Battle of the Bands 2010 Heat 2 coverage: featuring band photos, live tracks, performance photos, and videos from The Black Dogs, Operation Condor, Clockwork Heart, Digital Earth, Cannibal Fish, and Gerard Butler and his Finest.

“I never really know what to call the type of art i create. It is compulsive like outsider art but can never be classed as this as i am studying art and have a greater awareness. So i like to think of myself as an inside out artist. Everything inside comes out and it still would even if i were a plumber…”

“So… What do you get when you cross an angel-faced singer with an Indian, two guys with varying amounts of afro, and a bass-playing corporate sell-out?

Turns out, not much… except for some seriously fun rock n’ roll! It sounds like what’d happen if Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd really were friends, and liked to jam on Zeppelin tunes, while living as hobos getting hung for murder, yet finding the time to drive fast cars…”

Title: KEENO KINO
Location: Kelsey’s (upstairs), Leamington Spa, England
Date: 2010/02/08
Time: 20:00 til late
Description: A night of invigorating illusory motion created by Warwick students. Hosted by B-SIDE EMPIRE, Warwick Film Studies Society, and TapFactory. Featuring the premieres of Talking Tough In A Town Called Defiance by Daniel Andreas Neofetou and He Ain’t Pretty No More by Daniel Montanarini.

Also showing are films by …

“VIEWFINDER is a monthly photobook collaboratively produced by Yasmine Hussain and Lydia Garnett who met on the Photography BA in Brighton 2007. In September 2008 they began producing the photobooks as an outlet for the vast amount of images they were accumulating, a loosely themed 16 page selection of their photographs and to accompany- an online blog…”

I sit here, I am alone and still. As father speaks, he paces the room, a cellar room, lined with an old red carpet and painted a faded pink; a decorative choice I had assumed was here when we moved in. He talked slowly, choosing his words carefully, each with caution and attention, but also with unbridled excitement…”

“Phrazer produces Minimal Techno and House, with glitchy tech elements to make progressive minimal dance music with passion.”

“Language is both our freedom and our restraint. Books have the power to influence, educate and inspire us. There is often a guilt associated with classic books we haven’t read. My work explores books that have inspired me. These revisited books begin to create my own list of books to be read. Reading leaves no material trace, but can forever change and alter our outlook and perceptions. This work attempts to create a trace of reading and interpretation…”

“”Underdogs Music’s love affair with The Fanclub began back in May, when top Underdog Faye Hunter came to be on the panel of JD Unsigned. The Fanclub made it all the way to the finals, by which point Faye was utterly hooked on the band’s sound, and determined to be involved in seeing the Bournemouth 3 piece’s potential unveiled…”

“I have a huge love for music and thats where the inspiration comes from in some of my favourite pieces. Some of my work is self-initiated but most of it is my outcome to a brief given by university.

Seen as though this industry is based on opinion of what is good design and what is not, I try and produce work to satisfy myself, to create a portfolio that reflects myself, and not a collection of opinions.”

“This fortmonth:‘Adaptation’, ‘The Darjeeling Limited’, ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’, ‘Humpday’, ‘I Love You Beth Cooper’, ‘In Search of a Midnight Kiss’, ‘Jennifer’s Body’, ‘Paper Heart’, ‘Shopgirl’, ‘Sour Grapes’, ‘What’s Up, Doc?’, ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ and ‘Where the Wild Things are’.

I went to the cinema a few times and got popcorn every single time…”

“i am MY NAME IS IAN. my name is really is Ian. Im 22 and play a mixture of things from sad songs to songs about Rolf Harris on a small child’s guitar.”

It was what the aged folks referred to as ‘a high old time’,
or what the papers might call ‘a drink and drugs binge’.
He was a drifter, sometimes. Spent a while in a penthouse flat,
in New York, New York, til they caught up with him.
With his suit and scent, he’d shoot up in 7th floor apartments
with chicanos, cutting up with their green cards and putting
the world to rights. An hour later, he’d be shaking hands with
Senators.
In between the flat and the Brooklyn brownstone, he’d scatter
singles like pignuts to the dispossessed. One …

“Idler, scrounger, loafer, waistcoat devotee and appreciator of fancy biscuits. Has been known to wear hats. Police say foul play cannot be ruled out.”

“Facing the Other in the guise of twin or double, we sense a
threat to our idea of personal identity, yet we are teased and
delighted by the odd prospect of becoming ‘otherwise’.”
- John Lash, Twins and the Double

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B-Side Empire would like to wish you all…
a MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and hopefully you’re all done recovering from turkey/ham/roast chicken/roast beef overdose…and are ready to party tomorrow night to welcome the new year!
We’d also like to thank you all for your contributions and support in helping us to make B-Side Empire happen last year. We look forward to welcoming the new year and are excited for what is in store for B-Side Empire come 2010.

All the best,
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So here we are…THIS IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEW WEBSITE AND WHAT IS COMING UP!!!
00:00:00:00, Wednesday 8th December 2009
On the newly designed B-SIDE EMPIRE website, after a very much hyped up couple of months I hope that the site design is to your satisfaction! Considering that I am not a web-designer nor have ever learned to be one, it’s not THAT bad right?! Haha. Anyway, things will probably change around more times than you can blink…
Again, we’d like to apologize for the delay in bringing you …

“I unintentionally find myself taking on the role of a social documenter, presenting drawing’s that begin their existence as mundane occurrences, relying heavily on impulse and association in order for an image transformation…”

“Well what to say except that I’m a musician from Edinburgh and I’ve been song writing for as long as I can remember. I’ve played live gigs extensively within a band dynamic but as a solo artist I’ve only played a few times (but with an willing attitude to remedy this!). I greatly appreciate any attention to my work so thanks if your listening!”