CAUGHT BY THE RIVER'S BOOK OF THE MONTH - SAVAGE MESSIAH

CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
FEBRUARY'S BOOK OF THE MONTH

Savage Messiah records drifts through a ruined city, collecting the entire set of Laura Oldfield Ford's acclaimed art fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an unflinching polemic against the marginalization of the city's officially defeated, and an exploration of the ruptures that open up in everyday life, in urban space and time. An ephemeral, palimpsestic London emerges from the shadow of the looming megalith of 'London 2012.' Savage Messiah takes us on a tour of its landmarks - Kings Cross to Hackney Wick, Elephant and Castle, Westway, North Acton to Canary Wharf - with forays North through memory.

A great review of Savage Messiah can be read here by Iain Sinclair.



Author and Artist of Savage Messiah, Laura Oldfield Ford will be coming in to Rough Trade on Wednesday 15th February to talk about her book followed by an interview and Q&A session with Ken Worpole.

FELT - THE BOOK LAUNCH

On Friday 3rd February at 7pm, Rough Trade is playing host to a special one-off event. For the first time since their split Lawrence and other members of seminal indie group Felt will be on stage talking about their 10 year career, a career which saw them make 10 albums in 10 years, making some of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful pop music of the decade.



This event is to celebrate the release of 'Felt - The Book' - a stunning hardback, limited edition book documenting the band's career using exclusive photography from the archives and Lawrence's text. Before the Q&A Paul Kelly will be screening relevant portions of his Lawrence Of Belgravia documentary and then this event will see the band field questions from both the organisers of the book, director of 'Lawrence Of Belgravia' Paul Kelly and members of the audience. After the event the band will be djing their favourite records and signing copies of the book.

Order tickets are available HERE and we'd advise getting them soon as seats are limited.

Here's a few images taken from the limited book to give you a little taster...


© Paul Hartnett


© Donna Ranieri


© Donna Ranieri

ROUGH TRADE SHOPS ELECTRONIC 11

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The new Rough Trade Shops compilation CD is aimed squarely at the New Year. Shiny, fresh, clean and minimal electronic music in your earphones provide the perfect soundtrack for the cold and frosty early January.

Rough Trade Shops Electronic 01 was released 10 years ago and we are revisiting the theme of our first genre compilation in order to share with you some of our favourite artists who have been utilising technology - as a means to an end - in the last year or so. The hardware / software tangibly present, you can almost hear the1’s and 0’s in the compositions here.

As Rob Young writes in the sleevenotes –“ Check, for instance, Emeralds’ Mark McGuire’s glowing “Alma”, which begins with a hymn; or Nicolas Jaar’s incantatory “Space is Only Noise if You Can See”, like a dubbed-out Depeche Mode. At the other end of the scale, Prurient and Keiji Haino (in tandem with Finnish sub-bass spelunkers Pansonic) use the full throated roar and the abject howl of the avant garde and the hardcore. Meanwhile, compare Rustie’s dense “Hyperthrust”, with its micro-events folded up and crammed into milliseconds, with alva noto’s “uni deform” bitcrush collision, which emerges from the rarefied world of conceptual sound art. Marcus Schmickler, who can occasionally be found making exploratory post-rock as Pluramon, sends your ears down a labyrinth of no return with the abstract operations of “Discordance Axis”, closely followed by Ekoplekz’s hallucinatory tone-scrub, jarring and alienating as an MK-ULTRA mind-control experiment.

In “And The World Laughs With You”, Brainfeeder’s shapeshifting boss Flying Lotus invites Thom Yorke to jack into a cybernautical call and response session. Even the most outwardly conventional track here, Hercules & Love Affair, has its House 4/4 scraped and sandblasted with gravelly patches of digital irritant. Ford & Lopatin’s “Emergency Room” is like some unearthly fusion of Scritti Politti and Heaven 17; John Maus’s swooning portamento synthi-fanfares summon up the Fairlight manoeuvres of The Thompson Twins and Blancmange. Azari & III’s “Manhooker” transports you back to sun-up at some orbital rave at the very close of that strange plastic decade.”

Comprising sound art, dubstep, chill-wave, witch house, electro-pop, digital hip hop, tech-minimalism, electro-house, and metal-machine music, supplied by labels such as editions Mego, Warp, Blastfirstpetite, raster-noton, Type, Skam, Tri Angle and more, RTE11 is selected by the staff at both London shops and is as stylistically-varied as would expect from us.

