Alternative Press Festival Day 3: "A Spoken Night Out!" 31st July 2009 video

Alternative Press Festival Day 3: "A Spoken Night Out!" 31st July 2009

This was a fun night out. This night gave poets, some of which featured in the "Publish You" book a chance to read out some of their poems. I got up too and did a bit of stand up. It went down well, they seemed to enjoy my stories. This night was organised by Ceri May and Chris Bateson.

I managed to film some of it, but had a few camera problems that night, my memory card was full and my battery died all at the same time.

Here is the link to watch the video of me: http://vimeo.com/5945196

I will upload the footage of the others I got at a later date.

Alternative Press Festival Day 2: "Are You Zine Friendly?" 30th July 2009

"Are You Zine Friendly?" the 2nd day of the 5 day Alternative Press Festival 2009. This event was held in the basement of the Foundry and was organised by Gareth Brookes. This event like the book launch also had a really good turn out. We had one big communal table where people left their zines and comics to be sold while they took part in the Collaborating area, enjoyed live music and drew on the giant sketch books Gareth made and had hanging from the Foundry walls. The whole night had a really good exciting vibe and the time went really quickly. We also had some welcome and unexpected guests including a guy from the evening standard who interviewed Gareth and Jimi and we also had a lady from Dazed and Confused who interviewed the whole team including myself, Jimi, Peter, Gareth, Ceri and Chris. Lets hope they wrote nice stuff about us.


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Alternative Press Festival Day 1:"Publish You" Book Launch 29th July 2009

29th of July was the day of our book launch and the 1st day of our five day Alternative Press Festival. It was a very proud day for me seeing the 1st book I ever designed being launched. Actually it was a very proud day for all of us that were involved in the book.
We had a really great response and the Housmans Radical Book Shop where we had the launch was totally packed out, we could barley move.

We also had some interest from various people including a couple who were filming the book launch and are going to be making a documentary on the whole festival. We also got interviewed buy a lady who works for a website called Creative Choices who is going to use our interview on a pod cast for her website. So going to be keeping a look out for that. I also filmed some of the book launch myself and I'm going to upload the videos and my speech when I get a chance.

The book showcases some of what's going on in the small press scene including, illustration, comics, poetry, art books and zines.

The work for the book was selected and compiled by Jimi Gherkin, Peter Lally ,Gareth Brookes and myself. We had to make a lot of hard choices and agree as a group.

New postcards

These came the other day, I got a reprint of some of my old postcards for the festival, but decided to add a pair of sun glasses to it. So these are kind of a limited edition festival version of my old post cards.

Book Launch add for back of programme

Busy times, here is the add I made for the back of the festival programme.

Last night was the book launch of the book I designed and put together for the Alternative Press. The book launch was at the Housmans radical booksellers. The place was fully packed out, we had a really big crowd. Hopefully I will be able to upload pictures and talks that took place on the night.

Craft making day for the Alternative Press Festival

Last Saturday, I was helping out some of the guys with making banners for the Alternative Press Festival. Here are some of the pictures I took on the day. I used the panoramic mode on the camera phone.

Finished working on book

This is my 1st blog entry in a while. I have been really busy working on the book. Here are some pictures of when I was trying to work out the order of some of the entries and the layout of some of the other pages. It's all done now and uploaded to the printers ftp site, received the cover proof and now just waiting for the printers to print the books. Can't wait till they arrive, this is the 1st book I've ever put together , designed, and got ready for print. The book launch should be good.