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L: Originally to be honest it began as a means of getting out a lot of stress and pent up stuff through lyrics and music. I was more writing the songs for therapy than I actually was for getting them recorded. It was literally more of a writing the songs for myself and I was never really intending to record or get out and tour them even thought I cam front hat background of touring and doing stuff.
F: Like a cathartic thing?
L: I’d kinda hit a point of rock bottom, where I’d kind of given up on the idea that my music could be important in some way, so I was more just writing for myself. IT was only really a case of a good friend of mine Matt O’Grady, who recorded and ended up producing my record, he heard some of the original demos and encouraged me to record them properly and get them out properly and from that I focused on touring and I’ve been busier in the last 4 years than I ever was in bands.
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L: Originally to be honest it began as a means of getting out a lot of stress and pent up stuff through lyrics and music. I was more writing the songs for therapy than I actually was for getting them recorded. It was literally more of a writing the songs for myself and I was never really intending to record or get out and tour them even thought I cam front hat background of touring and doing stuff.
F: Like a cathartic thing?
L: I’d kinda hit a point of rock bottom, where I’d kind of given up on the idea that my music could be important in some way, so I was more just writing for myself. IT was only really a case of a good friend of mine Matt O’Grady, who recorded and ended up producing my record, he heard some of the original demos and encouraged me to record them properly and get them out properly and from that I focused on touring and I’ve been busier in the last 4 years than I ever was in bands.
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D: I used to go to shows and get all me angst an
F: You were telling me it was really aggressive like, you know people would like…you were telling me about suicides, not suicides in general, it was like a manoeuvre?
D: You’re talking about crowd killing are you?
F: Yeah something like that you told me but I forgot. At hardcore shows…
D: So there’s, I dont know how much it happens anymore, cause I just dont go to those shows but it used to be that like you’d have eople like almost doing marshall arts in the pit and I think it still does happen actually because my friends actually still post videos taking the piss out of it. All my metal head friends like what are these guys doing?!,lll
F: Isn’t it weird have you noticed a correlation between metal head fans and soft nice cuddly people, lik emetal fans I know are the most chill laid back like
D: Cause again they’re sort of getting all their aggression out through their music. The music that they listen to or maybe the bands taht they play in. They get it all out there so when they’re just being people they’re just..
F: From the outsiders perspective they're all like oh they probably eat kittens and stuff.
D: Yeah I totally agree.
My attitude was, if you’re in the pit you might get hurt, but if someone falls over you pick them up!
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F: Just let them listen to it and they’ll make their own mind up.
J: I totally agree.
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J: I love music, I loved music I love playing gigs, it’s literally one of those things that’s incomparable to anything else apart from once when I did a talk about my archaeology project and I got to speak about that and that same feeling, that kind of performing feeling where this is something I’ve worked on, created and putting it up to show and if it goes down well it’s a amazing and if it goes down crap it’s terrible but at the same time you still did it.
Read MoreF: Most punk rock bands are kind of like not big projects. I think there’s a perception that if you sort of do bigger things. What am I trying to say, punk rocks bands are generally lo fi not glitzy not glamour, just like living in vans slumming it but like, but there are a handful when you get to a certain level where you start doing bigger things and you touring further and further. But there’s a jump, definitely a jump in’t there between like playing 5 UK dates and
L: We’re not there yet so.
F: It take a commitment a life commitment where you’ve got to arrange work schedules, your relationships, living arrangements everything you can’t just go off on a tour like. I think Dan was saying you’re aiming to tour like 20/16 weeks a year or something silly.
L: 16 might be it, but Dan has grand plans and if we go right back tot the start of that erm, this band was just meant to be a practice room and it’s a great way to have a bit of stage fright therapy erm you know love a bit of that. You know, just get some things out and enjoy making noise again. And Dan was like no no don’t worry it won’t get serious, but then 16 weeks is pretty serious. So we’ll see.
Read MoreIn support of Kruger she fought back by calling them out online ‘ '“A clusterfuck of uncool jerks” and started copying their own model to fight back. She sold skateboards with text saying don’t be a jerk. She’s fighting back and using different mediums and culture to deliver the messages. That’s what I’m trying to do with my approach, having an exhibition a zine a podcast and stickers it is all legal currency in the culture i’m from and building an audience within.
