It’s a week to go Brighton Gluggers!

We have a few changes in the Brighton Glug  line up.
Unfortunely Anthony Burrill can’t make it due to family commitments but has promised us that he will be able to talk at the next Brighton Glug event. We do have a fantastic replacement by the name of Mr Bingo – the original Shoreditch beat busker and master of pens.

The wheels of steel will be managed by Hamish Makgill, Harry Kay and Paul Burgess
and on the live art front Holly Wales has now been replaced by Mark Taplin

We would like to say a big thank you to our sponsors for the evening Crunch who will be on hand to talk through how they can take all your accountancy worries away from all you freelancers and Barefoot for providing a complimentary tipple.

We have had an overwhelming response to the launch of this event and tickets just flown out of the door. Be sure to arrive early, because the the first 100 people through the door get a free drink.

sign up for future Brighton Events at www.meetup.com/glugbrighton/

See you Friday
The Brighton Glug team at Crush and Agency Rush
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Glugski at the Russian Club Studios – Thanks

Photo: Paul Bence
Thanks to all that came down to ‘Glugski’ last week, it was a great success (again!)
We hope you’ll agree the venue made a nice change from the last few. We’re looking into finalising the details for the Christmas bash (again we’re looking at somewhere different, though probably lots more central and bigger). As soon as this is all sorted we’ll do a mailout with all the details.

Big shouts go to:


Dep @ PaintShop Studio for organising the event
The Russian Club Studios for hosting the event
Roll call of artists in no particular order as they’re all the bollocks!

Dep

Bonzai

Tizer

Love Pusher

Ian Stevenson

John Slade
Photos by the impeccably badly dressed Mr.Paul Bence esq and also of course, BIG THANKS to the Digital Gurus for once again putting their hands in their pockets and running the door

 and to Gem and Laura as always!

Photos are here or click the image.

See you for our last event of 2009 in December.

Nick & Ian


Glugski at the Russian Club Studios – Preview

Just a little note about the upcoming fellas we’ll have painting on Thursday, see you there!

Dep

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paintshopstudio

Bonzai

http://www.bonzaione.blogspot.com

Tizer

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27782959@N02

Love Pusher

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovepusher

Your gracious host for the evening is Dep from Paintshop Studio.

Here’s the location again: Russian Club Studios, 340-344 Basement Kingsland Road London. E8 4DA [gMap].

Glug comes to Brighton Friday 13th Nov

Crush and Agency Rush have joined forces with Studio Output and Nick Clement to host the first Glug Brighton on Friday 13th November.
We have found a great venue bang in the centre of the North Laines
which is The Basement and has space for guest speakers, live art and DJs.

We are going to be charging £3.00 entry fee through our Meetup group. Please note – you need to register to guarantee your name on the door – and it’s one of those “if your names not down you’re not coming in” events so please make sure you register.

Here’s what to expect:

TALKING

Anthony Burrill
Will talk about what he’s been up to this year, including exhibitions in London, Paris, Los Angeles and Lisbon, work with fashion designer Jenny Packham and French electro band Acid Washed.

Peter James Field
Will be speaking about his current personal project, Numbers, “which ranks hundreds of famous and/or notorious people into a series of idiosyncratic, often quite nutty, numerical lists….” you need to see this it’s fascinating!

Colin Jenkinson from Cog App
Digital to Physical:  A new wave of creatives are building projects that push the barriers between the digital and the physical. In an informal exploration, Colin discusses alternative interaction and projects that could mark the future of digital design.

Jason Hocking
CC-Lab will talk about an emerging model of creating content for the music industry, with examples of an ongoing series of work for the Prodigy, including music videos and viral snapshots chronicling the eye popping live performances, promotional duties and backstage antics as the band tour their hit album around the world.

PERFORMING

Studio Tonne
Paul talks us through some of his recent digital creations and will be performing using his graphic sound toys.

