Second Edition: Rock, Roll & The Road

Second edition 10-05-2017

Rock, Roll & The Road

P E A K fashion

music

culture

Contents Page P.4 Editors letter P.6 Pop Up Shop P.8 Interview with WJR Touring P.14 Autumn/Spring Fashion P.26 Anarchy In The Dairy Farm P.28 LivGArt Gallery P.34 New Album: Creator’s Pick

P.36 Patchwork Soceity: Jam and Gig Time P.46 Emily Reason: My Gap Year P.48 Spring/Summer Trends 2017 P.50 A Saturday In Manchester P.54 Denim Dayze Editorial P.60 Interior Designer:Maxine P.62 Editors and Contributors Credit Page

Welcome to Peak’s Second Edition- Rock, Roll and The Road.

In this issue we look into the music industry and get to the grass roots start up of musicians and Tour managers alike and what it takes to make or break it. This edition aims to address all the creative industries and cast a spotlight on the everyday individuals trying to make something of themselves; from rockers, illustrators, models, managers, journalists, humanitarians etc: the limit simply doesn’t exist. The road to success is paved with good intentions and hard work along the way and sometimes motivation can be something of amiss when education isn’t your forte. I also show that you don’t need to be an academic to go far in life, and travelling can be just as gratifying, if not be more inspirational. Rock, Roll and The Road is the second edition that has been created for creatives, by creatives.

As well as being a life style, Rock is an ever evolving genre and its aesthetics are iconic in the fashion world and in every day life. Style and fashion are key to showing individuality which keeps the world a more interesting place to be. Peak offers an alternative to being alternative. Overall this issue is about overcoming obstacles and coming into your own. Stay true to yourself and do something you’re passionate about.

Enjoy

POP UP SHOPS Pop-Up Shops for Musicians are becoming an ever popular niche. Its a way that the musicians can reach out to their fans in a to the streets kind of way. It bridges the gap between, music, art, fandoms and merchandise. It has this exhibition feel vibe to it where you can see what your idols have created for you in a fairly intimate manner.

I first hand have been to two in teh past few months: The 1975, and Blondie. The Blondie pop-up shop was in Camden’s Provider Building in the Markets from the 28th April to the 3rd of May 2017. Not only did they have a gallery of Chris Stein’s photographs, intimate insight of the one and only icon, Debbie Harry. The launch of this pop up store was the result of the Rock Idols coming back and realsing their 11th Studio Album: Pollinator. After being away for years, this was an excellent marketing scheme to bring together old and new fans in a modern medium. Split over two floors, top floor being the photoexhibition and the first floor being the exclusive merch shop.

The merchandise was filled with reto and modern items, such as t-shirts, vinyl’s, badges, patches, posters and post cards.

They catered to the price range of the fans, from £1 to houndreds just to collect exclusive items from Steins gallery.

It was here that I purchased a postcard and was entered into a draw to win two tickets for Blondie’s first gig and only Uk show fo rthe following night (3rd May), which I ended up winning. This lead to an out of body experience of watching a fashion icon and a perosnal idol of mine.

It’s intimate artist to fan events that entice us to shop, enjoy and be part of something exclusive.

The 1975 are the most popular band to come out of Manchester. A whirl wind of indie music, guitar rifts and iconic imagery of being a Rock band and enconpassing the isuals that are assosicated to being Rock and Roll. So when they subverted the own genre they created, with a blast of white and neon pink due to their second album.

This was due to the huge success of their debut self titled album in 2013 and their second, in 2016. The band are renowned for their guerrilla marketing campaigns, such as their mass social media blackout before the release of “I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful, yet so unaware of it”.

This pop up shop was in their home town of Manchester at the Artzu Gallery in December 2016. Queues were already down the street an hour before opening when I arrived. About 20minutes before opening, we were all handed a pink sheet of glossy paper featuring all of the items that were on offer inside. All of the items at super expensive prices, like £25 for an old ripped t-shirt. This borders on the brink of money hungry, rather than an intimate fan-artist bridge.

