Manchester School of Art Degree Show 2012

We went to see (a part of) the MMU art degree show yesterday, the bit that was at Quay House. Here are our favourite bits! If there's a picture of your work here and you don't want it to be, let us know and we'll take it down, soz.

Ruth Beesley

Shuk Yin Law

Ali Neilly

Ela Niznik

Katherine Lees

I Liked You Straight Away

Those of you who bought the zine might remember that we wrote a bit about the Middle Ones, and mentioned that they were going to be on tour with Jack 'Lesser' Lewis' Awkward Energy. Well, last night was the Manchester leg of the tour.

We never tire of seeing the Middle Ones, even though we've probably seen them about thirty times or something daft like that. Their new songs sound great, and they have a new album called 'Slow and Steady' that you can buy if you click on the bit that says 'Slow and Steady' back there.

I always thought of Jack Lewis as the sexier Lewis brother, but last night I came to realise that I think I probably prefer him to his more famous sibling. He was great! His album, which is out on the same label as the Middle Ones' thingy, can be bought here.

That's the album cover next to this bit of writing. At the end of Awkward Energy's set, they got Grace and Anna from the Middle Ones to do a bit of backing vocals and it was a lovely end to the proceedings.

If you happen to be reading this and you a) live in Liverpool and b) have no plans for this evening, I'd suggest that you go to Mello Mello this evening and see the Middle Ones. Jack Lewis is going home today, so he won't be there, but the Middle Ones will definitely be worth going to see.

Beluga Whale

One of us was asked to do a poster for a house gig that's happening in a few weeks. Here it is! It's at our friend Natalie's lovely canal-side house and I'm sure you'd be welcome to attend. Trust Fund used to be in the Bumblebees, who were pretty good, and Trust Fund sounds exciting too, like No Kids on a budget. That's a good thing!

Two White Cranes, I think, is Roxy who used to (Or still might even be) in the Mountain Parade and she used to be called Roxanne: The Early Years as well, if I remember rightly. Have a listen! Ratfangs, I've just learned, is Dominic from the Bell Peppers and Boy or Bison and probably millions of other bands besides.

If you want the more artistically talented half of Young Explorer to do a poster for your gig/night/bah mitzvah, send us an email* or tweet us or something.

* it sounded better in my head AT gmail dot com (sorry, i've had the email address since I was about 15 and have never thought of anything better)

See yer!

Moonrise Kingdom

We went to see the new Wes Anderson film the other day at the Cornerhouse. It was pretty good. Why not have a look at the trailer that we've helpfully embedded just under this writing? We reckon that if the zine/blog were a film, it'd be a lot like Moonrise Kingdom. Sadly we're nowhere near as cool as the two young explorers in the film.

I wanted to go and see Iron Sky, the new film about Nazis living on the moon, too, but sadly the Cornerhouse only had one screening of it and I didn't realise until too late. I think it might be out on DVD already, though, (A sure sign of its quality) so I'll be purchasing that from Amazon when payday comes.

Victoria Baths Zine Convention

We had a wonderful time at our first ever zine fair last saturday! It was so exciting to be selling all the things we have been working on the last few months to so many lovely people. Natalie, who organised the whole thing, had done a FANTASTIC job. We are already looking forward to next year to come back again. Now to arrange other stalls and start working on our second zine to fill the table a bit better.

Crime Zine

We can't wait for the zine convention this Saturday. Along with Young Explorer and our new ace badges, we have made a tiny zine of all our fave television detectives!!!!!!

Badges!

We've had some badges made! You'll be able to buy them from us at the Zine Convention on May 19th. Nice one.