Five, four, three, two, one… [6x]

Five, four, three, two, one,
Anger will be gone

Dreams of subways
          and sentry guards,
Pinstripe handshakes
          and caviar

They wait for the signal
          and they’re pretty simple
And soon they will be gone
          and then there will be none;
They wait for the signal
          and they’re pretty simple

Five, four, three, two, one,
Anger will be gone

I’m gonna pray as my children grow;
I’m gonna pray as my children grow

I need to do something,
          my heart’s full of nothing
And soon they will be gone
          and then there will be none

Five, four, three, two, one,
Anger will be gone;
Five, four, three, two, one,
Anger will be gone

Corecții? Sugestii?

If Sonic Youth and Pavement are your references it’ll help to have a contemporary art gallery to move it all along in the right direction (really….it will), like The Hepworth Wakefield.   Perhaps it can dedicate some curatorial events to the memory and legacy of the following inside its cast concrete:

Modern English, Clock DVA, The Diagram Brothers, Comsat Angels, Pylon, Tuxedo Moon, Eric Dolphy, Wire, Fad Gadget, Killing Joke, Basement 5, Cabaret Voltaire, A Certain Ratio, Delta 5, 23 Skidoo, Tubeway Army, Ornette Coleman, Bush Tetras, Defunkt, D-Train, Haydn, George Clinton and Pat Metheny’s Song X.

Just don’t call it grunge: Leeds’ new music scene | Music | The Guardian .

Gordon Ramsay and the relaunch of a city centre bar and restaurant

There was plenty of coverage last week of Gordon Ramsay’s stay in the city and the visit of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares to Runaway Girl on Arundel Street.

The celebrity chef even appeared in the Peace gardens to record a feature for the show and to give chance for Silversmiths staff to promote the relaunched business.

Although entertaining, I find Kitchen Nightmares a bit formulaic, and have no doubt that as usual, Ramsay’s revamp proposes a new menu serving “simple, seasonal dishes, made using fresh, locally-sourced ingredients”. We’ll find out when the show is broadcast.

I liked the name Runaway Girl and was also a bit cynical about the new name until I walked past the relaunched restaurant yesterday. I originally thought he might have proposed it after unimaginatively linking a Sheffield restaurant to the city’s cutlery heritage, however given that the premises is actually a converted silversmiths works and it still features the George Ellis Ltd. livery on the façade, I think it works well. The subtle, highlighted silver name is also a nice touch:

The menu in the window gave a glimpse of the modern Yorkshire dishes on offer, I just need to pay it a visit now to taste the food: