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In bed with GOLDIE – Love Over Gold review
After shifting shifts around in the office I was on the Virgin bullet train to central London (Euston station).
I arrive at the Leonard Street Gallery around 7 and after a quick biff n beer with Georgie we meet Eddie Lock who is the gallery owner and Goldie’s art dealer. He kindly welcomes us and shows us around the venue.
The gallery looked absolutely amazing! After stepping through the airport style security check I immediately see the large 150 cm x 100 cm original canvases with Goldies work on them. I must say that I was quite impressed with the artistic style and use of colours and layering which were used in the 5,000£ art masterpieces.
Apparently Kevin Spacey bought an original for 17,500 £!! Throughout the night I noticed some older gentleman purchasing the odd canvas, which was really inspiring to see that people really do support art!
Upstairs was the art gallery, and downstairs was a mini nightclub / lounge serving upmarket drinks at a high price, but well worth it as the decor inside the bottom floor was stellar! I would love to get my hands on this venue and do a multimedia experience there!!
Some estranged yardie comes through the gallery door and starts saying:
“I believe im in the wrong place my friend. I’m looking for sex? Do they women do sex? I have much much money and would like sex!!”
My only reply was “naw naw mang”…pushing the money back into his wallet with this look of disgust on my face…
I wasn’t quite sure what to do about this situation, as it was quite borderline…but I figured as long as he didn’t touch any of the females I was with he wouldn’t get checked…
Turns out the guys was just having a laugh and teasing us…which I was quite shocked that I had just been done!!! I totally believed him and his story…sucker!
Goldie arrives around 9 pm and Eddie eventually introduces us and brings him into the “installation” of his bedroom, where we will be doing the interview…which we decide to now call “In bed with Goldie”….as we were actually sitting on his bed asking his various questions about his life, childhood, graffiti, b-boyisms, music and acting careers, but most interesting of all he focused the interview on “sex life”. The entire exhibition seemed like a seedy Amsterdam influenced show, even with a dancer in the front red lighted window. He is a very intellectual and thoughtful person based off the way the interview went and the passion he showed in his answers to our questions. A full review and photo slideshow will be available in the new Boarderline magazine.
After the interview and being slightly drunk I step outside to mingle a bit with the other guests and get some experimental pics with my trusty LOMO (thank you bozza!), and then a mad rush to Euston as I needed to make the last train back up to Milton Keynes as work was calling only a few hours away!
Keep your eyes peeled for the full interview and photo review!
Big shouts to all that helped make this possible!
Thank you Celina, Georgina, Eddie Lock, Rhyan Paul and Goldie himself!
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