That awkward period!
1 Like
AKA ‘Pride’?
5 Likes
Ba-dum-tish! 
2 Likes
The impossibly small font sizes used in CDs. Throw an old dog a bone and keep it above 9 font. I only own about 50 cds and they’re all guilty as charged.
2 Likes
For my son’s 18th got two throwaway cameras. Took them to be developed today.
3 weeks development time. £30 and another £10 for digital copies!!
Don’t get it.
1 Like
When you’re in Ibiza and you’re missing stuff at home 
As a wise man once said I’d rather be watching a parrot show in Ibiza than some Costa del hellhole any day…
4 Likes
Brian Jackson - as in GSH’s keyboard player?
Wow, what a gig that would be!
2 Likes
Yes Cork Jazz festival in on
4 Likes
I’m working all next week, not till 10am Thursday so will be doable If my mate is driving home after the gig 
we are only 90mins from Cork. Long way away at the moment though…lol
This. All of this.
Just stay home.
7 Likes
I imagine this is the Balearic version of the above. Totally reeks of ‘venture capitalists have a go at balearic’
1 Like
The most un-Balearic thing you can imagine. A stately home and a helicopter. Supper club? Eating’s cheating! Ffs.
4 Likes
Balearic private club seems to have missed the point.
2 Likes
Incorporated in June. Run by a 26 year old in Clapham.
Go on, who wants to apply and see if they make the grade?
3 Likes
lol the whole thing appears to be written by ChatGPT.
1 Like
Critics like this. The guy is in his eighties and clearly paints for enjoyment. He’s earned the right to do what the fuck he wants
11 Likes
Imagine having the balls/gall to criticise Hockney, who, as you mentioned, is in his twilight and should be roundly admired for all the joy he’s given people in his lifetime through his work.
You know what they say about critics though. (insert your rubbishing of choice here __________)
6 Likes
The review might’ve been mean but equally i’d be uneasy with critics treating famous artists as sacred cows or off-limits (whatever their age)
Feels to me like savage criticisn is slowly dying as an artform and that all manner of mediocrity gets a pass now, by media sucking up to people they want to feature/profile
4 Likes
Just a quick one off the cuff. Why are right thinking people (by that I mean left leaning people, and anyone who is appalled by Trump and Musk) still using and promoting things that appear on Twitter?
Is it a case of separating the art from the artist or just capitulation and convenience?
The guy is outright trying to buy an election result and yet our big institutions (NHS etc) as well as our brilliant mind and creative sectors don’t seem to bat an eyelid and continue to use the platform.
11 Likes
Depends what’s being critiqued. If it’s a politician I tend to agree.
An ageing artist on the other hand that has only ever made a positive contribution to society though is an easy target to my mind.