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7 Feb 2025

Last Night I Dreamt of Manderley ... Starring Sebastian Horsley as Maxim de Winter

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Maggi Hambling: Sebastian Horsley XI (2021)  Oil on canvas (125 x 95 cm)   "The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sk...
2 Feb 2025

All That Jazz

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Theodor Adorno, D. H. Lawrence,  and Sebastian Horsley: they fucking hate jazz   'Jazz is the false liquidation of art [...] the mechani...
11 Nov 2024

Vive le flâneur - et la flâneuse!

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  Mariateresa Aiello: The Flâneur (Ink on paper, 2011) sketchbloom.com     "Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for...
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1 Nov 2022

A Brief Note on the Resurrection of the Damned and Johnny Rotten as an Artist in Decline

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The Damned - Rat Scabies, Brian James, Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible -  proving that whilst punk rockers never die, they do, sadly, grow ...
25 Jul 2022

How Things Protect Us From the Void

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Pupils at Bosworth Junior School (Harold Hill) c. 1972   Rather like Sebastian Horsley, I have always been happy to have my existence confir...
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23 Jul 2022

When Even the Flies Leave You Alone: Ernest Becker's 'The Denial of Death' as Interpreted by Sebastian Horsley

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  The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else. - EB It's only death; it's not the end of the world,...
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20 Jul 2022

Get It On and Punk It Up With Marc Bolan

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Marc Bolan with Dave Vanian of the Damned  and Siouxsie Sioux in 1977   According to Sebastian Horsley, Marc Bolan was super-plastic profoun...
26 Jul 2021

On Those Who Have Been Refused Entry Into the Land of the Free ...

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Photo by John Tiberi of the Sex Pistols  (Steve Jones / Johnny Rotten / Sid Vicious / Paul Cook)  on the eve of their first American tour (J...
2 Jul 2020

Sweet Death (In Memory of Steve Priest)

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Sweet in 1973: Steve, Mick, Andy and Brian Photo: Jorgen Angel Back in my pre-punk, glam-rocking, teeny-bopping days the band by ...
6 Sept 2019

The Picture of Sebastian Horsley

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Maggi Hambling : Sebastian IX (2011) Oil on canvas (53 x 43 cm) There have only been two deaths that have touched me to the ext...
2 Aug 2018

Why I'm a Sex Pistol Rather Than a Clash City Rocker

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A Seditionaries Destroy shirt  McLaren and Westwood (1977)  Victoria and Albert Museum Collection According to Mick Jones, speak...
15 Aug 2017

On Moral Turpitude (with Reference to the Case of Sebastian Horsley)

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Sebastian Horsley at home in Soho (Mar 2008)  Photograph: Steve Forrest / Rex Features  Having an immoral past or criminal r...
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4 Apr 2015

On the Crucifixion of Sebastian Horsley

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Naturally, at Easter, one's thoughts turn to the Cross and the crucifixion of Sebastian Horsley, the Soho Kristos ... In 2000, H...
26 Jan 2013

The Boy Looked at Johnny ...

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Some of the sweetest lines written about Rotten were penned by Sebastian Horsley in his 2007 memoir, Dandy in the Underworld : ...
8 Dec 2012

In Memory of St Sebastian

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The artist and punk-dandy Sebastian Horsley may no longer cruise the streets of Soho, but he continues to haunt my imagination and memor...