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THE POST STUDENT GUIDE 09 Being a student is so over. Whats next? How to party your way to a career. Career surgery with Transgressive Records The Painted Truth: Dont Get Art-holed! Viva la Radio! with Casiokids Ketil Begone, Procrastination! Fashion. Fashion! FASHION! (For the post-student.) THE POST STUDENT GUIDE 09 Being a student is so over. Whats next? How to party your way to a career. Career surgery with Transgressive Records The Painted Truth: Dont Get Art-holed! Viva la Radio! with Casiokids Ketil Begone, Procrastination! Fashion. Fashion! FASHION! (For the post-student.) POST-STUDENT NEW YEARS EVE: LOCKED N LOADED GET LOADED IN THE DARK N E W Y E A R S E V E 2 00 9 BRIXTON ACADEMY www.getloadedinthedark. 8.30PM - 6PM / 4,500 CAPACITY TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE: 30 PLUS BOOKING FEE. TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM: www.ticketmaster.co.uk / 0844 847 2467 CONFIRMED SO FAR ACROSS Theres no more educational night of the year than NYE: we shudder to think of the amazing and awful things people have learned to do for the first time on the epic night of the party. If there is one night of the year which can summarise everything well say in the Post-Student Guide, it is New Years FOUR ARENAS IN THE LEGENDARY BRIXTON ACADEMY WILL PLAY HOST TO THE MOST EPIC MASH UP OF ARTISTS ACROSS GENRES: TRULY DIVERSE WITH SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE TO GET LOADED TO AND SAY HELLO, WAVE GOODBYE TO THE DECADES OLD AND NEW. HERES A FEW OF THE ARTISTS YOULL BE SEEING: SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO The SMD dj ALL THE VITAL INFO AND YOUR CHANCE TO WIN TICKETS! SO YOUVE OBVIOUSLY GOT TO GET YOUR TICKETS, THEN, HAVENT YOU? HERES ALL THE VITAL INFO... AND A VERY SPECIAL CHANCE TO WIN TICKETS TO THE NIGHT! OPEN FROM 8.30PM 6.00AM TICKETS COST: 30 + BOOKING FEE FULLY LICENSED BAR UNTIL CLOSE NEAREST TUBE: BRI F ASHION T IPS ACNE PAIRS UP Fish and Chips, tea and chocolate digestives, jeans and leather jackets; some things just go so well together. To help on that last pairing the designers at Acne are delivering eight styles of biker jacket to compliment their usual denim collection. Following an aviation F ASHION TIPS CLEVER DECEPTION Now all of us students can finally carry a backpack sans the annoying weight of the actual article. Enter Nickelsons new range of cheeky and deceiving prints. Alternatively cover up your tom foolery with a utilitarian black jacket also from the brand. www.nickelson.co. F ASHION TIPS THE LIFE OF JEANS Everyone has their favourite pair of jeans, though most now undoubtedly hang by a thread off your waist and have the dirt of three continents ground into their heavily faded wash. But this is exactly what Nudie Jeans are looking for in their new Wear and Tear competit F ASHION TIPS PLASTIC DREAMS Brazilian shoe company Melissa and Vivienne Westwood show no signs of stopping their creative footwear design juggernaut. Following such successful lines as Anglomania, Ultragirl, and Lady Dragon the unique pieces, done in Melissas favourite vinyl-plastic material will k BEGONE PROCRASTINATION ARRIVING AT UNIVERSITY, BEFORE YOU STRETCHES A DESERT OF FREE TIME, PRESUMING YOU STUDY A HUMANITY. IT IS THE GREATEST GIFT AND THE GREATEST DANGER. THE SIMPLE AWARENESS OF IT IS ENOUGH TO PROMPT CATACLYSMIC BOUTS OF PROCRASTINATION IN ALL BUT THE MOST DETERMINED OF PEOPLEWHO, rocrastination. Even the word itself makes you want to go and do something else. Many, many times throughout my university career I faced mountains of work and always managed to find something much more interesting to do. Its a situation that everyone faces on a daily basis; usually good old TV soot I M G IM GL AD I GLAD TOOK THE TIME TO PUT A FEW IMPORTANT BITS ON PAPER. I SENT COPIES TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN HALLS, SO NOW WE CAN ALL EASILY RECALL THAT TIME I COLLAPSED FACE DOWN IN MY OWN VOMIT. WHICH IS JUST WHAT I WANTED. booze and Im glad I took the time to put at least a few important bits on VIVA LA RADIO! CASIOKIDS KETIL KINDEN ENDRESEN ON HIS INTERNATIONAL STUDENT RADIO SHOW AND MAKING A RADIO DOCUMENTARY IN LAGOS I nspired to put that free time to good use, and desperate to prove that youve got the king of music taste, but dont want to be so prosaic as to *spit* blog? Ketil, from the kwela, studio 1 on Jamaica and also did profiles on Fela Kuti, Ali Farka Touré and Paul Simon amongst others. An hour to cover a whole music genre or the traditional music of a specific country was often a big challenge, and made it necessary to plan the program quite strictly beforehand. Though may HAVING THE RADIO SHOW HAS FOR ME MADE IT EASIER TO BUMP INTO NEW AFRICAN MUSIC, AND ALSO OPENED UP TO MUSIC