Typical Girls

I've run a night called Typical Girls on-and-off since 2010-ish, playing women fronted music and organising gigs to showcase women in bands. I started it in Sheffield and I've been thinking about finally organising a Typical Girls night in Manchester for a while so I'm ridiculously excited. There are a few of us organising it this time and we've had an amazing response from other people wanting to get involved too. We'll have bands and a zine stall and other lovely things and will hopefully raise some money for Rape Crisis.

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PEGASVS

This video / song, just wow ~~~~~~~

PEGASVS 'La melodía del afilador' from CANADA on Vimeo.

Epitaph For My Heart

I've just finished a lovely commision to illustrate one of my favourite Magnetic Fields' songs, Epitaph For My Heart.

Dance Yrself Fitter Artwork

Here's the poster and flyer that I designed for mine and my boyfriend's clubnight at The Star and Garter in Manchester, featuring Siouxsie Sioux and Lizzy Mercier Descloux! I used the same cut n' paste trad fanzine style that I used on my Typical Girls posters because it's super fun and fairly quick to do and I really love the aesthetic that you get with it. The first night went really well and I've already started organising the next one!

Underachievers Hooded Fang Poster

My most recent poster commission was an updated version of a poster for Manchester clubnight Underachievers Please Try Harder advertising their Hooded Fang gig at The Castle in Manchester's Northern Quarter. 

While I'm on the subject of Hooded Fang, I absolutely lovelovelove this single and the amazing animation that goes with it!

Sadly I didn't actually get to go to this gig as I was at the clubnight that me and my boyfriend organise, artwork for which will be in the next post!

Standard Fare / Tigercats / The Birthday Kiss

Another gig poster for Underachievers Please Try Harder.

Eardrums Pop / Sun Sister

Single cover for Sun Sister on EardrumsPop Records.

Shrag

Shrag / Evans the Death / Chips for the Poor gig poster for Beautiful Strange.

Nothing Matters When We're Dancing

The loveliest personal commission ever! Illustration of the Magnetic Fields' song Nothing Matters When We're Dancing from the first disc of 69 Love Songs. To sound really melodramatic, I can't put into words how much I love The Magnetic Fields or how much of an effect their music has had on me in the last couple of years. I saw them play at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester a few weeks ago and was swooning all over the place.

Shura

Another poster for Beautiful  Strange. Shura describes her music as "night-folk" which I think is one of the loveliest names for a genre that I've ever heard ever.

Discount Horse

Flyer for Discount Horse Records.

Pull Yourself Together

Gig poster for Pull Yourself Together. This is the second poster I've done for The School, but hopefully this one's a bit better!

Cream Soda Grrrl

Cassette tape cover for the Joanna Gruesome and Playlounge split EP.

Alcopopalooza

Gig / alldayer poster for Alcopopalooza 4 for Alcopop! Records and DIY Magazine. Credit for the tote bag idea goes to my beautiful bro Josh. Soz for the typo, Sam Isaac.

WeePOP! Bag

Tote bag design for WeePOP! Records.

This is the Kit

Owen Pomery

I've already posted about 69 Love Songs, Illustrated (I don't think my brain could handle a combination much better than illustration and The Magnetic Fields) but they've reopened submissions this week and introduced me to Owen Pomery's work. He did an amazingly simple and pretty much perfect comic for I Don't Want to Get Over You (one of my favourite songs ever, ever). Swoon!

I really, really want to submit some work to the project, especially since some of my favourite songs are still available, but I've know idea how I'd produce anything even close to the loveliness of everyone else's work!

Winter Beats

If I could animate any song in the world, it would be Winter Beats by I Break Horses. Just a shame it has such an amazing looking video already, sigh. ONE DAY.

This song gives me ~all~ the feels!

Delta / Alaska

Another gig poster for Beautiful Strange. 

And here it is three quarters of the way through drawing, just because.

The colouring took exactly four Mountain Goats albums, just so you know.

Ladyfest Manchester Logo