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Heckel’s Horse Jr. on Black Exhibition
This was an exhibition I did at Black Ivory in Muswell Hill in late 2022.
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Recorded a cassette demo tonight of the songs on our set list for our gig on Fri 1st Sep at Beehive Bow in London. Had some tape left at the end, so played a Pumpkins cover we haven’t done before. We’re not playing any covers at the gig and will probably not get all the others in to our half hour slot.
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Stuckism For Your Ears
- Music by musicians isn’t music.
- SFYE is fallible unencumbered experimentation.
- Music that has to be in tune to be music isn’t music.
- Emma Pugmire is Stuckist John Bonham.
- Dare communicate your cleverness in primeval sound and be slain.
- SFYE casts wild dogs and shadows across fairyland.
- The institutionalised can only laugh at truth.
- SFYE is 50% neurosis 50% innocence.
- It’s our Stuckist duty to perform live and yours to attend.
- We’re not shit. We’re avant-gard.
- Our constant engagement with public humiliation results in a constant fear of success.
- SFYE isn’t punk. It’s what punk said it was.
- Before certification, licences and antidepressants everyone was a publicly performing dancer, singer, painter and musician living in communities that had no word for ‘talent’.
- SFYE craves and strives for fame and public recognition because every caveman was famous. We’re a herd species. Our primal natural state is to be known by, seen by and appreciated by all around us. Society has deceived mankind into feeling shame and guilt for wanting to return to being truly human. The ego-artist is the true Stuckist.
- SFYE aggressively pursues attention, adulation and financial gain. Success to the Stuckist is to get out of bed in the morning and paint when mummy and daddy are paying the rent.
- Van Gogh was a career artist because his brother was getting sick of his fucking begging letters.
- It’s time for Stuckism to grow up.
- Every musician was once human.
- Good music is pretentious.
- Counter-culture’s dead because it became painfully over-aware of itself and terrified of commercial failure. Drowned in its obsession with style, class, dress-codes, taste and every form of paranoid self preening it once stood against, it became a relentless conveyor belt of one vacuous branding campaign after the other. SFYE reinvents counter-culture as the deplorable, ugly, laughable, instantly hateable travesty it should have always been.
- Taste tastes like shit.
- Pessimism is patronising. We have faith in humanity.
Read more about Stuckism For Your Ears events
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Studious Magazine They’re all slightly damaged as I crushed them through the printing press in an only partially successful attempt to flatten them. Studious Magazine is exclusively available to members of our Bandcamp Fan Club. It has album notes for each song, lyrics, guitar tabs and illustrations. Hand-coloured front cover and signed. All by me. Hopefully Emma and I will do a collaborative magazine, one day.
Other posts about Studious album: Studious | Studious Deluxe Edition
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The first Heckel’s Horse Jr. works that aren’t after Heckel’s Horse paintings. 30 ideas for Heckel’s Horse paintings by Heckel’s Horse Jr. They’re not after yet existing Heckel’s Horse paintings but may be after future ones. Each drawn twice. First a small version, three to an A4 page. Then A4 drawings of each. A magazine of them to follow.
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Happy birthday Midge. This is for you:
Ultravox’s Western Promise on the evening of Midge Ure’s 70th.
Full rehearsal:
Yesterday was Midge Ure’s 70th so Emma and I played him Western Promise at the first of our STUCKISM CLASSICS. He wasn’t there in person. Next Stuckism Classic will be for Philip Absolon’s Job Club. Last night was Charles Thomson’s Serota knickers painting. Start at the top then gradually work your way down. We also played our first King Krule cover, Rock Bottom.
1 – Intro
3 – Western Promise (Ultravox cover)
4 – Artery
5 – Perfect (Smashing Pumpkins cover)
6 – Los Angeles (Frank Black cover)
7 – My Head
9 – Son of a Gun (Vaselines cover)
10 – Politic
12 – Knee Bore
13 – Rock Bottom (King Krule cover)
Edgeworth Johnstone 