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UK reverse invasion
by acdickson
AC is back in Los Angeles after another assault on the Old Country. He and Susan rocked Bristol and Birmingham with a couple of top form eBay seminars. Both fun and lovely places. I'd post pictures here but somehow we just didn't manage to take any. Too busy preaching eBay PowerSelling.
Bristol was fantastic. We were part of the Arnolfini In Between Time Festival and saw some amazing works. Until Thursday combined some truly remarkable old school rapping with an evangelical home shopping salesman. Paul Granjon demonstrated the robots he built to have sex with each other, and Lone Twin performed a great piece where they walked the equivalent of a journey to the top of Everest. All told about half the British performers we met are two guys who use a rock band type stage name. Maybe AC and Susan need to try that. Like Primal Horde. Or how about The Cheatah's (combining the animal with cheating)? Any suggestions on a good name?
Birmingham was a particularly pleasant surprise. We got hooked up by our friend Vladamir with a lovely couple who run the very cool 7 inch cinema. They invited Vlad over for a Vladmaster tour and was nice enough to put us in touch with the Flat Pack gang who hooked us up with an eBay show two weeks later. I had heard various negative things about Birm before we got there; super industrial, bleak, bad accents. But found it a splendid place with a lot to write home about. First off there's a ferris wheel in the center of city. So that's cool. Secondly there are awesome museums, all free, and lots of interesting new architecture. It also has the coolest looking mall this side of Japan. Plus Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin are from there, making it the birthplace of Metal. Lastly our show was at the Custard Factory, an old... well, custard factory with bars, shops, a theater, production companies and deign houses. Finally it has more canals than Venice.
As AC settles back in life stateside, expect some big things both here on the blog and through eBay in the next few days. Stay tuned...