Overall the experience was fairly pleasant once inside, which took forever as only 20 were allowed in at one time, due to the size of the galley and aiding the exclusivity of the event. The visuals of the shop was exquisite and had a good vibe to it with the 80’s ballads and occasional songs for the 2nd album being played played over head.

Will james reading -wjr touring What made you want to be a tour manager?

You know what, I honestly have no idea.

I’ve always wanted to work in music, but I never knew what I wanted to do. Ever since my first proper tour in 2013, I realised that I wanted to juts tour. I started doing merch for bands (I still do that), but I ralised that I like to know everything that’s going on. I was alway the main guy when I used to play in bands, so it basically came from doing that.

What were the first steps to getting there?

I basically just asked bands/artists from the local area if I could come help them out at shows. If bamds I’m friends with played the local area, I would see if they needed help in exchange for a place on the guestlist.

How does your career choice inspire you in terms of fashion? njoyed it. I do like playing with knobs, nobs, nuts bolts and screws

What’s it like to be self employed/ freelance?

Difficult. But its nice to have some sort of freedom. Idefinitely haven’t made enough money to what I would of if I’d of worked a ‘9-5’ job. But luckily I still live at home with my parents, so I don’t have to pay out for a lot.

Your first gig as TM?

I’ve done bits before, but I honestly think that when I went on my first proper TM job with Dead Harts )RIP) supporting Stray From The Path in UK/Europe towards the end of 2015. We did a support show with Every Time I Die (If you know me, you know how much of big deal this was) the day before the SFTP tour started in Harts’ hometown of sheffield.

Best Moments?

Probably the first headliner I did with Harts. That tour and everything before that tour was pretty stressful, but luckily it worked out in the end. I felt like I had achieved something pretty awesome. Even though it wasn’t more that a like 250 cap venue, it was still pretty great.

High’s and lows?

I know it’s not TM work, but doing merch for Crown The Empire last year (16) was pretty awesome. 1st bus tour, big venues and two days in Paris- what more do you want?

There was one low, but all I’m going to say is that there wasn’t the right vibe between the band and I. www

Any advice for anyone trying to get into the music industry ?

Its really cliché, but work for it. Find a small band or a band you’re friends with and ask them if they’ll take you out with them.

Don’t expect it to come to you. Be preppared to work for free from the beggining. If you don’t know the answer to something, ask.

Don’t be afraid to ask. Someone once told me that if you don’t 100% know the answer, find out from someone that does before you say anything.

Your experience so far?

Stressful but great. I honestly wouldn’t change it for the world.

“if you don’t know the answer to something, ask.”

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Styling and Photography: Dionne Lockyear Model: Cameron Lockyear Clothes: Topman

Anarchy in the Dairy Farm Being a vegan, it can be so easy to get caught up in the emotional side of things. Being a politics student, however it’s made me take an interest in animal liberation activism, and the politics around it. I’m currently in the middle of my final year of a politics degree, and have recently started a dissertation looking at the media representational the Animal Liberation Front.

Veganism is one of the biggest growing social movements both in the UK and internationally, the Vegan Society recently stated that there has been a massive 360% increase in the number of vegans in the UK in the last 10 years! That’s a nearly 400,000 more people, and around 1% of the population. Obviously 1% doesn’t sound very impressive, because the other 99% aren’t, but that’s not the point. With such an increase it has become to effect all of our lives. More and more animal rights activism is popping up (myself for example take part in Sheffield Earthlings Experience and intend to get involved with much more) all over the UK, including the biggest ever animal rights march in London this year. It has also started to really effect the capital gain of the meat and dairy industries, with statistics showing millions of pounds less spending on meat and dairy products!

The Sheffield Earthlings Experience is a relatively small group of people (a number of which being students) who engage with the public to persuade living a vegan lifestyle. We show footage from the documentary, “Earthlings” and hold up banners with facts about the animal industry, including; how much water it takes to make a steak (around 1300 gallons) and the age at which a baby chick is killed (one day usually by grinding). It’s something that I’ve personally got involved with as a way of engaging with the vegan and animal rights communities. As a politics student I am surrounded by a lot of socialists, feminists, and a few communists (unfortunately though few fellow anarchists).

