Smart Cookies

Art & Music: Making it

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.

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 [...]