Tenfoot City

JUST CLICK ON THE QUICK LINK (ON THE RIGHT) ENTITLED “VIEW ACTUAL MAGAZINE”….

AND IT WILL TAKE YOU TO OUR NEW FLASH MAG PROGRAMME, ON WHICH YOU CAN BROWSE THROUGH THE ACTUAL MAGAZINE BY TURNING THE PAGES. YOU CAN ZOOM IN ON ANY ARTICLE, INFORMATION OR  ADVERTISING.  GREAT INNIT!

If you want to speak to us (really?) you can call us on 07973 622978 or you can e-mail us…… @tenfootcity.co.uk    Just add the name of the person you’d like to mail at the front. eg: nick@tenfootcity.co.uk, jason@tenfootcity.co.uk, lee@tenfootcity.co.uk, silverfox@tenfootcity.co.uk

or you can also use tenfoot@nicktaylor.karoo.co.uk ….and soon you can also use

We’re also gonna put a forum up soon, so that you can all discuss or argue about anything you like!

anyone’sname@tenfootcity.com

Anything you want to include on here can be added, (we may even consider publishing articles in our actual street-magazine. ) Whether this is news, ideas, opinions, articles, promotion for your venture or your Band or your Art…. or just some personal statement…. whatever it is, we can include it. Because of the physical magazine being out there on the streets of Hull and East Yorkshire, we’re getting thousand of visits a week to this site now, so it’s the ideal platform for this region. Just mail us with words, pictures, audio, video… or whatever you want, and we’ll get it on! Mail to jason@tenfootcity.co.uk or nick@tenfootcity.co.uk or if you ever need to chat to us about owt, you can get hold of one of the team on 07973 622978

Due to the sudden and unfortunate closure of Chi-Chi’s last week both the Grapevine and Yo-Yo nights have been searching for a new home.

Both night have found this in the shape of Code on Park Street!

“We believe the people behind CODE are the right people to work with and it’s in a good location plus with what’s already been spent on the venue such as the New Seating Area, Pool Table, Plasma TV’s and stage”commented Sesh head honcho Mark page “With future plans on the table we also believe CODE can offer The Grapevine stability, help with promotion, free taxis, great drinks offers, and a safe and happy club environment for our little midweek mash up”

The Grapevine will now run every Tuesday night from the 29th September at Code from 11-3am and Yo-Yo every Saturday from the 10th October 10.30pm-3am.

THIS IS TENFOOTCITY!

HULL INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE

AND OPEN-ACCESS WEBSITE.

“Voices from the street and the sound of the Suburbs!”

Welcome to Tenfootcity. The alternative name for the city of Hull, East Yorkshire, England. Tenfootcity is also the name of our physical street magazine as well as this on-line sister magazine. It’s an independent magazine by the people, for the people and with the people of this City and the wider area, all in a language and style we can identify with. The reason this magazine was devised and launched is because we decided we wanted to reflect (independently of any mainstream media) what we consider, to be exciting times for Hull and East Yorkshire. This City is fast becoming more socially and culturally significant than it ever has been (as recently exmplified by the HULL FREEDOM FESTIVAL) and we, as a true street magazine, want to highlight and encourage that transformation.

We are Hull and we’re proud of it!

(Now Click on our “About” tab to find out more about us, our street magazine and this open-access website……)

Every issue as soon as we put the magazine to bed we always get something interesting that should be featured. This issue Kerry Baldry has informed us of a great event she is curating  called One Minute (Volume 3), a programme of artists moving image that will be screening in the Foyer Gallery at Hull School of Art and Design in Queens Garden

“One Minute volume 3 is the third in a series of programmes of artists’ moving images that I curated” explains artist and curator Kerry Baldry “The compilation includes works by national and international artists at varying stages of their careers. Original formats include 16mm film, Super 8 film and video with an eclectic range of approaches such as stopframe animation, superimposition and hand made”

“All the works have one thing in common, they are constrained by a time limit of one minute. The programme has recently been screened at Contemporary Art Ruhr in Germany, BBC Big Screens nationally, Marseille Project Gallery”.

A preview of the show will be on Monday 26th October from 5pm to 7pm with the Exhibition running from 26th October to 12th November. 9am-5pm, 2009.

for more information check out their website

Starbucks in the centre of town might be an advertisment for capitalism and evil global oragnisations but I must say I do like a nice tall frappachino and if that means a bean picker in Brazil has to go without shoes then I’m afraid I can just about live with that tragedy on my conscience.

I would however trade my frothy iced coffee for a return to the good old days, the days of urine soaked wishing wells strewn with litter and blue rinse grandmas who had travelled five miles by bus for half a pound of thin beef and a savoury duck.

Fletchers butchers once traded proudly from the premises were starbucks now sanitizes and those who remember will undoubtedly agree that there are few meals in the history of gastronomy that can compare to the sheer bloody pleasure of a Fletchers Sausage and tomatoe sandwich.

Now I have no doubt that the meat content of those delicious snorkers was highly suspcious and I’m sure they were mainly composed of lips, hoofs and snouts but I didn’t care about all that stuff back then. It smelled like meat and it looked like meat so I ate it and in these days when everything has to be ethical and health concious I sometimes hark back to a more innocent  time when you chewed something because it tasted nice. I mean it’s only in the 20th century that the working classes had a range of food to buy, before that it was kill whatever you can find and make use of every part and that world seems like ancient history today, something that cavemen did.

One of the most popular meals amongst the peasant classes in late nineteeth century america was Terrapinn Stew and just thinking about that turns my stomach but back then if you had a nice steamy plate of boiled alive terrapinns in front of you then you were eating and I’m sure the joy of that far outweighed the awkward shelling process and the gristly turtle head.

You wouldn’t find olives or pastrami at Fletchers what you got were the basics. Meat, pastries, buns and cheese and if you went in asking for some Chirzo the confused lady behind the counter would undoubtedly reach for the savoloys but compared to all the other butchers and bakeries this place was postively continetal, especally when you consider the alternative was Skeltons and they’ve been flogging the same bland tastless crap for years.

Some people might consider Bob Carvers to be the great Hull shop or perhaps the old Yankee Burger with the giant lips that traded were waterstones now stands but for me Fletchers will always be the daddy of them all and sometimes, when the stars are aligned and the wind is blowing in the right direction I can still smell the mouth watering aroma  of cheap savoury ham and the finest bangers this side of heaven.

Mmm…I’m off for a wank.

Lee Cassanell

Welly's new Indie Social

Tenfoot City presents:

“Not another Indie Night!”

Indie Courtyard Party and Official Welly “Shuffle” warmup.

The finest indie tracks and local acts from the Tenfoot City team live in the Spring Bank Tavern courtyard, get in and get the engines going before heading down to Welly’s all new indie Night “shuffle” feat music from Topgun and Jodof in Welly One and the Lounge.

Cheap Drinks
Great tunes and live acts!

£2 Entry to courtyard

Saturday @ Spring Bank Tavern 5pm-11pm and then every saturday in August!

QUESTION! AGITATE! EDUCATE! ORGANISE!

Ha ha! I bet you all thought we’d disappeared again didn’t you? I’ve told you before – you can’t just get rid of us that easily! Bet you thought the recession had got hold of us eh? Well, yeah, you’re nearly right… times are hard for everyone, and that delayed us a bit (we have to get the advertising revenue in, to pay for such a top quality production and a wide distribution you know!) Don’t forget the magazine is FREE which is why you’ve got it in your sweaty little mitts right now. Listen…the recession will gradually go away if we all stop believing in it and just start spending again! Yeah… IT IS as simple as that! (I’ve got a degree in Bar-room Economics you know.) We all start spending, the wheels of finance and industry start turning again…. and then confidence and jobs return. Easy as that.
God I hate the capitalist world anyway, but unfortunately we all have to live in the bastard. I’m a Marxist y’know. A Communist. They all sound like dirty words to most of you lot, I know that, but that’s only because your minds have been controlled and conditioned by his very system that would crumble in our hands if you all had the sense to realise these things, and stand up together, but unfortunately you’ve all subconsciously been told what to think, just so that they can maintain their power and control over you, to maintain their wealth – and only a certain percentage of us, all over the world, have seen through this. The rest of you just swallow it all like sheep. You just don’t understand do yer? REAL Communism is actually beautiful and it’d be  a better life for the whole world…. but anyway that’s a whole new chapter for us all to consider. Maybe we should start doing that through these independent pages? Yeah… good idea. OK, this issue is all about that. Mind control, civil liberties, freedom of thought and, also, the indoctrination we are all forced to suffer.
Read the stuff in here about Identity Cards, about Guantanamo Bay, about Celebrity culture that dumbs you down…. In general, just start fuckin thinking for a change… instead of just swallowing and accepting. Please!
On top of all that, hey, we’ve got to try and enjoy ourselves and have a laugh haven’t we? Which is why we thought it’s be a good idea for all members of the Tenfootcity team to cheer you all up a bit by giving you our reasons that make it worth staying alive in our world at the moment! At the same time it’ll give you a bit of insight into the people who make up the Tenfootcity team!
In the meantime you lot just try and enjoy yourselves a bit. There’s loads of info in this new issue to help you do just that. Latest Music news, arts news and loads of tasty  snippets plus a comprehensive guide to what’s happening over the next couple of months. Yeah, we want to encourage that attitude of questioning, challenging, rebellion and “thinking outside of the box”… but you’ve still got to keep grinning through those gritted teeth ‘cause there’s nowt worse than a boring rebel!

Ciao Bellas and Bellos.          Swiftus Dickus. (Mr. Ed)