Being around them a lot, in both university life, society outing said and just in general has given me a label that many lone vegans pick up - “the preachy vegan”. Really, I try to take this in my stride, I use my knowledge on the issue of veganism and animal rights to try to bring them over to my side (the same as I would do to persuade someone to be an anarchistic listen to a punk rock band I like etc.). But this is where many of them disengage! They see veganism as single issue and animal rights as less important then that of women’s or workers rights. I however do not!

I an going to stop using the term veganism for the next part and use the more appropriate animal liberation. Mainly because I see veganism to be a lifestyle (one that promotes animal liberation) and the movement that is often disengaged with. The reason that it is ‘liberation’ over veganism or ‘rights’ to me is because that’s what needs to be strived for! We need to recognise that animals are not commodities for human consumption, they are sentient beings; (I know what you are thinking “sentient blah blah blah… feelings blah blah blah…” but bare with me here) who deserve to be treated with respect. The same respect that we feel we should be giving to humans in Liberation campaigns, women’s rights campaigns strive to see women no longer as less than men. Obviously that is a gross oversimplification of women’s rights, but it’s the (very) basic idea. Workers rights strive to stop the exploitation of workers in a capitalist system. Again much more too it than that, but my main point here is that animal liberation would work side by side with these groups.

Animal Liberation doesn’t seek to give animals dominion over humans it simply strives to take the pseudo-dominion over animals away from humans.

We are starting to see a real push for veganism, especially in the UK with things like Veganuary, and the poster campaigns in the London Underground along with the reduction of the amount of animal products being bought in supermarkets, but there is still a long way to go.

I know what you are thinking “sentient blah blah blah… feelings blah blah blah…”

As someone who identifies as both a vegan and an anarchist I see that Animal Liberation is necessary for the complete liberation of humans. To end the exploitative nature of capitalism that humans face, we need to also end the exploitation of animals in one of the largest capitalist industries in the world.

Words by: Denny Rogers

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New album:Creators Pick

Busted- Night Driver Words by: Melissa Deeney

The third release from the upcoming Night Driver album goes to show that Busted are serious about changing their sound. The early 2000’s pop-rockers have modernised their sound , going from teens whining about girls that won’t answer their calls to adults accepting that not all relationships are meant to be. Easy is a chiled out, piano-led ballad about letting go of a one-sided relationship, lyrics such as “If I could do it all again/would I do It all again” show that Busted can be as relatable to their early 20’s audience as much as they were when they were singing to tweens.

Coming Home while somewhat lyrically disappointing shows off Charlie Simpson’s insane vocal range to an electro-pop beat.

Each release thus far has encapsulated some of the best of very varying genres and from what we’ve heard Night Driver promises to show off the reinvented Busted in ways nobody could have foretold even as early as last year.

Preceding singles from the new album, due for release at the end of November, give off similar new school indie vibes. On What You’re On features a Daft Punk-esque hook, wih a sax solo and guitr riffs that could have been lifted straight from a release from The 1975.

Busted, Night Driver Available from iTunes/Amazon/ Google Play/Hmv/Webstores and Spotify. Check it out now.

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Patchwork Society

Words and Photos: Dionne Lockyear

I can recall 16 year old Ben sending me demo’s of ‘Running Away From Home’ in its earliest of earliest stages so narturally when Patchwork Society were formed a couple years later, consiting of its original line up of Ben O’ brien on lead guitar, Danny Collins on guitar, Denny Rogers on bass, Billy Gaskell on drums. Having all met in various places and at different points in Patchwork’s timeline, then formed a band based on their collective love of punk rock (the old skool version) and Alkaline Trio, is probably the reason why their performance’s are so electric. However with University and the members being split up locationally, head honcho Ben decided to take Patchwork in a different direction; meaning the line up has changed at least 3 times before settling with Matt Delaney on bass (formally drums), Lewis Flower on drums, Chris Conway on guitar and Ben still on lead guitar and vocals.