Paul Burgess an Harry K
On the wheels of steel dropping everything from The Slits to Crystal Castles

ANIMATIONS

Brighton Based Digital Production Agency Kanoti has collated a selection of kick-ass animations, with shorts made by the following talented folk… It promises to be a mind-blowing compilation of cutting-edge, frightening and exciting digital story-telling by the best in town. Honest.

Crush http://www.crushed.co.uk.
Kanoti http://www.kanoti.com.
Birta Thrastardottir http://www.eggnogg.org.uk.
Belle Mellor http://bellemellor.com
Trevor Hardy http://www.foolhardyfilms.com/
Garth and Ginny http://www.garthandginny.com/
Cyriak http://www.cyriak.co.uk/
Treat Studio http://treatstudios.blogspot.com/
Artillery http://www.artillery-design.tv/
Modern Toss http://www.moderntoss.com/
Chris Packer http://www.kanoti.com
Bonny Cummins: http://www.bonnycummins.com/
Tokyo Plastic http://www.tokyoplastic.com/start.swf
Tom Jackson http://www.stringmouse.com
Matt Lyver Dan Woodger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKxm6llPbx4

DRAWING & PAINTING

We have some great live art taking place and the theme of course will be Friday the 13th.
The talented artists confirmed so far are:

Pinky: http://www.pinkyvision.com/
Pomme Chan: http://pommepomme.com/news/

Jirayu Koo: http://www.every-every.com/
Holly Wales: http://www.eatjapanesefood.co.uk/
David Callow: http://www.davidcallow.co.uk/

Hope to see you there! Cheers Carl

Glugski at the Russian Club Studios – 29.10.09 (Updated)

After 4 brilliant events at the Queen Of Hoxton, we thought it was time for a bit of a change and a move. So for this one off smaller scale event (on Thursday 29th October) we’ve gone a bit further out and a bit more underground, to the very cool Russian Club Studios, 340-344 Basement Kingsland Road London. E8 4DA [gMap].

Apologies straight away, that this is a bit further out (Kingsland Rd, in East London) and also that the capacity is much smaller but we wanted to do something a bit more boutique. After selling out the Queen of Hoxton event (700 people) we know this 300 capacity venue is going to mean some people can’t come along so get your rsvp’s in fast to guarantee a place. Please note: we’re just charging £3 on the door for this, to cover material costs etc.

RSVP for free here now.
Please note RSVP’ing on facebook does not confirm your name on the list, it needs to be through meetup!

Glugsky – Live Art / Graffiti Event details

Transforming the space and opening the door to the closed world of London graffiti, Paint Shop Studio will be taking over two rooms, creating a unique, collective piece created by Dep, Bonzai, Solo One, Tizer and Love Pusher. Solo One will also be talking about the art of freehand letterforms alongside a huge blackboard should anyone feel inspired…

http://www.paintshopstudio.com

We are also excited to welcome Ian Stevenson and John Slade to Glug, two illustrators whose intoxicating work will be spilling over the walls of our third room space.

http://www.john-slade.co.uk
http://www.ilikedrawing.co.uk

Doors open from 6pm, we have DJ Shucks playing all night and there’s a bar created for us by the lovely people at the Russian Club serving beer, wine, and juice… As before our sponsors Digital Gurus will be buying some free booze again so get there early for some free tokens.

In other news we’ll also be announcing details of our much bigger Christmas event soon which we’re partnering with charity Barnados on. This will be a ticket only event and probably much larger format again.

Finally just a quick note of thanks to Laura & Gemma for arranging this whole event.
It’s been great to have a break on these.

Cheers!
Nick and Ian.

Glug Together 24.09.09 – Thanks!

Hi,

We just wanted to say a massive thanks to everyone who came down to our event last Thursday. Not only was it one of the most heavily attended events we’ve run so far but also one of the best too.

