Cinema, music and super-sized sculpture

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• 1. At 11:10pm on 22 Jul 2008, vitalemichielII wrote:

  Tony Allen - interesting bloke, but "the best drummer in the world"? I don't think so. Ever heard of Ian Paice?
  
  Primal Scream were awful, really bad, especially the singer, who didn't actually sing, but made noises that weren't actually on any musical scale known to western music, or any other sort of music. How can anyone get excited over this band?
  
  Damon Albarn? Rubbish.

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• 2. At 3:41pm on 23 Jul 2008, EllenW-web_producer wrote:

  On the subject of Primal Scream, one of our viewers - Jacqueline Chambers – has sent us an email about their performance, comparing them to Roxy Music: "the track PS were playing smacked of Virginia Plain, even the ending was the same!". Well, it turns out that while Primal Scream were in the dressing room getting ready to go into the Culture Show studio they were listening to Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music! Bobby Gillespie was dancing around and one of the CS team was quizzing him on his favourite Roxy Music albums. Spooky.

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• 3. At 5:11pm on 23 Jul 2008, smith-smith wrote:

  Culture show great and we are all entitled to our opinions about 'who's the best drummer' et al. However, I found Primal Scream's song (?) to be a very poor imitation of the fabulous Roxy Music. If you listened carefully you could hear the riffs turned round but recognisable I believe. They sounded like a working mans club band and shoddy at that. Surely you can do better guys?

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• 4. At 10:06pm on 23 Jul 2008, superlibrarian wrote:

  I loved the item this week on Ian Hamilton Finlay, but as
  Andrew Graham-Dixon said, Little Sparta is pretty remote! Viewers
  should know that his work can be seen in England and for free. Stockwood Park in Luton is one of the few places in the country where the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay can be seen on permanent display. His Improvement Garden, open since 1991, is a classical garden in which the sculptures are an integral part of the landscape. Stockwood Park, and its newly opened Discovery Centre, is located one and half miles from Luton’s main railway station, three minutes from the M1, Junction 10A and very close to Luton Airport. For more information visit www.luton.gov.uk or call Stockwood Discovery Centre on 01582 738714.
  I'd love more people to discover Finlay's garden - it's inspirational!

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• 5. At 02:11am on 26 Jul 2008, unbeatablePurrrr wrote:

  I really enjoyed the show, apart from Andrew Graham-Dixon and his inability to recognise true art and the concepts behind it. The Angel of the North (for those of us lucky enough to be based in the North East) has a protective and incredibly comforting warmth. A symbol of strength and progression, not a 'forbiding hippy rootedness', depicting failure and transcendance. Ha! His description made me laugh and feel sorry for the narrow minded southerner.

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• 6. At 6:59pm on 28 Jul 2008, lynnmarie79 wrote:

  Andrew Graham-Dixon's art commentaries are, for me, always the highlight of the Culture Show and I've really been enjoying his contributions this series. The pieces on Scottish land art have been particularly interesting as I originally hail from Scotland and was oblivious to the fact we had any such thing! As for the Angel of the North, I'm not a big fan of it either, but art is very subjective so we viewers should accept that not everyone will have the same opinion.

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• 7. At 10:27am on 29 Jul 2008, EllenW-web_producer wrote:

  People do indeed have different opinions, and tonight's item on Cy Twombly is a perfect example of that. In the show Andrew Graham-Dixon attempts to persuade Mark Kermode that the Cy Twombly exhibition is worth going to see.

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