🗣IF YOU BLAME A 2ND SPIKE ON PEOPLE PROTESTING FUCKING HUMAN RIGHTS AND NOT PEOPLE DAY DRINKING ON A BEACH OR QUEUING 3 HOURS FOR MCDONALDS OR THE FUCKING TORY GOVERNMENT REOPENING SHOPS, YOU’RE PART OF THIS PROBLEM🗣
Honestly why is the general public so stupid ?????????????
IM NOT SAYING THE PROTESTS WILL HAVE NO EFFECT, IM SAYING JUST WATCH THE PRESS SPIN IT LIKE THE PROTESTS ARE THE ONLY REASON WHY
Just tryna do a
@gracefituk
n move to London, run an empire and remember who tf I am with the added knowledge that men ain’t shit xxxx but alas I am potato
@aMAYzed_NATive
How about you chose to blame the failure of our government instead who only this week made masks compulsory in hospitals and are sending our kids back into danger while all MPs remain out of office
"Euphoria mixed with existential vertigo...? Cool."
Lorde drops any hint of a mask on new album 'Solar Power' - a record that plays on the fun and self-doubt of your mid 20s...
#Lorde
Turning 25 next week which is the age my boyfriend was when I was 18. Isn’t it crazy how I’d literally never think to hang out with an 18 year old. Isn’t that funny
I just want to say that the protest today in Manchester was so inspiring and so peaceful and caring. People were handing out masks and 99% of people were full protected. We kept as much distance as we could while making our point and it was a really inspiring day. Thank you x
Even if Lana was running late, something about cutting the music before she got to the stage then cutting her off felt cruel, they were out to embarrass her tonight and it was sad to watch as a fan
Truly renaissance painting style scenes watching a group of men get in a fight in the golden circle while Lana sang the opening lines of Norman Fucking Rockwell
NEWS! My time has come + I’ve stepped down from my role as Editor-in-Chief of
@Gigwise
This magazine has changed my life. It’s given me so many friends and opportunities I never thought I’d have. It’s made my dreams come true and then some….
Gigwise HQ is a 2 person team doing sales, making the print mag, editing everything, commissioning reviews, planning coverage etc. I wish we had a million hands to write news stories all day, but the to-do list is loooong. Chasers are nice but pls be patient with me xxxxxx
Music artists. There is no conspiracy to why journalists aren't covering your music. Most now are unpaid or low paid, doing it for the love, bombarded with new music. It isn't an "us versus them" situation. Talk to us.
My first issue as editor of
@Gigwise
is out now
Used to make magazines in my bedroom all the time when I was young, but this one is definitely my fave creation (so far)
Thank you to the team, the best in the biz x
I organised, edited AND designed this issue as well as interviewing
@babyqueen
. I’ve never been so proud of anything. I’m so excited for you all to see it !
RIP IT UP + START AGAIN
Re-introducing our issue 8 cover star -
@birdy
. In an issue interested in reinvention and restarting, the singer has become the patron saint of the skill.
In stores + shipping from June 19th, get yours:
INTRODUCING ISSUE
#6
- The Gigwise 2022 Annual 🎄
And to get the party started,
@LBitchos
grace the cover with their signature silliness and stories of shenanigans... Let The Festivities Begin!
Arrives 1/12/22 🎁
I’ve wanted to do this forever and have been doing it in some small iteration since I was 13 or so, stapling pages together in my bedroom. This one got delivered to my house all done. It’s in places I’ve never been, out there totally separate to me but I made it. I made it!
How about we stop blaming and calling working class voters in the north east stupid?
The north east is ignored by the government, always has been. And yeah it’s irritating watching my home shoot itself in the foot, but maybe don’t perpetuate the northern = unintelligent trope
Rex Orange County pulling a Tom Meighan and putting out a vague mental health statement to get a big wave of love u🥹 comments when he was literally on trial for assault
Hate.
Nothings quite split me open like
#PrimaFaciePlay
. Even in a cinema across London, the energy in that room was painful and beautiful and scary and important.
And
@SELFESTEEM___
captures it and guides you through it perfectly
I think it regularly but especially lately - thank GOD
@SELFESTEEM___
gave us Prioritise Pleasure. RLT, you’re holding so many hands we owe you so much
.
@lucyharbron
gazes out at a sea of bucket hat clad festival line ups and asks...
Is lad music culture holding back British music?
When bands and The Inbetweeners become increasingly difficult to differentiate, something's going wrong...
“WHAT’S FUCKING WRONG WITH LOVING YOUR COUNTRY? EVERYTHING.”