Today I met up with the 3 of them (Chris was stuck at college) in a shabby old place called the Bone Rooms in central Manchester, well almost central, I may have gotten lost trying to find it before bumping into Ben along the way. Here we have Ben explaining the origin story of Patchwork Society and all of the ins and outs up to now.

Matt (far left), Ben (Centre), Lewis (below)

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How we formed and came to be in Patchwork: we came together in the original lineup in 2010 through me and our old bassist (Rodgers) being sick of starting bands and being the only ones who actually put in any effort, so we got together, jammed some stuff, I met Billy a few years later in college and he was sick of playing drums in his indie band so he joined us, then we realised we needed a rhythm guitarist so Danny (Collins) joined.

The way the current lineup has come together was due to Billy leaving and us playing a few gigs with different stand in drummers but we didn’t like that idea so we brought in our good friend Matt (otherwise known as Delaney due to us knowing a stupid amount of Matts). We then had to kick out Denny due to tension, a huge difference in creative ideas and thoughts on where the band should go.

Rhys stood in on bass, and only lasted a few practices as he stopped turning up, causing Danny to take up bass.

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“Both rehearsing and performing with Patchwork is a joy as it’s always a laugh and a happy environment, but for me personally, working with three of the most awesomely creative people I know is an absolute delight.” Ben O’Brien 2017

My friend Chris who I had played with in a separate band for a short time asked me if he knew bands looking for a guitarist and after a quick band discussion, we thought that it would be a good move to keep Danny playing bass and bring in Chris on second guitar. After some personal issues and problems with busy schedules, both Danny (Collins) and the band mutually agreed it was best for the band to find someone new and for Danny to move on and pursue another career. We played a few gigs as a three piece until a friend from college expressed an interest in us. I asked Delaney if he would consider taking up the vacant position on bass and bringing Lewis in on drums and a few weeks later we had the current lineup of myself on guitar on vocals, Chris on guitar also, Matt on bass and Lewis on drums and we are delighted with how things have currently turned out.

Our inspirations come from a lot of different backgrounds, for example I’ve always been more of the side of skatepunk and melodic hardcore (Rise Against and Teenage Bottlerocket), whereas Matt is more on the side of pop punk(Green Day) with hardcore elements (A Day To Remember), but has also played in hardcore bands down the line. Chris comes from a more metal influenced background (Avenged Sevenfold) but also with pop punk thrown in such as (Blink-182) and Lewis comes from a more hardcore background,(Code Orange) with a lot of pop punk and grunge influences(Sum 41, Nirvana) which all forms together as a good mix in our music bringing out our melodic hardcore and old school pop punk sounds with our own twists thrown in from our other various interests.

Gig Time

Gig time comes around and they just come alive. They bounce off each other, the energy is so high, you just never know what will happen next. Before you know it Matt’s pulled out a Jester’s hat and Chris has jumpped into the crowd. With Ben and Lewis both currently studying Music Tech and Performance, Chris doing a professional Musicianship in guitar at BIMM and Delaney is currently studying Stage Production at the University of Derby, it’s a no brainer that they are whole heartedly passionate about performing their socks off and working hard to be the best they can be. Patchwork Society say that there have been many discussions throughout the years about where they want Patchwork to go and it’s generally ended in the same conclusion, “We need to do what we do, but always more intense. Where we play the melodic hardcore punk make it more technical, make it heavier and when we play our skatepunk or pop punk, make it faster, make it catchier, make it more than just a few chords, put more thought into both the lyrics and music.” All in all the future for Patchwork will be that they will carry on doing what they’re doing but build on that and make it better with every track and making sure they rock it.

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Emily Reason: My Gap Year Since I was younger, I have always wanted to travel to as many places as possible. My parents took me and my younger sister travelling around Europe and USA when we were younger so I have always wanted to travel as much as possible before I settle down. During my final year of university, studying Multimedia Journalism, I decided to book almost 2 months in Thailand. Teaching English to 2-16 year olds in rural Thailand, working with Elephants, learning about how the Thai people live as well as popping over to Cambodia and then island hopping for 2 weeks.

