Manchester, 18th December — Edward Barton and some other bands (all connected to him in ways we haven’t yet worked out) will perform at the Greenroom to celebrate the launch of his new album ‘and a Panda’ . If you’re in Manchester then please come along.
You can buy a copy of ‘and a Panda’ here.
Friday 18th december. From 7:30pm. Greenroom, Whitworth Street Manchester
Featuring ; Edward Barton and the Babymens, Rae Pratt, Stream, Delicate Hammers, Pens and Pencil.
Just out - six new plectrums by David Shrigley. Available now from the Polite Shop and the usual Polite stockists…
Wild Things.
We’ve just added this lovely book by Geoff McFetridge to our shop. It features a small selection of the work he did with Spike Jonze for ‘Where the Wild things are’ -
more details here: The Polite Shop
Shrigley Christmas Cards. We’re re-issuing three Christmas cards by David Shrigley— the original edition completely sold out in 2005. They are available now in select polite outlets - Including Saatchi Gallery, Rough Trade East, Colette (Paris), Baltic Mill, Glasgow School of Art, Artstore Glasgow, Myshop (Cyprus), Lik + Neon, Lazy Oaf, London Graphics and Papercut (Stockholm).
The cards will also be available online from the Polite Shop. shop.politecards.com
John Squire exhibition at Tokyo Hipsters Club.
15 Nov - 6 Dec, Shibuyaka, Tokyo.
John Squire will be exhibiting a new series of paintings at Tokyo Hipsters Club, Nov 15 - Dec 6th. To co-incide with the show, we have published an updated version of our John Squire Box set, to include the new work - Available from 15th Nov from the Polite Shop and the usual Polite Stockist.
For more information about John Squire visit www.johnsquire.com
For information about THC, visit www.tokyohipstersclub.com
For the Polite Shop visit shop.politecards.com
A selection of the world’s most compelling graphic novelists and comic artists have collaborated with experimental youth initiative Ctrl.Alt.Shift, to create a limited edition comic book Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption which aims to highlight corruption as both the cause of poverty and a barrier to overcoming it.
The comic will launch at COMICA 09 (at the ICA) which runs from 5-26th Nov and we at Polite will be distributing it, so it will be available from a selection of our usual stockists.
Joe Sacco… Part 2
Joe Sacco talks about Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption… Part 1
Red Book by David Shrigley is out now and available from all good books stores (and some not so good ones) - You can also purchase a copy direct from the publisher - our friend at Redstone Press by clicking here
Red Book contains over 200 new Shrigley Drawings.
Kevin Cummins’ exquisite photographic record of the past 30 years captures the highs, the lows and the transcendent pop moments of Manchester’s most famous sons.
This stunning visual record of the city and its pop history is encapsulated in our new postcard box set “Archive 2: Manchester”
Click here to read the stories behind some of the images, (from the Guardian website)
