December 7th, 2007
Brendan Behan Exhibition
Wham!! Had to temporarily remove the Thinkhouse post till they print the cards. Yep so Brendan Behan double whammy, got a mention on the Forbidden Planet Blog about being like Behan and my good friend Sean Lennon just opened a Behan exhibiton.
Sean is my brother in law’s wife’s brother in law so we’re nearly family. I was trying to relate to Yvonne how exciting it is to meet another artist, how there is an affinity, sort of like a survivor’s group or something. We just know each other’s pain. Trying to handle a 9-5, a family and your dream is a killer.
This one is my favourite. He looks like a big sickly pint of Guinness.
I think it’s running for another 6 weeks or so, it’s in the Dublin Writers Museum and apparently if you tell them at the door that you’re just there for the exhibition you dont have to pay in to the museum. Great work, combining portraiture, cartooning and story telling all at once. Big pieces too, around 5′x5′ each. Drop Sean a line if you want more info SEANJLENNON at GMAIL dot COM.
So is being compared to big fat alco good? Don’t know. I’m not that big of a drinker anymore. Although I have to go get blood tests on Monday because my big fat liver is weird. I’ll be gutted if its from drinking because I’d expect to get in at least around 10 years of continuos boozing before it clapped up. Has to be cholesterol, I ate breakfast rolls everyday for 4 years and if there were pints the night before sometimes I’d have two breakfast rolls. So it’s looking like 2008 is the year of steamed broccoli.
Wank.
December 7th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
The Behan stuff looks great man. Dont really know much of his work but of course have heard all the drinking nonsense. By all accounts he wasnt a heavy drinker just a lighweight because he was diabetic. Your liver heals itself anyway B so cool it.
December 7th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Sean’s stuff is the biz.
Behan? Crumb? Such accolade, Bob! Best I’ll manage is the Irish Justin Lee Collins…
December 7th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Ah the liver rapist himself, you ever get it scanned or anything? Did all blood start dripping from the ceiling and the clocks spun backwards and all?
December 7th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
6 weeks eh? Great, hopefully might check that out then. And get him to sign my da’s Jerry Fish album and a copy of Streets of Dublin.
Picked up the latest ish of 2000AD yesterday, bloody fantastic shit. That grainy feel to the background was neat. Will you have a slot in the end of the year Prog special or whut?
December 7th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Word up Tropy, Thanks for picking up the prog! Nuff respect. Nah I wont be in the Big Prog but I think there’ll be another one next week.
You talking about BrenB with all that Jerry Fish jazz? Nah, Sean Lennon done all the Behan stuff above. Easily confused. They both have heads.
December 7th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
looks great, heading to dublin tomorrow, hopfully will get a chance to drop in and also to pick 2000AD cus I’ve given up trying to find it here.
December 9th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Oh fuck, Brendan Behan’s a writer, hahah. Still, Sean looks like a great artist. I ’specially like the third one.
I don’t suppose you get surpus copies off Tharg of the Progs TT gets printed in do you?
December 10th, 2007 at 9:21 am
They’re so cool…love the Behan and the cake diver is so funny…Hey Brendan…I mean Bob…you ever see the film Aristocrats?
December 10th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
That’s some great work.
Nice to see someone with a bit of talent exhibiting in a gallery.
December 11th, 2007 at 8:58 am
ooooH the bitterness from Dec.
Hey T29, yep Tharg sends me 3 copies each time I’m in it, on one for my records, one for my fwend and one for the little boy who lives down the lane.
Yep Ger, downloaded the Artisocrats and thought it was alright, not nearly as good as it sounded when people were telling me about it. You ever listen to Dice Clay?
December 12th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Ah it made me laugh anyway and I’m an angry old man,don’t know why I though of you when I saw it. Dice is a funny guy…Tom Green is terrified of him!