Dirty Drawers

Queen of hoxton

2009-06-10T15:10:00.000-07:00

back in the dark months, dd had the pleasure of taking over a toilet cubicle in the new
Queen of Hoxton pub on Curtain road.
This is thus...

2008-05-27T13:49:00.000-07:00

dd have begun to draw up some blueprints for a new housing project.
it won't look like this

WHO'S A NAUGHTY THEN?

2008-05-27T13:29:00.000-07:00

The year was 1959, and in an often overlooked corner of Hackney, one of the world's most recognisable Hollywood beauties was bringing just a touch of Californian colour to a peculiarly English affair: a budgie show.

Jayne Mansfield, living in London while making the film Too Hot To Handle, was invited to the All Saints church in Haggerston in September 1959 to help judge the East London Budgerigar and Foreign Birds Society show.
The society secretary knew of the actress' ornithological interest, and she was asked to be guest of honour. To the amazement of locals, Mansfield and her husband showed up and hundreds of people clamoured for a glimpse of genuine Hollywood glamour in the East End.

The event, which made the front page of the Hackney Gazette, is described in a new book by Iain Sinclair, ‘Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire’,which will be published later this year. The author enlisted the help of local artist Susanna Edwards to recreate the event in a fundraiser for the church.Billed as a "general celebration of the budgerigar", the event, held on 10th May brought budgie-owning folk from across Hackney to come and display their pets' plumage. Photos from the day will be displayed in an exhibition at the Tatty Devine gallery in June.

Dirty drawers created a special publication to mark the occasion - "Who's a naughty then?" is now available from dd.co.uk...

the pitz

2008-05-27T13:09:00.000-07:00

"Do you have impure thoughts? Do you listen to the Devil's music? Are you disobedient, wilful and deviant? Then you are a degenerate and this is where you belong:"

How could we refuse?
Dirty Drawers joined a motley crew of deviants for THE PITZ; Degenerate Art, Music, Performance for one night only! in Cordy House, curtain road on May 1st.

it were greasy

May Day marks the seasonal transition from Winter to Summer and celebrated the first spring planting. Putting a Maypole up involved taking a growing tree from the wood and bringing it to the village to mark the coming of Summer. Single men and women would dance around the Maypole holding on to ribbons until they became entwined with their (hoped for) new loves.
May Day is a celebration of fertility. In the old days whole villages would go to the woods and all sorts of temporary sexual liaisons would take place.

IN OUTSIDE _ new show in the Macbeth Gallery!

2008-04-07T15:56:00.000-07:00

jan - dirtydrawers' muse and master - has opened his lodge for public poking.
Running from April 1st to 13t, Lazy Gramophone & the Macbeth Gallery plays host to jan and dirtydrawers' latest venture.
Thursday 10th will be a public/private affair for those with eyes and ears and toes to spare.

Dirty in the Tattoo Booth at Bum Bum's Umbabungo

2007-10-25T09:30:00.000-07:00

Dirty Drawers tattoo...