You are strongly

urged towards the following weblink to read about the Group show Albert Herter is part of, opening this weekend New York City.
http://koenigandclinton.com/exhibitions/albert-herter-caitlin-keogh-and-candice-lin/

His  first book, 'In the Curtyard: Orchestrated Reduction of the Fantasm'  published in collaboration with Museums Press is now available to purchase here: http://comfortableonatightrope.bigcartel.com



More of his work can be seen here: http://cargocollective.com/albertherter


























You may recognise Albert Herter's drawings and paintings from his fruitful collaborations with Cass McCombs (His drawings adorn many C M records including the most recent 'Big Wheel and Others' and the forthcoming compilation 'A Folk Set Apart'), his Hiro Kone record covers or t-shirts for Altamont apparel.

THE FAMILY SHOW II at Good Press

So, our good friends and comrades GOOD PRESS recently celebrated their 1st birthday with the opening of their second FAMILY SHOW. Above is the beautiful poster by homegirls Alex Humphreys  & Lucy Jones. Below is our joint contribution to the exhibition. We're so glad to be in the excellent company of:
Frederik Akum
Heather Anderson & Ethan Swan
Justin Bailey
Daniel Brereton
Milano Chow
William Edmonds
Laetitia Glenton & R.L.Perry
Mehdi Hercberg
Clay Hickson
Alex Humphreys & Lucy Jones
Nick Lynch
Mildred
Malin Gabriella Nordin
Pacolli
Stephane Prigent
Benjamin Rawson
David Roeder
Jonathan Ryan Storm
Jessica Williams
Simon Worthington

 As with the inaugural FAMILY SHOW all of the work is for sale for the bargain price of £30.

STEP TO IT

SHOWPAPER Issue 134

A few months ago Laetitia was invited by Ethan Swan to contribute to SHOWPAPER, NYC-based DIY listings paper. Below is the resultant image and relevant text, a little late but totally worth sharing, i'm sure you'll agree


☗ THIS IS THE NEW COVER OF SHOWPAPER! ISSUE 134! ☗

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It's a single sheet of newsprint with a full listing of every all ages / underground show in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, along with a beautiful, full-color print.










♢ ISSUE 134: Laetitia Glenton ♢
♢ June 25 - July 10 ♢

2 of 3 Issues Curated by Ethan Swan

Laetitia Glenton is an artist based in Manchester, UK, where as one half of Comfortable on a Tightrope, she produces independent concerts, DJs, releases tapes and records. Her visual arts practice is inseparable from her activity in the city’s DIY scene, as her works on paper reflect the languages and concerns of this community. Nostalgia-rich images from discarded advertisements and home photography are damaged and reprocessed in her work, questioning these legacies. Coded messages are hidden in dead languages and punctuation, mirroring the means by which underground scenes communicate. Her work has appeared in exhibitions in the UK, and in numerous small press books and records.


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THERE IS NO ROOM FOR NOSTALGIA

is the name of Laetitia's submission for 'THE FAMILY SHOW' the inaugural exhibition at the GOOD PRESS GALLERY in Mono, Glasgow. It opens tomorrow night. All of the work is for sale for just £30, and there are some amazing works on display, if we were less poor we'd be tempted to buy everything.

SCARS OF THE NINETEEN-NINETIES OR THERE IS NO US BUT THERE IS A VERY DEFINITE THEM

Is now available to buy from GOOD GRIEF! and MUSEUMS.  Muchos muchos gracias to JESS HIGGINS for publishing this! As well as lettering by Lucy Jones, the cover features a painting by Laetitia as do each of the remaining WAITERS tapes. The difference being that each of the tapes has, for its cover an ORIGINAL painting or else a part of an ORIGINAL painting, some of which are reproduced below. This means that, as well as the recorded music streaming below you get an ORIGINAL piece of art for £5! Still available HERE and soon at Rough Trade where you can also pick up the latest Former Bullies cassette 'SEASONED' which is, take heed, selling FAST.

