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Fondest toilet memory? @sjagger: ‘I was with two mates in a club in Paris aged 18. We lost Georgia for a few hours and searched everywhere. When we tried one last look in the toilets before heading back, we found her asleep on the tiles by the hand dryer.’
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@sjagger: ‘At 20, I worked in a music venue. One evening I saw a chick come in and thought she looked incredible. She seemed fierce as hell but kept giving me strange looks across the dance floor the whole night. In the queue for the toilets, she tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Babes you look fucking spicy, let me take a pic of you.” We posed for a photo together and have been best mates since.’
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Christmas looks different this year, we’re missing work parties and pub revelry too. But our time will come again. Until then, let’s remember fondly the hub of any good night out - the ladies toilet. Introducing Manchester-based Samantha Jagger’s photography series Loosen Up. ‘Covid has made interaction so clinical and the beautiful mingling of people has been lost. It's the same in toilets, everyone is corona-aware,’ says @sjagger. ‘I miss sharing tampons, condoms, sympathy smiles and bog roll.’ @loos_en_up
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Akemi wants to see more women on festival lineups. Specifically more dark skinned Black women. Such a male-centric music industry is worrying when you’re trying to break into the business, and even she finds herself listening to many male artists subconsciously. That’s why she spent lockdown actively seeking out some incredible women - right now, her favourites are @jaydonclover @radababyy @ninacobham and @nxdiamusic. LINK IN BIO FOR FULL INTERVIEW 📸 @sara_carpentieri_
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When Akemi was younger, she’d write lyrics in her diary at bedtime. Now, she prefers to freestyle over a beat, drawing on personal experiences and whatever she’s watching or reading. Single ‘Lemon Tea’ was inspired by an empty yellow carton in the recording studio and was written in three hours. In lockdown, she collaborated with MSoA fashion art direction student @onagreenwoodart to create a music video for it over FaceTime. Here Akemi talks songwriting and confidence. LINK IN BIO FOR FULL INTERVIEW 📸 @sara_carpentieri_ 📹 @onagreenwoodart
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Singer-songwriter Akemi Fox (@akemifoxx) - pronounced ‘A-kay-me’ - started writing songs aged eight. But severe stage fright meant that it took till her late teens to pursue singing seriously. Now, the 22-year-old releases her debut EP ‘Colour You In’ (11 December), starting with single ‘Your Love’ (today!), all written and recorded in lockdown. Spanning five-tracks, Akemi’s mellow, soulful sound is like a seductive diary entry musing on love, past and present. Here she let’s us crash at hers in Whalley Range, and talks about why you should never surround yourself with ‘yes men’. LINK IN BIO FOR FULL INTERVIEW 📸 @sara_carpentieri_ 3rd slide graphics @mackleworthstudio
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Growing up in Middlesborough, Ellie worked with textiles as an anxiety reliever, but it wasn’t until final year of her fine art BA at MSoA that she tried her hand at rug making. Catch her latest work at her first solo show at Eston Arts Centre in Middlesborough until 31st October. LINK IN BIO FOR FULL INTERVIEW 📸 @sara_carpentieri_
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At 21, Ellie was the youngest artist ever awarded a residency at the prestigious San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. She was supposed to spend three months in California there this summer, but sadly Covid had other plans. LINK IN BIO FOR FULL INTERVIEW 📸 @sara_carpentieri_
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‘Rug dealer’ Ellie (@ellie.d.brennan) is making the fine art world more accessible and inclusive, one parmo and chips rug at a time. Her work is a nostalgic exploration of class, food and comfort that flips the idea of quaint textiles on its sexist head. Here she invites us to crash at her place in Walley Range. LINK IN BIO FOR FULL INTERVIEW 📸 @sara_carpentieri_