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The A journalHUB about creation initiated byPaper DC Shoes Issue 3 - Spring 2013 Bristol LE Shoe By Visionary stArti ww w.chloetrujillo.com Chloé Trujillo Artist Project More information on available April 2013 dcshoes.com/life TheIssue 3 - Spring HUB2013 - A journal about creation Paper initiated by DC Shoes 78/L#+G40)'-$':2/'5M='p.4 & 5 :2/'5#$'M@4'p.6 FG@0/I'p.8 Rebekah p.10 Kenneth Ploquin - DROP IN p.11 Jason Jägel p.12 N/L#%'K)+%4'p.14 Jeff Decker p.16 Mr and Mrs Sabotage p.18 1-83/'./E$+%'p.22 O0-L-'O0++84'p.26 European Snapshots : Cork p.28 :A2-%/'D3G)-%'p.34 European Snapshots : Istanbul p.36 W1910 p.42 A concept by Emmanuel Labadie DC Shoes Europe, 162 rue Belharra, Art direction and design by Christophe Victoor 64500 St Jean de Luz, France !"#$#%&'()'*+`-'./(#+0+ 1-%)'$2-%34'$+'.#-00'5-44/$'678#9/':#9/;<' The HUB by DC Shoes, 15 rue Montorgueil, 5-3-%'=/8(/80/8'67+>#$#?'*@+8$;<'*A+$$'B' 75001 Paris, France *-%$WB%&/0+'6B83#$#@;<'1-83'DE/%4<'B"-9' dcshoes.com - facebook.com/dceurope FG@G#4'-%"'=/%+#$'H+@#%'64+#I-%$/4/#>/J4+#I- [email protected] -%$/"#I4/@$;<'1-8A#%'K/E-%"+E43#'6A+L/8; Previously at The HUB .!M!'-$':2/'5M= We presented the contemporary artistic duo Neue’s “We never use frames to show our work. For us, the raw exhibition back in October 2012. Nicolas Choyé and Esteban feeling of photographs directly nailed on a wall is much more Gonzalez met 9 years ago and ever since have been organic” explains Esteban Gonzalez. “We want visitors to feel developing ways to express their art through unexpected close the art, not intimidated by it.” Exclusive to The HUB, mediums. For their exhibition at The HUB, Neue exhibited Neue produced unique skateboard decks using an argentic photographs, drawings and paintings through the eyes of photography development process, as well as series of found objects. postcards. 4 11-L'-$':2/'5M= Parisian duo MMav (“Mon Moulin A Vent” / “My Windmill”) illustrations highlighted by a symmetrical pattern; two dyptics presented their exhibition at The HUB in January 2013. Rey on skateboard decks and a 1m by 1m hand drawn and Mutt, the two masterminds behind MMav, created a new transparent plexiglas piece. The exhibition also presented a !"#$%"&%'"()%#*Y,*#%!$%-.*/(%0/1,2-3(*%2*0-.*-/4%*05*4/266$% series of original artworks by each artist, including three for The HUB. The two worked together on a series of three pieces that will be used by DC Shoes for a Curated by The kakemonos applying their intricate technique to the HUB capsule collection in Spring 2014. 5 :2/'5#$'M@4 The Hit Ups is a Bristol (UK) based 5-piece band with a stage many iterations and developments of who we are, individually craft that is meticulous in its chaos! We have been following and as Team THU, it is too personal to announce so easily. If their music for a while, and we will soon have the chance to people work it out, they’ll work us out. We’re going to have welcome them at the DROP IN studio. to think of some kind of initiation for those that get it... How did you all meet ? !"#$%&#'%$"(%Y*'$%$*#+,%-./%*(+.*0(0%#'%1"(%23$%45'6 The Hit Ups is made up of Lewis on thunder drums, Nick on The First track we ever recorded was a track called K.I.D.S. synth wail machines, Charlie on guitar and distortion duties, 2,#%Y--/,16$%'*%'*(*%266%(*266$%$"3,1%2-%-.*%-/7*8%924)%-.*,% Josh on vocals and head whipping and Samuel on bass '*%'*(*%'2$%7"(*%0)2:53,)%/,Z3*,4*#%20%'*%266%1(*'%35% rumble! Our connections together stretch way back into the on that musical diet! All we really wanted to do was play depths of history but we were brought together by ill omens, ."30*%52(-/*0%2,#%!*%"6#%*,"31.%-"%!3$%!**(%<-.*%Y(0-%52(-% inspired friendships, teen angst, and the best of enemies... hasn’t really changed much). It was a really important time for us all as it made us want to really play live music, and that Where does the name ‘The Hit Ups’ come from? desire really fused us together and eventually pushed us in the direction we’re heading today. When we were born as a band the meaning didn’t seem so intimate. But, now the acronym has been held through so 6 What is your best gig memory? =-P0%2%(*266$%#/&Y436-%?3*0-/",%-"%2,0'*(8%@/&&*(*,-%1/10%0-2,#% out for different reasons. We’ve had amazing festival slots where you’re playing to huge crowds and the festival atmosphere is totally electric… But some of our favorite shows have been in sweaty basements with no stage where people can just totally lose their shit and get wild with us! Some shows are great because you connect with people, others are amazing because you convert people to your music… Any funny stories about your recent tour? The photos and videos tell it better than words for sure! You can check them out on our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram <A30-%0*2(4.