FULL TRACKLISTING...

Rough Trade Shops Electronic 11 CD.
Catalogue # RTE11.

1. Rene Hell - Oxford Meter End
2. Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise If You Can See
3. Flying Lotus - …And The World Laughs With You ft. Thom Yorke
4. Shackleton / King Midas Sound - Deadman, Death Dub Remix
5. Ayshay - WARN-U
6. John Maus - Head For The Country
7. Ford & Lopatin - Emergency Room
8. Rustie - Hyperthrust
9. Hercules & Love Affair - My House
10. Azari & III - Manhooker
11. Modeselektor - Evil Twin feat. Otto von Schirach
12. Death Grips - Guillotine
13. Sensational meets Koyxen - +weekend2 (remix work)
14. alva noto - uni deform
15. anne-james chaton - pop is dead
16. Marcus Schmickler - Discordance Axis
17. Ekoplekz - Critical Condition
18. Pansonic with Keiji Haino - If I could incarnate this feeling would you consider it a creation
19. Prurient - A Meal Can Be Made
20. Solar Bears - Twin Stars
21. Mark McGuire - Alma (Reprise) / Chances Are
22. Ben Frost - Ó God protect me


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BLACK POWER MIXTAPE

On Friday 20th January Rough Trade East in association with Soda Pictures will be screening BLACK POWER MIXTAPE.

Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is a rare film; so rare that most of the footage spent over 30 years languishing in a Swedish basement until discovered by director Goran Hugo Olsson who put it together with contemporary audio featuring artists like Erykah Badu and Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson. Olsson created the ultimate mixtape, an artistic statement that charts the rise of the Civil Rights movement.

The Civil Rights movement came about because the people on the ground level made it happen and part of the success of the movement was due to the universal appeal of the music that represented the eternal fight; from Sam Cooke's 'A Change is Gonna Come' through to the image of Aretha Franklin singing at the funeral of Dr Martin Luther King.

Black Power Mixtape shows us the story of Angela Davis who in 1972 was tried and acquitted for her involvement in the murder of a prominent judge; John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded the song 'Angela' from the album Some Time in New York City and in the same year the Rolling Stones recorded 'Sweet Black Angel' from Exile on Main Street, both songs playing tribute to Davis.

The cultural influence of the 60's/70's music and the Movement's key figures can still be seen today - from their styles, philosophy and politics. Erykah Badu, who features in BLACK POWER MIXTAPE, has long been associated with a proud afro- centricity coupled with determined feminism - in a male dominated music industry. This mirrors the movement's figureheads such as Angela Davis and Kathleen Cleaver. Other female artists in contemporary music carry on this message of black pride such as India Arie, Jill Scott and the acclaimed rapper, singer-songwriter Lauryn Hill.

For a brief moment in time, a few daring, innovative musicians stood at the crossroads of a revolution in music and culture. Across one of the most turbulent periods in American history -they brought music, medium and message together as never before, composing a soundtrack perfectly tuned to the tempo and pulse of its time and has echoed through the passages of time to today's contemporary rap artists working across the U.S and U.K and still representing a grass roots movement for change and empowerment.

Watch the trailer here...



PLUS Q&A SESSION
We are also joined by writer, broadcaster and activist DARCUS HOWE who will be answering questions by LISA BENT. There will also be an opportunity for the audience to ask Darcus questions in the Q&A session after the screening.

More About Darcus Howe...
'Writer, Broadcaster and Activist; Trinidadian born Darcus Howe moved to America in the 1960s, where he was involved in grass-roots activism and witnessed some of the most defining moments in the struggle for racial justice in the US. After moving to the UK in the early 1970s, he joined the British Black Panthers - the first Black Panther organization outside the US, and came to public attention as one of the Mangrove Nine, to protest against police raids of the Mangrove restaurant. In 1981 he organized a 20,000-strong "Black People's March" in protest at the handling of the investigation into the New Cross Fire, in which 13 black teenagers died.

In recent years, he is known for his social commentary - particularly that of the 2011 Riots and television shows, 'White Tribe,' and 'Son of Mine.' He also writes columns for The New Statesman and The Voice."



THIS IS A FREE SCREENING. NO WRISTBAND IS NEEDED, JUST COME DOWN ON THE NIGHT BUT GET HERE EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.

