Three minutes
Hanging Titties by Peaches
As evidenced by her signature track, Fuck the Pain Away (2000), the Canadian musician Peaches (Merrill Beth Nisker) never played coy with the lyrical messaging. From her provocative new album, No Lube So Rude, I’m listening to Hanging Titties. Sample lyric: “Thirsty much?/My hanging titties/Hit like the punch”. Punk? Electroclash? One-woman radical art installation? Whatever Peaches brings, it’s always bracing.
An afternoon
A View Of One’s Own
The Courtauld Institute Of Art, Somerset House, London
Move over JMW Turner. At the Courtauld, a collection of 10 overlooked 18th- and 19th-century female landscape artists. Evocative watercolours and atmospheric drawings feature vistas from around Britain, Europe and the world. Exhibits include Elizabeth Batty’s Simplon Road Between Baveno and Gravellona (1817) and Fanny Blake’s A Rainbow Over Patterdale Churchyard, Cumbria (1849).
An evening
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Our Town, Rose theatre, Kingston
The Welsh National Theatre and the Rose theatre, stage a revival of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer prize-winning three-act play Our Town; Wilder’s fictional community of Grover’s Corners and the overarching themes of the passing of time and mortality are viewed through a Welsh lens. For the first time, the play is performed by an all-Welsh cast, headed by Michael Sheen in the role of “Stage Manager”. Russell T Davies serves as creative associate.
A day
Agatha Christie box sets (Netflix)
Netflix has all the Hercule Poirot (David Suchet-era) and Miss Marple (Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie) mysteries nicely squished together in box sets. Frankly irresistible.
A weekend
This Body festival, The Mount Without, Bristol
At this new dance festival from the Bristolian dance company, Impermanence, expect performance art, cabaret, workshops, and more. At her “Niplash Weekender”, the dance-theatre artist, Karla Shacklock will be staging a solo performance looking into the multifaceted socio-politics and taboos of feeding infants.
Until 8 March. Tickets available here.
Illustration by Charlotte Durance



