This is Keef Winter. Artist, Dummer, Guinness drinker and member of Belfast’s musical trio Not Squares.
We interviewed Not Squares a couple weeks back ahead of their Japan tour; well now they are in town so we took the chance to catch up with drummer Keef Winter to ask a few of our famous quick fire questions. Keef’s not only in town to perform but he will also be doing his art thing at 3331 Arts Chiyoda this week (Find out more below the interview).
So Big K, do you have a favourite place?
Any dark alleyway with a cigarette.
What’s the last thing your bought?
A 50metre roll of black stretch film wrap.
CD or Vinyl?
Vinyl
Who is your idol?
Gordon Matta Clarke was good.
What was the last song you listened to?
‘Believer’ by John Maus
What’s your karaoke song?
Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac.
What’s your family motto?
Don’t know
What to you do in your spare time?
Make art, make music, watch bad movies, drink guinness.
Question from Girl Unit “Where would you rather get stuck for 5 hours? Option A) A broken elevator, or Option B) a broken ski lift?”
A ski lift
Please make a question for our next victim interviewee…
Which of these two people do you like better, Jackie or Paul?
Nice question, thanks Keef.
Don’t forget to go see Keef along with the rest of Not Squares (and support Miaou) in Tokyo at 下北沢ERA on the 6th November. Details here
AND… DON’T FORGET…
As we said Keef will be at 3331 Chiyoda this weekend… His exhibition ‘Im Squatting in Your Condo‘ starts tomorrow.
The exhibition ‘I’m Squatting in Your Condo‘ replicates the model of Belfast’s many ‘Peace Walls’ which are up to 10m high constructions that run though the city, built to divide religious communities and physically separate them to prevent conflict.
But where Belfast has political division on either side of these barriers, Winter’s wall in 3331 Chiyoda Arts Gallery is inspired by the extreme cases of order and chaos in Tokyo, the largest metropolitan area in the world. Between the extraction of rubble from rogue office squats to the replication of glimmering corporate high-rise, Winter presents a symbiotic relationship between state and rebel, action and inertia, glory and tragedy, where one cannot exist without the other.
