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FLYER OF THE ISSUE
This month Bassment in Reading win our highly coveted ‘Flyer Of The
Issue’ award…
WHAT’S THE IDEA BEHIND YOUR FLYER?
This flyer is for a co-promotion between Aperture and Hos-
pitality in Cardiff. The night features Hospital favourites like
High Contrast, Cyantific and Logistics whilst also bringing in
Goldie, Noisia, N:type, Youngsta and Icicle. I wanted the flyer
to reflect this harder edge to the artists Hospital and myself are
bringing in. The illustration is the medical symbol ‘the staff of
Aesculapius’ (the staff with the snake wrapped around) with a
warped twist as the snake looks as though he is ready to strike.
The bold lines and colours are indicative of the style I regularly
use for
my illustrations.
WHAT’S YOUR NIGHT ALL ABOUT & HOW DO YOUR
FLYERS REFLECT THIS?
A lot of the flyers used for Aperture are based around photog-
raphy (my other passion) with some slick graphic design over
the top (inspiration taken from early Good Looking releases).
I think the combination of lush photography and nice graphic
design sets the mood for the night, mainly based on a more
musical edge to the genre, whether that is liquid or the more
dark techy side. The idea to use illustration for the flyer is
to set this night apart from the normal Aperture nights. We
don’t normally print our flyers anymore, relying mainly on
digital and word of mouth to promote the events, so when we
do make the effort to get printed material out I like to put my
PROMOTER PROFILE
stamp on the flyers.
WHO DESIGNED THE FLYER?
push something different. Room 2 is The flyer is designed by myself. I’ve been promoting and
all about our second passion, dub. It’s designing in Cardiff for the past ten years. I started off design-
everything across the board from roots ing flyers for the nights High Contrast, DJ Truth and myself
reggae through to dubstep, breakstep would put on in Cardiff, when it was hard to get residencies
and bashment. We like to make things with the other local drum & bass spots. I found that in the end
look interesting in both rooms with I preferred be on the dancefloor than behind the decks, so my
loads of wicked decor, projections and a input would go more towards the promotion / design side so I
bit of dressing up. It’s a real festival vibe. could then enjoy the music. From then obviously Lincoln went
on to become High Contrast and I got taken up by local clubs
as both in-house promoter or graphic designer, just recently
PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE going freelance.
I’m Nick from East London and I run YOUR CROWD?
No Rest For The Wicked, the UK’s Our crowd is generally a quite mature WHAT OTHER WORK HAVE YOU DONE?
only night dedicated to live d&b and mixture or ravers, rockers, punks and I’ve been running and designing for clothing label ‘Where’s
breakbeat bands. We’ve been running drunks! It really is very diverse. We get the Jungle’ for the past two years. I am at the moment working
for three years. purist d&b heads who are curious to on the third line whilst also doing collaboration pieces with
see what all the fuss is about this ‘live Hospital, Chemical and Catapult Records all to be released
WHERE & WHEN DO YOUR business’ and people who generally want this summer. My past work has included the illustration for
EVENTS TAKE PLACE? something different from their clubbing High Contrast’s ‘Tough Guys Don’t Dance’ album and the
NRFTW takes place every three months experience. All in all, it’s usually very single cover for ‘Days Go By’. I photographed and designed
at the Rhythm Factory in Whitechapel lively and a bit messy too! the current Bingo house-bag and I have just given up my in-
and we collaborate with other events and house promotion job at Glo Bar in Cardiff to concentrate on
festivals here and there. We used to be BEST MEMORIES FROM A my design work and output via the
monthly but this year we’re cutting back NIGHT? clothing label.
on the amount of parties to make them There are so many! Our very first night
bigger and better! at On The Rocks in Shoreditch was a WHAT’S YOUR WEBSITE?
good one. I really didn’t know how it was At the moment I am just going out of www.aperturefamily.
WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE gonna go down and was very happy to
co.uk a blog that updates all of Aperture’s and Where’s the
RESIDENTS? see the place rammed out to the point Jungle news. I’m building a new shop for Where’s the Jungle
The Resident Band is Step 13 and where you’d open the door and there having pulled out of my eBay outlet. Send any work related
our resident DJs are Bustawidemove, was literally no room to get in! A good queries
Twisted Beats (Scot Sparx, Mickey C memory from the Rhythm Factory was
drone1@hotmail.co.uk
and the Darkone), Mantra and Double watching S13 and Subsource tear it up at
O, Warlock, Kier Royale, Bashment our last birthday bash. Subsource were WHAT EVENTS DO YOU HAVE COMING UP?
Bish, Henry G and Itchi with MCs Ishu, swinging off the lighting gantry trashing In May we have London Elektricity on Friday 15 May and
Illmatika, John audio and V double-e their kit, whilst the crowd was going Brookes Brothers on Bank Holiday Sunday 24 May all playing
ballistic! in Clwb Ifor Bach as well as our sister night Neuropol which
WHAT’S THE NIGHT ALL ABOUT? has Benga on Wednesday 27 May - really busy on the build up
NRFTW is a very niche night in the WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR to this event. We will be taking our night right the way through
way that the focus is on live d&b, THE FUTURE? the summer and not taking a hiatus like a lot of promotions do
breaks and dubstep bands rather than We’d like to start doing our own festival - keeping Cardiff busy.
DJs. We felt that there were a load of stages next year. We’re also launching a
really talented bands out there that live d&b label called Broc’n’roll records
provide a proper spectacle and wicked which should be kicking off with an
energy. The mainstream d&b scene album from Step 13 in the summer.
was mostly overlooking these bands so
we decided to start our own thing and
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