BlankPages: Issue 43
Download blankpages: Issue 43
Featured Track
Our featured track this month is Throwing Notes At Neighbours by Bug and Leaf
Welcome! What can we say? It's hit the 43 issues mark and we're at the beginning of another year and it's time for blankpages to go bi-monthly. This announcement comes after much discussion – it's time for us to focus on really taking blankpages up to the next level and to do this we need to dedicate some serious time and effort. If you can be patient with us it will be well worth it.
But worry not! February's blankpages is enough to keep you going for two months until April. Becky Allen's mesmerising fractal-esque geometric drawings will keep you staring at your screen for almost all that time. But if you can drag your eyes away you'll experience AJ Kirby's tender yet unsettling tale of transference in a 'fertility forest', the refreshing simplicity of Ross Phillips' illustrations and an instantly accessible single piece of longer poetry from Tutku Barbaros.
And deftly bugstepping from storyteller to music journalist is David Hartley, who presents this month's mp3 from Salford electronica duo Bug and Leaf.
Ever roaming the cultural landscape for its wonders is our Features Editor Sarah Handyside, and this time she's bringing us Kaffeeklatsch – an unassuming, clever bunch of poets and critics whose manifesto alone is worth perusing; riding that tricky line between poking fun and actually saying something meaningful and worthwhile.
And the pastry underneath our blogging-pin this month is ANBAD, doing all the hard work of finding a new (decent!) band EVERY DAY for your good selves.
How will you possibly get through it all in 2 little months?
See you in April!
Issue 43 Featured Artists
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Becky Allen
Based in London, Becky Allen gained a BA in Graphic Design from at Camberwell College of Arts and is currently studying for a MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art. Working with 2 dimensional practices her current work looks at surface, focusing on extreme detail. She will be exhibiting at Art Work Space, London in March 2012.
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AJ Kirby
Andy lives in Leeds, UK with his girlfriend Heidi and his incredibly noisy, but lucky cat, Eric. He started writing after losing out in a game show hosted by Les Dennis.
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Ross Phillips
Ross is an animator from Gateshead, now living in Manchester. He studied animation at Sunderland University, graduated in 2008 and has been working freelance since summer 2010.
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Tutku Barbaros
Tutku writes poetry among other things. She studied English and Drama at Sussex University, where she appeared in an anthology of creative writing. She is also a photographer and part of the London theatre group Rugged Isaac.
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Bug and Leaf
AKA Rick Hartley and Tom Leah are an exciting new Manchester-based ambient dubstep duo not to be overlooked. Through their use of sample pads, effects pedals, loop pedals, live instruments and vocals, they bring their well refined productions to the stage. 2011/2012 promises the arrival of fresh debut productions from the young pair as well as the opportunity to experience the carefully made, beat driven sounds that are stepping the UK music scene in new directions.
Keep your eyes on these guys...
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Kaffeeklatsch
Kaffeeklatsch is a journal of new poetry and criticism, based in Manchester but ambitiously outward-looking. Editorial interest lies particularly in creativity with respect to content, or form, or both. Translation, experiment, complication,and humour are all important to the magazine.
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A New Band A Day
On A New Band A Day you’ll find a new band a day posted for you to investigate and see if you like. That’s how we came up with the title of the blog. We’re not rocket scientists, you know. We publish a simple mix of brand new bands, and new music writing from new music writers. But here’s the important bit that defines ANBAD: a core belief that there’s no merit in consistency. This is most important. We try really hard to find new bands that you don’t find on other websites. We’re proud that you won’t always find the same bunch of bands here that you’ll find on a lot of other new music websites that play it safe and showcase ‘approved’ up-and-coming bands.
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blankpages Team
- Editor: John Leyland
- Assistant Editor: Abigail Ledger-Lomas
- Fiction Editor:
- Poetry Editor:
- Music Editor: Baz Wilkinson
- Features Editor: Sarah Handyside
- Features Editor: Rebecca Owens
- Visual Editor / Designer: Michael Thorp
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