After graduating in July 2016, I was offered a job as a Marketing & Social Media manager at a purchasing consortium and started 4 days after handing my dissertation in. This funded my 2016 trips to Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin and now Thailand and Cambodia.

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Being out here in November-December in 30 degree heat is very surreal. We even had a Christmas Celebration in the heat, wearing Christmas hats and eating a roast dinner outside (followed by Thai whiskey, which literally burns your throat).

It’s a completely different way of life out here, everyone is so friendly, white people are treated like celebrities. I’ve been blessed by a number of different Monks, taught English in heat you would only wish to be on a beach for, walked an hour with Thai elephants to a lake where we washed them, eaten rice for almost every meal, been bitten by red ants, had Thai people taking various random (and not asking) photographs of our group, spent a day on a floating beach hut at a lake, visited various night markets and buying branded clothes for no more than £2 and basically having the time of my life.

Travelling to developing countries really makes you realise that the UK is great. So many people out here in Thailand are so happy with just a mattress on the floor and a squat toilet. It’s really put a lot in perspective for me, and I would tell anyone whose thinking of coming to Asia - 100% do it!

Our Spring/Summer 2017 Favourites

Handbag from Ne

Our favourite trend this season is the Bardot styled tops. Despite their beauty and femininity, it can be incredibly difficult to find one that isn’t too flouncy. The combination of wide flared sleeves and bardot cut tops, makes them a perfect statement piece for any occassion this season.

Embroidiered garments are stylish additions in shops everywhere, combining these bold items with the simplisity of flared sleeves together, are bound to bring out that inner boss lady.

Bardot styled dress from Zara a£29.99

Footwear from Topshop at £36- £79

Blouse’s from Zara at £29.99

ew Look at £27.99

Embroidered Denim from Topshop: Jacket at £49

Red, yellow and white are the bold colour’s you’ll need this Spring/Summer Shirt from Topshop at £29

Mini Backpack from MiPac Online at £29.99

Embroidered Denim from Topshop: Jeans at £59

A Saturday in manchester As students and graduates, saving money is always a big priority. Student deals are abundant, at least until the weekend. Picture this; it’s your 21st birthday and it happens to have landed on a Saturday, the last of your loan squandered months ago. Surely you can get some birthday deals?

Free entry and the like, but your mates are all in the same situation. On a desperate search to prevent events like this from occurring again, we went on a quest to discover the cheapest night in Manchester, without compromising on Fifth for the 4th time this month.

As the night starts we head into the Northern Quarter, the area is renowned for its alternative, bohemian culture but while searching for a quiet hipster hideaway we end up in Odd. On a Saturday you’ll be lucky to find a cocktail for less than £8 anywhere in the Northern Quarter, here is no exception, resigned we order a whiskey and coke each at £3.90 and grab a seat.

Odd’s décor is… well, odd. A mixture of Chinese looking ornaments and war-related pop art adorn the venue, while the lighting, specifically upstairs gives an ambience directly contradicting with the rowdy hen dos and work night out pre-drinks that occur here. Realising we are the youngest people in the bar by far we finish our drinks and head down Thomas Street to The Bay Horse.

This quiet looking pub features a cocktail bar downstairs, with saloon style booths and most importantly, £5 cocktails on a Saturday. If you’re looking for a chill vibe either for a quieter night or to start your evening off this is definitely the place. As we walk around aimlessly we realise that if we continue to drink in NQ we’ll soon run out of money, so we hit up one more place before moving on, Cord.

Once again balking at the cocktail prices, I order a vodka red bull at £4.40. Perhaps the most hipster place we’ve stumbled upon, there are free copies of Vice at the entrance, the wall is decorated with vinyl and everything is lit solely by candlelight. The atmosphere is strange, with a demographic of “men with beards”, the “chairs” don’t move and we can’t reach the floor. We give up on the Northern Quarter entirely and head towards Deansgate.

Lock 91 catches our eye, after waiting 20 minutes to use the toilet we glance at the bar, sigh and retreat. Despite having better music than anywhere else we’ve been tonight (AKA anything other than 80’s bangers) the queue seems impenetrable.