London Short Film Festival 2012

Last Friday saw the opening launch of the 9th London Short Film Festival. Renowned for its daring cross-arts programming and showcasing the very best of the country's raw talent, this festival is a mecca for the UK's young creative talent and a significant date in the UK film calendar. The festival continues until Sunday 15th January so do not despair, you have time to check out some of the events and screenings that are still to come in the eclectic programme. For those of you who are more sonically stimulated, we've picked out some of the music related events that you should go and check out...

THURSDAY 12TH JANUARY 6.30pm ROXY BAR & SCREEN
New Shorts #16 Music & Video
The marriage of sound and image. A selection of creative music videos and short films featuring music by Esben & The Witch, The Oscillation and Daedelus.



FRIDAY 13TH JANUARY 7.30pm HACKNEY PICTUREHOUSE ATTIC
Branchage Soundtracks... Serafina & Sam Steer - This Side of the Moon
Originally commissioned for the 2011 Branchage Jersey Film Festival, LSFF present the London premiere of harpist and songwriter Serafina Steer and animator Sam Steer’s performance, inspired by Kenneth Anger’s 1950 short film Rabbit’s Moon.

In their bizarre, astounding new animation, Postman’s Familiar, the Steer brother and sister team have re-interpreted the archetypal characters of Anger's avant-garde clown fantasy. Anger’s original soundtrack features mainly doo-wop pop, juxtaposed against his surreal, classical, silent take on 'commedia dell'arte'.

Serafina Steer (Stolen Recordings) creates a live sonic interpretation of this mythical story, using the new sound of 'psychedelic harp'. There will be a programme of classic and recent animations, including other Steer brother and sister collaborations.



SATURDAY 14TH JANUARY 7.30pm THE HORSE HOSPITAL
Analogue Kingdom feat.. OHMMM & Sculpture
Sculpture perform unstable modular collage. An incautious amalgam of mutant electronic forms, mechanical and digital animation techniques, computer sequencing and analogue tape edits, the avant-garde and looney tunes. Dan Hayhurst plays computer, reel-to-reel tape recorder, sampler, effectron and walkman. Reuben Sutherland plays video zoetrope record deck.
The result is a kaleidoscopic sensory overload, process revealed to the audience, experimental yet filled with a deranged sense of joy.

OHMMM (Orchestra of Home Made Musical Machines) are an Art Noise Band consisting of 6 artists who build and perform a collection of home made musical machines that are contained within an instrument case of fixed dimensions.

For LSFF, OHMMM will be performing a live improvised score to a specially commissioned 30 min 'Noise-Umentary' about the band Jazz Kunst.



SUNDAY 15TH JANUARY 7.30pm THE LEXINGTON
Branchage Soundtracks... Teeth Of The Sea - Reaper
Teeth Of The Sea, London's most intrepid and adventurous psychedelic rock band, have always looked to the extraordinary and outlandish for inspiration, and have been as influenced by books and films as by music.

Some of their biggest influences are the films of Neil Marshall, with films like Dog Soldiers and The Descent both leaving their marks on the band's psyche. But by far the closest to the band's collective heart is Doomsday, the hyper-real, volatile and audacious 2008 Frankenstein's monster of a movie that follows a perilous journey to the maws of Armageddon.

In 2011 the band have decided to offer a re-imagining of the movie: the result, Reaper (named after the movie's killer virus), is a kind of psychedelic reconfiguration of the film; something truly original and nightmarishly thrilling.

More information can be found on the LSFF website.

New Year, New Exhibition

DIFFERENT WAYS FOR DIFFERENT DAYS - An Exhibition By Jeb Loy Nichols



Musician, writer and artist Jeb Loy Nichols is currently exhibiting new and recent work at Rough Trade East through the month of January. The exhibition includes woodcuts from his recent series of Jazz and Hip-Hop portraits. The portraits, inspired by Nichols' residency in New York in the late 70's and early 80's, feature, among others, Gil Scot Heron, Africa Bambatta, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, and KRS-1. Also included are new wood cuts and prints focusing on his life in rural Wales.

Jeb's exhibition will be on display at Rough Trade East until Sunday 5th February.



Jeb's latest album "The Jeb Loy Nichols Story" was Rough Trade's Album of The Month for December and comes with an exclusive bonus disc. More information on that here.

To find out more about Jeb, check out his website.

Ed Banger came for Tea!

Last Friday, the Ed Banger crew came for Afternoon Tea at Rough Trade East before they took over Fabric on Friday night. Much fun was had and lots of great tracks were played. Good news is they're doing it all again in our temporary Christmas Paris shop on Friday 16th December from 4pm, so come down, grab a cuppa tea, listen to some tunes and buy some Ed Banger merch!

