polite podcast no.8

This is the last episode of the second series of the polite podcast. It is a tour diary of the Frozy/Nervy Betters July tour 2014. 

Weds 9th July - The Nest, Bath 
Thurs 10th July - Gwdihŵ Café Bar, Cardiff 
Fri 11th July - House Show, London
Sat 12th July - The Vagina Stereolodge, Birmingham
Sun 13th July - Gulivers, Manchester
Mon14th July - 13th Note, Glasgow
Tues 15th July - Mystery Day 
Weds 16th July - Traveling Man Bookshop, Newcastle

There will probably be one more series of podcasts in the new year.

credits

from Polite Podcasts, track released 31 August 2014 
live recordings of Frozy and The Nervy Betters by Nicol Parkinson 
field recordings by Henry Ireland 
photo by Steve Brett

polite podcast no.7

This is the third in this series or season of the Polite Podcast. It's being published at 8AM on the 16th of July. There is one more podcast in this series, which will be published at some time in August.

credits

from Polite Podcasts, track released 16 July 2014
Thick Like Snow - Oh Peas! (ohpeas.bandcamp.com)
One - Attacked by Wolves (attackedbywolves.bandcamp.com)
Folds - Nick Gunzburg (www.nickgunzburg.com)
Big Sound - Glowy (glowingcateyes.bandcamp.com/releases)

Interview: A-J

polite podcast no.6

This is the second episode of a second series ('series') of polite podcasts. Things are as they were. There will be four shows, this time in the summer months and I will be publishing them in the mornings, not the evenings.

This episode was published on 21st June at 4.43AM, which is sunrise on the year's longest day. the next episode will be ay 8AM on the 16th of July. No special occasion this time, but it will be the last day that we are on tour.

credits

from Polite Podcasts, released 30 September 2013
We're Doing it - Ace Bushy Striptease acebushystriptease.com
Mao's Dynasty www.handidiom.co.uk/mao'sdynasty.html
Dirty White Van - King of Cats kingofcats.tumblr.com
The Girls of Summer - Hugh John Noble hughjohnnoble.bandcamp.com

Interviews - Gef Lucena (Saydisc Records: www.saydisc.com ); Nicol Parkinson

polite podcast no.4

Hello, this is the fourth and final polite podcast. It contains songs by different people, oral histories and field recordings. I will be releasing an episode in the last hour of every month until the end of this year. So that's four episodes in total, okay? Okay!

credits

from Polite Podcasts, track released 31 December 2013
ribbons (live): palomica palomica.bandcamp.com
untitled: headfall myspace.com/headfall
mackerel sky: the living end! thelivingend.bandcamp.com
sea air/five roses (live): palomica
eugene v. debbs: grizzly and the bears
in the winter: frozy frozy.bandcamp.com
the snowfall which promised so much (yet gave so little): unecdotesoundcloud.com/unecdote
untitled: roxy brennan; steve brett; henry ireland; nicol parkinson
ferris wheel (live): palomica
coffee machines (live): palomica

interviews: Florence Carson; Mike Lollipop; Karis Clapperton; Jack Horton

sounds and recordings sourced by Henry Ireland and Nicol Parkinson

polite podcast no.3

from Polite Podcasts, released 30 September 2013

impossible walls: fontaine 
inclosure: moscow rules 
i found you: the dream is over
middling good boy: damh

interviews: marion ireland; mark dillon; philip dodd; elisa lloyd; james cabaniuk

polite podcast no.1

Hello, so this is the first polite podcast. It contains songs by different people, oral histories and field recordings. I will be releasing an episode in the last hour of every month until the end of this year. So that's four episodes in total, okay? Okay!

coffee machines: palomica
the whole town watching: here is the river (liz melia; blake gifford; ben meschko)
the river: two white cranes
glimmer: we wanted to be lions

interviews: marion ireland; maggie willans
field recordings: henry ireland; nicol parkinson
edited: henry ireland 

i think it's ok to start thinking about autumn now

studio walls

I put these up on the wall a while ago because I thought they went well together. Only one of them was made on purpose (if you can believe even one of them was deliberate).

sketches

Early sketches for some projects I hope to finish this year.

copper spires repeat

 Have been experimenting with a repeat print today. The final element was a quotation from a diary entry from Frances' and my trip to Copenhagen last year. This composition really reminds me of Bob Notley.

This will hopefully be the cover material for some sketch books I have bound to sell in my shop(s) so if you want, you can own a piece of this print for not too much money some time soon!

kino residency: production line

The last Cafe Kino event was a zine making workshop. It was lots of fun and loads of great zines were made. Thanks to the generosity of Steve Brett, you can see all the photos from that day on my flickr page. As well as Steve, massive thanks is also owed to Bob and Charlotte who helped make the day so great. 

kino residency: event 3

A day-long zine making workshop with Bob Notley and Henry Ireland. We will plan and fill a zine with your artwork and ideas and produce it together in a production line. There will be a whole bunch of mark making areas such as: cutting and sticking, screen printing, mono printing, typewriters and more!

Bob Notley studied fine art at the University of Plymouth. He has taken part in group shows with them lot and music and pictures in Bristol as well as solo shows in Luton. He now teaches a-level fine art.

Henry Ireland is artist in residence at Café Kino for 2012. He studied graphic communication with typography at the University of Plymouth and has lectured and taught graphic design and zine making. He makes and sells zines.

11AM-5PM including a break time
£2 includes materials for a zine that you will make and keep!

things

It's been a while since I last wrote on here because it's been a while since I last had something new to talk about. I just got done working at a long and busy exhibition and I'm getting back to some of my own work.

I've been asked to contribute a piece of work to a publication by Black Horse Road Studio, on the subject of working/living spaces. I've started making collections (as above) of my items from my work space and things from my surrounding living space, which feed into the work I make. I'm hoping this will turn into something more, wherein the objects bear some connection, but at the moment I'm just enjoying composing disparate objects into one board.

The above is inspired partly by a painting by Miro and by the collections of Camilla Engman, though I'm hoping that they will become more my own after a bit more experimenting. It may not look like this at all by the end.

Recently, the instrumental 'scout hut' from Tiger & Panda's Dowry 10" was played on Edinburgh Man Podcast # 65, which I recommend in general.

o & a

I went for a walk on Primrose Hill the other day. I like taking photos of buildings the peer into the parks in London. Here are a couple of photo collages, demonstrating the escape of discarded letters from abbreviated words (a project from a couple of years ago) into the ionosphere.

jars

I made these for something rather exciting and potentially never ending. The colours are nicer printed.

corners of my house #2

I think I must have been thinking of Dusty Corners by Gilbert and George when I arranged these photos like this. Just some practicing for a photo project.

work in progress and 'message'

So, recently I have been working the cover for vol. 1 issue. 3 of prism. But also, I learned from Art Sparklets about a brilliant research group called message. It is a side project made up of my old tutors at the University of Plymouth. The subject matter is 'messages' in all forms and deals with the message in graphic communication. I'm hoping to go to Plymouth and see their next show, whenever it is.

finishing the cover for prism 2

starting on the cover for prism 2

Today I visited the British Museum. Then I came home and started work on my contribution to issue 2 of Rosa Tyhurst's Prism. I also made a start on the cover artwork. Here it is at the very start.

architecture

I decided that the 2010 calendar would be the last thing I used triangles or date stampers as motifs. However, In the pursuit of hard contrasts and gradients ideal for photocopier collages, I have been collecting lots of abstracted shots of architecture around the city. These were to act as home-made replacements for the old photocopies I had previously been using in my compositions. It's kind of a cheat I guess, but I mainly did it as practice for evolving future work.