OneFiveEight members, Luke Breen and Jude Ward, have recently launched cooperandclay.com – an online shop that will focus on Sustainable Homewares, Gifts and Artwork. Sustainable Homewares The OneFiveEight pair have been looking to put their years of experience, in Website Design and Management, into a personal project for a long time… Lockdown finally gave us… →
We are very excited to introduce you to the first of our resident DJ’s for Beng! Beng! Beng! our very own SonofBingo. With everything from Indian movie soundtracks, to twitching electro and sparse jazz fantasies in his bag, it’s guarantied to be the chunkiest of dance freak-outs with a soulful afro/eastern edge. Check out the first of… →
We are very happy to announce that this year we will be back at Sounds From The Other City. At last year’s festival, we brought a colourful carnival of monsters to the Regent Trading Estate at Salfords finest festival. In 2018 you can expect bigger and better things from OneFiveEight… Sounds From The Other City… →
OneFiveEight would like to introduce Haven for Artists, a collective from Beirut with a similar ethos to our own. We endeavour to help promote creativity and form bonds between like minded artists across the globe. Please take the time to find out more about the collective, and get in touch with them for potential placement… →
Manchester DJ Residents OneFiveEight are pleased to announce our new monthly residency at GRUB Mcr. Located at the old mayfield depot site, GRUB is a food lovers paradise. We will be there one Friday a month, from 6pm until late. Visit GRUB If you haven’t visited GRUB yet, then you’re missing out. Expect some of… →
Red Willow 4th Birthday Street Party! Date: Sunday 17th September 2017 Join us at the Red Willow Bar this Sunday from 12-8pm for a full day of great beers, fantastic grub and a wide selection of tunes from the OneFiveEight Djs. Expect Soul, Jazz, Funk, Hip Hop, Reggae, Latin, Disco, House and everything in between… →
We are very happy to announce that OneFiveEight will be hosting a day of Live Broadcasts across Reform Radio at this year’s Sounds From The Other City. We’re over the moon to be back at the festival after a year off, and this year promises to be our best yet. Regent Trading Estate OneFiveEight have… →
We’re very happy to announce that we’ll be broadcasting our regular OneFiveEight Radio Show live from the ShinDigger Rhythm & Brews Launch Party on Friday 24th March. The Party starts at 6pm with live broadcasts from Reform Radio regulars Out Of Quiet at the ShinDigger Brewery (just opposite Band On The Wall). The Beer The beer, a zesty… →
I’m posting this a little late in the day, but if anyone isn’t aware BandCamp have announced that they will be donating their profits to American Civil Liberties Union today (Friday 3rd February). Time for a spending spree I think… Go To BandCamp and Start Purchasing Just a few selections I recommend. Kelp – The Curved Line Managed… →
This was my latest school murals job, done in collaboration with my fellow artist SECA, AKA Christian Fenn. The school is Devonshire Primary Academy in Blackpool and their logo is a beehive. The building itself is actually designed in hexagon shapes and this runs throughout. We were asked to come in and do an assembly… →
This was my first solo school murals project, done last year at Hawes Side Academy. I was approached by their art teacher Wendy Barnes to come in and speak to the children about the Picasso project they were working on in class. They are having a new school built (the other side of this temporary… →
Sand, Sea & Spray festival 2015 The one on the left is Ben’s (He Dreamt Mars) and the right side is my own. Ben did his in an acrylic wash and then acrylic paint with a brush over the top. I used masking tape and spray paint to get straight lines. It was a real… →
These images are from a project I did in South Shore, Blackpool, very close to where I used to live as a kid. The place used to be a joke shop and had been boarded up for years. The locals (hotel owners mostly) got tired of looking at the eyesore and so I was approached… →
Skepta & company at the Warehouse Project Manchester 2016 – Photos by Joe Smith
Join the OneFiveEight DJs for a jumbled up selection of Disco, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Hip-Hop, House, Broken Beats and Reggae on Friday 26th February 2016 at Common.