I DIDNT EVEN KNOW I EVEN WANTED TO BUMP INTO. Generally, how did you find the experience of making the documentary? We spent three whole weeks in Nigeria, which made it possible for us to get TENDER IS.THE NIGHT ITS AMAZING, THE BUSINESS DEALS THAT TAKE PLACE AT NIGHT. DONT BELIEVE WHAT THEY TELL YOU ABOUT BOARDROOMS AND CONTRACTS, JOB INTERVIEWS IN OFFICES, PITCHING MEETINGS OR EVEN PARLIAMENTEVERYTHING THAT MATTERS HAPPENS AT NIGHT. IN CLUBS AND BARS AND MEMBERS ROOMS WHEN ITS DARK OUT BUSTER BENNETT BUSTER BENNETT ABOUT IS THE MAN BEHIND UBER-COOL LONDON NIGHTS NUKE THEM ALL AND CALLING ALL TRIBES. AS WELL AS RUNNING THE CAPITALS MOST RAUCOUS PARTIES, HE DJS, WRITES AND IS IN THE PROCESS OF SETTING UP HIS OWN RECORD LABEL. HE TOOK 5 MINUTES TO EXPLAIN TO NOTION HOW HE ENDED UP MA BUSTERS TIPS FOR GETTING YOUR FOOT IN THE DOOR OF THE UNDERGROUND: 1. Be a Door Whore - Youll meet all the right people! 2. Host a night - Help out a more established promoter by hosting their night and promoting a guestlist. 3. Get a warm- up DJ slot, even if you cant DJ. Youll learn! 4. Host the b SUGAR Kara Simsek SUGAR RECENTLY GRADUATED FASHION HISTORY AND THEORY AT CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS, WHICH IS IRONIC AS SHE CAN OFTEN BE FOUND WEARING VERY LITTLE AS SHE DANCES THE NIGHT AWAY AS A SEXY ZOMBIE FOR UNDERGROUND ART-ROCKERS THE COOLNESS AND AT BUSTER BENNETTS installations, and hosting rooms VICTOR VON DOOM Kara Simsek A REGULAR ON THE TRENDY EAST LONDON CLUBBING SCENE IS VICTOR VON DOOM. WHEN NOT FLYERING FOR PEOPLE LIKE BUGGED OUT! HE DJS AND STUDIES DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCTION AT ARTS LONDON. EVERYONE SEEMS TO KNOW HIM, AND HE SEEMS TO BE OUT EVERY NIGHT. WHO IS THIS MYSTERIOUS CHARACTE A Transgressive Career Surgery TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS STORY IS INSPIRING, TINGED WITH INEVITABLE BITTERSWEET ENVY. TWO EARNEST, EAGER GUYS, BOTH AROUND 20, MEET AT A GIG. THEYRE MUTUALLY IMPRESSED WITH EACH OTHERS ENDEAVOURSTOBY HAD BEEN RUNNING MUSIC SITE ROCKFEEDBACK SINCE HE WAS 15, & TIM HAD JUST Is it a good thing to approach the industry with a business mind? Is that a horrid thing to say? Ha! No, FOLLOWING THEIR TRIUMPHAL FIFTH but! A lot of our friends think of us BIRTHDAY SHOWS FOR A SPOT OF COSTRUCTIVE REF LECTION ... as entrepreneurs, when this is a real labour of love. Theres more mo NINA SMETEK INVESTIGATES HOW THIS YEARS CROP OF FINE ART GRADUATES ARE STAYING OUT OF THE ART-HOLE. Painting a Future hen imagining a day in the life of an artist, post-university, what do you see? Baggy jumpers, tortured expressions? A gaunt figure of a fellow, holding down three or four part-time Kristian De La Riva ON A WET SEPTEMBER EVENING I MET KRISTIAN DE LA RIVA OUTSIDE ROUGH TRADE EAST... W ith Belle and Sebastian fittingly playing in the background, we sat and began; he speaks frankly about how a past relationship had been the catalyst for him signing up for an MA at Central St Marti Cut mimics the cutting away of memories, you know when people say to loose a partner is like loosing a limb. In the process it moved away from relationships and became more generic in terms of it referencing, wide spread cultural issues, self-harm, destruction, abuse of the body. Kristian drew his i Oliver Goodhall and Holly Lewis We Made That OLIVER GOODHALL AND HOLLY LEWIS FIRST MET AT THE BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LONDON, STUDYING ARCHITECTURE BACK IN 2002. IN 2006, FOLLOWING THEIR DEGREE AND THROUGH SHARED INTERESTS THEY WENT ON TO SET UP WE MADE THAT, A DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE AND DESI but whilst also getting ourselves into a position where we are being paid (by our interesting clients) to do good things for them! Oliver and Holly are hungry to make a success of business but they are ethical in their decisions. They consider the space around as something to be valued, that they Wh Laura X Carlé LAURAS VIVACIOUS AND FEISTY PERSONALITY IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT HER: RUNNING LATE FOR OUR INTERVIEW AT FOYLES CAFÉ IN CENTRAL LONDON, HER VIBRANT LAUGH PUTS ME AT EASE. ORIGINALLY FROM ARGENTINA, SHE NOW LIVES AND WORKS AS A SCULPTOR IN LONDON RUNNING ART WORKSHOPS TO FUND In Argentina, where I studied for a BA and I found it difficult getting into the art scene without having an MA when I moved to London 6 12 years ago; It has helped me to understand a different way of studying and make connections. Laura explained how she was positive about the connections she made The Day in the Life of an Intern By Marshall Johnson (Fashion Assistant) YOU MIGHT DO IT AS A LEG-UP INTO YOUR DREAM PROFESSION, OR MAYBE YOURE JUST DOING IT TO STAVE OFF PROCRASTINATION. 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