Love and anger go hand in hand, and there’s no act better to balance the two than
@sleafordmods
Fuck the phony shit. Issue
#7
, in stores on Valentine’s week. ❤️🩹❤️🔥
Holding all victims and survivors close in my heart tonight. Fuck
#RussellBrand
. Fuck every man like him. Fuck anyone attempting to defend him. Fuck this world that keeps letting victims down.
Every time the gender in music conversation comes back, I try to reflect on my own listening habits.
A couple years back I noticed I listened to almost exclusively men, and made an active effort to balance the scales.
Now it’s pretty much flipped to exclusively women
MY FIRST PRINT ISSUE IS OUTTTTT
Lessons learnt:
- Trying to make something over the Christmas break is hard
- Me +
@D_Maplethorpe
are a dream team
- I'm annoying about fonts
but mostly incredibly proud of myself + all the contributors
@aMAYzed_NATive
Yes but one is worthwhile and is benefitting the entire world and is necessary. One is completely selfish. Sometimes you have to break the rules to make change
A year ago today I packed up and moved to London !
3 moving vans, a flooded flat and a terrible job later, it’s nice to finally feel settled. Got 5 dream housemates and a sweet gig at
@Gigwise
- all is good, hard work pays off etc x
Friendly reminder that even Kendall Jenner herself doesn’t look like that. And no amount of dieting or exercise will ever make you look like that unless you have £££££ for surgery and a team of full time photoshop experts. You’re fit as you are
To be sincere for a sec, issue 8 of
@Gigwise
might be the first time I’ve made something and been totally, completely happy with it. I designed every page, made every decision. I’m so happy with it. I’m so proud of the team. I’m so proud of myself 🫶
HI!
@Gigwise
gave me a column✨🤠
Close Reading combines my fave things: music & over-analysing.
I’ll be sitting down with musicians to pull apart their lyrics and talk about the references behind them. Finally putting my English degree to use.
Everyday I go on my silly little walk and have my silly little dilemma about where to buy my silly little coffee to support the silly little local economy while the government tries to kill it xx
THIS !
We need men to step up and join us in real discussion of why access to abortions is necessary and how they benefitted their lives
WE DONT NEED THIS ! Men like Logan Paul who constantly prove themselves to be a misogynist saddling in on their low-effort saviour complex
In the final stages of pulling together my first
@Gigwise
issue and feeling very nostalgic for the days being 17 and cobbling my own magazine together back in Middlesbrough
I don’t think she ever expected to be here, someone should go back n tell her
Allow me a cheeky little 🚨EXCITING NEWS ! 🚨 tweet
Today is officially my last day as a content writer before I head down to London to dive into social media and music as a channel manager at
@CYOAmedia
!
Canny wait x proud of my self x
A little love story - Edward James, patron of the surrealists, was so besotted with his wife, the dancer Tilly Losch, that when he saw the trail of wet footprints she left up the stairs after her bath at Monkton House, he had them woven into the carpet.
I gave my first ever 10/10 to this weird performance art score.
It’s hard to even describe was
@perfumegenius
has done here but it’s incredible. Brave and formless yet so distinctly his. Magic.
Artistic yet approachable, theatrical yet listenable, weird yet still recognisably
@perfumegenius
- Ugly Season is a true statement of an artist in its highest + bravest form
Read the 10/10 review from
@lucyharbron
-
I’ve waited YEARS! to write this piece. I’ve been obsessed with the story of the Chelsea Hotel, wrote my diss on it and after a lot of digging, found the original lyrics to the cohen classic
Here’s Chelsea Hotel no.1:
Sending love to all messy mental health people who have no end of year thoughts/feels/roundups simply cause they can’t even remember 12 days ago let along 12 months x
@realrichard77
@george_mcfc_
“BOTH ARE SELFISH”. Sir the police are killing people. Protesting against murder and over 400 years of oppression is not selfish, it’s necessary and embarrassingly late
Todays my last day working with
@jessieatkinsonx
unless I decide to lock her in the office
Jessie was the first editor that said “yes” to me. She’s taught me everything, including how to make the most of a free bar and overdress with confidence. Thank u bestie x
I present: MY MAGNUM OPUS !
Called upon every bit of Ethel Cain lore burnt deep into my brain alongside every fact I could find for the ultimate, track-by-track retelling of the Preacher's Daughter story 🧎♀️
"From where I sit in Manchester, new labels push out another cookie-cutter all-male indie four–piece every week with a whole marketing team behind them... so is it any wonder that festivals are becoming so one-note?"
Realised that my first gigwise issue came out exactly 2 years to the day since my first
@ClashMagazine
+
@NME
commissions
If you went back and told me then that I’d be here now, I wouldn’t have believed you. Big, proud moves 🥲
🚨PERSONAL NEWS🚨
Excited to announce that me and my mask will be staying together after 19th so I can continue my work lip syncing songs in secret and never smiling in public x