Skindred - Weymouth Pavilion

One of the proudest moments of my life was watching some of these videos of last Sunday at one of the concerts I help organise with Hourglass Promotions. I'm very proud to be part of the global music community and to have given 600 odd people the time of their lives at a sold out show, it really makes all the stress and long hours worth it. It breaks my heart to think that next year the council intend to bulldoze the pavilion (which happens to have managed to survive both world wars) so they can build another huge car park RIGHT NEXT TO ANOTHER WHICH IS ALWAYS EMPTY!! Well, always except when we put on concerts like last Sunday...

please back our Save The Pavilion campaign if you can by clicking HERE, it would be much appreciated!

As Skindred may say "stand for something, or you'll fall for anything" lets stand up for the pavilion.

Now, weather or not your into the music, just check out these videos from side of stage to get a glimpse of what its all about!!

here is some of their studio material

Reggae/Metal with Punk influences.... from Wales... Why not? I think its awesome!

Churning The Earth's Flesh

I know I've neglected my blog for a while, but i promise I'll do my best to keep the art flowing from now on, but I'm a busy guy, sorry.

Here's something i did a while ago (I'll post my latest works once they have dried)

I combined multiple view
points as well as layers of separate places for this piece. A large amount of the spaces i was viewing were in the process of being ploughed.






Churning The Earth's Flesh - Acrylic, Charcoal and Chalk on Wood (MDF)







On a separate note I'd like to try to urge everyone to listen to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, who I'm finding incredibly inspiring at the moment. Stirringly ambient and evocative.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEsdiiYkhT8

Music On Mass

This weekend just gone, we at Hourglass Promotions put on 2 major shows in Weymouth with some BIG bands and BIG agents. Both events went really well, good times were had all around, and to see so many people with smiling faces because of what we have done was an incredible feeling. Although close to slave labour, working with Hourglass is awesome (if my maths is correct, I worked about 37 unpaid hours over Friday, Saturday and Sunday...? got to the pavilion at 8am on Friday to set up the venue and didn't get home after packing down until 4am, same again on Sunday, except we got back at about 1am) and our new venue looks really cool, so its all worth it :D

 

I cant believe we managed to have so many great bands play in such a small town in one weekend!! So here are a few of them: 

 

Lower Than Atlantis - Deadliest Catch 

Lower Than Atlantis - Far Q 

Mallory Knox - Oceans

Mallory Knox - Resuscitate, live at Weymouth Pavilion 

Max Raptor - Carolina 

These guys, Max Raptor, were my Favourite band of the weekend, really nice guys too!  

Max Raptor - Patron Saint Of Nothing (live acoustic session) 

Your Demise - Burnt Tongues 

Your Demise - Forget About Me

  

   

   

    

Thanks for looking and listening through my blog :)  

     

"So I'm out here again, sparks hid behind my teeth, i wont say a word for fear of fire spreading through."

Chalk, Cahrcoal and Conte on Mounting Board

Chalk, Charcoal, Acrylic, Emulsion and Conte on Mounting Board

Acrylic on Paper

Chalk, Charcoal and Acrylic on Paper

Acrylic, Emulsion, Chalk, Charcoal and Pencil on Paper

Acrylic, Conte, Chalk and Charcoal on Paper

Acrylic, Emulsion, Water Colour and Gouache on Mounting Board

Acrylic, Chalk and Charcoal on Mounting Board

All of these except the 2nd and 5th pictures were done on tuseday, when i filled a backpack full of a range of materials, took a nice long walk around the hills and had a great time painting and drawing what i saw. The horse fly arent quite so fun but they gave up trying to bite me after a while haha!

The images above are all going towards my final major project for college (im liking the sound of the final part!) but having a small amount of time to create the most amazing work youve done through out your entire education to date with no guide line, not even a breif, is quite tricky... Even though its still early days as far as this project is concerned, i know the time will fly by and before i know it, i'll need final pieces to mount and be ready for the final show...

The title of this post is a quote from David De La Hoz by The Chariot which i have had stuck in my head ALL week... Glad its an amazing song hahaha :)

Thanks for being on my blog, looking at my work and reading my words! :)

Jordan Buckley - Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic artwork

Jordan Buckley plays guitar for a band called Every Time I Die (a hardcore punk 'n' roll band from America) and this is the album artwork for their 2009 album New Junk Aesthetic, which really is EXCELENT but the cover artwork aswell as the artwork in the liner notes demands some attention and severly due credit too, so here they are! lyrics and all...

I think theyre screen prints over ink splashes, but im not entirley sure as it doesent say in the album credits.

Hope people enjoy them as much as i do :)

take a listen?

                                                 Every Time I Die - Wanderlust

Close

First of all i am going to apologise for the awfull

photographic quality of these images, i have no money for a decent camera, so nasty, grainy, grey-ish photos shall have to do, untill i stumble across a Leprechaun (the hunt has begun) or get adopted by a million heir and then can afford a good camera. but bad quality pictures are better than no pictures right?

Well here they are anyway!!

This is where i have lived since the age of about 2 or 3 and the opening sampling of Lost by Neurosis did get me thinking, most of my powerfull childhood memories are based in this part of the village i grew up in, well i supose im still growing up but do we ever stop growing and evolving to an extent? Well thats besides the point i guess.

Here are some of my paintings and drawings of the place :)

Close - I

       Oil Pastel on Paper

            Close - II
                      Acrylic on Paper

Close - V
        Acrylic, Ink and
Oil Pastel on Canvas

 

             Close - VI

                    Acrylic, Emulsion and Masonry
               Paint on Canvas

Roll The Dice

These are beyond brilliant soundscapes for you to indulge. They're absalutly marvalously absorbing.

Roll The Dice - Calling All Workers

Roll The Dice - Into The Ground

More Music: Neurosis, The James Cleaver Quintet

The music some bands/artists create is beyond inspiring and can have dramatic effects upon my work, changing the mood, rythms, textures and colours.

so heres something incredably brilliant:

Neurosis - Lost

"Are you lost?"
"Yes."
"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
"Are you lost?"

The James Cleaver Quintet  

I'd also like to preach to anyone and everyone about these guys, The James Cleaver Quintet with their absalutly crazy blend of enchantingly chatchy, bouncing mellodies, with a funk edge, spinning into sudden erratic, crazed punk madness! theyre fabulous live and great people, truely deserving of much, especialy a trial on your ears!

The James Cleaver Quintet - Album Teaser

The James Cleaver Quintet - Chicken Shit For The Soul

Rolo Tomassi

Rolo Tomassi are an incredable musical spectical and really quite something live too, blending Jazz, Rock, Punk and Hardcore with strange synths and a mixture of  angelicaly smooth and beyond raw vocals through some amazing song writting. Rolo Tomassi are one of the bands that really inspire me within my own music and art, and motivate me whether im working, drawing or painting!

                                                        PLEASE LISTEN TO THESE!!!

Rolo Tomassi - Everything Went Grey

Rolo Tomassi - C Is For Calculus

Rolo Tomassi - Cosmology

Rolo Tomassi - Fofteen

Rolo Tomassi - Nine

Rolo Tomassi - Nine Acoustic



                                                               Thanks for your time :)