by Pascale Garlinge | Nov 30, 2017
RICK ASTLEY (2017) TOP OF THE POPS series We’ve known each other for so long. (40 – 30 = 10) And if you ask me how I’m feeling don’t tell me you’re too blind to see. ~ Rick Astley. So this is 40 and this is my guilty pleasure dated 1987 (a favourite year of...
by Pascale Garlinge | Jul 13, 2016
ANNIE LENNOX (EURYTHMICS) (2016) TOP OF THE POPS series (2016) This woman has Braveheart blood, can walk on broken glass, wears a suit and tie and has short hair. She also hails from Aberdeen, the silver city by the sea, where my dad utilised his baby boomer...
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...
