This weeks sees the close of the Museum of Everything’s third exhibition curated in collaboration with Peter Blake, who in fact supplied the majority of the exhibits from what must be an overwhelming collection of strangely whimsical oddities. This feast for the eyes includes Tom Thumb’s boots, an array of photographs of performing midgets from the Victorian era and a hugely impressive collection of other such folk memorabilia! With every corner of space taken over the exhibition does feel like a very personal collection and this adds to the atmosphere as you weave through the museum’s industrial interior.

While most reviews will focus on the intriguingly macabre animal empire of Walter Potter and the miniature fairground of Arthur Windley it has to be noted that there is also a large array of immaculate examples of great British typography throughout. Whether scrawled across freak show advertising banners or lovingly letter-pressed onto theatrical posters each is a pure example of the lovely, yet occasionally grotesque, British sense of humor. Sunday sees the final show before the exhibition closes and the Museum of Everything changes its guise once again. The extravaganza will go out with a bang as a one man band and other musical marvels perform in the nooks and crannies of the building making it a perfect Valentine’s weekend attraction, especially when combined with the achingly pretty surroundings of Primrose Hill.

Roll up, roll up…  and have a good old gawp at the freak show!

The Museum of Everything
Corner of Regents Park Rd and Sharples Hall St, NW1 8YL

Sorry it has been a while since our last Tune of the Week, we’ll endeavour to keep the music coming on a regular basis. Feel free to send in your suggestions!

Happy New Year one and all! After an extremely busy and thoroughly exciting 2010, we’re salivating at the prospect of 2011 already. We’re kicking off the year with some fantastic new projects for some wonderful clients (check back for more information), and we will shortly be bringing you fulll details of two new Cherry offshoots – an online design shop and a specialist branding service for new startups.

As well as keeping our minds occupied, we’re working on our bodies too! Some of us have signed up for pilates at our neighbours, Frame, in an effort to shake off the Christmas excesses. They also do an 80’s dance class, which we may well end up gatecrashing if the pilates doesn’t work out. We’ll keep you posted on our progress!

Have a wonderful, prosperous 2011!

This lunchtime the Cherry clan are going to stretch their legs and head to the Mick Rock Retrospective at Idea Generation on Redchurch Street. His photos capture the rock-n-roll kings and queens of the 70’s and beyond, in a career that spans four decades. Legend!

“London in the late sixties and early seventies was a hotbed of creative interchange. The prevalent hippie philosophy united all manner of artists, musicians, film makers, models, designers, actors, writers, and photographers into a unique and fertile community. My timing was excellent. Curiosity and circumstance drew me into the flame of rock n’ roll.” Mick Rock

Singing Adams is the new band fronted by Steven Adams, previously of the The Broken Family Band. He is joined by Matt Ashton (Saloon), Melinda Bronstein (Absentee, Wet Paint) and Michael Wood (Michaelmas). They’ve already stormed through Green Man and End of the Road festivals and sold out their first London headline show at The Lexington. Expect warm yet sometime off-kilter melodies and wry lyrics.

We headed down to the Windmill in Brixton last night (on a Sunday in arctic conditions!) to catch their last gig before Christmas and it was well worth the trek.

Big thanks to all that braved the winter chill and joined in with our well attended mulled wine and murder walk. Cherry friends new and old prepared for the cold by warming up with Aaron’s home made mulled wine, before being led out into the streets of the East by the very knowledgeable Ed Glinert.

The tour brought to life the slums and treacherous conditions of the 18th and 19th Centuries, as well as the life and crimes of the notorious Kray twins just 50 years ago. We also survived a few hecklers passing by with cries of “It’s a pack of lies!”

The night came to a close in the Pride of Spitalfields, a small, authentic East End boozer, which our large group filled up and took over for the late evening hours.

Check out a few more of the pics from the night here…

Cherry are larger than life on Design Week’s website. Our festive mulled wine and murder map has been featured on their blog with a great little write up! Check out the full article here.

Yesterday we had a lunchtime gallery ganders at Ever Young by James Barnor currently on at Rivington Place. The blurb goes a little like this…

“Through the medium of portraiture, Barnor’s photographs represent societies in transition: Ghana moving towards its independence and London becoming a cosmopolitan, multicultural metropolis. Introducing a newly preserved body of work from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, the exhibition showcases fashion portraits in glorious colour, social documentary, and street and studio photographs with elaborate backdrops, many commissioned for Drum magazine.”

Watch out for London in the swinging sixties as you have never seen it before and a rather dexterous baby doing press ups! The info graphics are rather good too! The exhibition closes on Saturday 27th November so only the speedy should make their way to Rivington Place!

Ambling Alp by Yeasayer.

This is mainly as we are heading to see them on Thursday at the Roundhouse, Camden. Anyone else planning to be there… let us know!