An evening with Lloyd Webber

The man whom I credit with teaching me the history and evolvement of black music in UK? Lloyd Bradley. And I went to his book event yesterday evening.  

It was whilst I was reading 'Sounds Like London: 100 years of black music in the capital' that I came up with the exhibition idea. So not only did reading his book give me an abundance of fascinating info it inspired my project, too. 

My friend Kelly alerted me to the event. I'd already purchased tickets to go see Kwabs, but as a no-braner work comes first. 

And it was such a lovely evening! Not only did I manage to introduce myself and have my book signed, I also gave him the newly printed and bound proposal (seriously, I feel like it's my baby, too bad I can't belly-cup it because it totally would!)

Whether Lloyd will or will not get back to me - I don't know. But I do know that he's now aware of both my existence and the project. 

Listening to him speak about balck music and London was magic. As random as it seemed for a Russian to be in that room, it was the only place I wanted to be in last night. 

Also, unrelated, Lloyd runs marathons. How cool is that? There's always something totally irresistible about sportsmen. Makes you want to trust them because you know they're well disciplined. 

Blogging from my iPhone!

Please allow me to revel in the fact that, with the help of my ex classmate, I have learned how to do my blog posts on my phone! Yes! This will make my thoughts and actions more transparent because I can now literally roll them out to you as they come. 

This will also organise and motivate me more because now I don't have the excuse of 'The moment's gone, too late to write about it'. The posts will become more frequent and really up to date - which makes me happy. 

I am very annoyed though that I am not able to just upload a video on it, it's giving me the option of pictures only. I do wish I had someone to help me with this.. 

I am also using the help of said ex classmate in order to re-structure the blog's layout. As much as I want it to be fixed today, I can't - I am so dependable on people when it comes to technology. 

So it looks like I've moved from the idea of a documentary-type report to just differently structured blogging. I guess as long as it serves the purpose the means don't matter as much. For now. I am still keen on the documentary but that will happen once I've better resources. 

Hunt for a gallery space

I randomly picked up the New Exhibitions guide www.newexhibitions.com in a gallery a few weeks ago and I used it for locating all gallery spaces in the district of Soho. 29 galleries received this email:

 Here's my full report on the gallery hunting so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmNeGik45GI

This project is giving me so much life, the more I do the more I want to do!