Contents issue1

1. Contributors

2. In your dreams...

3. Welcome Reign

4. David Hails reveals why Street Art is his forte

5. Children of the Revolution Fashion shoot

6. Behind the scenes at the shoot

7. This worldwide renowned club celebrates its 10th Birthday this month

Photography by Katie ScraftonStyling by KS

Hair and Make up by KS

Contributors

SCOTTY MADDISON made eve-rybody on the photoshoot laugh. Scotty is Reign’s interpretation of the rock legend Tina Turner. We had to laugh a little more when he thought he had been chosen to be Sid Vicious...

PIA SCHOLEY was a helping hand during both fashion shoots taking pictures for ‘behind the scenes’ and improvising where necessary. Pia studies Fashion Communication at Northumbria University and is hoping to travel the world after she graduates.

CHRISTOPHER BADDOO was extremely down to earth and easy going. He knows exactly what to do in front of the cam-era and made a fantastic Jimi Hendrix. Soon after our shoot he decided he wanted to take up modelling again. Watch this space.

SAM MEACHIN cannot be thanked enough for taking time out of her busy schedule to do the Marc Bolan shoot for Reign. Sam is studying Graphics at Northumbria University so has plenty on her plate this year. We wish her well in her studies.

KATIE WU studies Fashion Communication at Northumbria University alongside Pia Scholey. We thorughly enjoyed working with Katie on the Michael Jack-son shoot and she did an amaz-ing job considering she has no previous modelling experience.

TOM RANKIN studies Creative Advertising in his home town Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. However, his first passion is music. Tom co-runs a house night called Jaunt, which is held at the Cosmic Ballroom also in Newcastle. He also dj’s reguarly, contributing to Newcastles growing clubbing scene.

What would you do with a Euro millions lottery win?

Travel the world and see eve-rything there is to see...set up my own club in Newcastle and put parties on no expenses spared...with the odd trips to

NYC, Berlin, Barcelona etc...NM

Easy. Whisk the girl of my dream’s away on a yaught called the princess and

live happily ever after.Tjr

I’d book the first private plane to New York, stay in the ritz and buy a new wardrobe. Give some to family and friends and to char-ity. Buy a house and

save the rest ;)GL

1st up I’d put a stake into New-castle United, Also my passion has always been music, so I would feed the addiction by building some sort of custom built stu-dio or Club environment, Id also open a clothes Boutique (Country TBC). Last but not least I’d try to give every single homeless per-son in Newcastle some sort kind of lease of life by setting up a

‘Homeless Hotel’.GP

I think I would use the money to travel the world and stay in

fabulous hotels.RP

I would buy myself a zoo full of

animals cause im a crazy bitch.JC

i would buy a boat and travel the world, all of my family and friends

would be my crew.ES

I would buy my own Island, so I could have my own little empire where I wouldnt have

to answer to anyone.NK

Live in Disneyland. RL

If you could have magical powers what would they be and why?

My power would be to fly, I’d like to move a bit faster :) and

see the world for free.ES

My power would be to read mens minds....

LS

My power would have to be time travel, being able to go back in time, would love to of been kicking around in the

sixties.RP

my power would be to teleport anywhere I wanted to at anytime or have harry potters in-visible cloak so I could

spy on people.JC

I would buy an island off Thailand like ‘The Beach’ - buy a private jet and fly all my lovelies over when ever they wanted to come play... there wud be copius amount of NAKED BUT-

LERS!LS

I would be a shapeshIfter as I am a vIsual person and play around wIth vIsual Im-ages, If not It would be to teleport lIke nIghtcrawler from xmen but I wouldnt tel-

eport Into a wall.mg

I would like to have the power to make someone do whatever I want them to do, obviously first things first id ring up donald trump and get him to give me all his money...then I’d walk up to the best modelling agency and convince them I AM six foot 6 and gorgeous...although even with magical powers this

may prove difficult ;)NG

I would have laser eyes to chop peo-ples heads off or to be able to breathe

in space or under water.LQ

To make anybody I want fall in love with me and to be able to

change peoples emotions.JC

We all have visions of the aver-age graffiti artist dressed head-to-toe in black, armed with a can of Montana, ready to pounce; prey-ing on innocent un-touched walls in dark alley ways. However, this is not always the case. The term ‘graffiti’ has been known to have connotations of something dodgy scrawled on the back of a toilet door. ‘Street art’ however sounds slightly more low-key and is now used to describe the art-form that has globally become widely ac-ceptable over the past decade. David Hails has played an active part in contributing to this ever growing scene. He was born and raised in Newcastle, now choosing to live in Heaton with his girlfriend Sarah and their

