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.

SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY, SONNY SMITH 100 RECORDS, MUSEUMS PRESS,

Okay, this is probably the most exciting weekend of the year so far!
Sunday sees the return of SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY , as part of which we've invited 7 of our favourite bands to come and play at The King's Arms. The Sounds From The Other City poster you see at the top of the page was designed by Dave Bailey and Lucy Jones of Mount Pleasant who both have work on show in the amazing MUSEUMS PRESS  group show at Islington Mill (1st floor) alongside all of the great people who's names you can see on the poster above which includes, you'll notice, Jess Higgins and Matthew Walkerdine the people responsible for MUSEUMS PRESS and also the SONNY SMITH 100 RECORDS poster displayed on this page.

SONNY SMITH 100 records and the MUSEUMS PRESS exhibition are both open for viewing for the duration of SOUNDS FROM THE OTHER CITY and are both essential viewing experiences. Both are also open for sneak previews tomorrow so after you've visited Salford Zine Fair check them out and be an expert ready for Sunday when everybody will be asking 'what's that?'

Sonny Smith 100 RECORDS in an exhibition which takes, as it's jump-off, 100 records Sonny and his friends made for a whole host of imaginary bands- the artist and song names of which were presented to a list of visual artists who were asked to realise the cover artwork of the imaginary songs while Sonny went about recording the songs. At the exhibition you can look at the record covers (made by some of our very favourite artists like Chris Johanson, Mingering Mike, Johanna Jackson, John 'OH SEES' Dwyer etc etc) and select a song from the Jukebox. Exciting right?

Sonny Smith's real band SONNY & THE SUNSETS will also be performing for us and you all at The Kings Arms as part of Sounds From The Other City alongside GIRLS NAMES, VERONICA FALLS, ANIMALS & MEN, GOLDEN GRRRLS, IRMA VEP and FEEL RIGHT

THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING

MUSEUMS (the zine) is now sold out which means you can now buy the tape we made for it HERE 

COMING SOON

courtesy of MUSEUMS PRESS!
The cover design depicted above combines lettering by Lucy Jones, Painting by LG and layout/design by Lucy, LG and Jess Higgins.

TONIGHT! STOMACH PUMP exhibition opening

The Salford Zine Library collection, The Higgins Family collection and originals from MUSEUMS no.1 will all be exhibited and MUSEUMS no.2 will also be available for FREE to the first 15 attendees. MUSEUMS no.2 consists of 25 different zines made by some of Jess' Favourite people housed in block-printed pizza boxes. There is a zine by each of us in there in addition to our contributions to Andrew Beswick's 'Knick Knack' poetry zine which is also included. Other contributors include  Lucy Jones, David Bailey, Julia Scott, Matthias Connor, Katy Flynn, Jess Higgins, Miriam Avery and Edwin Stevens, NO WOMB, Alex Humphrys, Laura Skilbeck, Matthew Walkerdine, Kate Armitage, Sophie Lea Perry, Joseph Logan and more. It's gonna rule for sure.

We'll post photo's here of this and last weeks Mount Pleasant exhibition. After you go to this you should probably go to the Deaf Institute where Dinner Party and WAITERS both play now wave's BEST COAST show.

Veronica Falls have a video

We encourage you to buy both versions of this single, the captured tracks one has a different b-side to the one on Trouble which has the finished version of the song 'Stephen' which appears in demo form on the 'MUSEUMS'  compilation.

LA LA VASQUEZ & GIRLS NAMES come to town next week

 

Here is the tour poster by Tom Bingham and the poster for the manchester show by Lucy Jones

Here is the facebook event group. You can buy tickets here.
Yesterday, both GIRLS NAMES and LA LA VASQUEZ had new records released on captured tracks.Furthermore, they each have a song on the compilation we made for MUSEUMS which is now on sale in GOOD GRIEF and online here
VIDEOS:

FRONT AND BACK COVER OF MUSEUMS COMPILATION

AVAILABLE FROM MONDAYS LAUNCH PARTY (as part of MUSEUMS), only when MUSEUMS 001 sells out will copies of the tape be sold separately.

