CHRISTMAS CRISIS (CRISISMAS?)

My tenure at the Crisis homeless shelter in Islington is over and thanks to a reliable mix of poignancy and drunk people it was the best Christmas I've had in at least a year.

I was there to help people make films/animations/strange composite photos should they be so inclined (which many were).

Highlights include; Andy from Bermondsey's trance anthem music video featuring the prodigious dance talents of Kim and Olretta (there are no surnames at Crisis for security and all that).

I met and chewed varieties of fat with some brilliant people and came away from the whole thing smelling of Pritt Stick and singing the same Elton John song over and over again.

Anyway, here are some screengrabs from Andy's Mental Mixdown...

UNSILENT NIGHT

Last night I played a part in breaking London's Unsilent cherry, courtesy of Dave Sheppard and a collection of boom-boxes that made us look like the weirdest Hari Krishnas Peckham has ever seen.

Apparently the piece is performed in New York every year by people numbering thousands. We numbered about two dozen, a third of which were around eight years old, but luckily children have uninhibited command of their larynx, so what we lacked in numbers we made up in noise.

The piece is by a guy named Phil Kline and is pretty moving when performed in a dark South London street. You can download it here...