It's July tomorrow, which means International zine month.
As with every year, I will try to follow it and realise I haven't done anything the day before it turns August!
I do have a few zine things I might try and complete during July....
Sugar Paper:
I think issue 17 is over halfway done and should definitely appear before July is over. It's full of sparkly things, unicorns, sweet things and bffs, and should be sponsored by food colouring!
Poor Lass:
We're still taking contributions for issue 7 of the zine I co-edit with top lass Em about being working class. This issue is about race and I have yet to write my piece for it.
for more information about the zine or contributing to issue 7 GO HERE!
Crisp zine:
After a few years of saying I am going to make a zine about crisps, I am FINALLY making a zine about crisps!
I've started some pieces I want to feature and already had a few submissions, it turns out lots of people love crisps!
If you do too and want to write a piece, a list, a love letter, a poem, draw a picture about your love of crisps, then email me: seleenalavernedaye@gmail.com
Brown Girls:
Been thinking about making Brown Girl 3 for a while, but not wanting to ask for any submissions whilst asking for submissions for Poor Lass and my crisps zine. Hoping to have a new one by Autumn, so for now I might start on a few pieces I have I want to put in myself. Think I'm going to write a lot about dancing in this issue!
Sick Sad World Tour:
I get to go on tour with a bunch of my faves again this year!! And I think we're going to do a split tour zine to take with us in August!
I'm also gonna try and get through my pile of to read zines I've picked up at zine fairs this year!
Thursday 30 June 2016
Whatevers
So Kandy and I formed a band, for one summer only whilst Yiiikes! have a mini break. We wanted to go on tour with our bffs again, we toyed around with forming a craft punx band, but instead decided we need to embrace our inner Cher and Dionne, so formed....
Making songs about being bffs, total betties and stuff!
We have some songs you can listen to....
and and Instagram for visual goodness @whatversuk
and we're going on tour with concept punx and mega babes The Potentials and FOMO in August!!
more info HERE
Making songs about being bffs, total betties and stuff!
We have some songs you can listen to....
and and Instagram for visual goodness @whatversuk
and we're going on tour with concept punx and mega babes The Potentials and FOMO in August!!
more info HERE
Thursday 23 June 2016
Twenty Years
Whilst we reach the halfway point of the new issue of Sugar paper (its a colourful sparkly affair!) I'm taking a time out to talk about ME! This blog is the things we make and do, and we haven't made much of late, I've got a week off, so let's write some stuff.
Twenty years, no we haven't been making Sugar Paper that long (it has been ten years this year though, that needs its own blog and party and line of merch!) but twenty years ago last week two things happened that I remember well/affected me greatly.
Twenty years ago, I had not long since turned 12, I was coming to the end of my first year in secondary school and was soaking up most 90s pop culture...
Saturday 15th June, I was sat in the door hole* of my back door on a bean bag soaking up the sun, possibly wearing stripy leggings when I earned a huge bang. At first I thought my wardrobe had fallen over, but it hadn't, then I thought someone had been shooting in the park on my street, but they hadn't.
Turns out Manchester had just been bombed.
We watched Granada tonight looking at the damage, amazed that no one got hurt (I remember one guy saying he saw a pregnant lady fly through the air!) And that the post box was still standing.
I don't know how long it was til I went into town after the bomb, I remember silly stuff like Topshop get rehoused in Debenhams basement and I used to g there with my sister so she could buy her vintage Adidas track tops and that a few years later M&S was rebuilt, this time the size of a football pitch and with bomb proof glass.
I'm not from Manchester. I was born in Bradford, but moved here when I was like 2, so Manchester is all I've known, I've never moved away and it would take a lot for me to.
Here are 20 things I like about Manchester....
1. Location- I obviously love living in the north, but I also love the fact Manchester is so close to other great cities. an our either side I'm in Liverpool or Leeds, another half an hour Sheffield, the north east. I even like how there's a super fast train to visit the BIG city from time to time.
