Pretty Shitty City

No Obligation + Guests,
Milkwood Jam, Swansea, June 21st 2008

After supporting awarding winning songwriter Lucie Diamond in February, No Obligation, a four piece female fronted rock band from South Wales, return to music venue ‘Milkwood Jam‘, Plymouth Street, Swansea, Saturday 21st June 2008.

The night kicks off around 8pm, Entry £3 on the door.
Supporting acts include Aggi Thomas, White Dice and Human Breed.

The band have also been confirmed as headliners on the alternative stage at Pontardawe international music festival, which sees its 30th anniversary this year.

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A message from Mayor at Associated Minds;

“The double A side videos taken from Metabeats’ heavyweight debut ‘Metaphysical’ LP are out now on You Tube. Check em out, enjoy and all that goodness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7Q8vu-08c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avz_AmJdGR8

The LP is available at all good record stores or online @ HMV, iTunes, Amazon etc or direct from us nice folk at www.associatedminds.com/store

I hope it’s a sunny Saturday.

Peace
Mayor”

Heres a gallery of drawings from Samuel Jones an illustrator studying at Swansea Met.

A little late on this one, but by all accounts the gig was great and these photos are definitely worth showing.

Photos by Swansea photographer Tyron Francis of Black Lips playing at Sin City, 2nd May .

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.

Check out this track called The Most Colourful Years by Mudmowth. Mud is on hip-hop label Associated Minds, and has been tipped for 2008 alongside other Welsh artist’s such as Duffy.

• The Most Colourful Years (full 16Bit 44.KHz Wav)
• The Most Colourful Years (mp3 Link)

You can learn more about Mudmowth here: http://www.myspace.com/mudmowth or head straight for the amshop here: http://www.associatedminds.com/store/.

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.

Swansea Arts Forum Trust are holding an open discussion about the Arts in Swansea on 31st January at 7.30pm at Glynn Vivien Gallery.

“The keynote speaker will be Professor David Warner (Principal of Swansea Institute of Higher Education) who will be talking about a future vision of the Arts in Swansea and how Swansea Institute is contributing to this.

Afterwards we would like to involve the audience in an interesting discussion on how they see the Arts developing here in Swansea. This affects all of the Art community in influencing the City and County of Swansea to recognise what an asset they have to enhance Swansea’s image. “

For more information please visit the SAFT website.

http://www.swanseaartsforum.org/home.htm

…so we plug back :)

Welovelocal have written a nice little article about us for their blog. The website is basically a community driven directory where you can recommend your favourite things about an area and share local knowledge.

So check out the blog and get stuck into the site.

http://www.welovelocal.com/

Early next month, Ice Cream Social* will be throwing an after party for The Courteeners gig at Sin City.

This means that if you’ve got a ticket for the gig, you get free entry to Ice Cream Social* afterwards, otherwise its £3 as usual to get your monthly fix of indie, electronic and alternative music. :)

Ice Cream Social*, as always, takes place at Sin City one Saturday a month. This time it’s on Saturday 2nd February, doors are 11pm - 3.30am

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=11755161419

Tickets for The Courteeners gig;
http://www.derricksmusic.co.uk/
or http://www.swanseatickets.com/ (No booking fee)