About

Bongo Mike and Extremely Frank Jeremy
London street poets, international street musicians, songwriters/recording artists
European and Balkan travellers
Campaigners for rights for street performers
Originators of the idea of Situation Art.

situationart.com is my attempt to put across a comprehensive account of the work I have undertaken – and the life I have lived – together with Bongo Mike, my late colleague and friend of many years standing. Somewhere along the road that we took, we came up with the concept of Situation Art as a kind of unifying principle for our various cultural outpourings.

The main body of material on the site is presented as a succession of posts in a blog, on the Home page. The latest post will generally be at the top. Scrolling down from that, you will arrive at the post called WELCOME. And thereafter the collected posts – each having served their time at the top – have then been ordered more like a book. The supply of new posts is for the time being guaranteed, if a little irregular as to the intervals. If I ever come to the end of what I have to say, we will just have to call that the last post, and get in the trumpet player.

To aid in navigation, the page called Posts Archive functions as a contents page, giving the name of each post and enabling access to it with a mere click of the mouse!

Both Mike and I were continually, over the years, writing down thoughts on scraps of paper, thinking that one day we’d assemble these thoughts into a book that would explain just what we had been trying to achieve with our court cases and our weird songs. It grieves me that Mike died before it was possible to do this, but I am trying now to take on the challenge by myself.

The various posts in the blog trace a rather haphazard course through the era when we were active, jumping from place to place and time to time, rather as a busker does in real life. I thought this would be an interesting approach to the task – to make a virtue, perhaps, of the fact that the development of our activities over the years doesn’t fit conveniently into one unidirectional timeline. I’ve tried to make each post a complete episode in its own right, and hopefully they do hang together and tell a coherent story in their own way.

That said, I have nevertheless done my best to prepare a short, makeshift timeline, which appears on the page titled Our History In Brief .

Extremely Frank Jeremy