2. Location part 2- It's also not too far away from beautiful places, the peak district, the lake district and North Wales. And we have close coast, although I spent all my summer holidays on the East coast (which is better shush!)
3. TV- I love watching TV and I'll watch anything that's set in Manchester (except Cold Feet, I some reason never watched that) I'm not a religious watcher of Corrie, but it pretty much invented the soap and it has lolz (Kylie used to come to my tap class) I loved the Royale Family when it aired and was OBSESSED with Queer as Folk (I used to take a dance class with Donna) and Scott and Bailey is pure class.
4. The worker bee- I said I wanted a bee tattoo a few years back and it is THE hip tattoo to get round here, but I love that the Manchester emblem is the bee. The worker bee, representing hard work dates back to the Industrial revolution.
5. Cottonopolis- this is also the new hip thing, I saw a bar called this the other day and it wasn't even themed, no bar made out of a weaving loom or owt, pfft. But yeah as someone who makes tetxtile art it feels good to live in a city that during the industrial revolution was at the forefront of textile production.
6. Music- ok so I dislike nearly all Manchester bands, Oasis, Stone roses, The Smiths, The Fall, M people, Take Shat, Simply Red, Happy Mondays you get the idea, I don't mind the odd buzzcocks song, but on a whole, nah. I DO however like the fact that most of these bands are made up of unlikely stars (ok mostly men but...) mostly a bunch of working class mates who probably got told at school they wouldn't make owt of themselves. and for that I appreciate it!
7. Architecture- I love old mills, even after a boy in my class at school died in one from falling through the floor. and there's a lot in Manchester. Not too fussed about all the new shiny shit, but apparently we have a great skyline now!
8. Greenery- along with the MANY buildings there are there's some great parks, there's a park on the end of my street and I live just down the road from Heaton Park.
9. Canals- there's canals too. I used to walk down the canal to get to Children's world and to get to Newton Heath to buy trolls, they were always filled with shit, but I like canals!
10. Museums/galleries- we have a good selection of free museums and galleries, my favourite is The museum of science and industry, this was always my favourite trip at school, the weaving looms, the trains, the flight simulator, the sewer with fake shit and that weird baby funeral.
11. Weather- I actually hate rain, and much like the Northwest of America, we've adopted the name the rainy city. It rains here a lot BUT I think that makes me seem hard, plus it means if I go anywhere else it's a nice surprise when it doesn't rain.
12. Vimto- I like vimto, its my favourite cordial. It comes from Manchester.
13. Afflecks Palace- I may scoff now like an old alt at Afflecks, but I spent many years here, first as a shopping teen, where I made friends, then working in the bead shop for 3 1/2 years where I met some of my best mates, then another year and a half owning my own shop, where again I made more great friends.
14. Size- Manchester is actually quite small compared to other major cities over the world and I like (well 90%) of the time, that I can go to the city centre and see someone I know. It's a manageable size without being too small.
15. Accents- there are a great range of accents in the Greater Manchester borough, I'm big on regional accents.
16. Manchester tart- it tastes nice!
17. Sense of Humour- ok so I probably can't generalise that All Mancunians are funny (we've produced a lot of famous funny folk though) but I feel like on a whole we don't mind having a laugh at ourselves.
18. Granada studio tour- ok so this no longer exists as its all media city now, but I loved it here, walking down the coronation street cobbles!
19. Life changing figures- like Emmeline Pankhurst and Alan Turing.
20. Tough- the fact people think cuz I'm from Manchester I'm dead hard!
Here is a video that young people from the youth centre I volunteer at made about the Manchester bombing....
still with me... OK
Monday 17th June, I was probably in school eating my packed lunch by first lesson. It's also the day Placebo released their debut album.
Anyone that knows me, or knew me through my entire teen years, will know I was a Placebo OBSESSIVE!
I like being a fan of stuff, I like to be passionate like stuff and if I like something I really LOVE it.
My Placebo obsession took up a huge part of my life. I don't mid though, being a fan is one of my favourite hobbies. But twenty years ago I maybe didn't know what was to come!