WAITERS- YESTERDAY by BEATUNHAPPENING


WAITERS - ALL MY TROUBLES SEEMED SO FAR AWAY by BEATUNHAPPENING




WAITERS- ANYWAY by BEATUNHAPPENING


WAITERS - PALINDRONES by BEATUNHAPPENING

GOOD GRIEF!

is the name of the best shop in Manchester and it's C.E.O has just curated the first good grief! group art show. Your first chance to see it comes on Wednesday 16th June at the opening party at which we will be playing records with some of our friends. In the show are some of our favourite art/book/print makers and illustrators on planet earth and we are so glad to be in the same city as them.
The work of
DAVID BAILEY , LUCY JONES , JESS HIGGINS , JOHN BUTCHER , DYLAN HUGHES , REBECCA BROMPTON & FAYE JOHNSON
will all be on display at THE ART CORNER until the 24th JUNE.

EXCITED!

Cannot believe that we didn't

post  this sooner.  What you see in the photograph below are some of the sixty something editions of Winebox 04- Solo Guitar. A beautiful and fashioned-by-hand ( from a Victorian-style bed-frame with NO POWER TOOLS) box-set containing three C-20's- one solo guitarist per side: Jon Collin, Infinite Light, Ross Parfitt, Tom Settle, Tom Carter & Matt Valentine.  Click the link to buy it, if there're even any remaining.  

Also contains Three silk-screened art prints- one by Lucy Jones, one by David Bailey and this one by our own Laetitia Glenton- 'CHURCH' Pencil and carbon-paper drawing.

We are so down with this next thing that we've set up an online shop expressly to sell it. Thanks Jess Higgins for tutorial. Former Bullies play the Sam Cooke songbook is 8 songs that share titles and some lyrics and 100% of the soul of Sam Cooke songs, recorded in one afternoon. 

Also wanted to remind you all that there are now 4 free, downloadable mixes to the right----> get on it. We've also been hard at work making this  BOX ELDERS tour happens and is as cool and radical as they warrant. Pretty much done now----->

Here's a video from a while back, in the last few weeks they've played SMMR BMMR, GONERFEST and shows with the Fresh & Onlys. They are currently, in anticipation of a release on the label, on the SHATTERED records tour with Hunx & His Punx, Jay Reatard and NoBunny. They rule hard.

Also, get saving up for the new 'MUSEUMS' zine - which as well as featuring the work of 11-ish visual artists will come with a free compilation tape curated by US! And it will be amazing. The concept is simple- we just asked some of our favourite people who make music if we could have a song and most of them said yes.  Much more on this very soon, and they we will not stop going on about it until they're all gone and the next one is ready

Oh yeah almost as amazing as all of the things previously posted is this MONSTER:

We've also cat-sat for this beautiful little fella name a Frederik. This is the second time we've had our hearts broken saying goodbye to a little kitten.

 The last time, with Nina, one of us got our eye-scratched too so progress is made. Inexplicably, we were not responsible for the naming of either of them despite the fact that our favourite Royal-cocaine-dealer and B-movie starlet folksploitation duo are 'Nina & Frederik'.

THE REALEST or fifteen minutes

this is a photograph of a 'zine we made, January 2007. It is called 'THE REALEST or fifteen minutes. It was launched with a party at Islington Mill in Salford. Two of our favourite bands played; FORMER BULLIES and THE ROYAL WE. Both are kind of not around anymore but the music, the joy, the memories remain.

Volume I Issue I is also not around anymore, we sold out. Issue II is on the way very, very soon and will feature, exclusively, the drawings of Neil Robbins. Then we're going to make Issue III and then we are going to make ISSUE IV and so on, and much more quickly. We will reprint Issue I too.

Email us for details of how/where to buy it: comfortableonatightrope@yahoo.co.uk