by Pascale Garlinge | Jul 8, 2016
WHITNEY HOUSTON (2016) TOP OF THE POPS series (2016) Current state of being: so emotional. I drew half of this sober, half of it after wine with a streaky face. Drawing activity up, wine consumption up, sense of humour down. The formidable Whitney Houston to play out...
by Pascale Garlinge | Jul 7, 2016
ALISON MOYET (2016) TOP OF THE POPS series (2016) What can I do to make light of this dull, dull day? Set to work idle hands and inject some 1980s fluoro into this grey glue of winter I’m wading through. It’s making me so sad. A woman whose voice I thought...
by Pascale Garlinge | Jul 2, 2016
FLORENCE WELCH (FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE) (2016) TOP OF THE POPS series (2016) I’m gonna be free and I’m gonna be fine. I heard that after today’s election Australia is all set to leave the AU and become “Stralia”, in time possibly just...
by Pascale Garlinge | Jun 30, 2016
ALUNA FRANCIS (ALUNAGEORGE) (2016) TOP OF THE POPS series (2016) I don’t know what it is about her voice that makes me remember all the things I miss about Britain. Who knew a big dollop of mashed up garage (say “garridge” please) could make you...
by Pascale Garlinge | Jun 28, 2016
ANNE-MARIE (2016) TOP OF THE POPS series (2016) I switched on my TV and saw this ballsy Essex bird busting her moves on top of some trains at Richmond station. It didn’t seem quite right somehow – she looked displaced from the East End! Facially she...