By Katie Scrafton

daughter Daisy aged 9. He started out listening to BDP, KRS1, Tough Crew, Tim Dog and Multi Magnetic MC. ‘’When I first got into hip hop it was around 1986’’ he was hanging about with the kids his older sister knew ‘’(she) was a heavy influence through my life, she was knocking about with like break dancers, body poppers and stuff.’’ I have images of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in its heyday. During this time Hails was in-spired to begin his career; a lifestyle which turned out to be a lot more than just a bad habit. So welcome to creative heaven. Hails’ house is how I expected it to be. Modern artwork, noth-ing matches, nothing gels. It’s

relaxed; which suits his person-ality down to a tee. Once we begin talking about his work, it is clear that this is also his passion. Hails studied Art and Design through school which lead to a foundation course allowing him to specialise in 3d design. Looking towards sculpture, Hails car-ried this through to degree level. Once the degree was complete he discovered ‘’the materials that (he) had been working with, became out of reach, it was too expensive to make work.’’ Video and animation were mediums Hails had explored throughout University and when a prop making career in London didn’t work out, the opportunity came around to create a video

Video stills from Karoshi Brothers - Heal the world

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installation for Architecture Week in June 2004.installation for Ar-chitecture Week in June 2004. His Inspiration was taken from ‘’social insects inhabiting tower blocks and looking at super organisms, how lots of people work together and looking at comparisons between ants and wasps’’ Scarily Similar? ‘’Ha ha yes it was all kind of based around modern structures and so on...’’ The finished animation was a large scale audio visual projec-tion using 3d animation and was shown in Castle Keep; a small castle situated in Newcastle with views of the quayside and the cathedral. Off the back of Architecture Week, Heritage Week was then held in the same location this time looking closely at older buildings. Hails produced an-other video installation for this which then led into some illus-tration and sculptural work as a printed medium called Multiplus. ‘’We did about twenty differ-ent shows in different locations, the most high profile being the Lowry Gallery in Manchester.’’ Hails then began working as a freelance illustrator ‘’on bits of graphics and stuff, taught my-self the software’’. An Ad agency that were dealing with Chrysler had started looking for an art-ist to do a large scale mural in London although Hails was still living in Newcastle at the time. ‘’Me and my mate put in a tender for it and flukely enough got it...the largest one was 40 ft by 50ft high.’’ So what about the positive influx in street art we have seen over the past ten years? Hails comments ‘’You know we’ve got people who are in their mid thir-ties who were all into graffiti and street art when they were young-er, so I think that’s probably one

of the main reasons it has come to the forefront now, people could push it to the forefront and say yes this is a legitimate art form, you know, it does have credibility.’’ple could push it to the forefront and say yes this is a legitimate art form, you know, it does have credibility.’’Once this breakthrough came Hails was asked to a short film for the British Film Council which was open brief. Taking his inspi-ration from old folklore ‘I always look to (these) things which are traditional stories because they’ve got absolute grounding’’ The film explored themes on the impact of a manmade environ-ment on the natural environ-ment. ‘’Concrete structures, you know very grey landscapes and graffiti being almost like a natu-ral force, it’s not contained and it’s kind of bringing colour back into these environments’’ A bat-tle between nature and industry.

Sony had the final say over everything and made it quite difficult at times.’’

