Covert Magazine – Independent Culture Coventry

Drink and Draw.

November 9, 2011

Those of you that thought that this was gonna be a post on mixing drink with a bit of soap bar are gonna be pretty disappointed. But if you took it as a post around drinking alcohol and drawing things at the same time, then its exactly that my friend. A free social drawing event

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Tyrannosaur

October 18, 2011

It’s a violent place, the cinema. Film is a media that’s made for capturing things that move dynamically. It’s why slapstick flourished in the early days and why CGI monsters continue to slug it out and spill their shiny pixels across our screens from one opening weekend to the next. Tyrannosaur is a study of

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Funkyst Clothing

October 6, 2011

I live in a city that is pretty grey, pretty stuck in its ways and negative as F*CK! So every now and then, its nice to hear a bit of positivity. Even see it with your own two eyes. Matthew Lewis and Nana Dadson created their bit of creative positivity with Funkyst Clothing back in

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Treacle 017 & 018 DROP!!

October 6, 2011

What’s that? Summers over? The heat has gone? Depressing dark nights to look forward to for the next few months? F*ck it. Cheer t’sen up with the two new Treacle Clothing drops courtesy of workaholic The Pern and The Sleepy Wolf. All you need to know below yeh. Nice video on the love that Bob

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Philth, N4t4, Ventsa and Deus of Subism GO LARGE in Manchester!

September 30, 2011

Been meaning to put this up for a little while now. Bedrock graff artists Philth and N4T4 alongside other Subism artists, Ventsa and Deus did this fucking huge mural in Manchester a few weeks ago. A mammoth piece towering over a Manchester street. LARGE in more ways than one. You can check out the work

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The Sound of Upstairs Presents… Rhythm Doctor

September 30, 2011

Now people often speak about legends of a certain music scene, or founding fathers of a particular genre or type of night. People that were at the forefront, shouting down any naysayers and pushing their flavour of music to the good people who wanted to hear it, at sweaty underground parties and on the airwaves

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George Shaw : I woz ere – An exhibition. Herbert Gallery, Coventry

September 29, 2011

Tile Hill. A small suburb of Coventry that has seen better days. A place that still has plenty of post war temporary housing (only meant to used for 10 years to re-house people after the blitz), knocked down boozers that you could pretty much buy anything in (and I do mean, anything) and a typically

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Gotta Get Git. Git – Imagination.

September 21, 2011

There used to be a time when hip hop producers would slave over a hot MPC, take hours sourcing the ingredients from rare pieces of wax and knit together beats that would have that underground sound. These days, a cracked copy of Logic and some pre made sample packs off a bit torrent is

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Treacle New Drop from Stoke and Ghost

July 28, 2011

The good people over at Treacle Clothing have just dropped two new tees from London based Stoke and Middle England based Ghost. The Nuneaton spawned clothing label is kicking up some national and international fuss for its limited edition ranges of tees and sweats. You should check ‘em arrt.Yeah you definitely should. Ghost has delivered

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Greetings from the Canal Basin: a Taylor John’s House & Tin Angel Records update

July 21, 2011

Hello Coventry! Long time, no Covert posting. As many of you are aware, the Tin Angel on Spon Street was unexpectedly closed in February, and we are particularly sad at the manner in which we lost it. However, whilst mourning the demise of what was almost a second home to many of Coventry’s finest minds

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