This promoting lark is pretty simple, right? Well we're soon to find out. We're pleased to announce the first of what we hope will be many PARTYNICE PRESENTS shows. First up a guestlist-only house show with Internet Forever and Stairs To Korea. We're not one for writing hypey blurbs for bands. If you don't know these already, you should seek them out. And because we're generous chaps here at PARTYNICE, why not download yourselves an mp3 from each band, courtesy of us?
INTERNET FOREVER - Break Bones
STAIRS TO KOREA - Boy Bear It In Mind
Email us at partynicemag @ gmail.com if you want to come. Numbers will be strictly limited, y'know?
FYI, the photograph we used for our flyer is by Ben Acree, who happens to be one of our absolute favourite photographers around.
This Saturday sees our first two PARTYNICE PRESENTS events take place. In London, we are hosting a house show with Internet Forever and Stairs To Korea, who will now be joined by Raymond Detritus.
You need to email us for a guestlist place. Space is limited so be quick. The show is being photographed for the VICE Magazine photoblog, there will be barbecue, and it will be pretty awesome all round.
Meanwhile, in Seoul, PARTYNICE's Tomek Roszkowski starts his photography exhibition Pilot Light. So says Tomek:
Me and my sister worked together on the Pilot Light project. There are two sets of photos, both supposing dreams as spaces that exist beyond the confines of our imagination.
The first, called 'Ghost Dreams', examines the idea of recurring dreams that we've stopped having becoming neglected spaces, subject to an imaginary urban decay and being recalled/revisited many years later and bearing witness to what has essentially become a ghost town as a physical space and as a reflection of who we were at that time in our lives.
Second, 'Zhou Wang's Nightmare' are snapshots from a night where by some criss crossing of plugs, I experienced the nightmare of an 82 year old Chinese man, vaguely understanding the significance of the defining images that haunt a person in that most honest and brutal space, our own nightmares.
Tomek, along with his sister Agnieszka, were interviewed on Korean radio about their collaboration. Listen below.
We asked Stairs To Korea, the man behind the hugely popular Andersen Ben-Hilliens Rock Paparazzi blog, to contribute to PARTYNICE.
The result is our new column STELAZINE. Enjoy the first installment, Equine Euthanasia, below. Our minds are blown.
Is it acceptable to call a feature 'Part 1', even though you have no intention of continuing it? Regardless, here are two pop music videos that we think are really swell.
First up is the debut single from Anglo-Icelandic pop walrus Stairs To Korea, Boy Bear It In Mind, released today through the indefatigable Brainlove Records. Buy it from iTunes here.
Next up is a video from Mississippi's Dead Gaze. The song, Back And Forth, is from the upcoming release End of Days, Why Not You?.