The film was ten minutes long and the premier was held at the gate in Newcastle in October 2007. The film was shown on the big screens at Glastonbury this summer just gone. Hails was approached to do the screening and handed over the tape. Shortly after this Hails and his girlfriend were asked to work together on a music video for an independent record label that was eventually swallowed up by Sony. Hails worked on the

animation side of things while his girlfriend Sarah mastered the illustrations. The song title is The Karoshi Brothers – Heal the World and is available to watch on Youtube.How was it working for a huge record company? ‘’the commercialism of a product just didn’t interest me, Sony had the final say over everything and made it quite difficult at times.’’ Hails has now found a way of giving something back and is passing on his knowledge to stu-dents of Newcastle College. On teaching Illustration and Anima-tion Hails says ‘’The students aregreat. I think I get as much from them as they get from me. They inspire me, it is really part of who I am, it isn’t just a job, it’s much more than that.’’ So has Hails found his calling? ‘’As a lecturer I can’t imagine myself teaching illustration and animation whilst I’m in my 50’s. I think the students would be better off with someone who’s young and fresh and has come straight out of the industry.’’ So he must have a Mac, cause’ PC is a swear word where design is concerned? ‘’Dirty pc’s! I have to wash my hands after I use one.’’ As Hails sits back and lights another cigarette, I ask whether he thinks he will ever give up his freelance work for the more stable option as a lecturer. ‘’I can still never turn my back on my roots, or forget where I came from, you know. I suppose I know it’s a cliché but just try and keep it real.’’

www.davidhails.com

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1000 Eyes Mag David Hails

Children of the RevlolutionPhotography and Styling by

Katie Scrafton

Jacket VintageScarf Matthew Williamsom

Belt Models own

Jacket BurberryJeans B Brand

Vest Aubin and WillsBangles Models own

Shirt ChloeVest Models own

Jeans Dolce and GabannaBoots Prada

Jacket BalmainScarf models own

Behind The Scenes

Christopher Badoo as Jimi Hendrix aka

Ganesh

Katie Wu as Michael Jackson aka The Mino-

taur

Scotty Madison as Tina Turner aka The Hyrda

Photography by Pia Scholey

Fabric Room Three

Fabric Room One

Photography Katie Scrafton

Music

It’s 12 O Clock and as I step into the club in Farringdon, London, (we have tickets – the queue is snaking round the end of the street) I wonder if it will live up to its expectations. Two girls are already at the counter begging to be let in. We hand over our tickets and walk in stress free.

Fabric, one of the UK’s largest and most popular dance venues hosted its 10th Birthday celebra-tions on Saturday 17th October. The party started at 11pm and lasted a staggering 30 hours until Monday 5am. All three separate rooms with in-dependent sound systems were opened as 2500 tech-house lovers, party people, hippies, scenesters and many others stormed through the doors eager to dance their hearts out.

The atmosphere was charged as soon as we walked in, although the club had only been open for an hour or so. Terry Francis and Craig Richards were keen to show Fabrics crowd why they are the clubs weekly residents.

The occasion was marked by the clubs tongue-in-cheek style with all members of staff in fancy dress. The clubs main lighting is electric blue leaving an eerie glow over the crowd in Room One which was packed wall-to-wall within two hours of the club opening. For those dedicated to sound, this is the room to be in. Known as a ‘bodysonic’ dance floor, sections of the floor are attached to 400 bass trans-ducers emitting bass frequencies of the music being played. Brilliant.

The Club that never sleeps

By Katie Scrafton

Over 25 DJ’s and LIVE acts such as Ricardo Vil-lalobos, Steve Bug and Ivan Smagghe took part in the knees up playing across all three rooms over the 30 hour stint. It was difficult to distinguish which act was playing throughout the night, but nobody seemed to care. Fabric has mastered an industrialbut intimate feel, despite its huge capacity. The clash of modern technology and old brickwork work in perfect unison to create a flawless world where people can come together to dance.

The night ended effortlessly (perhaps I should say morning) in Room Three which had an intimate vibe and a perfect-sized clearing on the dance floor. As we stepped outside we were wished ‘’Happy Birthday’’ by members of staff handing out memora-bilia in the form of a large scale Fabric poster listing every act that has ever played there.An impressive list let me tell you. This really is the place to be if you want to experience music.

If you’re looking for a club that’s philosophy is have your own philosophy, this is the one for you.

To see future Fabric line-ups visit www.fabriclondon.com

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