%B-.*./-350%",%266%"&%-.*7%-"%Y,#%308CD%93-%252(-% from that we’ve met some totally insane people, slept on bus 0-2-/",%Z""(0E%#(2,)%-""%734.E%*2-*,%-""%6/--6*E%4./55*#%-**-.E% -"(,%73046*0%2,#%.2#%FGH%-""%734.%&3,D%I"(%"3(%Y(0- proper tour it’s been absolutely amazing. It’s great to be getting out there and bringing our music to totally new crowds. What can we expect in the future from the band? We’re currently working on a heap of new things but we’re keeping our lips quite sealed about them. We’ll be back in the studio soon and we’ll begin plotting our next tour in the ,*J-%7",-.%"(%0"D%F*P66%260"%!*%-(2K*6/,1%&3(-.*(%2Y*6#%2,#% attempting to recruit as many people to The Hit Ups army as possible. But people can expect big things, sweat, un-deniable- dance-punk, more chipped teeth, more parties! We’ll see you in your town soon! www.thehitups.com FG@0/I The Parisian based artists from Duplex recently came to the We are both attracted by big american production, massive studio DROP IN to record a few exclusive tracks with us. We sounds, that “plus-vrai-que-nature” feeling of listening to a speak with Gaspard Murphy about the development of this song on your iPod and imagining big things. But we wanted it very promising band. Photos by David Manaud to be in French. Tom came up with the name Duplex and it had so much meaning: we write in a two story apartment, it’s !"#$P'%-./*%8#+,9*./:06 two of us, we always feel like the music has two levels to it. Also when I was in New York we were working “en duplex”... Duplex is Gaspard Murphy (guitar and vocals) and Tom F*%Y,#%,*'%7*2,/,10%*K*($#2$D%L630E%'*%-./,)%/-%0"3,#0%(*26- Daveau (drums). The two of us being multi-instrumentalists, ly good! The style of music you make is never obvious to the we play all of the instruments in the studio. I play bass, one who’s making it. But I’d say that the keyboards and do all the programming, while Tom plays energy of our music is completely rock oriented. The songs keyboards and performs any percussive element. are always driven by drums, guitars and vocals. We are also Live, Duplex adds Amaury Belair (guitar, keyboards, vocals) always trying to keep it pop, and have big choruses and create and Florance David (bass, vocals) to the line-up. They are both as many musical orgasms as we can! Which isn’t always easy. incredibly talented and really help us in re-creating the We listen to so much music that we always try and arrangements. /,4"(5"(2-*%*6*7*,-0%"&%-./,10%-.2-%'*%Y,#%*J4/-/,1D%M.*(*P0% Tom and I are both from Paris, we met when we were 16 #*Y,/-*6$%2,%*6*4-("%/,Z3*,4*N%/-P0%.2(#%-"%*0425*%/,%I(2,4*% and quickly became best friends. Hanging out all the time and with bands like Daft Punk, Justice or Phoenix! But we are also listening to 80’s rock and french electro. We played in some fans of more traditional modern rock bands like The Strokes, bands together at the time and we would also rehearse our Kings Of Leon or Arcade Fire. I’m also a fan of some older instruments together, but I don’t think we ever thought of French acts like Alain Bashung, Noir Désir, Télephone and making music together as seriously as we do now with Serge Gainsbourg of course! There is no music that we don’t Duplex. listen to, and we try to learn and incorporate new things all I think by the time we were 18 we knew that we wanted to the time. dedicate our life to music. Nothing else made us happier. Live, it’s going to be all about the show and delivering To this day we are always getting excited by music, whether something great, delivering heat. We wanted to make it a it’s a new song we are writing, a new song by an artist we like, four-piece band because it’s such an emblematic way to play a new piece of gear, a new artist we disocver..