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Bare Bones In Dazed&Confused

Here sits our first piece of photo press. appearing in that organ of all current and correct, Dazed & Confused. A memento to their last gallery show and a record of further explorations into the fields of self promotion and cider consumption. Gloriously parading our first hurdle triumph and subsequent celebration. Skirt over the nimbys at the top and focus down to where it was at and shall continue to be. Bare Bones.

BB at the V&A

This is what happened when we went to the V&A last week, we were awarded our very own hand made warning label. Quite sweet really. According to our V&A woman, who having previously read the entire thing and not seen anything objectionable, it was one complaint that caused the removal of all of the free copies from the main entrance. Although it is hard to understand what was so explicit, the moral guardians actions to appease the sensitive someone, prevented hundreds of people from having the chance to make their own decision. 

With thoughts of free speech and anti censorship in mind we took it upon ourselves to give them out anyway. Over sensitivity mangled with a stingey, prudish sense of morality are stinking glue binding the progression of art and culture and should not be pandered to, even by public institutions like the grand old V&A.  As it says over the main entrance, 

"The excellence of every art must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose." 

We do not aim to offend for the sake of offence, that would be too easy, 

To provide an alternative to the mulch of sub-Heat quality free press, that perhaps provokes thought rather than Daily Mail knee jerk indignation is our aim and to it we stick.

And the beer was £3.50 a bottle, now that is offensive.

Bare Bones In Full Frontal Nude Shocker

Leigh Fox Cover

Leigh Fox sketchbook pages // Intro section + Roll Call

Bill Bragg

Steph von Reiswitz

Frank Laws

Heretic Print Studio

Kate McMorrine

Harry Malt

Robert Rubbish

Walter Newton

Leigh Fox Poster

Amelia Johnstone

Stephen Fowler

Niall O'Brien

Simon Dara

Neal Fox

Hannah Bays

Chris Bianchi

Richard Milward // Gary Fairfull

Leigh Fox Interviewed by Amah rose McKnight Abrams

Leigh Fox Cover Poster

BB Show MAY 2009

For legal reasons these are the only two pictures we can show you of the show for the moment. It's still up, go check it out. 112-116 Old Street, go see Kirsty behind the desk, take her an ice cream and tell her hello. Pick up your copy of the BB free paper, look out for it in all shops and plastered all over tube trains and buses in the wee hours. Spread your Bones. Photos Dai Williams. Fanks.

http://www.daiwilliams.com

Ladders Arm Work Wall Paper Paste

Seen here casually putting the finishing touches to the first BB show in the Dazed & Confused gallery last week before nipping off to the pub for a shower and to brush our teeth. Returning to the opening we discovered we didn't have enough free beer, luckily D&C is sandwiched inbetween an offie and a kebab shop so no one went without and we all had fun, some of us too much. Pictures of the finished thing, coming soon. Thanks John Paul, Matt Dudd, Gary for his bar, the philosophical taxi driver/potential murderer and everyone else who helped.

Turning Up Thee Heat

Once he gets going there is no stopping him, like a run away train, driver has long since jumped off, the brakes are shot and the boiler is fit to bursting, the monsterous man machine from fair Maltese shores ups the ante, printing flyers like a madman. They pulled his toot, he lost his baccy and his moped got a flat, can't hold a good man down.

BB ON DD

Check it out on techno colour e-world hyper reality vision.

http://dazeddigital.com/ArtsAndCulture/article/3305/1/Bare_Bones_at_The_Dazed_Gallery

Ye Score

BARE BONES,

Providing bespoke written/ranted/drawn/cut/carved/copied work. 

Profile, interview and portrait of a featured artist.

Curated, funded and distributed quarterly by it’s contributors.

We are not in this for the greater good, this is a coin-op co-op. 

There are no flies on us.

BARE BONES 

Barely another bright eyed example of the present trend for non-electronic human communication, 

this is a modern day Jack London loitering about in the rough heat of the self promotional art ego wasteland. 

The scaffold on which were are hung, temporarily it supports us but will inevitably crumble like old bones and end up a pile of spidery dust. 

Grab this bullshit by the horns and hop onto our tabloid eye junket.

Consider this timely opportunity for you to loaf and invite inspiration straight into 

your hands. 

Dismiss it at your peril, remain your own worst enemy, snatch up a 

London-Metro-Lite-Paper and shuffle on.

By answering only to ourselves and supporting each other we are our own best friends and future.

Put Bare Bones in your pipe and smoke it.

IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS....