Glasgow School of Art, Visual Communication Studio, 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow.
W / DOM SUM / MARTYN FLYN
P / LUCKYME
Isoceles – This Is Where It Ends (Dema Gloss Remix)
Isoceles are an art school band currently playing in and around Glasgow.
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Unlike most cities, Glasgow is a place that wears its subcultures and youth fashion on its skin; a proud part of its modern identity. All who live here know and take some sort of subtle pride or jaded pessimism in the fact that this is a ‘cool’ place to exist, whatever cool means.
To us, it seems like there are more people in Glasgow motivated to work in creative and uncompromising artistic careers. There are bands, bars, galleries and studio warehouses. There are independent boutiques, nightclubs and record labels. In all of these ventures you’ll find an undeniable link to the art school. But as much as it’s a beautiful building, the studios don’t look that great – the secret is in the education and the people who surround you there. It’s hard to explain; it just has an air of freedom about it. It’s a place to be surprised. And it’s here under the white strip-lights that the core of LuckyMe’s designers met.
[Visual Communication Studio @ Glasgow School of Art]
Out of the nine visual artists who are now a part of LuckyMe, seven studied in the Visual Communication department of the art school. We owe our friendship to that course. We consider this time the birth of our aesthetic and the final kick to the guts for our graffiti and photoshopped street graphics. Musically, the art school club, aka The Vic, is where we currently run our Ballers 5ocial Club parties every month. It’s where Dema has run his weekly FreakMoves party for the last seven years, which has played host to too many high profile guests to name, as well as explosive spots from Eclair Fifi, Rustie, FineArt and the rest of the LuckyMe family.
I’m not sure when or how it happened, but thanks to the spirit that flows through the walls of the Glasgow School of Art, a once ugly and aching city is now famed for its artists, bands, fashion and clubs.
‘The Golden’ feat. Mike Slott
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