Evil Past Times

Owen,

Last night you mentioned the Past Times shop and how English Heretic could be like an Evil Past Times. I hadn't really thought of the ramifications of this, but thinking about it, that is an absolute genius of an idea!.... The permutations for a flashback to the real 1973/JGB world are endless... Idi Amin table mats, Khmer Rouge wallpaper: endlessly repeating skulls, portable radios styled like smashed Fenders, playing retro-motorik-scuzz over oil crisis news reports...Corgi Car Bombs Collector sets (Red Army Faction or IRA), Slain sporting hero figurines featuring members of the Israeli Munich 72 Olympic Team.

I've wanted for a while to stage a souvenir shop as an art exhbition, where visitors come in and buy the goods... the curator acts as shop assistant as the exhibition is gradually denuded of its contents... This Real Past Times idea would work perfectly...

I visualise a kind of room as living collage - part Richard Hamilton part Crass Album Cover...

Unfortunately PastTimes web site is down, but I am going to visit the Ipswich one at weekend... I feel compelled. That place you're right has always stirred a strange feeling of potential subversion... now I can see why, brilliant!

The exhibition could be called "This Is Yesterday"...