I didn't know they would open the floodgates for me being an obsessive fan of things!
So for the first time ever I'm compiling my top 20 favourite Placebo songs!
(in a sort of order!)
1. Bionic
2. 36 Degrees
3. You Don't Care about Us
4. Hang on to your IQ
5. Teenage Angst
6. Allergic (to thoughts of mother earth)
7. Miss Moneypenny
8. Scared of Girls
9. Slackerbitch
10. Kitsch Object
11. Come Home
12. Ask for Answers
13. Brick Shithouse
14. Days before you came
15. Second Sight
16. Bruise Pristine
17. Drowning by Numbers
18. Narcoleptic
19. Drag
20. Special Needs
Here's a song they made about twenty years!
(lol at Molkos mullet!)
Twenty years, no we haven't been making Sugar Paper that long (it has been ten years this year though, that needs its own blog and party and line of merch!) but twenty years ago last week two things happened that I remember well/affected me greatly.
Twenty years ago, I had not long since turned 12, I was coming to the end of my first year in secondary school and was soaking up most 90s pop culture...
Saturday 15th June, I was sat in the door hole* of my back door on a bean bag soaking up the sun, possibly wearing stripy leggings when I earned a huge bang. At first I thought my wardrobe had fallen over, but it hadn't, then I thought someone had been shooting in the park on my street, but they hadn't.
Turns out Manchester had just been bombed.
We watched Granada tonight looking at the damage, amazed that no one got hurt (I remember one guy saying he saw a pregnant lady fly through the air!) And that the post box was still standing.
I don't know how long it was til I went into town after the bomb, I remember silly stuff like Topshop get rehoused in Debenhams basement and I used to g there with my sister so she could buy her vintage Adidas track tops and that a few years later M&S was rebuilt, this time the size of a football pitch and with bomb proof glass.
I'm not from Manchester. I was born in Bradford, but moved here when I was like 2, so Manchester is all I've known, I've never moved away and it would take a lot for me to.
Here are 20 things I like about Manchester....
1. Location- I obviously love living in the north, but I also love the fact Manchester is so close to other great cities. an our either side I'm in Liverpool or Leeds, another half an hour Sheffield, the north east. I even like how there's a super fast train to visit the BIG city from time to time.
2. Location part 2- It's also not too far away from beautiful places, the peak district, the lake district and North Wales. And we have close coast, although I spent all my summer holidays on the East coast (which is better shush!)
3. TV- I love watching TV and I'll watch anything that's set in Manchester (except Cold Feet, I some reason never watched that) I'm not a religious watcher of Corrie, but it pretty much invented the soap and it has lolz (Kylie used to come to my tap class) I loved the Royale Family when it aired and was OBSESSED with Queer as Folk (I used to take a dance class with Donna) and Scott and Bailey is pure class.
4. The worker bee- I said I wanted a bee tattoo a few years back and it is THE hip tattoo to get round here, but I love that the Manchester emblem is the bee. The worker bee, representing hard work dates back to the Industrial revolution.
5. Cottonopolis- this is also the new hip thing, I saw a bar called this the other day and it wasn't even themed, no bar made out of a weaving loom or owt, pfft. But yeah as someone who makes tetxtile art it feels good to live in a city that during the industrial revolution was at the forefront of textile production.
6. Music- ok so I dislike nearly all Manchester bands, Oasis, Stone roses, The Smiths, The Fall, M people, Take Shat, Simply Red, Happy Mondays you get the idea, I don't mind the odd buzzcocks song, but on a whole, nah. I DO however like the fact that most of these bands are made up of unlikely stars (ok mostly men but...) mostly a bunch of working class mates who probably got told at school they wouldn't make owt of themselves. and for that I appreciate it!
7. Architecture- I love old mills, even after a boy in my class at school died in one from falling through the floor. and there's a lot in Manchester. Not too fussed about all the new shiny shit, but apparently we have a great skyline now!
8. Greenery- along with the MANY buildings there are there's some great parks, there's a park on the end of my street and I live just down the road from Heaton Park.
