Liver & Lights No 66. Five Hung in Peckham (Steve Read)

 

A brand new

Liver & Lights publication

celebrates my friend 

Steve Read who died recently 

and who participated in 

Liver & Lights No.1 

39 years ago

The book contains 

his amazing 

New York drawings 

from that first

publication alongside 

others by him 

and his wife Edori Fertig. 

There is also a biographical text by 

John Bently and more 

images from his son 

Jacob Read and also from

fellow contributors to those early

Liver & Lights projects; 

James Blundun and Stephen Jaques. 

handmade and bound in 

red cloth in  a limited edition 

of 50 copies.

available to buy from here

https://bonesandtheaft.bandcamp.com/merch/liver-lights-no-66-five-hung-in-peckham-steve-read

-steve-read

The Songs of Snareby Moon

The Songs of Snareby Moon, 

by bonesandtheaft

A  brand new vinyl long playing record 

album in a limited edition  of 100  

hand made copies, each containing 

a beautiful souvenir comic  

explaining the songs and the lyrics and 

how they came to be made.  

Thoroughly illustrated and made 

by Liver & Lights himself  

(aka The Singer) 

and pertaining excellently   to the strange 

and wonderous world of Slingy Gaw,  

to whom these songs mainly relate.

This will be £20 plus £3  postage

Deluxe Edition

If you want to be super supportive and worthy

of much gratitude, then you can order  one of the

 

20 deluxe  copies

 

signed by the whole band and also  containing 

an original  coloured drawing by j.Bently. 

  

These will  be £50.00 inc postage

Once in a Lifetime Special Offer!! :

We will personally hand deliver the album  

to your home, and  and then set up and play it for you live 

in your  front room  

(or shed or garden……

we expect you might want to invite some friends over……….)

   

This is Only £200!!

This is how you  can order:

By cheque payable to Liver & Lights Scriptorium, 

sent to  229 Railton Rd, London, SE240LX

By Paypal  to:  paypal.me/bonesandtheaft

By Bank Transfer: details on request.

Hand delivered brown envelope in 

a gloomy backstreet of your choice…..

Orders  will ship out early in the new year…..

Bank Details on request from: hanksoake@gmail.com

Liver & Lights No 65

 Liver & Lights No 65. Clearance. 

The view from Cressingham Gardens

Contains drawings and photographs 

of the Cressingham Gardens Estate 

and the  Boreraig cleared village on the  Isle of skye. 

The text  is of two  poems  comparing 

and contrasting  these two  places.  

The photographs are by Kathryn Round 

and  John Bently and the drawings 

are by John and Arthur Bently. 

(Arthur’s are generally the better ones…). 

Some of the drawings are of Arthur and his pals 

making hand made instruments, 

puppets and cardboard models of 

Cressingham  in order to perform at the two  

fundraisiing benefits we have been 

involved with to raise money for the 

Save Cressingham fund. 

This book  is  a memorial to 

both those unforgettable events….

The first one, at Herne Hill Station Hall 

last November, also featured 

Kurdish Superstar Nawros Oramari, 

the amazing Bird Radio a

nd the‘interesting’ bonesandtheaft. T

hey  were devised  and organised 

by  the indefatigable  Ken Jones….

Well done Ken! 

The second Happening in the 

Cressingham Rotunda in 

May featured Hippertronics, Delta Violin 

and Black Rice  alongside the 

Ashley’s Fit Up puppet  show, 

and was the official launch point of this book, 

all proceeds from  which (after costs), were donated 

to the fund to save 

Cressingham  Gardens Estate……..

There are  twenty copies left

when they are gone they are gone..

£20...

Copies  are A6  hardback, 100  copies only     and are  £15.00  each,  

available from  Liver & Lights,  229 Railton rd, London, 

SE24 0LX  by cheque  payable to Liver & Lights.  

Or paypal  to hanksoake@gmail.com

https://bonesandtheaft.bandcamp.com/merch/liver-lights-no-65-clearance-the-view-from-cressingham-gdns

Liver & Lights No 20 Deptfordia...from 1994. New Copies £25 each

 L&L No. 20. Deptfordia. 1994-1995 

Sometime late in 1993 

I met up with Ginger Mike and Andrea Joynson  

for lunch in Deptford High Street....

They had just been on a guided history tour of the old town 

with local Historian Jess Steele 

and were so enthused by the experience they  relived it again for me, 

pointing out all 

the sights-Ancient Roman Taverns, Francis Drake’s  steps, 

Marlowe's murder, Grinling Gibbons 

house, John Eveleyn’s Private Zoo, The Victualling Yards, 

the Old Rum Stores and so on….

I went home myself enthused by the majesty and wonder 

of the place, now entirely 

hidden by fried chicken shops, 

tower blocks, scrapyards and ratty dead ends. 

I wrote the text in one sitting and was performing it 

with cellist Harvey Eagles within a 

fortnight. Later, I constructed a book around the text… 

cut down from a long fold out 

river shaped drawing. The first seventy copies had a papier-mache  

model of a hanged tar glued to   the cover. 

We developed the music over the next few years until it became the 

centrepiece of our live shows, 

incorporating an elaborate dramatic backing tape, 

live cello with effects pedals, toy instruments and 

costumes. I still perform it 

occasionally when invited to perform without the band……

The original 100 or so copies have long since sold out,

 but I recently found some 

unbound pages in a dusty box in the corner of my studio, 

and with a little rearrangement 

and reprinting, have managed to rebind  

20 pristine (-ish) copies.

if you want to buy one please email me at 

hanksoake@gmail.com or paypal direct at:

paypal.me/bonesandtheaft

£25  including inland postage and packing

The Burger of Truth. L&L 58....Reserve Copy Now.

Liver & Lights No 58

The Burger of Truth

A carved rubber stamp

book in an edition of

63 copies only; a labour

of love on recycled

brown paper

30 copies will be given out free

to the first thirty people who come

to the private view 

of the forthcoming

exhibition at Hart Club:

The Glove Paintings of 

one Shoe Mickey

leaving  approximately 30 copies

for sale to you beautiful loyal

subscribers …if you want to make 

sure you don't miss out you can send

me twenty notes  by 

Old Fashioned Cheque

(£20 inc p &p) 

made out to Liver and Lights

229 Railton Rd, SE24 0LX, or

paypal to 

paypal.me/bonesandtheaft

The Glove Paintings of One Shoe Mickey

Hart Club 

and 

Liver & Lights 

Presents:

The Glove Paintings 

Of 

One Shoe Mickey

The current Liver and Lights project is called 

One Shoe Mickey and started out three years ago as a 

collection of lost gloves collected  from the streets 

of London and made into a costume.

The costume, when worn by the artist, becomes transformed

into  the character One Shoe Mickey, a heartbroken former 

refugee whose sanity is seemingly unravelled by the horrors 

of the long road.

Believing the gloves are his lost family, Mickey makes 

paintings of the gloves which he hopes will help to reunite 

them with their lost partners.

This exhibition  at Hart Club gallery contains all the paintings 

made by Mickey and a new book written by him being 

Liver & Lights No 58:The Burger of Truth…

which will be given out Free to the first 30 people who come 

to the private view on Thursday 14th November 2019  6-9 pm

Bonesandtheaft will also give a special performance 

of  the One Shoe Mickey song Cycle and other   favourite 

tunes on Friday 22nd Nov at 7 pm

For more information about the project, Liver & Lights 

and Hart Club, see attachment….