Gangway in Eastern Slovakia!

This is my poster for the upcoming show of my sister's band Gangway, based in Cieszyn, Poland.
This time, the photos on the poster are not mine, but by the band's friend Kacper Gunia - http://cakper.net/

If you click on the picture, it will get you to the site of the event on facebook.

They are available to see on:

- štvrtok/thu 20.10. o 22:30 / Prešovská Christiania (afterparty jazzove dni)
- piatok/fri 21.10. o 19:30 / Piano Café v Košiciach

I haven't mentioned the band so far, but I really recommend seeing them. If you make it to the show in Kosice on Friday, there's a high probability you'll see me with a camera as well ;)

http://www.myspace.com/gangwaypl

2011-10-08 S1NK0 Opening - "S1NK0 Vernisáž"

As I have just happily announced in an earlier post, my photo exhibition: S1NK0 - 10 years of Slnko Records, is up and running! But not only that, what a launch it was!

As you can see from the pictures above, we've managed to get the photos to Next Apache just on time to see a wave of friends and people interested in Slnko Records flood the little space of Ben's café.

My best wishes go to Daniel Salontay from Longital, founder of Slnko Records with Shina, who had managed to awake his cold on a photo/video shoot two day before the opening and therefore stayed in bed for the whole day, unfortunately.

Therefore, there was no Longital concert, but the entertainment for the evening was solely provided by Andrew Hillard and his band Frank Winter, who had managed to entertain us acoustically and unplugged, breaking several strings and going on late into the night, improvising, covering the likes of Pearl Jam/Led Zeppelin and fairly passing the mark of any imaginable curfew.

Thank you Andy, thank you Frank Winter, thank you friends, family, Shina, and all who had found the time to come last Saturday night. It was unbelievable.

Go see for yourself to Next Apache Café at Panenská 28 in Bratislava, until the end of October!

P.S.: There was a hint of Longital performing again some time the exhibition ends, plus a possible continuation of the exhibition in other parts of western/eastern Slovakia. I will keep you posted, but you've heard it here first ;)

S1NK0 Installed and running!

What a week it has been since the launching of my "S1NK0: 10 years of Slnko Records" photo exhibition at Ben Pascoe's Next Apache café in Bratislava.

First off, the last minute preparations last week went just fine! During a busy, busy week with teaching from 7AM to 6.30PM I've managed to do a final selection of the photos for the exhibition (the selection which I will post here shortly with comments on each photo) and thanks to lacnetonery.sk with their excellent prices and free personal delivery I've also managed to get my Epson up and running.

After a late Thursday afternoon online chat with person running lacnetonery.sk I've found just the right paper to install on the hand-made cardboard panels just in time. I am really really happy with how the photos appear on the 190gr Epson Archival Matte paper. It's very similar to what my favourite band, Pearl Jam, uses on their vinyl booklets and Deep Magazine.

At last but not least I would like to thank Nadja, the "slnko" (sun) in my life for her help and patience in selection of the pictures, getting them print out, getting the right kind of panels, selecting the colour for them, and so on and so forth.

Invaluable.

I must say I was really exhausted and probably also a bit financially broke after all the fuss to get the photos installed on time to Ben's café, but as you will see from the next post recapturing the Saturday night, it was really worth all the time and money - because of the friends and family I've managed to gather for the opening.

You can see the photos and read about the opening here, or better, visit the exhibition yourself in Next Apache / Nech sa páči at Panenská 28, Bratislava until the end of October.

Thank you.