News from Lazy GRamophone

We are looking to find an illustrator and a writer to submit work with the chance of being included in our latest LG shorts booklet. More

Co-founder of artists collective and printing press Lazy Gramophone, Philip Levine, tells jotta the story of LG's inception and the loving creation process of their next handmade publication, Skeletons In The Closet, launching this Sunday in London.

Come and see us this Saturday 24th July at the Backyard Market area off Brick Lane. We will have a grand selection of letter pressed stationary, our publications, art prints, biltong (yes) and more on sale. Plus you get to meet us in person and say hello!

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LG artist Ghin Liew has been commissioned to create visuals for a water screen at the Big Chill and LAtitude festivals this summer. Read more here.

A selection of Liz Adams' poetry is currently being displayed by the online journal Morphrog. Morphrog promotes experimental and traditional forms of poetry and is edited by the editors of The Frogmore papers.

To see: Liz's work on Morphrog

Liz Adams' book of poetry, Green Dobermans, will be published by Lazy Gramophone in 2011.

Dan Prescott, Lazy Gramophone comrade and resident typesetter, will be exhibiting a selection of his artworks and illustrations throughout July and August at the Mill House cafe-restaurant on Windsor's Peascod Street, as part of the exhibition Fragments.

Dan has exhibited in and around London, most notably at the Macbeth Gallery in Hoxton, the Hospital Club in Covent Garden, Angel tube station and in the café at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, St James' Park. He was also part of the fund-raising, collaborative art initiative, Love in the Sky, in association with the ICA.

Through his involvement with Lazy Gramophone, Dan has designed, typeset and/or illustrated titles for the collective's publishing arm, Lazy Gramophone Press. A number of the images featured in this exhibition were created for Lazy Gramophone Press's latest publication, The Book of Apertures.

Fragments is the second bi-monthly exhibition organised and curated by the Two Magpies. After a debut show of painting and photography, the summer show is filled with mainly illustrative drawing and graphic work by young local artists.

Fragments will be on show from 1st July - 31st August 2010 at Mill House, 11 Peascod Street, Windsor SL4 1DT

Contact: twomagpiesfind@yahoo.co.uk for more info or an invitation to the Private View

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We are happy to announce that we have recently published the first submission from a guest writer in our Lazy Gramophone Journals section. The piece is called The 'Other' London and has been written by the brilliant Kane X Faucher:

BIO

"Kane X. Faucher is a puzzling, ubiquitous author of 10 or so books and a multitude of articles, poems, essays, reviews, short fiction, and miscellanea that nomadically traverse with ease from high falutin irrealism, impregnable polemical fiction, post-VisPo, vulgar gonzo, complex theory, journalistic reportage, contemporary art catalogue essays, political tracts, and crotchety Pound-style criticism. A chameleon of a scribe, an incorrigible maverick, and perhaps even a Wildean dilettante, he was won a smattering of modest awards in both literature and academia. He remains staunchly secure in the obscure, and has demonstrated a preternatural knack for authorial mimicry. He has been called many things, not all of them nice. He has been compared to a wide range of authors, but these comparisons are far too slippery.

He is happily married and terribly secretive, throwing up occasional gusts of public smoke by way of some publication or an interview tucked in an obscure place."

If you would also like to submit a piece of writing for publication in our journals section, send all submissions to info@lazygramophone.com. We are open to all topics and styles, though the piece must be accompanied by an original image.

On Sunday 13th June 2010, Lazy Gramophone held an intimate Lazy Sunday event at The Old Queen's Head in Islington, London. Unbeknown to us, amongst the crowd sat the author of the blog, 'Ramblings of a Girl Who Just Wants to Write'. This is her blog post in which she talks of the event.

Poejazzi, as part of its Year of the Poet season, triumphantly returns to the E4 Udderbelly; this time featuring Yungun - the internationally-acclaimed wordsmith praised by Zane Lowe and Mark Ronson, and who has supported Slum Village and De La Soul - with a live band and his brilliant upcoming album, "Middleman”; fast-rising band Benin City, whose Outkast-meets-James Brown sound is highly-rated by Xfm, BBC6 Music, SoccerAM and Reuters - and Inua Ellams, whose stellar one-man poetry show recently completed ten dates at The National Theatre. Hosted by exceptional new singer-songwriter Lail Arad. Click hither for more details.