Pretty Shitty City

Yawn, its been a while, but Pretty Shitty City is back.

Sorry its been so long since the last update! Please check back for more updates very soon.

Ceri Davies has sent in this month’s header, a great shot of the winter surf on a rare sunny day.

You can see more of Ceri’s photography on Flickr.

If you’d like to contribute a design, photo, illustration etc. for next month’s header then please email us at hello@prettyshittycity.co.uk.

Images should be supplied in JPEG (or similar) and atleast 750 pixels wide by 280 pixels tall.

Sweet Little Horrors is an new alternative street wear shop for babies.

Soon you’ll be able to dress up your offspring as “little goths, punks, emos and tiny rockabilly bad boys and gals”!

http://www.sweetlittlehorrors.com/

Thanks to Benjy (that’s me ) for sending us this month’s header design, if you’re wondering; its a scan of my brand new sketch book. Its still pretty much empty at the moment but I thought the binding looked nice.

I’ve updated my personal blog recently so if you fancy a look at some of my drawings and pointless mutterings, please check it out www.thelab7.com.

If you’d like to contribute a design, photo, illustration etc. for next month’s header then please email us at hello@prettyshittycity.co.uk.

Images should be supplied in JPEG (or similar) and atleast 750 pixels wide by 280 pixels tall.

Thanks to everyone for your support these past twelve months, the project is continuing to grow and hopefully making a difference in its own little way.

If you want to give us a present than a link from your website / profile / blog / whatever would be perfect. So if you can, please use our url (http://www.prettyshittycity.co.uk) & spread the love.

Also to celebrate, we’re launching a Pretty Shitty City Forum. Its intended as a place that like-minded people can discuss events, creative projects, and general Swansea-ness so please get stuck in and say hello or recommend a feature.

Cheers, Benjy

We’ve got a new email address: hello@prettyshittycity.co.uk, the old one will still work, but this one looks more pro.

As always, we rely on your submissions. If you’d like us to promote your event, review your album, visit your show, gallery, shop etc. then just email us with the details. Alternatively if you’d like to be a regular contributer let us know, we’re after all sorts.

Welcome to the Swansea Newcomer Guide ‘07.

This is the first issue of what promises to become THE annual guide to Swansea; full of well researched articles, insightful anecdotes and tips on how to conduct one’s self.

So if you are new here, and you don’t know any better, read on…

Best Pub - The Uplands Tavern

Best Club - Monkey Cafe

Best Live Music Venue - Sin City

Best Shop - Hobos / Exist

Best Late Night Watering Hole - Mozarts

Best Place to Avoid the Mindless Banality of Wind Street - Bar,Co

Best Place to Go if its Nice - The Gower

According to the Derricks Music website; Kanye West will be playing Sin City in Swansea on the 27th November.

This would surely be the biggest act that the club has booked so far, and probably the biggest act to play Swansea since the Stereophonics went shit.

Lets hope it gets officially announced soon.

Boo! Looks like it was just a typo.

It’s certainely not a proper birthday, but today is 6 months since I started Pretty Shitty City.

Although actually, the Pretty Shitty City idea has been floating around in some shape or form since around 2000, when I was in the late and great Swansea punk band No Talent. Inspired by the More Music Swansea Guide me and Ioan (No Talent’s guitarist and vocalist) set out to create an alternative guide to Swansea’s pubs, clubs and other areas of interest to 16 year old boys (e.g. good hedge jumping locations).

You can even see No Talent’s very old and very broken website hosted at prettyshittycity.tripod.com. It was unfortunately hacked by ‘rival’ band My Little Eskimo and never fixed, but it will certainly bring back some cringe-worthy memories for anyone who was there!

Anyway, the point is, that even in a short space of time I feel that Pretty Shitty City has come a long way.

My original idea of rounding up a small group of regular contributers is slowly but surely coming true thanks to work from Basheera Khan, Stephen Ready & Tyron Francis and I should also take this opportunity to thank anyone who has supported Pretty Shitty City by supplying designs, emailing news, leaving a comment or linking to us.

Feel free to leave a comment at the end of this article, I’d love to hear how you feel about Pretty Shitty City, and any ideas for the future are most welcome!

Thanks to Shell (squidge60@hotmail.com) for coming up with our 4th header design, and for bringing a feminine touch to the website (she’s our first female contributor )

Oh, and happy Saint David’s Day!