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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Cool stuff to see this week for free in London: James F Johnston at Fitzrovia Gallery, Cinthia Sifa Mulanga at Gillian Jason Gallery and Polly Bennett at the group show 'Layers of London' at General Assembly.

Black cat on red background by James F Johnston.

Two people coming down some steps, one with net fabric shielding their face. A combination of painting and collage by Cinthia Sifa Mulanga.

Five small wall-mounted wooden cabinets filled with vials containing the pigments of London.

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Opens this week! Don't normally booze on a Tuesday but.... James F Johnston - Uncommon Ground - Fitzrovia Gallery, London fitzroviagallery.co.uk/event/uncomm...

Painting of a black cat sat at the end of an unmade bed by James F Johnston. New exhibition, Uncommon Ground, opens on 8 Sept, 6-8pm

Date: September 8
Venue
The Fitzrovia Gallery
139 Whitfield Street

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Art yard kitten all grown up...

A black colony cat sat on the metal art yard steps surrounded by junk

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The London Clay record sold out a while back but 5 copies have turned up and are available now on the La Vida Es Un Mus Bandcamp lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/privat...

Screenshot from Bandcamp with a picture of the London Clay record

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Another stupid consultation you need to respond to so the council doesn't ruin everything Deadline is this Sunday 9th August at 5pm Westminster council not only wants to stop people from standing outside a pub, but *ordering at the bar* - they want pubs to be table service only YOU FUCKING WHAT

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Loved reading Saltwater Mansions (& have already passed it on to two other people who also enjoyed it). Thanks @regretteruane.bsky.social for recommending it!

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BFF.fm #nowplaying @nowplaying.bff.fm · 13/07/2026

🎵 #NowPlaying on BFFdotFM: Straphanger by London Clay. Tune in now at bff.fm/now/@1783942022

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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you're a William Mitchell fan the next Monstrosities Mon Amour is going to be right up your street. Out on Wednesday.

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NobleLowndesAnnuities @nlannuities.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Just a little London Clay Top 15 in the August issue of The Wire #DesireLines

Top 15 chart in The Wire August 2026 issue including: Leigh Arthur, Bag, Carola Baer, Chris & Cosey, C.L.A.W.S, Home Front, Monochrome Set, MPTL Microplastics, Ragga Twins, Rising Damp, Sanctuary of Praise, Second Layer, Stanton Miranda, Station Model Violence, Xclusiv

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Some pals released a record - out today!

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Last night at the 100 Club, The Ex were great as were the support MPTL Microplastics.

A photo of The Ex at the 100 Club, taken quite far back in the crowd with lots of big heads in the way because everyone is taller than me

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Would immediately buy the album with this cover. Dense, dystopian electronica of a most unsettling kind.

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The 🫠 ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ KEXP 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot @kexpmusicbot.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SonicReducer London Clay: 🎵 Semi Detached #LondonClay ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify ▶️ Song on #Spotify:

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Semi Detached

London Clay · Private View · Song · 2025

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Delivering these to Blackheath today for the next SMAG art event at St Michaels & All Angels Church. Entry is free and 30% of all sales go to local charities. Opens this Thursday!

Three framed linocuts, one is a portrait with a cat sat as part of the hairstyle, another is a cat in the sun, the third just a cat sitting. The two cat prints are in a more primitive style. Two more unframed prints are in the background.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Good afternoon! This week's theme is London Worship. ----- 'St Nicholas, Deptford' by Louise Hayward societyofwoodengravers.co.uk/shop/p/louise-hayward-st-nicholas-deptford

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Gerard Cosloy @gerardcosloy.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

episode 305 of The Radio Hour That Feels Like Two Hours now playing (link below), this week with new stuff from London Clay, Zuli, Serpente, France, Bullseye and more. www.mixcloud.com/gerardcosloy...

