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AN INDEPENDENT, FREE MONTHLY GUIDE TO MUSIC, ART, THEATRE, COMEDY, LITERATURE & FILM IN STROUD. ISSUE 34 | JAN 2018 | WWW.GOODONPAPER.INFO ISSUE #34 INSIDE: NELSON ST. STROUD ADAM GOP PARTY WASSAIL HOROVITZ + Cheltenham Illustration Awards | Bellow | Rebecca MacMillan | Katie Jane Watson Cover image by Adam Hinks Adam image by Cover #34 | JAN 2018 EDITOR Advertising/Editorial/Listings: EDITOR’S Alex Hobbis [email protected] DESIGNER Artwork and Design NOTE Adam Hinks [email protected] ONLINE FACEBOOK TWITTER WELCOME TO THE THIRTY FOURTH ISSUE OF GOOD ON PAPER – goodonpaper.info /GoodOnPaperStroud @GoodOnPaper_ YOUR FREE MONTHLY GUIDE TO MUSIC CONCERTS, ART PRINTED BY: EXHIBITIONS, THEATRE PRODUCTIONS, COMEDY SHOWS, FILM Tewkesbury Printing Company SCREENINGS AND LITERATURE EVENTS IN STROUD... A New Year begins and brings with it our annual Good On Paper Party! This time we will be taking over the Marshall Rooms and Black Book Cafe on SPONSORED BY: Nelson Street with ticket holders getting a wrist band enabling you to move freely between the two venues to see the likes of Mesadorm, Near Future, Impromptu Shakespeare, Little Metropolis, Jonny Fluffypunk and much much more…Tickets cost just £13 and are available now from goodonpaper.info/ events CO-WORKING STUDIO As for the rest of the year we hope to introduce new sections to the magazine, announce more Good On Paper events and continue to provide stroudbrewery.co.uk stroudcluster.com you with a definitive monthly guide to events and festivals in Stroud – the place which just keeps giving… Happy New Year to ye all! Chartered Tax Advisers www.chrismattostax.co.uk Alex and Adam elcombestoves.co.uk chrismattostax.co.uk Fieldfare Café at Thistledown Farm We’re now open for lunch Wednesday to Sunday! Our café is set in 75 acres of beautiful wintery walk and enjoy a hot drink with meadow and woodland overlooking Woodchester stunning views beside our woodburner! Park. We serve lunch from our wood-fired clay oven & charcoal BBQ Weds to Sun and Join our mailing list for details of events brunch Sat & Sun. We use local, free such as vegan tapas nights, storytelling range and Organic produce. Fine teas, sessions and foraging mornings. We coffees & delicious homemade cakes served stock delicious sourdough bread, our 9am to 4:30pm. Why not come up for a own preserves, Organic milk and more. thistledown.org.uk 01453 860420 thistledown, tinkley lane, nympsfield, GL10 3UH 4 GOOD ON PAPER PARTY 2018 #34 | JAN 2018 Nelson St. PARTY GOP Our annual Good On Paper party returns for a mini- festival of live music, DJ’s, spoken word, comedy, poetry, theatre, a film screening, food stalls and pop-up record shops celebrating the magazine, the Stroud arts scene and an attempt to stave off them January blues! This time we will be taking over the Marshall Rooms and Black Book Cafe on Nelson Street, with ticket holders getting a wrist band enabling you to move between the two venues... #34 | JAN 2018 GOOD ON PAPER PARTY 2018 5 Grasscourt Junkroom Records a regular at Glastonbury Festival working on the Glastonbury Free The Debut show of a brand new Stroud Artist, musician and GOP scribe Press. (7-7:30PM) based band formed by well-known Sean Roe covering everything Marshall local author and illustrator Tom from seventies rock, afro beat, jazz, Percival and Matthew Lacey from experimental, electronica and much defunct off kilter indie Bristolians OLO more…(11:30PM-12:10AM) facebook. Paper Jungle Presents: Rooms Worms. (7-7:30PM) facebook.com/ com/junkroomrecords The Skeleton Woman grasscourtband | soundcloud.com/ grasscourt An ancient Inuit story about transformation, brought to life through beautiful puppetry, shadows and Mesadorm Black live storytelling by Isabel Lyster ft. a A collaborative project between Good On Paper @ live soundtrack by Low Chimes’ Rob Blythe Pepino (Vaults), Aaron Zahl, Stroud Fringe Book Café Pemberton… (6-6:30PM) Daisy Palmer (Rae Morris, Goldfrapp, 2017 Film screening of performances Lillian Boute), Jo Silverston and interviews with artists from POP-UP RECORD SHOPS: (The Unthanks, Emily Barker and the the Good On Paper stage at the Red Clay Halo, Frank Turner) and last Stroud Fringe ft. Manu Delago, David Johnston (ZunZun Egui, Impromptu Douglas Dare, Adam Betts, Modulus Phil King, Chairfight!) bringing III and the Stroud Fringe Choir. (5:30- Shakespeare Junkroom Records together a stunning array of 6:30PM) Bursting with love, poetry, comedy, New, second-hand and hard to musical concepts and timbres sitting tragedy, soliloquies, power find vinyl covering everything from somewhere between the domestic struggles, mistaken identity and the seventies rock, afro beat, jazz, observation of Suzanne Vega and the DJ SETS: supernatural, Impromptu Shakespeare experimental, electronica and obscure powerful, elemental other-worldliness (Ft. Stroud based actor, comedian and Italian soundtracks. (from 5pm) of Bjork… (10-11:15PM) facebook. singer Rebecca MacMillan) buckle on facebook.com/junkroomrecords com/mesadorm | soundcloud.com/ the Bard’s britches to bring you an mesadorm Pavinyl entirely new and unique ‘Shakespeare’ Purveyor of fine vinyl with a hearse play, based on audience suggestions... full of 45’s from jump blues to (10-11PM) impromptushakespeare.com Monobrow’s Vinyltopia northern soul with lots of oddball | facebook.com/impromptushakes Tom from Stroud Calling and Stroud Near Future rock n roll in between.