It looks like all pulpyness is finished now. And I noticed back in May this forum's visitors record jumped up and up!
It was great meeting some peeps off this messageboard in person - And I think we have the nicest, most polite and clever messageboard in the whole world wide web here!
So I was wondering - rather than decending into the depths of the meaning of the words to 'silence' or polls on what colour lipgloss you are all wearing if surely we can all help each other out?!
I promote, record and manage bands in Newcastle. I have an album out next month and I'd like some help/advice with promoting it - someone here might be able to help?!
Surely - you intelligent peeps have something you'd like to do and can offer a means of help to everybody else.
So... If we just say what we are trying to do in this thread... maybe someone you know, love and trust can help?!
Although - I feel like an angony aunt now - I think we can help... come on.. spit it out!...Tell us what you are up to in you're boring, mundane, nom Pulp filled lives!
Newcastle, 'eh? I played the something and Parrot there once. That was fun. Used to be friends with the Colt .45s who hailed from nearby(ish) Durham. Wonderful clatterpop band. Do you know of them...?
Re: promoting. Be original! Make something eye-catching looking that someone, somewhere, will want to open if they receive it in the post. One bit of airplay on one reasonably well listened to radio station will make things far easier than getting a dozen amazing reviews that make you think "They really think this?" Sadly, it's always going to exposure rather than amazing reviews that get the success. Well, I presume it is. I only ever had the latter, never the former. So I presume it's the former you need. Yeah!
As for what I'm up to. Well, currently working about £10 grand over my supposed paygrade and really struggling at times. Applying for so many jobs it'd make you cry and worrying about the place I work going under. I also haven't touched My Amazing Book in about four months now or written a song in even longer. I want to do something else with my band again. Something final? I don't know. Something, though. I'm sure I used to have more interests than this! Having just come out of a gruelling period of a couple of months of working every night on job interview presentations/applications I thought I'd just start back again on my various hobbies and suchlike, but in a way it almost feels as if I've forgotten what they were.
I'm a university lecturer and at the moment I'm desperately trying to get prepared for my undergraduate students starting back next week. I also have a book to finish on the design and decoration of the suburban house in England in the 1920s and '30s. It's much delayed as I've been battling a serious illness over the last 4 years but am on the mend now (which is wht seeing Pulp meant sommuch to me this summer). In terms of helping others, well I can write. I'm also always on the lookout for potential PhD students and can supervise across history, theory and practice of art, design and popular culture.
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You have encapsulated my idea beatifully in one sentence!
Yes -Stephen. I used to put bands on at The Dog & Parrot in Newcastle. I now The Colt 45s too very well. I put them on a few times. I wonder if they still together? (as I'm organising a bit of show at the moment) - You see we have already helped each other out!
Fredthe3rd - Scripts for what? Let's have a look!
Deborah - what have you written so far? it sounds facinating. Can you send it to me?
If anybody needs or wants anything - then post it here!
Well partly through laziness and partly through Fear of rejection I've written lots but not actually had anything produced. So I can't really call myself a script writer. I've written a sitcom, some sketches and more recently short films. I think I've got some sort of talent but obviously I'm not the best judge if that! Oh, I also make greetings cards, but that wasn't a calling it just sort of happened.
I study English Language and World Cinema at the University of Manchester, and play in a band back in Newcastle. Not much else to me, really! The things I do mainly consist of listening to music, writing songs, going to the cinema and sitting on buses.
I studied Graphic Design at uni, and now co-own a catering business with my husband-to-be. I'm mostly a stay at home mum/book keeper at the moment tho (children are pre-school). I have recently done a photography course and would love to take that further. Any photographers id love to hear from. In the next 5-10 years we would like to expand our catering business to festivals throughout Europe. Offering organic/vegetarian/healthy/fresh/exotic/different/delicious foods and not dog burgers + chips :D - anyone with festival catering experience also lol. I'm in Liverpool.
-- Edited by Rachel on Tuesday 27th of September 2011 01:49:45 PM
Weed, if you send me your email address I can send you something from the book. I've written about half of it. I also have an essay coming out in the catalogue to accompany the V&A's exhibition British Design, 1948-2012, which opens next spring. The objects I wrote about include some very groovy 1970s Wharfedale headphones and a rather fabulous Lecson amplifier, which are very Pulp! I'll see if I can post some links to pictures when I'm back on my computer rather than my phone.
Have lots of contacts across universities in the UK and very happy to advise on courses if anyone's thinking of taking the plunge and getting hugely in debt... On the latter point, I was so pleased to hear Jarvis speaking out against tuition fees in the summer. There's a book to be written about art colleges and music. Michael Bracewell's book on Roxy Music is good in this respect (particularly on Eno at Ispwich). I'd be interested to hear if anyone has come across anything else. Jarvis, of course, made a radio programme about this a year or so ago, which I'd love to hear again.