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04/01/26 Show 305 : Nonstop To Nowhere

over the past couple of years I have thoroughly enjoyed my association with East Village Radio, however this glorious run has come to a conclusion as I’ve accepted a very lucrative offer to join the o...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Richard Jefferies’ After London (1885) is one of the most important early examples of “post-apocalyptic fiction”. The story tells of how London becomes a swampland after an unspecified natural disaster delivers England over to the mercy of nature: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

New Hygiene video alert - Taken from the 15 Minute City 7" EP on Static Shock Records.

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Hygiene - 15 Minute City (Official Video)

YouTube video by Static Shock Records

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Reliving my teenage years through this new Huggy Bear Peel Sessions release!

Picture of a 10" record sleeve - Huggy Bear Peel Sessions: Basic Strategies For Going Out

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

There are quite a few cats who visit the art studio but this absolute floof is new and very much welcome.

Huge fluffy tabby cat looking magnificent.

Huge fluffy tabby cat behind chicken wire

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Just got made Sorry State's Record of the Week! www.sorrystaterecords.com/blogs/featur...

Picture of the front cover of the record Private view by London Clay. Text is in yellow on a monochrome background by artist Al Palmer.

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NobleLowndesAnnuities @nlannuities.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

London Clay feature in the March issue of The Wire discussing the debut album Private View, NLAnnuities, Harold Turgis and Suzie Marlowe. In the shops from 5th Feb!

Photo of The Wire and an interview with London Clay by Leah Kardos

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Heritage of London Trust @holtoflondon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

HOLT is thrilled to work with Royal Borough of Greenwich, @c20society.bsky.social, Dr Dawn Pereria and Brooklands Primary School to save this rare William Mitchell mural – One of three public artworks by Mitchell that HOLT will be restoring in his centenary year. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I mention William Mitchell in the London Clay feature in The Wire ...it's good to see that instead of removal of his work which had suffered damage and wear over the years, two large pieces on a Lewisham estate have now been fully restored. Go visit!

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Restoration of Foxborough Gardens murals

We were delighted to unveil two more William Mitchell murals yesterday alongside local people living on the Foxborough Gardens Estate in Lewisham, school children and Speaker for Lewisham, Cllr Jacque...

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Recommend The Cat Show at the artist-ran Bakery Gallery near Angel. It's only on for a week so don't miss it!

Black sign with yellow writing saying The Cat Show with a cat drawn underneath.

Photo taken of the private view of The Cat Show at The Bakery Gallery from outside in the rain.

My two entries, so-called 'slab cats' as they are handbuilt from a clay slab and dried in a crouching cat position.

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I'm taking part in the The Cat Show, opens tomorrow 6-8pm and then: 3 – 15 February 2026, Tuesdays - Sundays, 11am - 6pm. The Bakery Art Gallery – 6 Charlton Pl. London, N1 8AJ

A picture of a large fluffy white cat wearing a neckerchief sitting on a stool in a bar.

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

London Clay are in the new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social - if I haven't bored you enough in real life about ceramics, dystopian cities and William Mitchell, then maybe go find a copy at your local print media outlet of choice. Shout out to Leah for the interview and The Wire for asking us!

A picture of The Wire magazine with a London Clay interview inside

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

We're in the next issue of The Wire! Out on Thursday!

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"London Clay tiptoes along the line between hooky UK post-punk/DIY and super experimental UK post-punk/DIY, with just the right mixture of each for my tastes - I might make it Record of the Week sometime soon and talk about it at greater length." www.sorrystaterecords.com/blogs/news/t...

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Showing a few things at The Cat Show: The Artist's Mews Camden Passage, London Private view: 5 Feb 2026, 18:00 - 20:00 Open: 3 Feb 2026 – 15 Feb 2026 More info: www.artrabbit.com/events/the-c...

Two minimal ceramic cats made from one clay slab each - one is orange & pink texture glaze and the other is a mixture of white mica, glossy black, white, orange, copper and silver

The two slab cats front on showing there triangular minimalist faces.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Recently I asked Drew Daniel of Matmos /Soft Pink Truth to consider a question: what good is making music while the world slides inexorably into disaster. In response he wrote an essay for tQ that should be of great interest to anyone creating art in the face of global events. 🔗in🧵...

