Month: November 2007

Lewes’ Gilded Mountain

Lewes Herriot has been consistently uploading art to his Dark Inventory blog for months now and deserves another mention. This one’s title’s The Gilded Mountain: His artwork is for sale and he welcomes inquiries for bespoke design for album sleeve, book cover design and posters.

Scratch Club

Scratch Club is a hip hop night that takes place in London and Birmingham, the latter at the Yardbird, with a nice open and social attitude. Scratch Club was born just over a year ago at a club in Camden town. It was founded by DJs Disco Steve and Captain Crunch with MCs Leon P, … [Read more…]

Supersonic, best festival of the year

Congrats to Capsule whose yearly Supersonic been named Best Festival of the Year in the December issue of Plan B magazine, up against such greats as ATP, Sonar and Green Man. Here’s the article. Click on it for a readable PDF.

Cheaper Photos for Local Bands

Photographer Steve Gerrard is currently doing an offer for local bands who are in need of some decent shots. An hour’s shoot and a minimum of 20 great images for just £60. From the shoot I’d expect to get a varied selection of photos in different locations, giving the impression that the pictures were taken … [Read more…]

FotS remixes

Friends of the Stars have been leaking out tracks of theirs for free download on their blog. The current one is from their remix CD which accompanies the Lighting and Electrical album. Have a listen to the L&R Woodcutter Fabulous Remix of Sharpening a Blade… [audio:http://www.friendsofthestars.co.uk/audio/Sharp_remix.mp3] … and then go read all about it and … [Read more…]

Dunc on Flyering

The second of Autumn Store Dunc’s guides to putting on a DIY gig or club night is up, this time on the art of flyering and it’s a damn good one. The humble flyer is still the most important bit of paper in the independent promoters arsenal. Posters can be too easily ignored, but putting … [Read more…]

Iron Man on Last.FM

Mark Badger of Iron Man Records has uploaded loads of tracks to Last.FM from various artists on his label. Here’s the full list and, because I can, there’s the widget. Hit the big Play button. What’s interesting about Last.FM is the music isn’t available to download, just to stream, but people can embed stuff like … [Read more…]