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Rachel. Liverpool + vegetarianism. I bet you know the delights of 'Egg' then...? :)
Weed, I love the Colts to bits. Used to (still do?) share a label with them. We used to put each other on from time to time. They're based in Leeds now and I know that Keith and Ann-Marie split up, but I think the band are still viable. I hope so anyway. They were always one of my faves from the ones we used to work with...
I'm at Brighton but am applying to do veterinary science at uni (hopefully Liverpool) for 2012 - which means I'm looking at £45 000 debt (yay). Hmmm... not much else really. I play trumpet in a Funk band at college so if anyone in the Brighton area want us to play at any parties/ events... haha!
I got several novels to write. And a play. But it's going badly. I just can't get my ideas down. They are stuck in my head, and when I try to write them down I just phase out.
Arrrrrrrrgh. Help.
On a slightly on topic note, got my tickets to Experimenta today, and a few other films, including "Laurence of Belgravia", (about the dude from Felt/Denim/Go-kart Mozart) which I am much looking forward to.
I am a freelance journalist so more of the same. Though I am thinking of writing a book too on architecture. I see that Owen Hatherley also writes about architecture and I am slightly worried that he might have an idea similar to mine. So I'll need to start pretty sharpish. I am another Geordie though London based now.
I am a freelance journalist so more of the same. Though I am thinking of writing a book too on architecture. I see that Owen Hatherley also writes about architecture and I am slightly worried that he might have an idea similar to mine. So I'll need to start pretty sharpish. I am another Geordie though London based now.
I'd love to hear more about your interest in architecture. Have you published anything in this area? Are you interested in Brutalism? I like Owen Hatherley's writing on architecture and regularly look at his blog.
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well I have a music project thats been going on since about 2007. Its called boytit and its just noise - genre is sunk rock. Basically its just synth, a broken drum kit, a broken guitar and whatever found noises I can record here and there. I have a photography zine of the same name. Actually anything creative I do - project wise comes under the name boytit. Weird, obscence, gross but kind it sticks in your brain. Plus people are always keen to wear it as a tee shirt when I made them. I studied graphic design at uni and now work for Fairfax here in Sydney - Murdochs rivals basically, but we have the best newspaper ever - SMH, check out the app. I also want to write a book on the vines. They were that crazy band about 2002, they blew up everywhere - but theres a very interesting story there....
well I have a music project thats been going on since about 2007. Its called boytit and its just noise - genre is sunk rock. Basically its just synth, a broken drum kit, a broken guitar and whatever found noises I can record here and there. I have a photography zine of the same name. Actually anything creative I do - project wise comes under the name boytit. Weird, obscence, gross but kind it sticks in your brain. Plus people are always keen to wear it as a tee shirt when I made them. I studied graphic design at uni and now work for Fairfax here in Sydney - Murdochs rivals basically, but we have the best newspaper ever - SMH, check out the app. I also want to write a book on the vines. They were that crazy band about 2002, they blew up everywhere - but theres a very interesting story there....
I'm moving from the UK to Sydney in January, will be living in Manly. Do you know of many good nights out in Sydney where I can hear stuff like Pulp being played?
Can't say I'm ever upset when brutalist buildings get knocked down!
No, I think you're completely wrong fred. Try and have some perspective. What you consider a real blot in 100 years will be the equivalent of a beautiful Victorian Town Hall. Also, if all the Brutalist buildings are demolished then we lose an important tool for understanding culture and views on post war housing and rebuilding. By the way, Owen Hatherley has a new book out tomorrow about the stunning Brutalist architecture in Sheffield, it's called Brutaliust Speculations and Flights of Fancy. I for one can't wait to read it! Heres a detail from one of my faves; the Electricity Substation. Love that spiral staircase!
Stockwell Bus garage built 1952, if it makes a feature of its materials to the detriment of any fancy decoration it tends to be brutalist; and it's made entirely from exposed concrete! I think it counts, it's beautiful as well. Here we go, the largest Grade II listed building in Europe; Park Hill Flats, Sheffield
I actually lived in ablock like this in the early 80's. Broomhall Flats, now demolished.
Ok, you know the Get Carter Car park in Gateshead? That was brutalist right? I liked that, sad to see it go but, it had to go. If you've been to Gateshead you'll possibly agree. It and the shops facing out from it made up the city centre and it was depressing and messy. Hopefully it can regenerate now.
I much, much prefer brutalist architecture to the fussy Victorian stuff which everyone seems to think is so beautiful.
I especially love Manors car park in Newcastle- thankfully a listed building:
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I think you may be the only person in the city to hold that view! That part of town is hideous. Rodney Gordon and his like came close to butchering Newcastle in the 60s. Now we're left with a series of these smeared grey things. Better sandstone or even glass than concrete.