The main strip of Deansgate appears promising, as we chat to the bouncers outside Ark he informs us that what we’re looking for might be a Moby Dick “Student prices? This isn’t a student night, mate. Try again on a Tuesday”. Inside, Ark seems to attract a much younger crowd than the ones we’ve seen previously. The music is mostly current pop, Top 40 tunes and the prices are definitely out of our price range, £5.45 for a single spirit + mixer and no cocktails after 10 leave us stumped and we amble to Vodka Revs.

Revs is a favourite, we all know Revs but we couldn’t resist not going in. The deals here were more catered to what we expect, while the cocktail prices remain the same, 6 shots for £10 is not something to sniff at. Revs is a bigger venue, with the main area, a club room and a cool lounge area featuring a ping pong table.

Further down the road we find Lola Lo, a Hawaiian themed bar with an entry fee of £ after midnight. The music In this bar emulates what we’ve heard so far in Deansgate. Current pop and house music mixes well with the décor however, palm trees and flowers adorn the area and the whole venue has a faint pineapple aroma. This is a fun, uniquely themed bar with surprisingly quick service, however the quality of the place comes at a price, specifically the price of your drinks. Lola Lo is a great bar, but definitely not the place to go the week before payday. Finally we head towards Buddha, it’s packed out and we discover why, with free entry, free shisha and £5 for a mixer and spirit, Buddha is the cheapskates dream....

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continued... .....All the class of partying in Deansgate, with less of the price, this does however lead to a rather eclectic clientele. There is no set “type” of person here, from lairy lads with Napa tattoos to bearded bikers every stereotype and in between is crowded in the downstairs dancefloor. Upstairs is less busy but comes with its own drawbacks, this seems to be the preferred area of those who have already pulled tonight.

The grinding surrounding us becomes too much so we strike Deansgate off as “done”.

By the time we reach Gorilla we’re tired and past tipsy but the hunt is still on, determined to find somewhere both cool and cheap we wearily approach the bar. The seated bar here makes receiving service difficult, even when we find a spot to clamour at the bartender from we wait a good five minutes before making our orders. This is another bar that appeals to our inner hipsters, with free copies of Crack and City magazines. The further you head into town it seems the lower the drinks prices, £4.25 for a whiskey and coke is more than acceptable but this is not our holy grail.

Black Dog is significantly quieter than anywhere else we’ve visited tonight, which is nice as it’s been a while since we could actually sit down to enjoy our drinks.

Upon the realisation that this is our ninth venue we decide to make a night of it and withdraw money from the in-bar ATM (how handy!), to one side of the bar is a bunch of pool tables and I don’t know what the various televisions are broadcasting but I definitely saw a cute dog at one point. Cocktail prices here hark back to those of the Northern Quarter, however the variety makes up for it, I mean who doesn’t want a boozy milkshake?

Next door to Black Dog we find Font, a place that can only really be described as “kitsch”, picnic tables serve as the seating upstairs, fairy lights hang from the pillars and the art is a mixture of graffiti, skater style and psychedelic drawings.

This bar claims to be “student-friendly”, after our other experiences tonight we have every reason to have our doubts, although these are immediately shed when we reach the bar. Cocktails range from as low as £2 and I think we’ve found it, our white whale, a genuinely cool place with a young vibe as well as ridiculously lowpriced drinks. While the search has ended we recall bumping into some promoters on the way to Oxford Road giving out wristbands for what is supposedly the biggest event of tonight, we may have completed the main quest but this was a side mission not to pass up.

As we approach the O2 Ritz the queue is up the length of the road, spanning in both directions.

We chat to the security guard, assuring him we really are writing an article and not trying to scam him for free entry he leaves to go and check with management. Check with management? This is the tightest security we’ve experienced so far, with half of these places not even wanting to see a business card before

granting us entry and viewing the clientele it isn’t hard to see why. As we wait for the security guard to come back we witness several people being thrown out of the venue, clearly rolling. The illegal drug culture within the UK is a commonality across the UK, with whole subcultures revolving around “The Sesh”, especially here in Manchester where many high profile ecstasy-related deaths have occurred.

