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Written by Nicky Getgood on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 ( 2 responses )
Tags: andy weatherall, Capsule, Custard Factory, here&now&thefuture, Ikon Eastside, lucienne cole, outersight, Release the Bats, The Edge

It’s only the beginning of the month but I’m already in a total tizz over what to do at the end of it.

On Halloween night of Friday 31st October, do I give my posh black dress an airing and make my way to Ikon Eastside, where I can dance and blow my mind with Lucienne Cole & Friends - Here & Now & The Future?  It’s apparently ‘a welcoming environment for kooks’, so I’d be amongst my own kind.

On the other hand, it’s no secret I love a good horror film, so maybe Douglas Gordon’s 24 HOUR PSYCHO at VIVID is more my bag.  Although with the Hitchcock classic being slowed down to last 24 hours, I might just see Norman Bates coming.

Or do I hang around Eastside Projects to moon over Bill Drummond, who’s giving an artists’ talk before the Strategic Questions #2 book launch at 6pm?

On Saturday 1st November do I go to The Edge for Outersight’s Halloween Horrorshow with ‘whacked-out shorts, spooky psychedelic psynema and obscure oddities…topped off with a blood-drenched feature film’?  The ‘witch’s brew of cocktails’ sounds very appealing.

Or do I pair my dancing shoes with some fancy dress for Release The Bats at the Custard Factory?  The band line-up looks fantastic and I have fond memories of DJ Andy Weatherall from my raving days, which I’d like to indulge.

Perhaps I’ll be too tired to do either, after not being able to sleep off my late night because of the Barbara Holub & Mithu Sen artists’ talk at Eastside Projects at 1pm.

What to do?  Help!