House Party

After the success of "Get Involved" last Christmas, City Vinyl are dusting the cobwebs off of the sound system to bring you "HOUSE PARTY".

We got asked to bash together a quick flyer for the night, so we did!

Up and away!

Mario and Yoshi mural we did on a child's bedroom wall in Earlsdon.

GODIVA!

Well then, Godiva festival 2010!

Bring Colour were involved in the Godiva Fest in 2007, missed out in 2008 due to lack of funds, painted the gardeners shed in 2009 and this year we worked in partnership with BBC Blast and FARGOS.

We had 4 artists doing a demo over the 2 days and also ran drop in workshops for festival goers.
It was Manic at times and we certainly learned some things!

Hectic weekend, Changed Bring Colour!

What don't kill you....................

Fredrock

Had to blog this little banger that was down the boards!

"A Tiger eating a Leopard"

by Freddie the Fox aged 5 nearly 6.

Summer party!

We were contacted by Ian Kane from Warwick SU to take part in there Summer Party. Bring Colour went up to the Uni and tag teamed three 8 by 4 boards. It was a good day, the sun was shining, tunes were playing and we got to freestyle some boards.

Check out the video of the day!

Back to School!

Bring Colour artist, John Mckeown was asked to return to his old school, Cardinal Newman to deliver a graffiti workshop as part of the schools first Community Arts Festival. The Festival was held to celebrate the school becoming a specialist arts and community college.

DOWNTIME!

Not had much of a web presence recently, everything has been a bit hectic. Everything has been in storage, well, in a pile (photo above) whilst we have been moving base. We have still been active and therefore have a lot of updating to do! The updates will follow, but we just want to say thank you to those people who have shown support over past months. Thanks!

Sub Zero

We have been working with Sub Zero, one of Primeline Musics signed Artists. We have produced the logo above for him and are currently working on the code for his myspace and some graphics for youtube. Sub Zero has an album droppin this year on Primeline Music, keep an eye out for it!

Fallen Soldier!

We have had some sad news, Tom Sutch AKA FuFaNu passed away recently. This guy had Creativity running through his veins. Skating, Street Art and Graff was how our paths crossed. He played his role in smashing Cov, our particular favourites were his FU! dubs on the bank up ball hill and another on the dj shop on Radford Rd. If you look carefully you will still find a few stencils about too! FU! FU! FU FA NU! rock n roll!

lurking

We are currently working on some graphics for Coventry M.C. "Lurkah" We have just done his youtube page at the moment, Check it out! You know you love Cov town!

Exclusive Roots

Exclusive Roots is a fair trade shop on park st, Leamington. They sell fair trade products from Africa in there shop downstairs and have been working on opening a cafe upstairs, we were contacted by them to add to the "Shack Chic" style of the place.

Primeline

Primeline Music is a new venture from those productive folks up at the Venny, Wood End. Primeline is a record label run by young people, for young people. We were asked to produce a logo for the record label, a vinyl label for the first vinyl release from producer "AMEC" and cd artwork for the compalation "Trial & Error".

Primeline Music is a non for profit organisation that not only offers a creative outlet for disadvantaged young people, Primeline also has education, training and development side to it, supporting young people develop music and business skills that enable them to maximize their potential.

Bring Colour are fully behind this project and we think it is ace! Trial and Error has been played at least once a day, since we got hold of our copy. A couple of tracks get reloaded as soon as they finish!

Support Coventry Music!

Get your copy from: www.primelinemusic.com

Back when........

Writers in Coventry didnt have legal spots like the blue boards in Earlsdon. ASP, JECT, MARSA, TEK, CEPT, KRUGA, XORB, REL, ALERT, to name a few that have left there mark. Growing up in Coventry, seeing the remains of these and all of the other writers had such an influence on the whole Bring Colour camp.

The picture above is of a painting by ASP 178, a writer who clearly did his fair share and was king'in Coventry in the late 80's and is still up a fair bit now.
It seems that the younger generations of writers dont know, dont care or have been missinformed about the history of the Coventry graffiti art scene.

Knowing your History is important for numerous reasons.

• We learn from our mistakes.

• We share a common experience that binds the scene together.

• We learn where the scene has come from.

• The graffiti scene can build upon past accomplishments, and it also helps us to speculate the future.

Our passion for Graffiti/Street Art and inparticular Covenrty graffiti/street art has lead us to start to produce Blitz Coventry. Blitz is documenting the past and present bombing (graffiti writing) of Coventry. If you have any images that you would like to be included, send them to: blitz@bringcolour.com

"Know your history!!!"

GYGL

Coventry GYGL contacted us because they wanted to create a piece of art for LGBT month, the group had already written a song/poem that they want to look like a Coventry street sign on a wall with graffiti on. Good fun was had.

Coventry Blitz!

We are trawling through old shoe boxes, searching discs, scanning in photos and collecting pics for issue .01 of Blitz Coventry. Blitz Coventry is a Graffiti / Street Art fanzine documenting the past and present bombing (graffiti writing) of Coventry.

Tags, Throw-ups, Dubs, Pieces, street art, some old school treasures and a feature on one of Coventrys finest, Mean Mr Myer are all in issue 01.

If you have any photos that you would like to contribute then please send them to: blitz@bringcolour.com

Issue .01 out Summer 2010.

Simple IT

We have designed a logo (above) for a new Coventry based IT company called Simple IT Support. They provide IT solutions for the home and business. Networking, Installations, Upgrades and Virus Removal are some of the services they offer. Support local businesses!

Got Involved.

After designing the flyer for Get Involved, we were asked to decorate the venue. We decided to build a cardboard box divide with a Christmas vibe. 110 boxes were ordered, made up, numbered and decorated. The divide split the venue into room like areas and each area had a different painting, living room, dining room, bar, and a festive Merry Christmas!

There were some doubts cast weather or not the wall would withstand whatever antics the Christmas ravers would throw at it, and it did! all night! People even leaned against it!

Bud time again!

The Top Bud camp approached us a while back to bash them up a logo. We didn't have much time to tweak it but they were happy with the result. For 2010 they wanted a face lift, a bling bling Top Bud, so we went to the jewelers and iced out there logo. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for Top Bud nights, radio and more, comming in 2010.

Hillfields!

A few pic's of Hillfields YPC. We went down and with the group painted 20 boards with individual letters spelling out "COME IN AND GET INVOLVED". The boards are to be mounted on to the red window panels in the bottom picture.

Website Hell!

Websites! The bane of our lives here at Bring Colour for over a year now. Having bought www.bringcolour.co.uk & www.bringcolour.com over 2 years ago we have now got a site up and running.

It has been nightmare after nightmare with the website, firstly, after purchasing the domain names we designed our website (bottom picture) and gave it to the boffs @ Connoserv Media to write the code. The website was up but quickly grew outdated, so we went back to the drawing board.

Our second attempt at our website was going well, not only did we design the site but we wrote the coding for it too, the site was complete, saved, needed a little more tweaking but was ready to go live, and then......Mac Death! We retrieved the web files off the hdd but it was no good, they were corrupt (middle picture). We hung on to the hope that the wizards at Connoserv Media could work there magic, but no! Back to the drawing board we went.

Third time lucky! We did it all again from scratch, learnt some more coding, made version 3 a little better again (top picture).We decided that we wanted complete charge of the site so with a little help from Jason Law, we launched www.bringcolour.co.uk

In the midst of all of this website hell, due to bad communication www.bringcolour.com slipt through our fingers, Gutted!

Yesterday we purchased it back!!!!

No more hold ups! Please. x