Thanks also to everyone who helped us to make it happen, the whole Studio Output team for their Lyrical Theatre and talks, Norm and his t-shirt printing, Leigh ‘The Cake lady’, Macaulay Sinclair, Richard Paul, Bob London, Adobe and also our speakers Sanky, Merlin, Mandy GDR etc. We’ll post any films and pictures up on the blog asap, click the pic to jump to Flickr for the latest pics, thanks for the photography Romain Kedochim – check out his work here.

Adobe http://www.adobe.com

Sanky D&AD vice president http://www.allofus.com

Merlin http://www.merlinnation.com

Studio Output http://www.studio-output.com

GDR http://www.gdruk.com

Waste Yourself http://www.wasteyourself.com

Bob London http://www.boblondon.co.uk

Richard Paul http://www.richardgpaul.co.uk

Macaulay Sinclair http://www.macaulaysinclair.com

For our next event we’re down sizing a bit and moving to the ‘Russian Club Studios‘ in Dalston for a ‘Street Art’ event before one final big party right at the end of November. We think this may well be over in the west end though and our Big Christmas Event. More details to follow.

We hope you all enjoyed it, please give feedback on the meetup if you can.

Thanks
Nick & Ian

PS. Studio Ouput are looking for a Senior Designer for the Nottingham studio.
Full details can be found here: http://www.studio-output.com/site.php

PPS. Some bloggisphere reportage of glug on Middle Boop and FitDigital.

T-Shirts

We’ll also be printing 7 ltd edition t-shirts at the event. These can be purchased for £10 each in various sizes or you can also bring a favourite t-shirt and have this printed on for £5!

It’s Glug Tomorrow!

Hello, it’s Glug tomorrow…

..and it’s looking like being one of the best yet. We’ve sold 547 tickets already and only 153 remain. Please be aware once these sell out we will not be taking money on the door, so once these are gone that’s it!

Tickets: www.meetup.com/gluglondon
Venue: www.thequeenofhoxton.co.uk | gMap

For those of you able to come, here’s some important information about the event which you’ll need to read. Some details have changed etc.

1. Try and get there early

Due to the fact the nights are closing in a bit (it’s now dark at 7.30), the roof will only be open till just before 8pm. Also we’ve kindly had lots of donations and sponsorship bits we’re giving to early attendees. These include:

Free glass of bubbly to the first 200 people
Free food – provided by our sponsor Digital Gurus
More free drinks vouchers – thanks to London Digital Week!

Doors open at 6pm (event finishes at 2am)

2. Talks etc.

In the past people have said the talks have been too late on, this has partly been due to us not wanting to spoil peoples fun on the roof terrace. However because of darkening nights these will now be much earlier. Our first talk / demo by Adobe starts in the basement at 7.30pm and includes a Sneak preview of the next version of Flash Professional & Flash Catalyst.

In fact here’s the line up for the basement:

7.30 – 7.50 Adobe http://www.adobe.com/
8.00 Introduction
8.10 Sanky D&AD vice president http://www.allofus.com/
8.30 Merlin http://www.merlinnation.com/
8.50 Studio Output http://www.studio-output.com/
9.10 GDR http://www.gdruk.com/

10.15 Kids Love Lies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tYD4HEx60c&feature=related

3. Other features

In typical Glug style we’re trying to keep things a bit low key so we hope you’ll dip in and out of things as you please. As such lots of things are running at the same time, so here’s a list of other bits you might enjoy:

Ground floor
Studio Output with Nick Andrews
We’ll be shooting people throughout the night, asking for your favourite song lyrics and creating illustrations on the fly as part of our live Lyrical Theatre project.
http://www.studio-output.com/
http://www.retrovista.com/

T-shirt screen printing by Waste Yourself
We’ll be printing 7 ltd edition t-shirts at the event. These can be purchased for £10 each in various sizes or you can also bring a favourite t-shirt and have this printed on for £5. We’ll be putting some of these on the blog today as a bit of a taster…
http://gluglondon.wordpress.com/

–

Basement
Bob London
Prints and frames mini exhibit
http://www.boblondon.co.uk/

Richard Paul
Canvas prints mini exhibit
http://www.richardgpaul.co.uk/

–

Roof (closes at 7.45)
Macaulay Sinclair
Installation and work examples
http://www.macaulaysinclair.com/

Cup Cakes
Buy them, eat them!