'MUSEUMS' launches

next Monday 22nd MARCH at BEAT UNHAPPENING at TROF in Fallowfield. We are so excited about this 'product' and cannot wait for you all to experience it.  As detailed in the poster below, We will also be screening 'BEAUTIFUL LOSERS', and selling cakes to raise money for street children in Zimbabwe. David Bailey will also be presenting selected items from his shop 'GOOD GRIEF!' 

• BEAUTIFUL LOSERS was made by Aaron Rose of the Alleged Gallery/Press and details the lives, working methods and ideology of some of our favourite artists like e.g. Chris Johanson, Jo Jackson, Mike Mills, Harmony Korine, Ed Templeton, Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen. It  documents how, collectively and individually, these outsiders, skaters and misfits came to art and how art came to them and how it is in fact inseparable from their lives. It is truly inspiring for any Do-It-Yourself-type people and we are excited to present Manchester's first public screening.
• MUSEUMS is the long-awaited and painstakingly,lovingly assembled follow-up to 'We Are Young And We are Trying'. It consists of:

 a 50-something page hand-bound art book with contributions from Ken Cole, Erin Gilkes, Jess Higgins ,Lucy Jones, Sonia Leuschen, Alex Pierce, Mr. Red, Jack Teagle & Chelsea Wong;
a brand new 32-page comic from Dave Bailey;
3 screen-printed posters by Tim Lahan;
And a compilation tape we made of exclusive jams from our favourite bands on the planet: Assassins 88, Beachniks, Dunes, Former Bullies, Girls Names, Golden Grrls, Irma Vep, La La Vasquez, Mazes, Nisennenmondai, Picastro, Piece War, Reading Rainbow, Rollin Hunt, Sad Horse, Sic Alps, Silk Flowers, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Veronica Falls, Waiters and Yellow Fever.

• Good Grief! is the best shop in Manchester- even better than that weird new place on High Street with the caged bird and vintage guitars and dirt bikes. Proprietor Dave Bailey will be bringing the choicest cuts from his collection to try and persuade you to buy with his new sales pitch.

Click on the poster to enlarge and read the small-print.

Here are a few things to help

with the recent  passing of JD Salinger: 

firstly you can read all of his stories (even those which are uncollected) HERE (thanks to Jess Higgins for the tip-off) and tributes and ruminations on the great man and his legacy from AM HOMES and DAVE EGGERS.

secondly you can get excited about this poster and the amazing show that it was made to publicise. Thanks to Lucy Jones for this ray of light:

Thirdly there is this video, which gives rise to smiles for about a million reasons:

Fourthly is the news that MUSEUMS  number one is almost ready and is looking absolutely beautiful. Basically it consists of a giant (11 1/2" x 11 1/2 ") art book, 3 screen-printed posters, an exclusive new 30+ page comic by David Bailey  and a compilation tape that we made with some of our favourite bands in the whole world---- NISENNENMONDAI, LA LA VASQUEZ, PIECE WAR, GIRLS NAMES, SAD HORSE, TY SEGALL, VERONICA FALLS, YELLOW FEVER, FORMER BULLIES, IRMA VEP, SIC ALPS, ROLLIN HUNT, ASSASSINS 88, BEACHNIKS, GOLDEN GRRLS, READING RAINBOW, TIGHTSUCKS, WAITERS, PICASTRO and SILK FLOWERS. It is a serious and fun document detailing the music we care about. It will be C.O.A.T -005. We've been working on it for so long and we cannot wait to share it with the world. We are honoured and privileged to be able to make this and for it to accompany such a sweet and radical publication. Pre-sale and Launch Party/Exhibition details forthcoming.

C.O.A.T-006 will be the new NEIL BURRELL album  'YOU HAVE REACHED...OUTER SPACE' which offers a heavier and more twisted psychedelia than anything else around. Much more forthcoming, wish we could disclose it all now but that's enough for one day.

To play us out Tom Settle at Manchester Zap at islington mill- Thanks to Barry Dean for capturing this rare and special performance of a deep and heavy improvisation that would perfectly serve as a requiem for JD: