Late night art: September Review

It all started last Thursday when I saw the Lord 'big head' Mayor himself outside the old Northern Bank on Donegal Street dancing with a carnival character. It lead me to the Cultural Night launch. As any good artist/revolutionary would do I decided to crash the party and grab as many free cocktail sausages as my stubby hands could take. I ended up staying for the entire event getting a great free lunch. I was looking out for Terri Hooley to see if he was going to take over the event with a coup. But no luck there. Lord "Big head" Mayor mumbled something about art and community, when everone knows that the only exhibition he has ever seen is in Stormont and the only community he knows is the one in Botanic Inns.

Later on that day the Late night art was on - I was disappointed to say the least. The only decent shows were Platform arts, Belfast Exposed and the Print Workshop. What was going on at Catalyst I am still not sure. No one was even checking out the art work, everyone was just hanging out at the balcony looking alternative. I left early with a disappointing night in all. I think everyone was saving the good stuff for the Culture night on the 24th of September (a Friday). Definitely worth checking out.

Belfast art scene and more....

....the cultural experience continues.

Several major things happened over this week the first was that Derry got City of Culture.:Well done to them. I heard that there are banjos singers on the streets having a shin dig. Sounds like good fun, I will hopefully make it up there for some cultural delights. Transbelfast is going strong with more happening around the City including hanging laturns and hanging gardens coming from "out of place" gallery (on the same street as the 02 shop on Corn Market).

One of UrbanLanders images was featured in the Irish News as part of the article on Terri Hooley :"Punk Godfather could bring good vibes to the city hall". Five minutes of photoshop can go along way.

I was walking home the other day through the holylands at 1am. Bad mistake, a load of people were throwing glass at a wall across the street. They then starting shouting at me when I walked past. Too many Canterbury bottoms about for my liking. I could have taken on 3 of them on but not all 6 of them. Stuff I missed this week includes the Moochin's exhibition at the waterfront. Would have been a good night with all the work being free to take. I never got a chance to go to Ashleigh Manor either for some fun. Im now on Twitter @Urbanlander

Lets make Terri Hooley the Lord Mayor of Belfast

Terri Hooley (left) is a local legend founder of Good Vibrations Records and maker of the Undertones. Recently his fame has increased with a film being made about Good Vibration records directed by Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Belfast D'sa. The most recent fame is the facebook campaign to make him the Lord Mayor of Belfast the campaign featured in the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday World.

However nothing seems to be happening to make this happen were are the anarchist riots and punk protests. Do we really need the same old type of Lord Mayor like Pat Convery (right).

Lets get the petitions and protests etc and get Terri Hooley as Lord mayor!