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Keeping the Devil Down in the Hole: by David Barnes

‘If you walk with Jesus he’s going to save your soul. You gotta keep the devil Way down in the hole’. As the whole of the chattering classes emerges bereft from the last series of the American police drama The Wire (screened on BBC2 years after the original series ran in the States), it’s worth

Oslo supplemental: The Cheap Suitcase Rally

We bought a cheap suitcase to wheel some of our bulkier tools to Oslo in, the cheapest we could find at a mere £23! However, the wheels broke 4 mins after leaving our front door. The number of breakages in this single trip was really quite amazing: Wheels break immediately and eventually disappear completely on

InterInterInter In Oslo Review

We had a good show in the Ultima festival, many moments like Ishiguro’s ‘the Unconsoled’ happen at these festivals, like walking in circles with some composers looking for a restaurant that happens to be below the festival office when we find one, running into a torch-lit park and into a castle then ascending a turret

Brueke die Brig part II by Eddie Farrell

20 minutes later I’m off the train and breathing in the clear air of Kirkcaldy.  Years ago the place stank of Linoleum, the weird thing was that the whole of Britain seemed to know about it; at Leeds City Station in 1980, I was having my ticket checked by an elderly rail employee; he looked

H-hC poster now in USA through Asthmatic Kitty

June last year many of you will remember the show we did with Half-handed Cloud in the Foundry, where the basement was adapted to be a giant record player. The poster we released at that show has followed us ever since – at dinner with friends and at  parties we are occassionally greeted by one of

All hands are now on deck full-time!

Many of you will know that David has been working full-time for the Henningham Family Press for some time now, and we’ve been working towards the happy day when Ping* could be too. Well, now a couple of years ahead of schedule, we suddenly find ourselves here! After a long string of part-time jobs, I

InterInterInter at Ultima, Oslo 12/09/09

We return to Norway, but this time we’re off to Oslo for the Ultima Festival. We will be doing a live show with InterInterInter at the Literature House.  Ultima Festival This time we are going to pack in as many different printing techniques as we can on top of each other. A lot of energy and paint will be expended. You’d better wear

Brueke die Brig – part 1 by Eddie Farrell

I visited Scotland a couple of weeks ago. It was an early start from Berlin and as the plane juddered high above the Forth Estuary on approach to the Scottish capital, I hadn’t had a wink of sleep; the constant offering up of tea, luxury coffee, Panini’s, gambling and snacks (Snaarks),had seen to that. To

David Barnes: Clown King Berlusconi

Apparently there are moves to expel Italy from the G8 group following its disastrous handling of the recent conference in L’Aquila. The story has run in parallel with the lurid pyramid of revelations around the sexual shenanigans of Silvio Berlusconi, a story which has eclipsed all other Italian news. For most commentators, such is the

Eddie Farrell: Speak

When I was 45 I moved to Berlin and overnight lost my voice. 7 months on, I consider myself to be in a very privileged place; floating between languages These bright summer mornings I wake up early to bird song and the sound of the odd car on the road. Both posess an international language;