We have officially shortened the name of our monthly Bring Out Your Dead events to BOYD and changed our tagline to A Patchwork Of Eclectic Sounds. The posters are now designed by Gareth Courage and we are trying to move the night away from being a purely electronic night and focus on eclectic and explorative sounds regardless of genre. The night is still held at the Bull’s Head in Moseley and runs the first Thursday of the month.
BOYD 5 A Patchwork Of Eclectic Sounds
Samekhimem
Papa November
Arc Vel
The Quite Good DJs
Visuals by Hellocatfood
Containing ‘Able’ a masterclass in lo-fi subtlety that featured in one of the Wire Magazines Tapper CD series, Them Use Them’s Gravity You Lucky Lucky Boy is finally available to buy and download directly from us, forget iTunes, Amazon and Spotify and support the fold directly!
Them Use Them’s Gravity you lucky lucky boy is available to buy directly from first fold, as a competitively priced digital package, containing High Quality MP3 or Apple Lossless Audio files and artwork created specially for the downloadable edition of the release. Twelve tracks.
The release is also available on CD, generic digipacks are used to house first fold CD releases that are limited to 100 copies. Artists involved in creating the music have responsibility for customising the digipacks, creating a truly unique product.
£8.00 GBP anywhere in the world, price includes postage and packaging
In an attempt to prevent winter blues we have been busying ourselves with much needed and long promised updates to our release pages, we are working towards embeding steaming players and buy buttons for all our back catalogue releases, here are the latest updates:
Our designer Alex Bermingham, who is behind first fold’s branding and visual identity, has been busy creating a new and very exciting set of logos, type and branding for first fold books. Alex’s work is ahead of our second volume of premier pli and a new dedicated website for first fold books, more details to follow.
Some digitally captured moments from Bring Out Your Dead III in November. We tend to have a photographer capturing the events but this time our iphone’s and cheap cameras had to do, apologies for the poor quality but you get the idea!
A couple of shots by John Hanson of first fold’s stall at the New Art Gallery Walsall’s Book Fair on Saturday the 26th November. We had lot’s of fun , the atmosphere was great, we got to see some fantastic work, swap some issues of premier pli, cover petrol costs and lunch. Thank you to the organizers for inviting us and making us feel so welcome!
Ben applies the ‘hard sell’ technique whilst Stuart messes on Twitter.
Stuart has flashbacks of his days as a till monkey whilst Ben tries the ‘stare out the customer’ approach.
The old school filter suits the table arrangement perfectly. Some of our fellow exhibitors.
We are thrilled to be participants in New Art Gallery Walsall’s Artists’ Book and Independent Publishing Fair on Saturday 26November 2011, 12-4pm. At their annual event you will be able to buy affordable books, zines and multiples by artists from the UK and beyond, including posters, limited edition CD’s and magazines from the first fold stall.
Gareth Courage has created an artist image for Philip Bergren who has recorded a great album for first fold of simple yet knowing acoustic guitar and voice songs, we heasitate to call them folk or singer songwriter songs, the fact is we like his music and can’t wait to release his wonderful hear-felt songs.
Bring Out Your Dead or as someone called it ‘Bring Out Your Dad’ returns to the Bull’s Head in Moseley on the 24th of November, from the fold stable we have Deep Grass and Papa November and Marclar brings Chairmaker, Lachenalia and Boss Turbo Doesn’t Afraid Of Anything, BOYD events should be like those old sound system battles where first fold sound system battles it out with an opponent for bass frequency supremacy… or something. Anyway come along to our end of the month shindig, for £3 OTD and reasonably priced beer who is complaining! you get some electronic shenanigans and visuals by the very talented hellocatfood thrown in the mix.
We are currently working with Rachel Marclar who is a promoter for the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath and the Bull’s Head in Moseley, both venues have hosted amazing music over the years. We are developing a monthly night, that will featuring live experimental sounds and bespoke visuals. We have two more events lined up for the last Thursday of the month (also known as skint Thursday) The next event, BOYD III is at the Bull’s Head on the 24th of November. In the mean time, here are some shots Hennessey Davies took during BOYD II that took place on the 27th of October 2011 at the Bull’s Head.
James Davies from Spunkle unveiled his new project Deep Grass
Deep Grass with his wonderfully strange Mobius Megatar
Them Use Them rocking the mad scientist look
This shot captures Them Use Them’s static drenched set
Stuart and Kipp from Papa November
James, Stuart and Kipp the current Papa November live lineup
Ben applies the ‘hard sell’ technique whilst Stuart messes on Twitter.
Stuart has flashbacks of his days as a till monkey whilst Ben tries the ‘stare out the customer’ approach.
The old school filter suits the table arrangement perfectly. Some of our fellow exhibitors.
James Davies from Spunkle unveiled his new project Deep Grass
Deep Grass with his wonderfully strange Mobius Megatar
Them Use Them rocking the mad scientist look
This shot captures Them Use Them’s static drenched set
Stuart and Kipp from Papa November
James, Stuart and Kipp the current Papa November live lineup
Juneau Brothers our guest performers
Brother Phil Juneau
One of Juneau’s fantastic instruments
