Ellen & The Escapades X Hope & Social

Check out this video from a recent session between two Leeds acts, the ace Ellen and The Escapades with the equally awesome Hope & Social. 

It is always really interesting to see two bands collaborate and although we expected a lot when we heard they guys were hooking up, we were not left disappointed :) The track has already been getting airplay on BBC 6 Music and lots more in the Hebe office!

Both bands have new albums out / coming out. Hope & Social with Cotton Wool and Knotted Wood, while Ellen and The Escapades launch All The Crooked Scenes at Brudenell Social Club next month. 

James Steward & Asobi Fashion @ The Leeds Library

As part of our work with Trinity Leeds we recently produced a photo-shoot featuring the work of Leeds designer James Steward and Leeds Fashion Show Emerging Designer award winner, Shi-Yuen Li of Asobi Fashion. The shoot took place at the beautiful Leeds Library. The shoot was styled by our very own Head of Fashion Shang-Ting Peng.

We had always planned to showcase one of the winners from Leeds Fashion Show in a special photo-shoot for the Trinity Leeds Facebook Page and we thought it would be pretty cool to team up Shi-Yuen's work with established Leeds designer James Steward and see what we could create. 

We worked with our friends at Bond, photographer Warwick Stein and make-up artist Nicki Swain and their fantastic models, Paige Moore and Eliza Tate and we also worked with the ace Hasselblad and, a behind the scenes video is on the way to show how the shoot went down. 

We hope you dig the photos and we will leave you with the official line from Trinity Leeds...

"Trinity Leeds is committed to supporting emerging fashion talent in Leeds and as part of our 'Taking the T' into Leeds campaign, Trinity Leeds sponsored Leeds Fashion Show 2011. At the show we were introduced to designer Shi-Yuen Li who won the 'Emerging Designer' award. We recently invited Shi-Yuen and prominent Leeds designer James Steward to take part in a photo-shoot staged at our near neighbour The Leeds Library on Commercial Street. The shoot was styled by Shang Ting Peng and shot by Leeds photographer Warwick Stein. 

We hope our projects will provide moments of inspiration and surprise, and reflect the city's past, present and future as a destination for fashion, food, film and culture."

Stay tuned for the 'making of' video shot for Hasselblad and a guest blog post from a special Hebe work-experience guest on the shoot :)

HEBE X BACK TO BASICS: EXCESS ALL AREAS LAUNCH

On Friday 17th February we held the launch event for the new Hebe produced, Back to Basics exhibition at Leeds Gallery. The night was so much fun, not many art exhibitions kick off with DJs, smoke machines and the sounds of Dave Beer talking about aliens, but thats how we roll :)

We will be talking in more depth later this week about working with Paul Fryer, and you can read this earlier post about the work in the exhibition and the story of how everything came together, but for now we wanted to say a big "thanks" to everyone who came and remind you that the exhibition is on until March 17th and you can buy all the work on show:

A2 Giclée Prints - £100 - Signed, Limited Edition sets of 50 (Also avaliable framed)

A1 Giclée Prints - £125 - Signed, Limited Edition sets of 25

A3 LED Lightbixes - £500  (Framed)

You can check out more pictures from the launch night here and on our our Facebook page.

KIT CAT CLUB & PAUL FRYER

Team Hebe are currently working away on a new exhibition launching in Leeds Gallery very soon, featuring some of the amazing artwork of Back to Basics. Our research and planning has led to us rediscovering some of the best memories and music from the 90's clubbing scene in Leeds.

The Back to Basics exhibition will feature a special piece of work, created for the exhibition by Leeds expat Paul Fryer. While doing some research into Paul's work and his relationship to Leeds, we stumbled upon this gem of a video from The Kit Kat Club, which spawned the legendary Vague. To quote the video description:

"The Kit Kat Club, filmed in 1992 on 16mm. It was assembled with a selection of tracks that the lucky members of the club might well have heard at the time. The KKC was created by Paul Fryer and Suzy Mason as an antidote to the impersonal and often malevolent night clubs that were the grotty and uninspiring norm at that time, and was brought into being by them in association with Peter Master and the late Paul Lamont. The KKC had a cigarette girl, a cage, blue cocktails and cheap champagne, a variety act most weeks, a cage for dancing in and some very glamorous and funny clientele. The club later transmogrified into the legendary Leeds mixed club vague, who's history is a little better documented. I hope you enjoy this little piece of club history, with my Best Wishes, Paul Fryer (thanks Howard Storey for finding the footage, this short was created from rushes of the Cud video Purple Love Balloon, which was filmed in the KKC and directed by Chris Madden and produced by Steve Shone.)"

We have much more coming on Back to Basics and Paul Fryer in the next couple of weeks as the exhibition begins proper!

The Hebe Week In Pics

Happy birthday to Lee, 30 tomorrow :) We love ya!Amazing Out Of The Woods hamper, a gift from Commer House. We will miss you!Leeds In Barcelona mascot Deaks helps us move officeShang Ting strains herself helping to move boxesSweet.Team Hebe catch up with Kay Brown and talk filmOld school library!Stacey getting her pose on!Photos from Bodyline, LeedsFashion Designer and our homie James Steward @ TrinityFinish the WIP with a bit of Christmas, Choir singing in The Light, Leeds