9. Canals- there's canals too. I used to walk down the canal to get to Children's world and to get to Newton Heath to buy trolls, they were always filled with shit, but I like canals!
10. Museums/galleries- we have a good selection of free museums and galleries, my favourite is The museum of science and industry, this was always my favourite trip at school, the weaving looms, the trains, the flight simulator, the sewer with fake shit and that weird baby funeral.
11. Weather- I actually hate rain, and much like the Northwest of America, we've adopted the name the rainy city. It rains here a lot BUT I think that makes me seem hard, plus it means if I go anywhere else it's a nice surprise when it doesn't rain.
12. Vimto- I like vimto, its my favourite cordial. It comes from Manchester.
13. Afflecks Palace- I may scoff now like an old alt at Afflecks, but I spent many years here, first as a shopping teen, where I made friends, then working in the bead shop for 3 1/2 years where I met some of my best mates, then another year and a half owning my own shop, where again I made more great friends.
14. Size- Manchester is actually quite small compared to other major cities over the world and I like (well 90%) of the time, that I can go to the city centre and see someone I know. It's a manageable size without being too small.
15. Accents- there are a great range of accents in the Greater Manchester borough, I'm big on regional accents.
16. Manchester tart- it tastes nice!
17. Sense of Humour- ok so I probably can't generalise that All Mancunians are funny (we've produced a lot of famous funny folk though) but I feel like on a whole we don't mind having a laugh at ourselves.
18. Granada studio tour- ok so this no longer exists as its all media city now, but I loved it here, walking down the coronation street cobbles!
19. Life changing figures- like Emmeline Pankhurst and Alan Turing.
20. Tough- the fact people think cuz I'm from Manchester I'm dead hard!
Here is a video that young people from the youth centre I volunteer at made about the Manchester bombing....
still with me... OK
Monday 17th June, I was probably in school eating my packed lunch by first lesson. It's also the day Placebo released their debut album.
Anyone that knows me, or knew me through my entire teen years, will know I was a Placebo OBSESSIVE!
I like being a fan of stuff, I like to be passionate like stuff and if I like something I really LOVE it.
My Placebo obsession took up a huge part of my life. I don't mid though, being a fan is one of my favourite hobbies. But twenty years ago I maybe didn't know what was to come!
I didn't know they would open the floodgates for me being an obsessive fan of things!
So for the first time ever I'm compiling my top 20 favourite Placebo songs!
(in a sort of order!)
1. Bionic
2. 36 Degrees
3. You Don't Care about Us
4. Hang on to your IQ
5. Teenage Angst
6. Allergic (to thoughts of mother earth)
7. Miss Moneypenny
8. Scared of Girls
9. Slackerbitch
10. Kitsch Object
11. Come Home
12. Ask for Answers
13. Brick Shithouse
14. Days before you came
15. Second Sight
16. Bruise Pristine
17. Drowning by Numbers
18. Narcoleptic
19. Drag
20. Special Needs
Here's a song they made about twenty years!
(lol at Molkos mullet!)
Monday 13 June 2016
North West Zine Fest
That's right North West zine fest is back!
SATURDAY 18th JUNE
This year it's being held in Salford, but pretty much Manchester and I'm always super excited when there's a zine fest on my doorstop.
The new Sugar Paper won't be ready (in fact wont have any new zines) but will have a bunch of Sugar Paper's, Poor Lass, Brown Girl and other treats like stickers, pin badges, post cards, stickers and totes!
Be great to see you all down there.
More info HERE.
poster by Saffa K who did the cover for Sugar Paper #15!
SATURDAY 18th JUNE
This year it's being held in Salford, but pretty much Manchester and I'm always super excited when there's a zine fest on my doorstop.
The new Sugar Paper won't be ready (in fact wont have any new zines) but will have a bunch of Sugar Paper's, Poor Lass, Brown Girl and other treats like stickers, pin badges, post cards, stickers and totes!
Be great to see you all down there.
More info HERE.
poster by Saffa K who did the cover for Sugar Paper #15!
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