Our resident graphic designer Gregor Laird's new joint exhibition with friend Sarah Green, CARRION, certainly is proving to be very newsworthy since it opened last week! One old dear walked out, offended by the imagery of his work, which features crucified chimps, zombie Michael Jacksons and other such deliciousness!
However, her timid viewpoint doesn't reflect that of the popular press, as Scotland on Sunday named the exhibition - on at the Axolotl Gallery, Dundas Street, Edinburgh until 1st Aug - as one of the cultural highlights of the week! Click here to see. We here at the Haus of M strongly urge you all to make the effort to go see it before it finishes, as we're sure it'll leave an impression on you, one way or another.
Following on the high heels of last month's web-storm around Niall's article on Dangerous Minds, it would seem that Lady Munter herself is no surprise to her fair share of controversy (surprise!).
After giving her opinion on Twitter about a documentary and interviews of former child antique dealer/cherubic boy James Harries (who became transsexual Lauren Harries), she hunted Lady M down on Twitter to have a go! :-D
If you are vain enough to Google yourself daily then you'd better be prepared for what comes up. And perhaps by actually listening to the reasons that people dislike you Lauren, you could learn from them as opposed to doing nothing for your reputation by doing things like this, eh?
Anyway, if you want a laugh and an insight into the strange world of Lauren Harries, watch below. It's like an episode of The League of Gentlemen, no joke.
Also worth checking is this GREAT interview with her conducted by the legendary David Hoyle. It gets hairy.
Also, for anyone with any doubt that MENERGY is the ONLY place to be this Saturday, then you'll be interested to know that The List have earmarked us as one of the hitlisted events of the month! You KNOW you'll regret missing it.
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Niall says:
David Hoyle (aka The Divine David) is one of our all time heroes here at Menergy. This confrontation between him and Harries (and the Keith Allen Little Lady Fauntelroy film linked above that) should tell you everything you need to know about why we dislike Lauren.
Lauren Harries is not fit to be a spokesperson or a representative of ANYONE except herself. Who elected her to speak on behalf of trans-PEOPLE (yes PEOPLE)? She's self-serving, desperate, arrogant and ignorant. Just watch this clip - if you were a member of the trans-community would you really want her speaking on your behalf?
