Peachy
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #10
the preponderance of images of larvae, grubs, beetles, insect eggs and maggots
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #15
the chain wasn’t quite seated properly between two of the chain rings so I moved the front gear shifter slightly and it fell into place and the clicking stopped
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #13
I had chartered a coach and filled it to capacity with zombies in order that I could attempt to blend them with
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #12
to find a balance between softness and hardness by visiting Clint Eastwood’s house in Ladbroke Grove
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #11
How could I forearm against, for example, the allure of objectless worlds of wistful intricacy
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #8
I had been taking advantage of my executive position within the Peachy Coochy organisation to present barely disguised accounts of my personal life
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #2
I realised that I was suffering from a fear of bursting. Some months ago a friend had been performing a yoga posture in the quietness of his front room. Suddenly his intestines
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #7
For the next hour he pulled out spines first from my tongue then Anne’s. A few just wouldn’t come out no matter what.
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #6
as a result of visiting Birmingham with the intention of shagging power ballad singer Bonnie Tyler I had succeeded in
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #5
Previously on Peachy Coochy: I had been born as a block of wood and had developed into a packing crate
Peachy: the Backstory
I read about pecha kucha somewhere and felt that it could be fruitfully appropriated. It had been conceived in 2003 by two architects
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #21
It was good to be back in Hampshire. Nothing much had changed. There were odd pieces of clothing strewn along the side of the road
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #19
Trousers with comfortable waistbands. A set of false teeth in a hedge. A kind of biscuit made from a kind of oats.
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #18
an actor from ‘Brideshead Revisited’ was so incensed that he stood up and pissed on Helen Mirren’s neck. Helen, because of her mid-career roles as a policewoman, is actually quite handy in a ruck.
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #17
I had to go through my life all over again and rebuild my unconscious. Eventually I would have enough stuff in there to be a person again.
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #16
I had gone back to the house that I was born in and asked the lady there if I could move into my old bedroom so that I could relive my life. She told me to fuck off
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #14
My dream, or at least that part of it that I could remember, had been unbelievably dull. It was, in fact, more than dull, it was completely devoid of any emphasis or colour whatsoever.
DRAFT David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #12
20 slides are each projected for 20 seconds and spoken to for the same period, no more, no less. The script for one of...
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #9
a Nurse had said that I could have an audience with the King if I could prove that I had conquered shame.
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #8
20 slides are each projected for 20 seconds and spoken to for the same period, no more, no less. The script for one of...
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #3
Word came through: someone was killing the children. They were dropping off the face of the earth. This made me sit up.
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites #1
Seized by the skull by strangers she struggled to free her eyes from their insistent searching. What were they after?
Peachy: Ad: 28.10.10
The Peachy Coochy Nite, about to inaugurate its fourth season, has a transformative effect upon those who have...
Peachy: Ad: 27.11.10
Peachy has no voice in his head. This is the shocking thing that he disclosed at the place where he lives when I went...
Peachy: Ad: 27.01.11
How has the past month treated Peachy the text and image entertainment? Have, for example, the privations reached him?...
Peachy: Ad: 23.04.10
I crept up behind Peachy and saw what he was doing. You have to understand that he is a text and image entertainment...
Peachy: Ad: 25.03.10
When Peachy last disappeared without so much as a by your leave he was found on the very outskirts of northern London, where the thinness of the housing is matched by the thinness of the green that runs between the housing making it neither this nor that, where this is the town and that is the country.
Peachy: the Grotto
it was my regular pleasure to prefigure this London-based cult occasion with publicity materials that strive to capture the tone of the diverse and eruptive evenings that reflect human ingenuity under unnatural constraint yet remain refreshingly devoid of spiritual value.
Peachy: Ad: 29.10.09
Friends, I parked off the A505 near the coppice and made my way into the wood past the pollarded elms. As I moved between the saplings I saw that the high hills hemmed
Peachy:Ad: 26.11.09
I rang Miriam, Peachy’s P.A.
“Is he there?”
“Say I’m not there,” I distinctly heard him say.
“Miriam, I distinctly heard him say I am not there,” I said.
Peachy: Ad: 25.06.09
the whole crazy, life-enhancing, team-building, inspiriting, runaway, whirlwind, tatterdemalion, light-hearted, frothpacked, foamfilled, bulgent, have-you-seen, must-have, let’s go, clippety clop,
Peachy: Ad: 20.05.09
In my capacity as Curator of David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites (I am David Gale) I am frequently asked to cocktail parties by people who wish to butter me up.
Peachy: Ad: 30.04.09
the police have captured Peachy because of his flamboyance. I receive a call from the police in the night and go to their place, positioned between a good part of town and a bad part of town.
Peachy: Ad: 26.03.09
Peachy Coochy, the popular text and image entertainment, recently professed an interest in Surrealism, the strange art movement. He set out on his upright bicycle and was not seen for several days.
Peachy: Ad: 26.02.09
Peachy Coochy, a text and image entertainment, is making his way down from Glasgow after a recent appearance. These text messages to his trainer shed light upon him, his qualities, his needs, his obduracy:
Peachy: Ad: 29.01.09
Dear Friends, Peachy is coming down the road again, sweeping aside the cabbage patches and darned socks of new Austerity Britain. In these straitened times, when neighbours pass a single cup of inevitably cooling tea from house to house
Peachy: Ad: 27.11.08
I was in Ipswich, just passing through, no particular business, when I saw Peachy sitting by the waterfront. “Good heavens, Peachy!” I cried, “Is this where you come in between?”
Peachy: Ad: 30.10.08
no sooner have the tankards been rinsed than, it seems, the immodest and unbelted Peachy presses presumptuously into the throng crying out “Look at me, everybody!”
Peachy: Ad: 25.09.08
Dear Friends, It’s that Effortless Second Season! Bronzed and relaxed subsequent to its time in the bask, David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites kicks off again on
Peachy: Ad: 26.06.08
Recently David was interviewed thus here, look:
The Interviewer: David.
David: What?
The Interviewer: Peachy Coochy is massive, right?
David: Yeah.
Peachy: Ad: 29.05.08
Dear Friends, the broadstairs, the enjambement, the squeet, the little pies, the supplication – these are notions but the Cooch (so tightly wound to its Peach) is a night out.
Peachy: Ad: 24.04.08
the attack, the width, the bigness, the disarmament – can any more of the better types of quality be shoe-horned into the glassy slipper of the Peachy Coochy Nite?
Peachy: Ad: 27.03.08
“Yes, the wide variety! Goodness me, the aplomb! Heavens, what laughs and deep thought! “
(David, 19/03/08)
Peachy: Ad: 28.02.08
It might be that a typical Peachy Coochy event contains contributions from, say, a reliable yet inevitably narcissistic performer, a lepidopterist, a nun, a surgeon, a robber.
Peachy: Ad: 31.01.08
Dear Friends, next Thursday January 31st at 7.30 pm sees the launch of the first of my Peachy Coochy Nites in the Bar at Toynbee Studios.
Peachy Coochy: the Kick Off
David Gale’s Peachy Coochy Nites kicked off on Thursday, 21st January 2008. It was held in the new bar in what was then ArtsAdmin’s recently refurbished Toynbee Studios.
The Very First Peachy Coochy Last Thursday
I've been setting up a series of art'n'entertainment evenings - David Gale's Peachy Coochy Nites at ArtsAdmin's new...