It's quite straightfoward, but maybe not appropriate - I was having an exceptionally bitter moment. Mental note to self - do not post on forums when upset, angry or intoxicated!
Anyway, I wish you all the best of luck with your many projects.
-- Edited by anet on Friday 30th of September 2011 08:00:28 PM
I'm at Brighton but am applying to do veterinary science at uni (hopefully Liverpool) for 2012 - which means I'm looking at £45 000 debt (yay). Hmmm... not much else really. I play trumpet in a Funk band at college so if anyone in the Brighton area want us to play at any parties/ events... haha!
Hey - I went to Liverpool uni! It's a great city to be a student in. Best of luck with your application.
I used to write for magazines about planning and regeneration, rather than architecture. But I have a great idea for a book on architecture. It's kind of an alternative history of 20th Century architecture in London. That's all I can say about it at this stage. I have wanted to write it for about six or seven years.
As for Brutalist buildings - I like the Manors car park and the Dunston Rocket, though glad to see the back of the Gateshead car park and Westgate House. I quite like the Newcastle City library too - even before the upgrade, the only remaining part of Poulson's vision. I agree with Owen Hatherley that a lot of people unfairly had a downer on Park Hill. I know people who live there who liked it - it didn't seem to have the social problems of The Manor.
Does anyone know what Owen Hatherley's Sheffield connection is?
The Rocket's being demolished this year. There's a fair bit of regeneration planned, south of the Tyne. Good luck with the book- I like the NatWest tower. Ben Richards called it the Darth Vader of the London skyline.
I take it back - I am not a total loser. Tonight my creative side is out and working on an website article titled FLAT PACK CONTAINERS FOR SALE. How cool is that on a Friday night?
(edit - just got inspiration from this forum, and managed to slip the 'fuss free' into my article!)
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this is for abs> There used to be a night called Britpop run by a guy called Johnny - but he stopped doing them last year - as for nights where you can here Pulp being played - to be honest there really isnt, maybe the World Bar at the Cross on a Thursday night - they have one of those Propaganda nights going on - well that was a few months back - but I think all you would get there is Common People or Disco 2000 - and I think its geared for more of the newer stuff and the kids.
Theres lots of interesting stuff going on in Sydney > but Pulp apart from at Indie nights rarely get played. There used to also be Spectrum on a Friday night after the bands and that was wicked! All good old stuff - ooccasionally a night pops up but I really have not seen anything for ages.
Pulp of course get played at my place so feel free to join the Pulp disco around Canterbury/Hurlstone Park kind of way!
it didn't seem to have the social problems of The Manor.
Does anyone know what Owen Hatherley's Sheffield connection is?
Owen Hatherley has no Sheffield 'connection' as far as I am aware he just rates the brutalist architecture of Sheffield as probably the finest in the country. He's also a massive Pulp fan having written a mongraph on them; Uncommon. I believe he may be from Southampton. The Manor isn't a block of flats or anything though, it's just the name of a district in Sheffield. Try and check out Hatherley's book 'A Guide to the New Ruins Of Great Britain' as well.
-- Edited by saw119 on Saturday 1st of October 2011 03:14:12 PM
I'm a bigger fan of brutalist buildings now there are fewer of them. I feel we should be keeping examples of these bulidings in our towns and cities for future generations. Yes they pulled down a lot of beautiful old buildings and knocked these up in their place but if we now tear down all of these buliding now 40 - 50 years later then we're kind of making the same mistake. As with everything there are good an bad examples. Trinity Square car park in Gateshead was impressive but in completely the wrong location. I took the tour to the top in it's final days - I've got some pics somewhere. Eldon Square Shopping Centre really annoys me. I think it's a blight of the city centre and the way it had torn streets in half and ripped through Old Eldon Square is appaling. It's T. Dan Smith we have to thank for that one. He was a very naughty boy!
Park Hill in Sheffield I find amazing as it's just so vast. Regeneration or alternative uses for these buildings should be sort before they consider sending in the bulldozers!
I'll private you my email Deborah. I was just going to put it here then thought of the spam I'd be getting in my nice shiney new, spam free email address!
I'm glad I started this thread now. I thought nobody would quite get what I meant but it looks like I underestimated! It's nice innit.
BTW - My album is now finished - if anybody wants a free promo copy the send me a private message with your address and I'll post them out with the rest.
So, now that the UK tour is over... Now what do we do?
Starting things off: I'm a student studying English Literature in Scotland. I sometimes take my poetry to open mics - it's not deeply emotionally intense stuff, but instead it's generally meant to be quite funny and sometimes political (tonight I'm doing one about two Britpop fans fighting in a millennial pub) - and I write for student magazines; and basically I've got a head with lots of fun but vaguely sketched ideas in it, for movies or plays or music or TV.
I don't know how I'll get them out, but we'll see!
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