A Year

Drowning streets in fabric, protesting on Sunset, dropping 50 foot signs off the freeway exit, having secret shows, waking our neighbors, flying giant kites, growing some balls, jumping from planes…

Some of the things we’ve done in a year.

Thank you for being a part
of our favorite memories!

x,
Liveacre

We love you, we lova you, we luurrrve you.

Weekly Wild #9: Your turn PART 3

Now it’s your turn!

We dared you to show us your interpretation of wake up, literally or figuratively, monumentally or microscopically. We wanted a change- of any shape, size or color. You gave it to us.

YOUR TURN, PART 3:
ANYWHERE
BY
THE COSTELLOS

Written by Jessie Willner

Who … Carl Yeung, Aniekan Esen, Andrew Goldsborough & Sam Hurst
Where … Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Woke us up with … The spoken sounds they make.

The Costellos. We’ve loved the Costellos since the first day,

When a letter from Sam Hurst, their unstoppably witty bassist, arrived in the Liveacre inbox. He demanded that there be more variety of shirts for sale, so him and everyone in the Costellos could each wear one of our shirts at their shows. But they settled on getting variable colors. Once they had arrived in their Newcastle home, they proceeded to keep emailing us updates about all the shows they played in them. And then they kept emailing. And emailing.

Here is the art we made, and here is their story.

Hi guys! How and where are ya?

Hello! Thanks so much for having us in your feature! We come all the way from Newcastle in England. We’re feeling great – we’ve got lots of exciting stuff coming up and we can’t wait to promote our EP. We want to just give it away (give it away, give it away now). We made it so people could just have it.

What inspired you to start?

Jack Steadman has a great quote, it’s something like “You like music, you sort of work out how it’s made and then you start making your own music”. We’re nothing different from most bands in that sense. It’s just great fun so you keep doing it. We had quite a large overlap of bands that we liked and it was fun to play the songs we’d all listened to loads growing up. And then it’s such a natural step to start creating your own music, especially when you grow up and have all those teen feelings going on!

What inspires you now?

At the minute when we’re writing new stuff, it’s always that mixture of creating a sound that feels right for us… But also stuff that’s actually fun to play live. Fun and feeling right are the two biggest inspirations. Lyrically, it’s that challenge to capture thoughts and feeling honestly and being true to what you’re actually going through instead of just writing what you think people want to hear (or what your favorite bands sing about).  We’re still finding where we are as young musicians, anyway. That discovery of what we want to be, is what makes us excited to get into the studio overtime.

What excites you most about the current state of art?

The music scene in Newcastle at the minute is pretty exciting. There’s loads of generic diversity and really high quality stuff going on all the time and we love being a part of that. There are so many people that come out and support local bands, it makes the city really vibrant and alive. That’s something we get excited about.
We love the internet too, it makes everything related to music so much easier: Sharing music, recording music, organizing gigs, letting fans know about gigs, etc. Bands could record something acoustically on their phones and share it to thousands of people and it feels really personal and genuine. You’re only ever a Tumblr post away from having a new favorite song, and that’s pretty exciting for music lovers.

Where are you in 50 twelve-months?

We’d all like to still be buds, obviously, with all our stupid little private jokes intact. Between now and then, I guess we’d like to be able to say ‘we had some fun’ and not feel like we missed too many opportunities. It’d be nice if not too many of those fifty years are spent doing jobs we don’t like or with people we find hard to love.

Last words?

We’d just like to thank you for featuring us and for all the help and inspiration. We’re honored to be featured alongside such cool, genuinely creative people. Please continue to grow and hopefully take over the world one day!

learn more of The Costellos >

Download their free EP now >

or listen to it on itunes here.

x,
Jess +
Liveacre.
(SEE ALL HERE)

Weekly Wild #9: Your turn PART 2

Now it’s your turn!

We dared you to show us your interpretation of wake up, literally or figuratively, monumentally or microscopically. We wanted a change- of any shape, size or color. You gave it to us.

YOUR TURN, PART 2:
WAIT FOR IT
BY
LIAM BRAZIER

Who … Liam Brazier
Where … London, UK
Woke us up with … Icons, mutants, robots and superheros.

Liam Brazier. The man of brilliant geometric illustration and animation.
Between the jolting vibrancy and the intuitive way all his digital colors end up possessing the tact of a cross processed photo, Liam’s work definitely woke us up. Whether it’s in the illustrations of C-3PO and company, the Rocky vs. Rambo references or the hidden humor throughout his site – It’s quite hard to look away.

We got the pleasure of chatting with Liam across the big pond and hearing his brain pickings. Here they are.

Hi Liam! Where & how are you?

Hi Jess! I currently live and work in the sometimes sunny London, which is a more pleasant way of saying it hasn’t really ceased raining for about a month.

I’m currently battling a cold, which as a man obviously means I’m near death (wink).

What excites you most about the field of visual art?

Part of the reason I adore illustration is the very fact it has such fuzzy boundaries – even ‘fine art’ has a need to contextualize itself, with illustration anything goes as long as it is truly a communicative extension of the artist. As long as there are illustrators working there will be imaginations churning. 

What inspires you currently?

Subject wise my inspiration now is what I speculate has always been, that of whatever peaks my interest. Movies, music, television, toys. These things have formed me, filled my time, and shaped my interests. 

Saying that… my desert island dvd is probably Star Wars, despite the fact I’ve seen the trilogy so many times in my life I could just close my eyes and watch them back in my imagination.

Where are you in 50 years?

Fifty years? I’ll still be complaining about the Star Wars prequels, but to my grandkids instead. 

Last words?

Imagination knows no bounds, as someone more coherent than I probably said, and ideas excite me to no end. 

See more of Liam >

Buy his work >

x,
Jess +
Liveacre.
(SEE ALL HERE)