How Could Everybody Be So Wrong
17 March - 27 March 2011
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Craig Barnes
Guy Patton
Owen Pidcock
Ross Taylor
David Ben White
Venue: Camden Town Unlimited
CRAZY JONNY AND HIS GOLDEN PYRAMID
A text by Ross Taylor for the exhibition How Could Everybody Be So Wrong. March 2011.
Remembering the piss in bottles and how much of it there was, it began to worry me whether he was going to make it happen this year. Never mind this bank holiday. Jonny liked to threaten us with a lot of things because he knew that, although we were close friends, we were waiting for it to come our way. Like everyone else. I can’t remember if he was ever like a normal person. I can’t remember ever seeing him as anything else accept hunched over and floating a hundred miles an hour down to Londis for his blue plastic bag of nigadee knee and Pogady smack.
It was eight years ago since the council had made him advisor of the woodland ceremonies, Jonny was 20 years old at the time. He commanded strange odds as a good outsider bet and this brought him much attention when he attended meetings at the civic centre. Everybody knew he wanted to take Hillingdon further than it had previously been placed in government leagues.