Jo Spence and Terry Dennett’s series,
Remodelling Photo History, from 1982. It is such a smart, funny and almost cutting series. I was fortunate to be a part of a small team working on Spence’s first UK retrospective at Studio Voltaire and SPACE in 2012, 20 years after her death. She has been such an important figure in both my professional and personal life. If you are not familiar with her practice, I would urge you to be.
Which cultural experience changed the way you see the world?
I was 15 when Dennis Potter’s
Lipstick on Your Collar appeared on Channel 4 in 1993. It was full of desire, lip-syncing and mundanity. The theme of conflict between the old order and the new post-war generation spoke to my teenage self. This led me to Potter’s other television masterpieces,
RT Boss
Controversial celebrity spiritual advisor and dancehall artiste RT Boss has decided to take a sabbatical from the dancehall fraternity and focus his energies on his core business - spiritual readings. The numbers for my spiritual appointments have increased dramatically so much so that I have to put my music hobby on the back burner, RT Boss said.
Some dancehall fans will be disappointed since RT Boss current single, Buzz is generating a lot of heat in the streets. I ve made up my mind, I know that Buzz has thousands of views but I realize now that my spirituality career is at the highest level it has ever been, so that’s where I am going to push my energies,” he said.
Shalkal
Jamaican-born dancehall-reggae singjay Shalkal is upset that the dancehall music industry got what he said was a major PR black eye recently when one of its most popular figures got embroiled in a nasty scandal with ugly overtones involving infidelity, obeah, paternity tests and promiscuity. The reggae and dancehall music industry took a major beat down in terms of its public relations and future the other day with all the rumour mongering, negativity and slackness, around Spice, who is regarded as our top dancehall artiste, Shalkal, whose real name is Shalkal Carty, said.
“Investors in the music who see it as an international genre must have been shocked and disappointed with all the chatter about obeah, negativity and the nastiness. The industry is already under-capitalized as it is and when people are not talking about hit songs and streaming numbers, but about black magic, milk baths and mix up around its biggest stars, then the industry is in trouble; th