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Andrew O'Neill @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

They've rebadged it, you fool!

HEADLINE: Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK

Alan Partridge off of I'm Alan Partridge

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Just listened to the Repetitive Strain radio show (soundcloud.com/voicesradio_...) and now have a new earworm....

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Innovation - Rising Damp (2020)

YouTube video by Rising Damp

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NobleLowndesAnnuities @nlannuities.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Got some yum codes for the 2nd Harold Turgis tape - if you fancy the real thing we have a few for sale real cheap and a bundle for £12: noblelowndesannuities.bandcamp.com/album/the-se... q9ca-xplv f2hb-j2p8 5xew-yd72 ge64-7hph 3r34-5jb5 dmxj-bydf pge6-wuxa r2r2-wpmb 79lb-gpyw x3s5-3nb4 4vqf-hj4m

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The Sentinels, by Harold Turgis

2 track album

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Got some bandcamp codes for the 1st London Clay release - if you fancy the real thing we have a few for sale here: londonclay.bandcamp.com/album/london... vggg-c86n 9ku3-w29j nn5m-hd6k ma69-vct9 g6yu-gc3z y3uv-uxd6 yam8-jvwy t68y-g8cr tyn3-un4d 2tam-jmjc 694n-k7fv

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London Clay, by London Clay

3 track album

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Looking forward to hearing this one in full soon... stationmodelviolence.bandcamp.com/album/statio...

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Station Model Violence, by Station Model Violence

10 track album

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

London Clay feature in the Analog Attack Best Punk Albums of 2025! We feature about 12 mins in...have a listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln_F...

Screen shot of Daniel Lupton (Sorry State Records), Eric Anderson (MaximumRocknRoll, Cult Nation, DIY Conspiracy) and Mike Analog Attack. Daniel holds the London Clay record.

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Thanks Adam, glad you liked the London Clay album enough to make it your top album of 2025!

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Charity shops continue to disappoint but the second-hand bookshop in Blackheath had this original Videodrome film poster stashed at the back.

A wall, covered in various framed posters and art, including a Videodrome poster.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Absolute genius and supreme attention to detail about Croydon's historical geography (the Polish shop!). I love Jimmy Mac. www.instagram.com/reel/DS4533t...

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Dead Pubs on Instagram: "Jimmy Mac’s Out Again in… Croydon."

3,833 likes, 104 comments - londondeadpubs on December 30, 2025: "Jimmy Mac’s Out Again in… Croydon.".

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

New review from Repressed Records, NSW: 'London Clay might be the best skewed British synth-pop since The Bomber Jackets. Minimal in sound, dense in ideas, gets the imagination going.' (There are a few left over on bandcamp, link in bio)

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London Clay - Private View LP

Becoming engrossed by the debut album by London Clay has made me think about the working class origins of synth-pop. How it was easier to transport a synthesizer from the post-war public housing flat ...

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

If you ever wondered what was inside the haunted house on Burnt Ash Hill then wonder no more! Spoiler: it's full of pigeons and pigeon shit

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The CHEAPEST HOUSES for Sale in LONDON in 2025

YouTube video by Wandering Turnip

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Gema @gema.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

London Clay hits Japan! diskunion-shinjukualternative.blog.jp/archives/291... LONDON CLAY have been noted for bridging the gap between DIY punk and synth music, resonating with conceptual UK electronic music of their generation, such as Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan.

Taking inspiration from the suburban London landscape of concrete footbridges and apartment blocks, LONDON CLAY has updated post-punk sensibilities with industrial beats and minimalist keyboards. Even within the LA VIDA ES UN MUS catalog, they've been noted for bridging the gap between DIY punk and synth music, resonating with conceptual UK electronic music of their generation, such as WARRINGTON RUNCORN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN.

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