Inside of the venue, lasers, house music and women using angle grinders(?) on stage are what confront us. The night proclaims itself as “Manchester’s weekly indoor festival” boasting of giant LED screens, confetti cannons and CO2 jets. A secondary “stage” houses RnB and hip hop music, there are multiple bars in each of the rooms, and service is surprisingly quick.

The sheer production value for what is essentially a student night is incredible and while it’s easy to tire of house music, especially if you’ve been clubbing for a while, the secondary room offers variety enticing enough to stay for.

While the music may seem generic at times, the excitement of all the special effects and hype men keep the energy going strong, when we set out to find a cool, cheap night in Manchester this wasn’t what we were expecting to come across but it fits the bill to an extent.

We underestimated what the nightlife in Manchester really stands for, it’s not about being hip or pretentious, it’s about getting mashup for a low price and on a Saturday Project appears to be the place.

Words: Melissa deeney Photography: Dionne Lockyear

Denim Dayze Model: Liv Gallagher Photographer: Dionne Lockyear

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Interior Designers: Maxine Hillier Densley When people say “oh you’re an interior designer”, what comes to mind first? A majority of people believe all we do is pick out cushions and curtains. But in fact it more than this. In the industry there are many roles for an interior designer. For example you have the concept artist, technique drawing, 3d visualisers and also FF&E. But that just for one area. Overall there is different sectors to join. If you are interested in Commercial design, hospitality, then Retail is the route you follow; where you design restaurants, retail shop and hotels or workplace, designing offices and public sector interiors. But the one most people associate with interior design is Resident, which is designing people home.

As a graduate designer, getting into the industry can be hard. For me, the route I would like to take is the commercial design. But adding a branding element into it. For example if you were designing a retail store for a ‘brand’ the interior has to match the brand identity - what they stand for, the style, the type of customer, all this has to be taken into consideration designing for a brand. I take a lot of inspiration from different life experiences including places that I have traveled to, but also my personal lifestyle which can be reflected within my design work. In the future the plan is to move to America, especially New York, where I feel I will have the most potential in a career in this industry.

Due to New York being one of the most known cities in the world, there are far more opportunity to be designing Commercial, especially with all the new upcoming bars and hotels which open every day.

My fashion taste has an very similar link to the design I like/ want to do. I’m a very materialist person, where I like branded clothing and accessorise for example Mulberry and Tommy Hilfiger, Which are High End. The Interior Schemes which I enjoy the most are High end brand retail. This has been reflected whist being at University, where I designed a scheme for Moschino, this allowed me to show how passionate I am towards the fashion industry but also the branded interior industry.

A great help whist designing is music. It’s a life saver. The type of music I will always listen to whist working is bands such as Vampire Weekend, Foals, The Maccabees.

But when it starts getting late, knowing you have to pull an all nighter, that when the oldies come on, Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, Blondie and anything 80’s. Plus you always got to throw some Beyonce in somewhere.

Words by : Maxine Hillier Densley

Contributors of Peak’s Second Edition- Rock, Roll and The Road Creator, Editor in Chief & Photographer-Dionne Lockyear @dionnelorna

Journalist-Melissa Deeney @melissa_deeney “Hi my name is Melissa and if you are looking for an example of celebrity worship you have come to the right place.”

Guest Writer- Maxine Hillier Densley @maxine_hillier “I like the alcohol.”

Contributors

Sponser/Acknowledgements

Main Feature Models

Special Thanks

Dionne Lockyear Melissa Deeney Denney Rogers Emily Reason Ben O’Brien Caitlin Lousie Hanley Maxine Hillier Densley

Roundhouse LDN H&M No Fit State TopShop Instax 70 Artzu Galley Mi Pac Mettricks Livgart WJR Touring Bone Rooms Zara Supreme The 1975 Blondie

Cameron Lockyear Liv Gallagher MattDelaney Lewis Flower Chris Conway Patchwork Society

To Patchwork Society for letting me tag along to gigs and rehersals.

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To Jacob for bringing me snacks before I go into SheHulk mode.

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