New Beginnings

Over the weekend of the 5th - 7th December I went back home to Kingston-Upon-Hull for the weekend for a friend's birthday meal and to watch Hull City beat Middleboro
2-1 in the football @ the KC Stadium. I then took in a gig at Hull City Hall, a Love Music Hate Racism gig which had been organised mostly by a group of teens from the 'Hull Youth Council' and 'The Warren Project'which was really good to see. I got there early and looked through all the gig posters for the night and ones from previous Love Music Hate Racism events in the city. The whole night seemed very independant in itself and reminded me of my time at college as a fine-art student,
'D-I-Y art and music' was what it was all about. The gig itself was the first live gig I'd been to in quite a while what with Huddersfield having next-to no live gigs or venues in the town, meaning university isn't really the place for bands. Whilst at home though, I saw 2 very ballsy, local, up-and-coming bands with a D-I-Y attitude in The Cliques and The Talks. I also saw Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, rapper 'Sway', The Beat and the legend that it Neville Staple from the band; The Specials. Seeing all this unique independance really does spark enthusiasm and that was added to the next day when I went to the Vintage Fair at the Welly Club seeing all the local, independant boutiques with their own stalls with each one putting on a catwalk fashion show upstairs infront of a local band playing behind the models, which worked really well together.

All this reminded me of the work I used to do, mainly in a very D-I-Y, 'modern art' way and has re-kindled my enthusiasm for doing such art, remembering how I'd enjoy the fact my own art could create such varied opinions, such as certain pieces of work I'd have tutors telling me they loved the work and thought it was amazing, where-as a different tutor would come along and see the same piece of work and actually tell me off for it... and I loved that.