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Go Go Go

Loveable, twee indie pop band Just Hanshakes We're British are releasing their new single Shipwrecks on the 3rd of Augusut. It will feature title track 'Shipwreks' and B side 'Go Go Go'

These new songs are somewhat softer than their previous songs, edging towards the more melodic twee side of the band. Shipwrecks starts off as slowly flowing through chords in a day dream fashion, however a minute and a half or so into the song, it turns happy bouncy song, with a drum beat verging on reggae.

I find it hard to write about this band without describing them as if I was writing about a furby, nether the less this single is deffinately going to push the boat out for the band, hopefully it wont become a shopwreck.

Colouring Outside the Lines: The Exhibition

Gallery II at the University of Bradford hosts a new collaborative
exhibition of female artists working beyond the bounds of the cultural
mainstream

Exhibition runs Friday 26 June - Friday 24 July 2009. Free Entry
Saturday 4 July 11am - 4pm. Special opening and picnic

Is sewing art? Do you see the 'best' art in galleries? Whose interpretation
is more valid: the artist or the critic? Is having an exhibition of all
female artists exclusionary or important? What's stopping you from being an
artist?

This exhibition is the first collaborative curatorial venture of two young
women, Rachel Kaye (Gallery II, University of Bradford) and Melanie Maddison
(Colouring Outside The Lines zine), and seeks to open the discussion of who
has access to art - in terms of both curators and artists.

Colouring Outside the Lines: The Exhibition will feature artwork and
installations by Abigail Brown, Heidi Burton, Morwenna Catt, Naseem Darbey,
Carolyn Mendelsohn and Helen Musselwhite.

Melanie comments 'The exhibition seeks to make an active comment about the
cultural myth that art is reserved for the elite and privileged. By breaking
down the barriers between creators and audiences and including work in
unconventional and populist forms which everyone has access to, we are
asserting our belief that everyone can be creative in their own life'.

Rachel adds 'the work exhibited is deliberately selected from a cross
generation of artists and includes established and establishing
practitioners. Although the exhibitors work is diverse in terms of form and
media it is united thematically through reoccurring explorations of ideas of
mythologies, fairytale, discovery and surprise'.

Colouring Outside The Lines started life in 2003 as a self-produced zine.
The publication interviewed female artists and included reproductions of
their art giving the women featured a voice over their own productivity
beyond traditional art criticism and the meta-narratives of the art world.
The zine focused on artists working in less-conventional forms. Based on the
philosophy of the Colouring Outside the Lines zine the curators worked
together to select work which departed from the 'traditional canvas' and
conventional mediums of creation and production - quite literally, work
which coloured outside the lines. Visitors are invited to actively
participate in contemporary debates on galleries and power, the differences
between DIY and applied art, feminist art discourses and the possibilities
of subverting institutional spaces.

Opening times. Mon - Fri, 10am-5pm, Thursdays 'til 6pm. Or by appointment.
Free entry
Special opening, Sat 4 July 11 - 4pm. To coincide with the University of
Bradford open day. At midday there will be a picnic and story-telling
session with the opportunity to discuss the exhibition with the artists and
curators involved in the project in a relaxed setting. Meet up at 12 noon in
the gallery.

http://www.myspace.com/colouringoutsidethelines
http://www.cotlzine.blogspot.com
http://www.cotl.etsy.com

Funk off!

When I heard Tom Mckenzie had recorded a new song, this is not what I was expecting.....

Tom Mckenzie usually makes mainly acoustic based, some what prog-rock, however, his new track 'After The Dust Has Settled' is so unbelievably funky that it would have James Brown turning in his grave.

Mckenzie manages to fuse his old distored rock style, with a 60's funk bass and guitar riff, all that is missing is some saxaphones.

I would like to think that this is a new direction for Tom and look forward to hearing his third album at some point this year.

Listen to him here at www.myspace.com/tommckenziemusic

NEW ISSUE!

We are so sorry about there been no new issue this month. We have been so busy with organising Bollocks To Poverty that we just haven't had time.

But we have some great things lined up;

here are somethings we have lined up for the issue;

Credit Crunch Carnival

Festival Essentials

Blue Roses talking about Bradford

The Noisettes, Johnny Foreigner and Kid British interviews

Alt Track album review

Open Fire at Gasworks

oo loads

keep an eye open for our podcasts coming out in July

Bollocks To Poverty

HIIIII!

we have our own stage at saturdays Bollocks To Poverty II at the new beehive Bradford.

here is our line up.

6.00 - 6.30 The Coopers
5.15 - 5.45 TBC
4.30 - 5.00 Kate Hyatt
3.45 - 4.15 Tom Mckenzie
3.00 - 3.30 Sam Airey
2.15 - 2.45 Jonny Clifford
1.30 - 2.00 Jack Winn

see you there

We've got instruments and we know what there for... they're not taking life of going to war

Ok, Alt Track - the genre hoppers of the music scene. From Electro to Hip-Hop, Dub to Jazz, these two lads have been there. June the 6th brings the much anticipated debut album 'silence is approval'. Alt Track have been kind enough to there fans to upload the title track of the album onto their myspace.

This track is something a bit different to what they usually do, it uses live drums and an acoustic guitar - lets be honest, it's a stoke of genius. I Can easily see this song reaching Radio 1's in new music we trust as a regular.
I'm pretty sure Jo-Whiley would like to get her grubby hands all over this track for her show, unlucky boys.

We think you should all go listen to this king blues/gogol bordello-esque track.