Hello everyone,

Summer’s over, its raining, the builders are slowly blocking out all the sunlight at OM HQ and its getting colder and more wintery by the day, which means it’s almost time for another year of Off Modern events at Corsica Studios. The first one back is on October 7th, we’ll be releasing line-ups and details pretty soon. Hold tight.

Before that though, if you happen to be in Paris on the 22rd of September, Off Modern are hosting an event at the Nouveau Casino, which is on the Rue Oberkampf. If you’re in Paris or just want to make the journey over, we’ll have all the details confirmed very shortly, but housewives’ favourites Fiction will be making the trip with us to break the hearts of a load of Parisian girls. It’s going to be an evening full of limitless fun, so come join us on a derive between all-night bars and a dip in the Seine.

The next item of news is even more of a long shot really, but if you’re in Tokyo on the 11th of September, Off Modern will be at the Tokyo Magazine Library, which is taking place at GALERIE VIE in the Aoyama district of Tokyo. If you happen to find yourself in Tokyo then go check it out.

In other Journal news you can now buy issue one from the ICA bookshop, LMNOP Shop, in Brighton and from Ras Gallery, in Barcelona. We are currently compiling the second issue of the journal, if you’d like to submit anything, the please drop an email to contact@offmodern.com, if we like it, we’ll get in touch.

Finally, our good friends over at Holy Ghost have an exhibition running at CAMP, on Old Street, the private view is tonight, the 26th of August, there’ll be free Absinthe. That’s great, right?

Take care.

Ditto Press are our favourite people in the world, if it wasn’t for Ben and Lynsey we would probably have never managed to get out Journal printed. If you ever need anything doing then you should probably get in touch with them. You can check out everything they have for sale here, below is just a selection of the beautiful things they’ve done.

Everyone loves the cinema right? And the outdoors? So, outdoor cinema! What a winner.

East London’s finest festival is back for it’s fourth year with yet another spectacular line up; The Fall, Atlas Sound, No Age, These New Puritans, Fake Blood, Joker, Memory Tapes and Mount Kimbie are all playing, even the fantastic OFF MODERN DJ TEAM are set to grace the Blogger’s Delight stage with a life changing, show stopping, weekend defining set.

To celebrate this once in a lifetime opportunity we are going to give away two free tickets to whoever can answer this simple question; what is the best song you heard at Off Modern last year?

Send your answers to contact@offmodern.com - the winner will be the person we agree with the most.

Following on from the Astral Pain issue comes the Power issue of internationally adored cult magazine FUN. Focusing, as ever, on people and ideas that you might not find elsewhere, issue 5 covers satanic ritual abuse, bomber-jacket ripping fetishists, and a mundane day out with Britain’s crappest racist, as well as much more super fun stuff including an exciting look at the world of steroid fuelled murder and an in depth chat about The X Factor with Anjem Choudry.

The issue will be launched at the Alibi on Kingsland Road on Thursday the 15th of July. As well as giving away copies of the magazine, there will be free Jägerbombs, and music provided by international jet-setting DJs like Black Rod, Iwillfuckingkillyou, Ray Cyst, Ronoyjoy Dam, Feeding Time and Off Modern. If you want to come to the party RSVP to hiya@greatenjoyment.com, because they have a very strict guest list policy and only want A-list famous people reading our magazine.

Hello everyone, a quick message here, Peckham’s Area10 is currently fighting for survival, as Southwark Council have given it till 15th July 2010 to find new premises. This is pretty awful, Area10 has been around for 8 years, hosting some wonderful exhibitions and very fun parties in its time, it’d be a sad day for South London if it were to close it’s doors forever so that the council can turn it into a massive car park or something. YOU can help try and save it though, you can sign a petition here, or write to Harriet Harman, MP for Peckham and Camberwell. You can also email these Southwark Councillors and tell them what you think; peter.john@southwark.gov.uk, veronica.ward@southwark.gov.uk, fiona.colley@southwark.gov.uk, althea.smith@southwark.gov.uk, sunil.chopra@southwark.gov.uk.

“Termination of our lease means that all future workshops, events and exhibitions are canceled, including partnerships with Battersea Arts centre, Thames Festival, Edinburgh Festival, London Design Week, Jeunes Talents du Cirque and the Wallis Gallery. AREA10 has helped to bring nearly a million pounds worth of investment to the local area through grants, arts funding and in-kind support, this investment will cease. So to will its educational partnerships with The Royal College, Goldsmiths, University of the Arts, Camberwell College, London College of Communication, Wimbledon, Central St.Martins and the educational opportunities it gives to so many young and unemployed people in the area.”

You may know James Kirkup as the guy who does all the poster designs for Off Modern, but is also part of the creative collective Fragment vs Division with fellow graphic designer Ken Moore. They are currently working towards the first issue of a new arts newspaper, but first they are going to through a fantastic party at the Social on Little Portland Street. Its free, we are djing, no excuses.

What happens when we stop asking what Canary Wharf is and ask instead: how do we know Canary Wharf and what does Canary Wharf do? At a moment in time when the world of global capitalism has been fundamentally shaken: by events in the financial markets; by ongoing degrees of global recession; by challenges to the European Union and the Euro, an atmosphere of questioning emerges which has a reach wider than the political and economic debates taking place in governmental or other institutions.

CAPITAL SPACE is a website / project that just been set up by a group of Goldsmiths Visual Cultures Ma Students. They are holding the launch at the Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre at Goldsmiths on June the 1st. You should go. There’ll be drinks and talks.

POSITIVE VIBING 2-STEPPING GLUE WAVE PUNK ROCK AND ROLL // FEATURING MANGNO / BRILLIANT CUNT / THOMAS HORRID / FUCKING PATHETIC / BAT BOY

Friday 28th of May brings with it the last Off Modern party before the summer comes and whisks us all away to dizzying foreign climes, exciting new horizons, and multi-storey car parks in Peckham.

Between the hours of 8PM Friday and 4AM Saturday, expect to find the following at Corsica Studios, LONDON

TEETH (LIVE)

Awesome new lunar electonic dance punk outfit. Think Gang Gang Dance meets LCD Soundsystem, in Elephant and Castle.

PHANTOM (LIVE)

Currently touring the country with one of our favorite bands HOLY FUCK, Phantom come join the party with their mesmerizingly soulful and hypnotic beats.

This month too we’ve booked a stellar lineup of DJs, packing both rooms until the wee hours, with old friends like FEEDING TIME, TRANSPARENT DJS and IS TROPICAL, new sounds from ZARCORP (LATE OF THE PIER), THE BOOGALOO CREW and TOM RAVENSCROFT (RADIO 1) and the best in the way of Peckham representation with sets from MY PANDA SHALL FLY, CHRIS AND LARRY (BAR STORY) and RAINE & JERMAINE.

plus, of course, be in room one come 3AM for the epic final showdown between our residents TOMFOOLERY and NASTY MCQUAID

As if all that wasn’t enough, we also have a film and photography based installation from our favourite zinesmiths, HOLY GHOST featuring work from

Alexander Binder

Jeff Luker

Lewis Chaplin

It’s FREE before 9PM, and £5 after

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This saturday May 15th. Call the number on the flyer for location details.

Off Modern Resident Nasty McQuaid will be doing what he does best in the main room and we will be doing some DJing ourselves in room two. It promises to be one hell of a night.

Arrive before 2am.

We’re Back!!! 9 weeks have passed since we were last together but the last Thursday of April has finally showed itself and we promise it has been worth the wait as this month we’re bringing you a musical wonderland all the way from Lagos!!

KALAKUTA
http://www.myspace.com/kalakutaoriginal
Featuring Master Musicians of Fela Kuti Afrika 70 / Egypt 80. Performing Legendary Fela Kuti Rhythms such as ‘Water Get No Enemy’. Along side a fresh rhythm section & bandleader Emeka Elendu and Rotimi Afariogun. Passionate Revolutionary Nigerian Afro Beat that defined the genre played by the musicians who pioneered the sound during a time of deep political unrest.
This we absolutely cannot wait for, NOT TO BE MISSED!

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FAIR OHS
http://www.myspace.com/theemightypharoahs
Afro Pop wizards, and ex Peckham residents Fair Ohs finally join us to bring us into the summer ‘chasing endless summers hidden in stolen African rhythms, half-inched Indian ragas and tea leafed Brazilian tropicalia.’

DJ sets courtesy of:

The Heatwave (Rinse FM)
http://www.myspace.com/heatwavelondon

Becoming Real
http://www.myspace.com/becomingrealmusic

Esser
http://www.myspace.com/esserhq

Dollop
http://www.dollopdollop.com/

Meg Woof
http://woofscorpse.wordpress.com/

+ Off Modern Residents Tomfoolery &
Nasty McQuaid with special guest MC BB.MANIK
http://www.myspace.com/bbmanik

ART:

Memento Mori - Scene V
a collaboration between Daniel Swan and Lucy Stockton

Hovering somewhere between unused science fiction film-set and immersive walk-in installation, MEMENTO MORI allows visitors to partake in the hazy funeral ceremony of a human being that will not exist for fifty generations.

Taking cues from folk tradition, dreams, popular culture and films both real and imagined, a stark vision of a ceremony mutated yet preserved by time and events is presented using our primitive technology. Data projection, sculpture, light, fog and sound combine to produce the immersive and intoxicating environment of a distant future strongly influenced by its past, with dim fluorescents, distant clouds and potted plants reflecting in the elevated black coffin that presides over the scene.
http://www.danielswan.co.uk/

+ A May Day weekend tribute to International Workers Day.

FREE before 9pm / Five Pounds After

Thursday 22nd sees the fundraiser for the 2010 Camberwell Illustration Degree Show, and many of those involved have worked with us in the past in some way, producing really great work. Have a look at their website too for some tasty samples. We recommend Peckham based orchestral folky troupe Wap Wap Wow too.