!!JOYEUX NOËL!!




ED BANGER AT ROUGH TRADE ON TOUR CHEZ AGNÈS B

ED BANGER AT ROUGH TRADE EAST

Come down and see Busy P, Mickey moonlight and Riton tomorrow afternoon and have some tea and cupcakes!

Rough Trade in PARIS!!!

Rough Trade Shops On Tour is back in Paris with its' winter collection this December and we're now pleased to announce our in-store events that will be taking place from when we officially open the doors on Friday 9th December at 7pm.

Rough Trade on Tour - Winter Collection will focus on the best albums of 2011, Rough Trade's Album of The Year and a typical Rough Trade edit of only the very best new music on vinyl and CD plus an eclectic selection of Christmas gifts and stocking fillers.

Just as Rough Trade Shops in London are much more than simply places to buy music, but also where you get to see and hear live bands up close, Rough Trade On Tour will feature live performances and signing sessions. A taste for Parisians of just what a great record store experience adds to a city’s cultural richness.

INSTORE LISTINGS FOR THE WEEK IN ROUGH TRADE CHEZ AGNÈS B, 6 RUE DU JOUR, 75001 PARIS, FRANCE...

FRIDAY 9th DECEMBER (PRESS LAUNCH)




7.30pm LEILA (DJ SET)
Anglo-Iranian electronica princess, returns with her second album on Warp and the fourth album of her career. Awaited Blood, Looms and Blooms in 2008, the U & I album released January 16, 2012.
With the Berlin Mt.Sims (Gigolo Records) accompanying her on several tracks creating spectral mysterious sounds. Leila will be honoring us with her presence for a dj set in the ephemeral Rough Trade Shop on tour.



8.30pm SCRATCH MASSIVE (DJ SET)
Celebrating the launch of new album "Nuit de Reve" released earlier this year, this soundtrack from the future features Jimmy Somerville (from Bronski Beat and The Communards), Koudlam, Daniel Agust from Gus Gus, and Chloé. Deep cinematic moods tainted with 80's sensations.

For the opening of the Rough Trade Shop on Tour at agnès b., Scratch Massive will perform an exclusive set as DJ.
For this occasion and to celebrate the partnership between agnès b. and Scratch Massive, a tee shirt will also be on sale soon.

SATURDAY 10th DECEMBER



3pm PHILIPPE COHEN SOLAL FROM GOTAN PROJECT (DJ SET)

Philippe's DJ-Sets are a strong, organic fusion and combination of the electronic Tango music, cumbia digital, tropical bass, and moombahton, also including several unreleased Gotan remixes as well as excellent Latin sounding orientated dance music.

MONDAY 12th DECEMBER



7.30pm ROUGH TRADE ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2011 “JOSH T PEARSON “

Rough Trade's Number One Album Of The Year 2011, Josh T Pearson will be making an appearance in store on Monday 12th December at 7.30pm performing songs from the Rough Trade Christmas Bonus Disc and signing records and merchandise.


TUESDAY 13th DECEMBER



7.30pm WE HAVE BAND (LIVE)

We Have Band are three friends. Darren Bancroft plus husband and wife duo Thomas and Dede Wegg-Prosser met whilst working at a record label, left to form a band, play Glastonbury, release an album that was critically acclaimed by everyone from NME to Dazed & Confused and tour the world. So far, so good!

A stylistic leap on from their debut album, the second entitled ‘Ternion” due for release in January is an intensely personal album that manages to be both uplifting and melancholic.

We Have Band have announced their upcoming 2012 tour, but will give a special French premiere of their new songs in the Rough Trade Shop on the 13th of December.


WEDNESDAY 14th DECEMBER




7pm JARVIS COCKER presents his book “Mother, Brother, Lover”

To celebrate the launch of his new book Jarvis Cocker will be talking about and reading from 'Mother, Brother, Lover', at Rough Trade On Tour chez agnès b.

Widely regarded as one of the most gifted lyricists of his age, and a funny, wry, tender and insightful observer of the human condition in all its minute and arch glory. Jarvis Cocker's first collection of selected lyrics will be presented by the man himself using PowerPoint and followed by a signing session.

