 A journey towards a Soho of the mind… |
 Gallon Drunk – Jake On The Make |
 Karlheinz Weinberger: Photographs 1954-1995 |
 Afterhours Light Catching |
 Farewell My Lovely and hardboiled, neo-noir gumshoe-ery… |
 John Deakin and further documenting of heart of town dissolution… |
 The Flesh Is Weak… Brylcream and bad intentions… |
 Peter Doyle’s Crooks Like Us and a very real forefather of hoodlum noir… |
 The Art of The Flaming Stars… |
 Jim Naughten Re-Enactors and ingrainings from other times and places… |
 The Small World Of Sammy Lee and pre-Swinging London shenanigans… |
 Danny Lyon’s The Bikeriders |
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 60s back in the day glamour, the chaps, Trader Vics and a tale from the late 1950s… |
J uke Joint by Birney Imes – a capturing of a lost world…
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 The Big Sleep press book and the scarce ephemera of celluloid tales… |
 Erwin Olaf and moments of stillness… |
 Florence Stonebraker and pulp fiction archetypes… |
 Alfred Cheney Johnston’s Jazz Age Beauties |
 Further archetypes and show gals… |
 Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be: Daniel Farson’s Soho In The Fifties, Frank Norman, rogues and gents… |
 Afterhours Light Catching
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 Mr Vince Ray and The Death Of The Teenage Death Song |
 Soho Night & Day – a lost book of a lost world… |
 Now It’s Dark; Blue Velvet and a sublime touch of Angelo Badalamenti courtesy of Ms Rossellini |
 Nick Clements, cultural memory and vintage simulacra / re-creation |
 Bone-Box, feral dreams and flooding the past… |
 David Levinthal and populuxe archetypes… |
 Chris Steele-Perkins & Richard Smiths Teds and rough, tough’n’tumble 1970s British subcultural style |
 Insignificance and bending the language of cinema / time and space |
 Deborah Turbeville – Past Imperfect, filmic ghosts, grain and the deconstruction of traditional photographic perfection |
 Expresso Bongo and a surprising Soho Johnny |
 Roswell Angier, American Suburb X, showgirls and a certain rogueishness… |
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 The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and the converse glamour of a dash or more of seediness… |
 Drink Me, Eat Me: The seduction and wish to flee of Eugenio Recuenco’s never-never land… |
 Mojo (1997) – a lost document of a lost Soho… |
 Horst Friedrichs Or Glory: 21st Century Rockers and the custodians / carrying forwards of myths |
 Get Rich Quick; Peter Doyle and Antipodean hidden histories |
 Bruce Davidson’s Brooklyn Gang and non-layering over time… |
 Dance With A Stranger and late night dissolution… |
 Tokyo Rockabilly Club and the archetypal, distilled spirit of rock’n’roll rebellion |
 Afterhours Light Catching |
 Las Vegas Grind and the days before quite such blatant commodification… |
 Jurgen Vollmer’s Rockers and kitchen sink rock’n’roll |
 The Long Firm and a lovely bit of schmutter |
 Bert Stern / Marilyn Monroe’s The Last Sitting: evanescence and photographic completion |
 Great lost visions – Magic City |
 Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep and how to make a paper movie by Lou Stoumen |
 Grinderman / The Wild Bunch / grizzled light-catching… |
 Nights in Paris – Daniel Frasnay and a quiet sleaze |
 Afterhours Light Catching |
 Music for a Beat Girl… |
 Behind Union City – Amos Chan, Deborah Harry, Marcus Reichert and neo-noir accompaniments |
 In The Mood For Love and neo-noir forerunners… |
 Jim Jocoy’s We’re Desperate, The Cramps and cuckoos in the nest |
 Stuart A. Staples, Somerset house and a gent back in a suit… |
 Jennifer Greenburg’s Rockabillies and the occasional flickering frames amongst a high definition past |
 China Town, neo-noir creations and edited ephemera… |
 Jacques Olivar – Forever Young and ingrained mythology from over the seas… |
 Cathi Unsworth’s The Not Knowing and connections to the music and work of certain suave gents from back in the day… |
 Oliver Sieber – Imaginary Club and dreams of the past… |
 Afterhours Light Catching |
 From Dives To Dames: Hell Is A City – A Northern British noir |
 Thomas Allen – Uncovered and recreations of imaginings… |
 Tom Waits Small Change (and a possible pre-Mistress Of The Dark) |
 London Caffs and a certain dour glamour |
 Das Phantom Von Soho and an imagining/reimagining of the heart of town |
 Hollywood In Kodachrome and the vessels of dreams… |
 The dames, dolls, world and work of Niagra |
 Afterhours Light Catching |
 Marc Almond – the doyen of dissolution… |
 Harlow and technicolor blonde simulacras… |
 Earls of Suave and pre-burlesque iconography that adorned platters that matter |
 Little Richard and the (non)subsuming of a rather suave transgression… |
 Afterhours Light Catching |
 London Is The Place For Me / Lonely Londoners and high-life bedsit life… |
 Mr Burton as a right Villain and a lovely cup of teas… |
 A tip of the hat to the melting away of streets, rogues and beloved rascals… |
 Mr Archibald Motley Jr via Mr Walter Mosley and Hollywood tales… |
 Afterhours Light Catching |
 Gallon Drunk – the last gang in town by the seaside, beside the sea… |
 Alright My Son; Flash Harry, Arthur Daley and spiv archetypes… |
 Peaky Blinders – stories that inspire a brush, scrub and suave up… |
 Boardwalk Empire, a wish to step away and the weight of denouements… |
 Afterhours Light Catching |
 Well He Would, Wouldn’t He? Mandy Rice-Davies and keeping your head held high… |
 Tales from and around Sparrows Can’t Sing… |
 Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and a brief moment of deliveration… |
 Performance, reinventing a genre and related scribings and encasings… |
 Otto Penzler, noir distinctions and knights in tarnished armour |
 Afterhours Light Catching |
 A Vision Of Loveliness, pre-Swinging London glamour and tales of West End popsies |
 James Ellroy and imaginative time travelling |
 Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid and cultural splicing/time travelling |
 Biography Of A Buick and researchative entertainment |
 Our Friends In The North – Imaginative Time Travel and Experiments In Consensual Hallucination |
 She Wears Red Feathers and a Hula Hula Skirt* |
 Afterhours Light Catching |
 16 Horsepower, transcendence and weathered suaveness… |
 44 Inch Chest, further weathered suaveness and lives lived… |
 The World Ten Times Over and understated lives |
 A Kind Of Loving, suited and booted, beehived & bouffanted glamour and prime time kitchen sink-isms |
 Afterhours Light Catching |
 Saturday Night, Sunday Morning and a somewhat classy pictorial representation of Jack The Lad… |
 Bettie Page and transgressive reverberations |
 The Bank Job, shennanigans and stories that travel forwards and backwards in time… |
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 Angel Heart’s convolutions and casting back… |
 A gathering of a Soho film cycle |
 The Flipside, West End Jungle, interrelated film cycles and cultural rehabilitation |
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 Mad Men – grown up modernism from over the seas |
 Further populuxe modernism from under the radar… |
 Afterhours Light Catching |
 Biba and worlds unto themselves |
 The Medway Scene and youth culture in the caff rather than at the club… |
 Afterhours Light Catching |
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