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DIARY: Will Vaughan

Will Vaughn | Saturday 15 May, 2010 15:54

Set the Controls to the Heart of Zone 5

Hello. My name’s Will Vaughan and I’m a conceptual artist. My latest piece spanned nearly three decades and saw me take on the role of an overweight white male Londoner, going to school, church and Cornwall, and gaining a 2:1 at a former Poly before playing in some 17000 bands of varying quality.

Before this, my work was primarily concerned with being adorable, soiling myself and “Go-ee Watch Cartoo’”.

This is my diary.

EFTERKLANG played last Wednesday, and it was one of those rare sets: a band having to work their true blooming hardest to turn something that could’ve been another Wednesday night in that meh venue in that meh postcode into something unique.

OHHHHH SHIIIIIIIT I’ve also been listening to YUCK all week. They’ve written the song of the year, they look like the only four members of their own vertebrate genus and they’re smashing.

I also ruined a workday staying up until Milkman o’ Clock watching the 1972 documentary We Was All One which features candid interviews with the people of Bermondsey. People such as ex-welterweight boxer Joe Rolfe, who reflects on living on a penny-packet of cocoa between meager tournament and dockyard paychecks.
A rich remnant from its own era, this is a story of a time which was then a distant memory, and now all but abstract history. Seeing and hearing about it in full colour and from those who were actually there is a pretty special experience.

Sunday saw me speeding into the end of the 20th Century with my first episode of The West Wing. It’s brill. Expect my predictions for the 2006 World Cup and at least one “Whassssuuuup” in the near future.

By Will Vaughn
aka Stairs To Korea – www.stairstokorea.com

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