top of the pops Archives - Pascale Garlinge Art https://pascalegarlingeart.com/project_tag/top-of-the-pops/ Portrait Artist | Painter | Illustrator | Storyteller | Melbourne, Australia Thu, 14 Dec 2017 03:58:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://pascalegarlingeart.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-Logo_final-32x32.png top of the pops Archives - Pascale Garlinge Art https://pascalegarlingeart.com/project_tag/top-of-the-pops/ 32 32 RICK ASTLEY https://pascalegarlingeart.com/project/rick-astley/ Thu, 30 Nov 2017 03:58:17 +0000 https://www.pascalegarlingeart.com/?post_type=project&p=26936 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 […]

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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 mine), voted one of the all-time worst songs ever! But do you know what, who cares? If it makes you feel better then play it. Play the shit out of it until you feel better.

I’ve been wading through a tide of nostalgia to get to this big number and it’s been sucking on all my energy. Five months ago I was lying in hospital with a tube stuck down my throat, starving, in pain, and thinking I might not make it to 40 after all. Off the back of the new boobs that came as a real shock! (I’m still in shock. Or is it trauma?)

But mostly I’ve been thinking about Mum, I can’t help it. Feeling sad for her, feeling guilty that I’m here and she’s not. Thinking about her very rude 40th birthday cake. Laughing. Thinking about how she was diagnosed with breast cancer just one month later. Teary, usual. I know this is a celebration for myself but, damn, it’s so hard to shake her off!

Anyway, I’m here, where she’d want me to be, and it’s bloody brilliant to be alive and drawing and painting and playing music. Plenty of other things, too, but hopefully this is the medicine to take me through the next decade. So if anyone’s feeling nostalgic with me, pop the bubbles and call on Mr. Astley (he’ll be around) coz I don’t think I’m ever gonna give it up.

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]]> ANNIE LENNOX (EURYTHMICS) https://pascalegarlingeart.com/project/annie-lennox-eurythmics/ Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:38:53 +0000 https://www.pascalegarlingeart.com/?post_type=project&p=26784 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 university grant playing cards, plagiarising and wooing women […]

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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 university grant playing cards, plagiarising and wooing women (as far as I can tell!). As I can only assume she is made of granite I’m going to pray to the Scottish Patron Saint Annie of Lennox (Eurythmics) for strength.

13 July 2016

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]]> WHITNEY HOUSTON https://pascalegarlingeart.com/project/whitney-houston/ Fri, 08 Jul 2016 04:04:02 +0000 http://www.pascalegarlingeart.com/?post_type=project&p=25976 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 your TGIF. 8 July 2016

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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 your TGIF.

8 July 2016

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]]> ALISON MOYET https://pascalegarlingeart.com/project/alison-moyet/ Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:34:09 +0000 https://www.pascalegarlingeart.com/?post_type=project&p=26781 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 was a man’s for […]

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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 was a man’s for quite some time – it’s Alison Moyet.

7 July 2016

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]]> FLORENCE WELCH (FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE) https://pascalegarlingeart.com/project/florence-welch-florence-machine/ Sat, 02 Jul 2016 10:28:28 +0000 https://www.pascalegarlingeart.com/?post_type=project&p=26778 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 “Straya”, and, who knows, maybe even one day “The Republic of Straya”? […]

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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 “Straya”, and, who knows, maybe even one day “The Republic of Straya”? A happy future lies ahead for my rugrats! Here’s Florence Welch who played a small part in the inspiration behind naming rugrat number one.

2 July 2016

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]]> ALUNA FRANCIS (ALUNAGEORGE) https://pascalegarlingeart.com/project/aluna-francis/ Thu, 30 Jun 2016 03:58:09 +0000 http://www.pascalegarlingeart.com/?post_type=project&p=25969 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 homesick? 30 June 2016

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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 homesick?

30 June 2016

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]]> ANNE-MARIE https://pascalegarlingeart.com/project/anne-marie/ Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:17:13 +0000 https://www.pascalegarlingeart.com/?post_type=project&p=26771 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 reminds be of a young Madonna and possibly also […]

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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 reminds be of a young Madonna and possibly also a long lost Pommy cousin of Melissa George. Here’s English singer, Anne-Marie.

28 June 2016

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]]> KEVIN PARKER (TAME IMPALA) https://pascalegarlingeart.com/project/kevin-parker-tame-impala/ Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:22:27 +0000 https://www.pascalegarlingeart.com/?post_type=project&p=26774 KEVIN PARKER (TAME IMPALA) (2016) TOP OF THE POPS series (2016) Putting the cool back in Trevor – no, it’s not Jesus or my dad when I was born, but Kevin Parker (Tame Impala). 27 June 2016

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Putting the cool back in Trevor – no, it’s not Jesus or my dad when I was born, but Kevin Parker (Tame Impala).

27 June 2016

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