THURSDAY 15th DECEMBER




7pm SBTRKT (DJ SET)
SBTRKT is no stranger to writing, recording and releasing music. To date he's had multiple releases on Brainmath, Numbers, Ramp, Monkeytown and now home label Young Turks. Add to that reworkings of Radiohead and Goldie, and remixes of Modeselektor... However, this is his first full-length album. "This release is the culmination of a longer period of constant writing and collaboration, tracks on previous EPs were written as singular pieces. This record is much more of a whole project, more representative of my thoughts and ideas as an artist and each track was completed with the aim to be coherent together."

SBTRKT's debut album pulls off a series of impressive feats: it's bursting with fresh ideas, and yet it sounds immediately familiar. It's sound-patterns and rhythms can easily soundtrack the ecstatic hands in the air dance floor moments as well as reliving the monotony of the morning commute. Its influences are incorporated with subtlety and sophistication: dense enough to interpret, light enough to dance to.

FRIDAY 16th DECEMBER



4pm – 5.30pm ED BANGER AFTERNOON TEA & MUSIC
Featuring BUSY P, and FEADZ before their party at Showcase. Feadz plus the label's head, Busy Pedro are inviting you to Rough Trade On Tour chez agnès b to share some tea, cupcakes and music.

Time to celebrate the newest releases from Ed Banger. Signed copies, bonus CDs, Cool Cats merchandising and tickets to giveaway.

SATURDAY 17th DECEMBER



3pm CUBENX (DJ SET)
New architect of contemporary Techno. Mexican born Cubenx pays homage to the late 80's British scene with the launch of his debut album "On Your Own Again".

To stay updated on exclusive in-store events taking place at Rough Trade On Tour chez agnès b please follow us on Twitter @roughtradepopup

Christmas At Rough Trade East

On THURSDAY 8th DECEMBER from 6pm until 10pm, Rough Trade East is hugely excited to invite you to our inaugural Christmas Market. As Christmas is a time for seeing old friends, we’ve invited a VERY select guestllst of boutique vendors to come down for the night, help the party go off with a bang, and give you a unique opportunity to chat to the people behind your favourite products.

The first one hundred customers through the door on the night will be given a Rough Trade goodie tote bag containing a small gift from each of our vendors. Designer Ella Doran will be offering a very special, vinyl inspired, gift wrapping service for all customers' purchases on the night too.

In the Rough Trade Café, Leila McAlister, founder of the esteemed Leila's Cafe, will be helping serve the very best seasonal food treats, alongside Raef Hodgson, founder of natural wine emporium Gergovie Wines, who'll also be on hand to explain the delicious natural wine offer, available by the glass and bottle-to-go.

Our Album Of The Month for December is by Jeb Loy Nichols. Jeb will be joining us for the evening playing songs from his new album “The Jeb Loy Nichols Special”, followed by a DJ set of country soul classics by Ross Allen.

More details about each of the vendors included in the night can be seen below…

ACS HEADPHONES
Representatives from ACS will be on hand during the evening to talk about their quality headphones. Every ACS custom-fit product is hand made from medical-grade silicone. Crafting exclusively in silicone gives incredible levels of comfort and allows your earpiece to flex with the movement of your jaw to maintain a seal and keep perfect isolation. Using silicone means that the earpieces quickly warm to body temperature so you can enjoy your sound without even noticing that you have anything in your ears.

BOOTHNATION
Boothnation are the people behind Rough Trade’s fabulous photobooth. Created by award winning photographer Seamus Ryan each booth is carefully designed with his unique beauty lighting in mind. These booths have become an essential part of celebrity parties, music festivals and awards nights. Recent events include the BAFTAS, the MTV Awards, Tinie Tempah’s after party and Glastonbury.

For Rough Trade’s Christmas night, Boothnation will be converting the instore booth into a snow booth, a magical winter wonderland in a box. Festive props will be available to get everyone into the spirit and instant colour prints will be provided. The Snow Booth will run throughout the Christmas period.
Rough Trade’s special ‘Photobooth Certificates’ offers customers a unique gift idea for friends and family; 10 prepaid sessions in the booth for £25, a £5 discount on the normal great value price.

CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
The Caught By The River folk will be on hand selling their choice of books of the year alongside a lovely selection of great stocking fillers from Matt 'Bird of the Week' Sewell including Christmas cards, brooches, badges and colouring books. Also available on the night will be prints by Kavel Rafferty, postcards by Tom Gauld, DVDs from the BFI and CBTR’s collectable fanzines – An Antidote to Indifference Issues 1 & 2. Providing you with advice and affordable Christmas present options for all those difficult people to buy for on your list.

