Alastaire Allday reports…
It had been a long time since I’d been back to Newcastle, a town I’d grown up in – and left – nearly a decade ago. Back then I had no idea I would grow up to become an arsey arts journalist with a shock of jet black hair and a neat line […]
Jimmy Tidey
There is a great deal written about the privacy issues raised by our increasingly electronic lives, but there is also a great deal of information that I would be happy to share via the internet, it’s just not the sort of data that’s of any obvious use. Many gadgets around us collect data on […]
Addictive TV choose 4 of their favourite under-exposed VJs
Ladies! You don’t have to all rush out and become burlesque dancers… After Chad Fanstor’s rant about the curious desire that’s overcome the nation’s women to expose themselves in public, we asked around to see if anybody could defend the indefensible. They couldn’t. Nonetheless, Glenda May Richards got back to us about her time as a weathergirl.
Although it’s often been suggested that we must be off our mashes over at TTI towers to print some of the stuff we do, we’re actually a pretty sober bunch of people. Except that Chad fellow, he’s just crazy. Anyway. Alastaire Allday casts a cynical eye over this week’s Horizon on BBC 2, provocatively entitled ‘is alcohol worse for you than ecstasy?’ only to find he doesn’t very much care either way.
Cometh the man, cometh the hour. Back by popular demand, TTI is proud to present the return of perpetually irate columnist Chad Fanstor. Some say he’s ill informed, but we think he’s just overly opinionated. If nothing else, his work is as challenging and provocative as a clarion cry of “get yer tits out for the lads!” as he casts a cynical eye over the wonderful world of burlesque.
The London Art Fair from an outsiders perspective. We hear the cocktails were nice and the eye candy was even better, not to be philistines about it obviously.
Aspiring song writer Simon Clancy explains the gulf that has opened between artist and audience in the era of the ubiquitous iPod, an era in which the artistic whole of the album and is dead for ever.
This is our second article recently relating to site specific theatre, so we certainly can’t disagree with the author of this article that its a growing aspect of the performing arts. Having experienced some of Bristol’s site specific offerings, tti can only recommend seeking out an unconventional performance space near you. Lucy Langdon investigates…
Glenda has become our resident female at TTI of late, proving to our sponsors (well, potential sponsors. Anyone? Hint, hint?) that our horizons stretch beyond cornering the angry young man market. So take a break from all the huffing and puffing about the mid-life crisis, and treat yourself to another slice of Glenda May Richards’ unique take on life. In her sights this time: astrology. If only F Scott had known Zelda was a Leo… ‘Tender is the Night’ might have been a good book (Prove me wrong, people. Prove me wrong.)
“I’m not an atheist, I’m not agnostic.” Jimmy Tidey explains why he won’t be taking the Alpha course any time soon.
From screaming at other people’s kids to worrying about what to wear, Hayley Thatcher finds the library a great place to daydream.
With the festive season all but descended upon us like a bird of prey digging into a helpless dormouse, it’s good to know that not everyone’s obsessing over what they should buy. Glenda May Richards already has a pretty good idea of what’s going to be under her tree, as she lets us in on her dirty shopping secret.
Ed Williams goes behind the scenes at the Pro Cathedral, the latest venture by Bristol based art collective Artspace / Lifespace, a self-styled group of ‘creative recyclists’ whose mission is to bring contemporary art and performance to transitory spaces as the city’s regeneration continues.
Set the controls for AD 2050 and take firm hold of your crystal balls as TTI fast forwards into the future with BT Futurologist Ian Pearson. TTI’s editor swears by the I Ching, but apparently there’s a far more scientific approach…
Apocalypse? What apocalypse? Looking into the future, Lucy Langdon considers the terrifying possibility that Wallace and Gromit might represent our last, best hope to save the planet. How? Read on…
Master Bation’s kinky cousin Mistress Bation joins us with a monologue on the topic we’re all really thinking about. Sod art and culture, we want to read about wanking. Probably.
In the first part of a series on culture’s co-option of street art, Hayley Thatcher opens the debate with her take on the Banksy phenomenon. Cynical cash in or art for the masses? Let us know what you think, and look out for more debate coming soon.
Drugs and violence. An endemic problem in our inner cities, but is there a solution? Samuel Airey gets up close and personal on the streets of the East End.
David Lynch. Ugly, Weird. Confusing. But he certainly knows how to make a good film. Ben Corbett attended his suitably strange appearance at this years BFI film festival to try and decipherer a little more about this cryptic man.
Chad Fanstor wishes we could all just get drunk in peace.
Ever worried that the internet is going to turn humanity in to one enormous organism, disposing of superfluous humans as a body sheds dead skin? Or that the government is using the internet to gather data which will allow them to predict what you are going to have for breakfast? Jimmy Tidey has.
With Regretamine use now so widespread that even Grannies in deepest Kent know what it is, Mudbone reassesses the merits of the white stuff.
Harmless fun for munters or retard powder for rank outsiders who need to take off their blinkers? Or is it just horses for courses? (Sorry, we couldn’t resist…)
According to our Perversion Correspondent, Vermillion Sproul, a novel act of personal degradation is gaining popularity in the carwashes of the capital. By offering him a large amount of money (exactly equivalent to the amount he owes his sister) we persuaded him to investigate in person. We’ve not seen him since, but we found this copy wrapped around a brick in the back of his abandoned car.
Do you remember when could smoke in a pub? You probably will when you’re huddled like a penguin outside a bar in December. Just in case you’re thinking about quitting, this video reminds you just how great smoking is.
You know how when your girlfriend goes shopping and you rifle through her knicker drawer and strut about in a pair of her best panties? Well, you’re not alone. Kate Anderson delivers a probing interview with a fetish model.
Chad Fanstor moans about the clientele of Bristol’s famous Black Swan.
Don’t die of a broken heart. Al Allday takes a look at singledom - and how to get out of it.
Sick of seeing your friends all looking happier than you? Does a little part of you die every time two friends find love? Are you going to end up the most bitter, twisted, lonely old fart in the old folks’ home? Sophie Sturdy reminds you why you don’t need a relationship.
An anonymous activist bemoans the psychological onanism that is protest for many people - does it change anything, or is it just wanking off into a hat?
Tales from Bristol International Solidarity Movement’s “human shields”, who go to Palestine in order to draw attention to the plight of ordinary Palestine’s and ensure their rights are respected.
Mark Edwards reviews in The Fat Duck, an improbably exclusive restaurant.
Jessica Southgate tackles the irritating stereotyping of gender in adverts and the use of feminist ideology as gimmick.
Al Allday responds to Jessica Southgate with a lament about the life of a single man, and how ladvertising compounds it.
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