4. Food & Drink

Food will be available from the ground floor from 5pm -7pm. We’re giving away 100 of these to early birds but you can also buy these for £5. Here’s what it says on the menu ‘Delicious bowls of warming chilli prepared with fresh ingredients and served with steamed rice plus a topping of grated cheddar cheese and spicy jalapenos. Choose between a meat and a veggie option’

Drinks are available from the main and basement bars only. Obviously you can take both food and drink upstairs to the roof till it closes.

5. Goodie Bags

You can see these on the blog, they look great.
http://gluglondon.wordpress.com/
As we’ve now sold over 500 tickets we have the names of everyone, who’s entitled to get one of these. You can collect them from the door as you come in.

6. Music

Breakin Bread will be on the decks from 8.30pm in the ground floor, they’ve also kindly given us a mix cd for every goodie bag. In the basement at 10.15 (ish) Kids Love lies will be performing.

7. Entry & Guestlist

If your on the guest list or have purchases a ticket we will have your name on the door, however please print out a reference number if possible. From 9pm onwards we’ll hand this over to the friendly bouncers to sort…

NB: Once this sells out we won’t be letting anyone else in on the door as it will get too busy and cramped. So get your ticket now, there are only 153 places left..

I think that’s everything, sorry to be so formal. Obviously we’ll also have some information up on posters around the venue too. We’re looking forward to it, I hope you are too!

Ian & Nick

Glug Goody Bags

The Glug goody tote bags have just come back from the printers and I must admit they’re rather dashing. There’s still tickets left so grab them as soon as you can from..

http://www.meetup.com/gluglondon/

See you Thursday!

With less than 2 weeks to go till our September event tickets are going fast. But first some exciting news relating to this event: Digital Gurus – Recruitment Specialists are Glug London’s New sponsor for 2009 / 2010. We’re happy to announce Digital Gurus have signed up to sponsor Glug London for the next 6 events. As with all sponsorship donations we’ll be giving this straight back to you so for the September event this means free BBQ tokens for the first 100 people to arrive !

Digital Gurus – Recruitment Specialists & London Digital Week.
Not only is Glug London now part of London Digital Week lineup for this year, but they’ve kindly offered to sponsor this event with a contribution to put behind the bar. Again we’ll be handing these drinks tokens out to early attendees but this should cover a free drink for the first 300 people! — Additional Ltd edition goodie bags = More freebies.

We’re also increasing the number of tote goodie bags to 500 now, as we’ve had so many people buy tickets and request these. As such the first 500 people to buy tickets will all get one of these. All of which means there are 196 left, so hurry up and buy those tickets now.

Adobe Flash CS4 Giveaway
In addition to a sneak preview of Flash Professional & Flash Catalyst (at the event), Adobe have kindly offered us a free copy of CS4 to giveaway! Once all the tickets are gone, we’ll be picking a ticket number at random and then announcing this on the meetup page / blog.

T-shirts by Waste Yourself
Screen printed t-shirts will be available to buy at the event (7 special designs to choose from!). You can purchase these for £10, or pay £5 to get one of your own tshirts printed there and then.
NB: You might want to bring a spare with you, unless you fancy walking round topless for an hour while your t-shirt dries.

I think that’s it for now, it’s shaping up to be one of our best events so far, with lots of fun features and giveaways for all. Glug London Thursdy 24th September = Free BBQ, Free Booze & for one lucky Glugger a free copy of Flash CS4.

Thanks Ian & Nick

PS. We’ve had a few people mention the PayPal RSVP section is a bit confusing as it keeps displaying the price in dollars when it should be GBP £’s. Please ignore this, it will charge you in GBP £’s and your order will be processed. We’ve contacted meetup.com about this to rectify the fault. RSVP & Tickets here.