Author: Simon Tait

Tim’s Little Shop of Chuckles

Simon Tait’s Mews – No.8 Ever realised there was a product you absolutely needed but that didn’t exist? The kind of thing that chaps used to send new apprentices off…

Yule Mewscasting

Simon Tait’s Mews – No.7 HQ CMT is a secret central London location known only to a few thousand cognoscenti, and they all seemed to be there for the Christmas…

Wanna tell you a story…

Simon Tait’s Mews – No.6 If you’ve been following the Magic of Cabaret day by day you’ve got some idea of the range of what CMT does, and elsewhere on…

Jungle drums, cogs and sprockets

Simon Tait’s Mews – No.5 There’s a lovely little volume called the London Jungle Book by a Gond artist called Bhajju Shyam, all about his trip to London (to decorate…

Viva Carlos!

Simon Tait’s Mews – No.4 It happens. Struggling artist in a strange country just about making ends meet working in a warehouse by day and painting by night pictures that…

The human side of Paul Spooner

Simon Tait’s Mews – No.3 If you ask Paul Spooner to fit a project brief don’t expect anything, because whatever you expect isn’t going to happen. What you can be…

I call it sciretance

Simon Tait’s Mews – No.2 Here’s an interesting work of art to mews upon. It’s a sculpture by the eminent French artist Jean Tinguely and he called it Meta-Matic. It…

The Family Way

Simon Tait’s Mews – No.1 This is the first in a series of posts from the journalist Simon Tait. He will be musing on all things mechanical once a month.…
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