is the aftermath of a devastating flash flood in Valencia, Spain, A climate change amplified downpour created debris laden torrents through the streets carrying thousands of cars. Hundreds of people lost their lives

 

 

 

Toy Death at Lazy Thinking

 

 

Punk Rock Karaoke

 Punk Rock Karaoke at the Marrickville Bowlo a bit over a week ago with Paul Hayward and the gang

International Women's day shows

Some drawings from Angela Stretch's birthday party at El Rocco on International Women's Day

 

Here she is with John Maddox (twice), with Gilda's face above(also twice)
 

 Ally singing a short song(too short for me)

This is Yihui, an artist over from China to launch her exhibition at Vermillion. After the show I drew a quick sketch of her

Charles Freyberg reading his poem Red Rattler, about the late great Candy Royale

 

Peter Whitehead

 

Below are drawings from WhaTeva Eva's fundraiser for WAGEC (the Womens and Girls Emergency Centre in Redfern)  the weekend before. 

The back of Grace and Melody(?)'s heads with the Silver Foxes (maybe)

Definitely the Silver Foxes

A couple of very loose drawings of Ally singing with a ukelele

 I'm not sure who this is, accompanied by Josh(?)

 

Begonia and drain

 In the driveway beside the house I live in, begonia's are growing out of cracks in the cement and brickwork

 

Lawine, Shark Arm and Bleedingintoradio at moshpit

An excellent show last night at Moshpit

 Shark Arm

Lawine

Bleedingintoradio
 

In Glance In Pause - Performances

 I just had an exhibition at Alpha Gallery showing some paintings and drawings mostly of performers and birdswith Özge Güzel's photographs and paintings by Ben Jaimen.

 

The view east from the deck outside the gallery

After the opening on the 12th we had 2 nights of music. On Fri13 Feb we experienced the Songs of Zelda Smythe, the beautiful vocal noise of Josh Shipton and Remi Marchand's psychedelic ambient guitar

 

Zelda

 Pieces of Josh

on  the 14th my daughter Xantharea O'Driscoll sang some beautiful classics followed by with the hairy and ethereal synthesiser noise of#NOF and WhatEva Eva declaiming and singing her punk poetry acconied by Simon and Trevor

Xantharea

 

Half of #NOF

 

Eva, Simon and Trevor 

I will link some video later and even find some photos of the exhibition

 

Spaceship Art Jam

 I went to the Spaceship in Campsie one afternoon and sat in the corner drawing the players as they improvised and learnt. 

 

Paul Hayward and the Sidekicks

 The Sidekicks played their regular sunday arvo set at the Gasoline Pony yesterday so I went along to draw them and invite people to my exhibition opening this thursday with Özge Güzel and Ben Jaimen at Alpha House gallery

 

 

White Knuckle Fever at the Golden Barley

 White Knuckle Fever did a show the weekend before last (25 January?)at the Golden Barley hotel in Newtown but I've been too slack to get it scanned and posted until now

 

 

Celia and Ross did a great show as ever

 

 

Some drunk drawing of Rubberneckerplaying the set before them. Shark Arm played first but unfortunately I didn't get there in time

The Rougettes at TAP gallery

 Last night was the opening of Martin Walsh's show at TAP gallery, and Raoul brought the Rougettes along to play

 

Fairy Wren

 When I was picking garlic at Bundagaree for a few days  in December the fairy wrens were working the area for insects. I took a few photos and now I'm trying to turn that into a painting

 

 

Willie Wagtail - a little birdie told me

 A request I'm painting for Cathie

 

 

Willie wagtail has a reputation for telling tales