I think it’s reflective of society today where we live in world driving by likes on posts and followers. Social media is destroying our relationships with each other and reality. Here’s another post where i covered similar issues with body image and social media here - . ( That covers Essena Oneil’s writing)
Read MoreAsked another friend of mine about potentially getting involved with the Neon Pioneers idea. Tim has confirmed that he doesn’t have enough time to commit to things so I’m back to just me. James Clakre a friend of mine I sometimes hire in for help on larger shoots is a photographer and digital artist . He’s also great at illustrator and in design, so I asked him for some ideas on the Neon pioneers logo. He did some roughs. But did mention that he might not have a lot of time to commit to the collective but would try. It’s this same problem that I’m running into all the time and from what Wendy has said in our chats most collectives fail due to lack of involvement from everyone. I may have to re think the structure of it. I can see how things work out with James but i feel that it’s ethically unfair for one person ( me ) to do the majority of work and then other gan the rewards without the same effort. Ideally I want to met some like minded people that are hungry to make waves with personal projects like me. I’ll have to see how it goes.
Read MoreI went into Sho gallery to speak to the gallery owner Emily. Hannah from HATW has approached her and sent me some general info about the before hand. I basically went in and pitched the show what I wanted to do. I asked about putting work up for the week and opening it with a night of music etc.
Read MoreI’m finding the whole process of working with scanning prints and handwriting on images really pleasing personally. I think as I’ve said before that it’s more of a supplementary work to the main project I need to find a better way to integrate text in.
Read MoreI love the brutal honest that Wearings image shows above its humbling and find it a really sincere portrait, ethically its a tricky situation as a photographer as this gentleman is in a bit of distress and possible crisis. It would be easy to sensationalize the portrait to gain attention and with it possible work or exposure to portfolio but wearing has delicately shot it and captured it in a way that makes me empathise with the man. I think it’s important to say that I don’t pity him and feel that by holding the sign and choosing what to write and coming forth with it that it gives him a power to be in control balancing the relationship with the image maker and subject a little more than if he hadn’t.
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I asked heads about putting a show on, they were really keen to help and suggested getting involved with the gallery upstairs to. Logistical they have had bands on before but don’t have a PA i rang around my music networks and managed to get a free hire for one from One Louder Studios if needed. I need to finialize out some of the details and ask some bands if they would play. It would be great to integrate art music and community all under one roof it’s what the project is all about.
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This was a previous test I put up to keep the schedule good. The lighting had issues and I couldn’t get 2 lights sorted in time for the interviews so went ahead anyway. It was good we talk about the scene and art with music as well as my project.
Read MoreAfter chatting with some friends about the nature of work and how it kind of linked in with mental health and community I found that I already know a great non profit called Heads Above the Waves I didn’t realise before but it would be a great organisation to link up with and try and help. It’s run by two people I know and they run workshops with young people teaching them coping mechanisms and using things like art and music as tools to cope. They also do a lot of anti bullying work and provide help and support to people around those suffering i feel that it ties in nicely, what was a particularly interesting overlap was that they heavily promote music both producing and being a fan of it to young people as a way to help them through difficult times. PERFECT exactly the same ethos I have for this project.
Read MoreAfter a few rudimental attempts of working text into the images myself it was very clear that it needed a lot of work. After seeking Wendy’s advice through a tutorial she suggested collaborating with other artists. I have already tried an attempt with one graphic designer and illustrator but the communication was far to slow and to much hard work for it to be a viable option. That fizzled so I thought I would try a new person, that was Tom O’Boyle from Salty Gecko Designs. Tom is also a Falmouth graduate and that’s how I know him i’ve commissioned him for work with my consumer businesses over the years. I fully explained the nature of the collaboration and what i need help with along with my vision. I gave minimal restrictions and It was really interesting to see what came up.
Read MoreThey replied with a counter that was really good and even offered to colob with showing the work at some of the picture boards they run in the bear pit in Bristol.
It seems like a good idea but I need to check that the original plan to have bands playing will work out. They offered to run a bar to make a little extra cash for them to make up for the discount they’d give me. I don’t think they have a pa or space for bands so decided to maybe put that on the back burner for a moment. That and they date might be a little early to get enough work.
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Sep 5
Heard back from prsc. They were happy to show the work and sent over some details for prices and it looks a little out of my budget right now but I replied and asked them if there is any room negotiate as I am a very poor student.
They’ve said the room would be available from Thursday18th till 23rd October. Which might be a little soon really but I’ll see what happens.
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Sep 4
Thinking about the exhibition I wanted to ask a bunch of bands that I know that would be into helping support the project by playing music at the launch. It would be a great way to mix both music and art together much like I do in the work itself. I put the feelers out with some bands and I’ll see what they say. If I charge a little or donations on the door then I can use the money to compensate them for travel but I’ll run it by them as a a unpaid show. Any profits made could go towards a charity.
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Sep 3 Finding a venue?
With a load of my work this is a test period so I needed to find a place to hold my show I decided to have a look about and to see what options are available.
I found this space in Bristol and it seems fitting with what I need it to be. I’m quite fond of a space that isn’t a more conventional white wall gallery. This seems to be ideal I’ll email them and find out what they offer.
https://prsc.org.uk/
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