Posted by Howard on 29 January 2010 | 0 Comments
“To celebrate our 3rd Birthday (we’re getting old now….we can tie our own shoes n all that) we’ve brought back some Rapsploitation Sessions favourites, got one of the best UK Mc’s we haven’t had played before & doing suttin a little different to our usual with a live band…....still with the same Rapsploi party atmosphere….”
The biggest, baddest, barmiest birthday party happens on February 4 at the Swan in Ipswich as Rapsloitation Sessions celebrates its 3rd anniversary in some style.
Stig of the Dump and Dr. Syntax, Jack Flash and Ipswich’s hottest new act Millionaires by Morning (special feature on these guys next issue), will all be tearing up Damian’s respectable establishment.
Not just the only alternative for next Thursday, this gig is your only option!
Posted by Howard on 15 January 2010 | 6 Comments
10 issues of IP1 magazine!
Ipswich music scene hero Andrew Culture and Ipswich upstart Sinfonic give the lowdown on what local music label Corndog Records was serving up back in 2003 – shamelessly self-promoting Junk Culture and Sinfonic, as well as other acts of the day (and today) OK Hotel, Jucci Da Funk, Dan Foden and one: day: life.
Also featuring in this bright orange edition was urban art photography by Ollie Salmon, graphic art by Chris Boyle, plus a review of the superb rock ‘n’ roll band The Dawn Parade.
Posted by Howard on 15 January 2010 | 0 Comments
Graffiti and urban-inspired art adorned issue 9 as IP1 featured the local skillz of Nik Etheridge and Martin X.
Ipswich’s greatest free mag also contained interviews with excellent Ipswich indie-punk band Violent Playground, zine maestro and Ippo punk legend Wolfie Retard, plus the truly exceptional, and recently BBC Jazz Award nominated Polly Gibbons from Framlingham. If ever a singer’s voice belied their age, here it is.
Posted by Howard on 15 January 2010 | 0 Comments
“Our everyday lives became Moss’ subjects; a woman brushing her hair, people watching a film, a couple kissing and soldier’s playing cards.”
The work of one of Ipswich’s most prestigious and uncompromising visual artists, Colin Moss, is on show at a new exhibition at Gallery 3, Ipswich Town Hall Galleries until June.
Moss, who died in December 2005, was renowned for portraying the honest and gritty realities of urban and working class life in Ipswich and London.
January 16 – June 12 2010, Gallery 3, Ipswich Town Hall Galleries | FREE
Posted by Leah on 13 January 2010 | 0 Comments
Faster Than Sound is back this year on Saturday 30 January.
Inspired by J. B. Priestley’s timeless classic, Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore – writers, film-makers, graphic novelists, and psycho-geographers – undertake their own journeys across our England. Their first steps together, the opening chapter, is a journey to Aldeburgh. Joined by song collector and writer Shirley Collins, Susan Stenger, Graham Dolphin, and German found-object percussionist F. M. Einheit, they map a place in the here and now. Electronic graffiti, folk music and unique writing styles form An English Journey – ReImagined, at Aldeburgh Music.
For more information and to book tickets, please click here
Posted by Howard on 12 January 2010 | 0 Comments
Issue 7, published in Summer 2002, featured Ipswich’s very own robot hero, Ian Swann, part of the formidable Robot Wars trio Team Chaos that created two times Championship-winning mechanical monster Chaos 2.
Also inside were Suffolk scratch-mix DJ’s and three-times DMC finalists The Plagiawrists – members of which P&O (Precise and Olson) had also teamed up with IpCity legend and lone lyricist Ezra (Izzyra) at the time, to form UK hip hop act Vinyl Dialect. Haven’t ever heard of this act or their 2004 Bad Magic released album Dialect? Then take a listen to it here.
Posted by Howard on 11 January 2010 | 0 Comments
“Using a mixture of sound and light, our technological curiosities will delight, surprise and perhaps confound”
Those nerdy art dudes, the Curiosity Collective, are at it again the weekend after next when their regular haunt, St Mary at Quay church, Ipswich, will be the setting for an illuminating show bound only by the sub zero temperatures of the venue.
It’s free and highly original, so take 15 minutes out of your life and go to The Dark Show.
Posted by Howard on 11 January 2010 | 0 Comments
Free CD - yeah!!!
This sexy camouflaged edition of IP1 was a music special (hence the CD, which featured tracks from local urban talent such as Stupid Fresh, Hectic Squad and Groove Criminals).
Issue 8 also provided How To guides on… Starting a Pirate Radio Station, Making It as a Rock Super Star, Becoming a DJ, and Making a Record in Your Bedroom, as well as an interview with new urban record label Famtree Records from Ipswich.
Oh, and Ben Meredith also wrote an eye-popping account of his time spent at a swinging party in San Francisco. Easily the filthiest article ever published by IP1, it remains locked away in our archives as an all-time classic!
Posted by Howard on 07 January 2010 | 0 Comments
Legendary Radio 1 DJ, John Peel, adorns the front cover of IP1. John declares Miss Black America – a pop punk precursive indie rock outfit from Bury St Edmunds – as one of his favourite bands. Also described by Rolling Stone magazine as ‘The Best Band in Britain’ in 2002, Miss Black America formed in 1999 and enjoyed several highs along the way until eventually calling it a day in 2006.
Also featuring in issue 6 is King Billy and The Marvellous (later The Marvelous), a mad mash-up of a band sounding somewhere left of psychedelic that went on to be one of the most-adored local pub bands of all time. ‘King Billy’ somehow also make a full appearance in issue 14 (an editorial slip, or just a case of us loving this band too much?)
Posted by Howard on 05 January 2010 | 0 Comments
The first of several re-launches; this issue of IP1 was designed on a computer!
Much was made of Ipswich club life back in November 2001, with editor Tom Greig pointing to an unhealthy renaissance taking place in the town as newly opened and reopened commercial venues Pals, Liquid, Kartouche and Sound Academy began to dominate the local scene, dishing up stodgy chart or cheese orientated dance music and pushing out successful local artists and promoters who had surfaced as major faces on the UK drum n bass scene – the likes of Photek, Plaid, Kirk Degiorgio, Certificate 18 and Paul Arnold of Phunk Chunk.
Also in issue 5 was an interview with Guinness drinking, Partridge watching, cigar smoking, semi professional trolley stealing, Time Stood Still – a local hardcore punk rock band who I can’t find anywhere on the net. Guess they never made it!
