Mr Pink.

I remember we hit the Thomas Pink store on Jermyn St on a very windy afternoon. They even made a special edition Gary Go shirt. Thanks Mr Pink!

I Need 2 See

Nothing more fun than an afternoon in Switzerland sitting with the guys from Zuerihorn, taking measurements for some made-to-measure Golasses!

NYC High Line

some things that caught my eye from the new york high line. great views from up there, you never know what you’ll see. loved discovering stephen vitiello’s ‘a bell for every minute’ sound installation up there on my last visit.

Open Arms MTV TRL Rome

This was a fun afternoon in Rome. The show was hosted by Elisabetta Canalis. The evening ended in my favourite restaurant in the world.

Memories of Manchester

Never forget this day opening up for Take That at Old Trafford in Manchester, UK. One of Five nights. It was a strange week. News of MJ passing had hit the day before. Literally I’m announced and about to walk on stage when the production manager stops me and says, “there’s been a change of plan, you need to go on in an hour and play an extra couple of songs.” Okay, back to the dressing room we go and I teach the band “Superfuture” in it’s infancy and throw a couple of other ideas out there. I had other songs ready to go, but they weren’t the best for these shows…they were mainly slow, melancholic ‘woe is me’ numbers and in 6/8 and unknown, which isn’t always the best way to perk up a crowd that have been standing in the rain with nothing to watch for a few hours. So stage time comes and we hit the stage and the heavens open. The crowd were amazing and brought the sun to the rain. We found our way through ‘Superfuture’ without too many hiccups. Bless Old Trafford.

Goraffiti

When we put Of Youth / Of Beauty album out…someone decided to spray the cover image – my face – around the streets of central london. No property or animals were harmed in the process. Sorry.

Favourite Place to Write

This is one of my favourite places to write.

Wedding Video

This couple are in Love!
[heartfelt cover of Cinema]
[if you don't at least consider a tear, you are made of stone]

Bobby McFerrin

Bobby McFerrin – always so beautiful and soulful. He is an instrument. Will always love and remember ‘thinking about your chocolate…’

Keith Jarret

Will never forget the first time I was told I needed to hear Keith Jarret!

C/H/A/I/R/S

For those of you who have visited my TUMBLR and/or followed me on FACEBOOK, you may be aware of my fascination with chairs. I’m often asked about it. I get a lot of “What’s with all the chairs?” from friends that had no idea of my love of artistic furniture. I’m no furniture fanatic. Or expert. But I love sitting down. And I love art. And I love expression and I love truth. I take sitting down for granted. I guess most people do. The chair is such a functional every day structure. Such a boring instrument. I find romance in the mind of the artist who has the spark to re-tackle, re-interpret and re-imagine such a basic object. It’s done again and again and in so many creative ways. For me I don’t see the floating plastic bag blowing in the wind…I just see a sea of different, weird looking chairs, washed up on the shore.

Elephants

Wikipedia says – Elephants are a symbol of wisdom in Asian cultures and are famed for their memory and intelligence, where their intelligence level is thought to be equal to that of dolphin and primates.Aristotle once said the elephant was “the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind.”The word “elephant” has its origins in the Greek ἐλέφας, meaning “ivory” or “elephant”.

Am slightly obsessed with Elephants at the moment. Since Miss Elephanté making the front cover of NWOTF, I seem to be seeing elephant everywhere

NOW WAS ONCE THE FUTURE

The year of the elephant.

My new soundtrack NOW WAS ONCE THE FUTURE is available this month.

Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon

As well as having an incredible sounding name, Austin Kleon has created some completely engaging poems in his book Newspaper Blackout – he composes poems by taking newspaper articles and blacking out words with a marker pen, kind of like a sculptor chipping away at a block of stone. The results are beautiful.

Equally as intriguing are the attempts by fans of the method, which are on Austin’s Newspaper Blackout blog Love this one below and there was one I saw once about a piano which I loved…maybe you can find it.

skrillexed

loved the skrillex show live in london last month. truly engaging and innovative. absolutely love this artist. brilliant talent and puts on an incredible show.
his remix of Cinema has been described by The Independent as ‘the world’s first dubstep power ballad.’

Reflections Short at Vegas Gallery London

Reflections Of A Skyline is a short film by Mike Tamman & Richard Jakes that I scored the music for on a summers day in 2007. They’re showing this alongside some other beautiful works at Vegas Gallery London as part of the “I Wish You Well” Group Exhibition [Dec 01,'11- Jan 07, '12]. Looks like an interesting exhibit.

Forever Young #Art

I love the artist Ben Young. I have two of his works in my studio and they mean a great deal to me. One is “I LOVE YOU” and the other is “I HATE YOU” and they hang side by side in my writing room. I first saw them hanging in a gallery window close to one of my favourite west london restaurants and I walked past them a few nights in a row and every time they would stop me in my tracks, calling out for my attention. I could really feel the heartache in the paintings…the true love. The lost love. The unrequited love. “I LOVE YOU” and “I HATE YOU” hanging side by side. Colourful and sad. Unfortunately the gallery was always closed cause it was so late at night so I could never enquire further about the artist. One lucky night the gallery was open and the paintings were still there in the window. This was my chance. I left with “I LOVE YOU.” It sat on my piano in my studio, but it sat in my stomach that something was missing. “I HATE YOU”. Deep down I knew they were supposed to be together. I had never spoken to the artist, but I could only imagine these were inspired from and part of the same moment and emotion and should be living together. Then my quest became tracking down the other painting.

Above: At Ben Young’s studio admiring a scary piece called Jah-Pan. “I HATE YOU” in the corner, getting ready for a new home.

Ben Young Interview on Eye See Hue
Ben Young currently showing at SCOPE Miami

NWOTF ❤ COMING SOON

NWOTF – We were supposed to be together.

The new soundtrack album by Gary Go coming soon. Enjoy the full version of CINEMA [Feat. Carina Round] now on the pop-up player and unlock the low-fi tetris inspired teaser trip-clip.

…and don’t forget to spread the word.

Thank you.

#NWOTF

NWOTF

So so excited to finally have physical CDs in my hand for my new soundtrack NWOTF. This has been a romance of mine for a while, very close to my heart and I am so proud of it.

I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I have enjoyed creating it.

RSOTB

If you tend to get spotirific on Spotify, you may enjoy my RSOTB Spotify playlists which I occasionally publish on Spotify [in the hope that you might enjoy some of the music I've been listening to, as much as I have]. You can find me on Spotify by clicking the Spotify icon located with the community icons on the home page. Spotify is mentioned six times in the posting.

COTB

This will be the COTB Home Blog – For all things Centre Of The Brain. No chairs.
This is separate to my LSOTB Tumblr blog, where I often share visual treats that catch my eye – often chair-like structures. I love chairs. This will be a good place for me to download COTB like matter – thoughts, feelings, tales, woes and wonders.