COLOUR ME GOOD
Get out your berols as I LOVE MEL grown-up colouring books go large-scale for a COLOUR ME GOOD fest in Rough Trade East. Music themed line drawings from 'Colour Me Good Record Sleeves' and 'Hip Hop Mix Tape' will adorn the walls, crying out for a bit of felt tip action. The perfect opportunity to embrace your inner child... just don't go over the lines!

HERB LESTER MAPS
Herb Lester Associates research, write, print and distribute maps and guides to the world's great cities. We seek out the well used and much loved, and enjoy the extraordinary as well as the everyday. Old bookshops and new coffee shops, park benches and dive bars, hat shops and haberdashers: this is the world according to Herb Lester. Marvel at our magnificent maps and guides to London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Chicago, Glasgow and of course Spitalfields.

Roll up for a prize draw to win one of our limited edition East London screenprints.

IMPOSSIBLE PROJECTS
Rediscover the joy of instant analogue photography with the Impossible Project hot shots who will be joining us to demonstrate the most effective ways to get great photos with vintage Polaroid cameras. Discover how to harness the unique character of the Colour Shade and Silver Shade films and explore the magical palettes offered by experimenting with temperature and shielding techniques.

LUCKY SEVEN
Lucky Seven make the finest embroidered patches and caps in the business. The patches bare the names of the fictional companies found in some of our best-loved cult films and TV shows and are worn on trucker and army caps complete with captain’s crests. All caps are bespoke and are only available from the custom made cap shop online.

For the Rough Trade Christmas Fair, we will be previewing the new ready made line of Rough Trade / Lucky Seven caps and patches which will be available to buy in store on the night.
We will also be demonstrating the bespoke side of our business and custom making caps to order for Rough Trade customers. There will be a limited collection from our online range available, which will be on sale at just £20 per cap.

MASON & TAYLOR
Mason & Taylor is a craft beer and real ale bar and one of the newest additions to East London's bar scene. Located at the junction of Brick Lane and Redchurch Street they serve a wide range of specialist craft beers and real ales on draught and in bottles over 2 floors, along with English small plates food. Their seasonal, curated bottled beer list features a wide range of interesting beers from UK, US, Belgian and Australian microbreweries.

PRICK YOUR FINGER
Prick Your Finger presents 'On Message' your chance to spell it out this Christmas, using the lo-fi wonder that is the 1970's punchcard knitting machine. For one night only we will knit scarves to order. Your wooly thoughts knitted up in scarf form - how cosy!


SONIC EDITIONS
Showcasing the relaunched Rough Trade Collection which includes limited edition hand-made prints of Gram Parsons, Tom Waits, Joe Strummer and Amy Winehouse from only £45, Sonic Editions will be present to talk about their collection of limited edition fine art photographic prints of the greatest music and cultural icons.


SWITCHOPEN POSTERS
Switchopen is the Illustration Company of Artist and Illustrator Nick Rhodes. Established in Manchester in 2004, Switchopen offers a unique service of design, illustration and print; combining an interest in music and printmaking, Switchopen offers a creative and bespoke approach to projects large and small.

Switchopen illustrations will be showcasing limited edition screen-printed gig posters and art prints. Also available on the night will be limited edition set of art prints.

TECHNOLOGY WILL SAVE US
Join Technology Will Save Us experts and tinkers for an evening filled with DIY technology and making!

Take home one of our easy to make DIY Technology kits for a yourself or a special person in your life; Try some of the most innovative products on the market like Sugru hacking putty and the wonderful rechargeable USB Cells; Sign up to one of our regular DIY technology workshops and give someone the gift of learning how to solder their own musical device or learn how to make a set of speakers out of any material.

We will also be joined by our friends from the exciting enterprise Bare Conductive. They will be demonstrating and selling a brand new kit we have developed together using Bare Paint. This amazing new material allows you to paint with conductive ink on any surface and create electronic circuits out of imagery, components and different materials. We are super excited to see what experiments and unique gifts we can develop for the holidays.

Rolling Stones - Some Girls

Roll-up, roll-up and celebrate the re-release of 'Some Girls' at Rough Trade East!

Come down to Rough Trade East, London on Friday 25th November and go old skool with us and our life size retro 'Some Girls' cut-out!

Be brave, stick your head through the stocks and get snapped by photographers to create your own totally unique 'Some Girls' album sleeve.

What's more you can check out first hand our Super Deluxe Collector's Box Set with all the trimmings and win exclusive 'Some Girls' prizes!