(1:30-2:10AM) Block Party sourcing the best quality A new project featuring Neil Arthur, facebook.com/pavinyl vinyl - the records you’d want to the Stroud dwelling front man of the find in great condition! (From 5pm) legendary synthpop band Blancmange Jonny Fluffypunk facebook.com/Monobrowvinyltopia and Brighton based musician, sculptor, Dubbu A seasoned performance poet who film-maker and co-founder of the offers a unique blend of poems, Stroud Block Party and Stroud and FOOD: Anti Ghost Moon Ray art collective songlets, surreal banter, off-kilter Gloucester Vinyl Connection’s Neil that also spawned Gazelle Twin - observation, bitter autobiography and Wilson dropping the heaviest funk, Jez Bernholz…(9-9:30PM) facebook. a simply most wonderful moustache… soul, hip-hop and reggae… (12:50- com/futureisnear | nearfuture. (9-9:30PM) jonnyfluffypunk.co.uk bandcamp.com 1:30AM) facebook.com/DubbuNeil Salt Bakehouse Winner of numerous awards SALT Bakehouse is an artisan bakery Stroud Fringe Choir Stroud Calling Little Metropolis providing quality baked stuff, Evocative poetry set to original locally sourced /foraged for local Neighbourhood DJ’s Will Mendoza A choir with a band philosophy put music, exploring the peculiarities people. Tonight they’ll be serving an and Tom Monobrow; self-confessed together by award winning composer of growing up in a small town by abundance of delicious pizzas so no music obsessives with a passion for Emily Hall. All the music is created poet Adam Horovitz and musician need to cook dinner before you come by members of the choir - which sharing music from the past, present Josef Reeve. (8-8:30PM) facebook. out...(from 5pm) saltbakehouse.co.uk currently features 18 members and future finding a common thread com/littlemetropolisalbum | including the likes of Emily Barker, through Soul, Reggae, Hip Hop, Funk, littlemetropolis.bandcamp.com Blythe Pepino, Stephano Marlot, Latin, Afro, Disco, Electronica and Misha Law and Melanie Golding - more…(12:10-12:50AM) facebook.com/ Mr Bobbington’s Pop & who all come from Stroud’s rich StroudCalling2010 Shake musical community. (8-8:30PM) Dennis Gould Fresh organic popcorn with organic facebook.com/StroudFringeChoir Legendary poet, activist, letterpress flavours to add and shake...(from 5pm) printer and one of Stroud’s most facebook.com/MrBobbingtonPop cherished characters who is also Saturday Tickets cost just £13 and are available from our website 6th Jan 18 goodonpaper.info/events The event also acts as a fundraiser with all Doors open at 5pm proceeds going back into the magazine and its ongoing future! Wristbands will be available to for food and drinks! pick up at the Marshall Rooms on the night... 6 ART - CHELTENHAM ILLUSTRATION AWARDS #34 | JAN 2018 At The Musem In The Park By Sarah Edmonds The power of ‘the image’ in our every day society and the digital age is unavoidable. Every cultural reference is now being documented on our i-Phones, Instagram or through other screens and devices. We are becoming an image obsessed society, able to decipher sophisticated visual messages with ease. Illustration has a major part to play in this cultural shift and is one of the fastest growing and most creative disciplines to be a part of today. This exhibition (which re-opens today’s global illustration scene. at the Museum in the Park from “We have had a great response the 1st-28th January) showcases this year and the quality of the the winning entrants of the entries keeps going up. I am really annual Cheltenham Illustration pleased that we have found such Awards, devised ten years ago by a welcome at the Museum – the Kieren Phelps, with a generous exhibition is in a professionally donation of £10,000 from local run gallery, in a great location, businessman David Elyan. Phelps, attracting many visitors.” a practicing illustrator since The exhibition is also 1982, set up the BA Illustration accompanied by an extensive course at the University of supporting programme of events Gloucestershire in 2005 and was exploring themes of migration looking to create a showcase for and displacement and promoting the students work. It has since illustration as a means of grown to become a global event, communicating beyond words. with over one thousand entrants “Drawing stories and using a from more than twenty countries visual narrative to communicate” worldwide, students, emerging is the précis of illustration on artists and established illustrators. the university website, and each The international selection of piece in this exhibition certainly commended artists reflects does just that.