Silhouettes – Floating Points After what seemed like a lifetime, Floating Points (AKA Sam Shepherd) released Elaenia his debut album, and in my opinion it did not disappoint. Bringing a level of intricacy to the Ambient Electronica scene only possible by an artist with a neuroscience PhD. The whole album is sublime, it blurs the lines between Jazz and… →
As a celebration of Manchester’s rich creative talent, our friends over at one69a are running a design competition. Simply create an illustration of a worker bee that represents you or your creative collective using three colours; Metallic Gold, Black and Pantone 7450U. Here’s an example of a submission created by OneFiveEight’s Luke Breen: About the Manchester… →
A series of double exposures on film from a roll of Kodak Ultra 400. The film was put through the camera twice. The first series of images I shot were of different abstract digital images that I got as a result of shooting directly into a digital projector behind a screen with my DSLR. It… →
A few weeks a go The organisers at Sounds From The Other City asked OneFiveEight to design and paint the hoarding of a Building Being Demolished by New Bailey in Salford. The Brief was to create an eye catching, bold and colourful design that would make people more aware of what was going on at… →
Last summer’s bountiful allotment production, and accompanying preserving sessions, inspired us to design this repeating pattern. We hand drew each element that is needed to make our favourite Pumpkin Chutney and transferred the pattern to a silk screen. Using Permaset Aqua Eco friendly fabric ink, we printed the design on to 40 unbleached cotton tea towels… →
OK so I know we’re nearly 1 month into 2015 already, but better late than never. Here are 14 of my favourite tunes from 2014. There’s a mixed bag, which if you know me represents my taste pretty well. There’s a bunch of well known tunes that I’ve enjoyed hearing a lot of on the… →
Jody Hartley is a Manchester based photographer who, rather than specialising in a particular field of photography, chooses to reflect his interest in the various subjects the world has to offer, with a mixture of architectural, live music, landscape, travel and simply the weird and the wonderful. My particular favourite series of jody’s pictures are… →
‘Fruits of the Feminine’, on the 16th of October at Korova Cafe, Preston, is the first in a trilogy of events concentrating on gender equality and not exclusively from a feminist perspective but also seeking to recognize aspects of inbalance and unfairness in the masculine and trans-gender experience in modern day society and this will… →
I’ve never formally studied art but I’ve drawn and written poetry since I was very young and as I’ve got older drawing and writing have remained my favourite hobbies. I’ve recently made the long-meditated decision to step up my creative pursuits to a professional standard, rather than just a hobby, and one of the ways… →
Fred Aldous is a lively hub of creativity that has been supplying the people of Manchester and the rest of the world with art supplies since 1886. As part of its Make Anything campaign, the popular shop has been inviting artists, designers and all manner of creative people from the North West to make a… →
ART & THE AFFAIRS OF THE CITY Politika – Art & the Affairs of the City explores the growing field of urban intervention in relation to cultural activism and social change. Scheduled to run parallel to the party political conferences happening across the UK, Politika offers a diverse program that includes an exhibition of provocative artworks… →
The OneFiveEight collective (Herbal Sessions DJs) returned to Kendal Calling this year to play the Glow Tent. This is Mr Breen’s section taken from that set. Mr Breen at Kendal Calling 2014 by Mrbreen on Mixcloud
Hand Made Wedding Invitations Since learning how to screen print for my recent exhibition piece, I’ve been meaning to use the process for other artistic endeavours. When I was asked to produce a set of wedding invites for a family engagement, I took the opportunity to use my recently gained skill set. The Process The… →
‘16 days of street art action’ took place in Manchester during the international campaign ’16 days of action to end violence against women’ 25th November and 10th December 2013. During the campaign 16 pieces of street art was created by 16 diverse women from across the North including OneFiveEight’s very own MOZE. The pieces appeared… →
Introducing David Shurr… He’s a lovely talented singer/songwriter who works on amazing projects around the north west, I asked him about his latest release ‘The Skin I’m In” here’s what he said. It’s difficult to actually detail eloquently what this project means to me, as it has developed considerably since it’s initial conception. I actually… →
As Mobius Loop has just released their new single “Life Force” it got me thinking about an old t-shirt design I created and printed for them. I asked the band what they wanted on the design and they gave me a massive list of objects and ideas that they wanted including. I came up with… →
A few of my favourite images from a selection I’ve taken over the past couple of months. From bands and events based in Manchester to a glorious sunset in incredible landscapes in the Staffordshire hills. I’ve even snook in one from the DSLR from an impromptu trip to London with a friend from the… →
