Music

Does iCloud have a silver lining?

On October 12, 2011 By Paul Fillingham

OK I’ve updated iTunes ready for my iPhone’s iOS5 upgrade and all the tasty new features and iCloud goodness that comes with it.

Sparky Festival App

On June 3, 2011 By Paul Fillingham

Things are warming up at Leicester’s Spark Childrens Arts Festival which takes place from the 31st May through to 12th June 2011.

Art & Music: Making it – Transcript

On August 21, 2006 By Paul Fillingham

Creativity in art, radical politics and new ideas in sound combined in the 1970s and 1980s to create a new music movement in Leeds. Alumni Officer Della Vallance meets Leeds Polytechnic fine art alumnus Paul Fillingham to find out more. Exerpt from ‘Momentum’ The Alumni Magazine of Leeds Metropolitan University, Issue 2, Summer 2006. Read [...]

Smart Cookies ‘Hard Times’

On August 21, 2006 By Paul Fillingham

Pictorial history of Leeds-based 80s Art School band the Smart Cookies now on Flickr. View Smart Cookies ‘Hard times’ photo-set.

The men who fell to henna – 1982

On December 20, 2001 By Paul Fillingham

It was December 1982. Chris and I had returned to his parents house in Radford after a night on the town. We’d been dancing, drinking ‘red witch’ and giving away Smart Cookies demo tapes in Nottingham’s Rock City nightclub. ‘New Romantic’ nights were always interesting, the venue awash with fashion victims from all walks of [...]

Smart Cookies – 8 Dazzlers

On August 19, 2001 By Paul Fillingham

By the summer of 1982 the Smart Cookies five piece line-up had developed a very strong sense of identity. Songs arranged collectively through live rehearsals had a distinctive sound. Chris (Riff) held everything together with his strong 60′s guitar riffs, Russ and Rose added a swirling wash of sea-shanty strings and electropop melodies. Bob contributed [...]