Tiny Dancing

Close-Up MasterChef Volume 2

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:54:00 +0000

Avery Hill Publishing are in a veritable stew of aromatic emotion as they announce the publication of David White's Close-Up MasterChef Volume 2, a magnified photographic documentation of MasterChef: The Professionals series five.

Just as the fifth exploration of televisually tough cooking on a professional level made history by resulting in joint winners for the first time, so Close-Up MasterChef Volume 2 also marks it's place in the annals of time by being printed in A4 size. Twice as big. Twice as close.

AND AS A SUPER SPECIAL LIMITED SPECIAL LAUNCH OFFER, THERE'S FREE SHIPPING WHEN BOUGHT WITH SOMETHING ELSE FROM THE AVERY HILL SHOP! IT'S A PROPER BARGAIN!

Close-Up MasterChef Volume 2 is limited to a first print of 50 copies, with each copy individually numbered, and features 24 black and white A4 pages - get it here:

CLOSE-UP MASTERCHEF VOLUME 2

Tiny Dancing - Issue 8

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:06:00 +0000

If I were to list the reasons why it's taken a loooong while for Tiny Dancing Issue 8 to appear, it would be boring. Real life, job related, boring. So please forgive me if I do not do that. Instead, I will tell you about the things that are not boring. These are the things that are in Tiny Dancing Issue 8.

Kicking off the massively unboring, we have a trio of illustrative debuts from a trio of gentlemen whose work I absolutely love. To say I'm delighted to have them all grace this issue would be a true thing.

The first of the heady trio is Rob Jones. I got in touch with Rob ages ago to see if he wanted to do something for issue 8, and he sent me his contribution back almost straight away. I've had it for ages, and it got to the point where it almost felt like a crime not to get it out into the world. I find it quite difficult to describe Rob's style, in fact I'm not sure I have it in me to do it justice, and that is a very good thing indeed. Have a look at his website to see what I mean. Or don't mean.

The next of the trio is Simon Moreton, who has contributed two pages of beautiful, individual introspection. Those who are familiar with Simon's work, not least in his outstanding self-published series Smoo, will know exactly what he's capable of, but Simon achieves more in two sets of four panels here than many creators achieve in pages and pages and pages and pages and pages. Smoo Issue 6 is on pre-order now, and you after you buy Tiny Dancing Issue 8, you should order Smoo 6. I have.

The final of the three is Owen D. Pomery. When I asked Owen if he wanted to do something for this issue, I was maybe expecting something along the lines of his architectural work, if not his comics work. I didn't expect what Owen sent in, and it is to my eternal joy that I didn't. I don't want to go into too much detail for fear of spoiling it - buy you'll see from the photo below that Owen's maintained his amazing, intricate line style. Just not in a way I'd seen before. Monkeys. There, I said it. Owen is working on a new project at the moment, bringing to life The Megatherium Club, which is very exciting indeed, not least for the possibility of some sequentially rendered taxidermy.

But there is more new! Steve Gregory has given us a short story about butterflies, which is kind of about butterflies, but probably isn't it. It'll make sense when you read it. Steve packs more into one idea than you'll find in thousands of words in any newspaper, or editorial or commentary, and it's surely time to hear more from him. And accompanying Steve's story is a wonderfully complimentary illustration from Rebecca Strickson, which is no more amazing than we've come to expect from her. Take a sneaky peek below.

And to counterbalance the new, we have contributions from Tiny Dancing favourites Megan Ancliffe, who has completely sussed out the future of academic furtherance (it will be based in Tilbury, obviously), and we find out what happens when Tim Bird thinks about something really hard - this time, teeth. And to round the issue out, there's a new short story from David White about a man called Toby Banoobe, and one or two other little bits that may or may not feature Kenny Everett.

But but but - that is not all! To keep your Tiny Dancing Issue 8 nice and uncrumpled and clean, it comes in a super special handmade fabric pocket, complete with name tag! Rebecca Strickson is making these for us, and they'll all be different, whether it be design, fabric, or sheer emotional content. She's currently making them out of cotton velvet. Nice.

So, Tiny Dancing Issue 8 - 40 pages of wonderful, with a colour card cover, that handmade unique protective fabric pocket, and a guaranteed release from the drudgery of real life, all for a bargain price of £2.50! I don't know how we do it! (I actually don't know how we've done it, I've still got to do all the adding up).

Get it from the Avery Hill Publishing online boutique, which you can find here.

Close Up Masterchef - Volume One

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:40:00 +0000

If, like me, you are a connoisseur of the finer things in life, your switches will be flicked by the following itemised listing:

1 - cooking approaching a professional standard
2 - human drama at its most intense
3 - witty repartee that would make Noel Coward blush

If you remain unaroused by these things, then I pity you. But if your cultural antennae is now twitching like a rabbit's nostril, may I introduce to you 'Close Up Masterchef Volume One' - a magnified, photographic documentary of the eighth series of Masterchef (not counting the Loyd Grossman years, of course).

Whilst I've been a fan of Masterchef for some years now, early on in this series I felt a provocation I'd never experienced before - although the dropping of the auditions round initially felt like a mistake, it quickly became apparent that the quality of what was on offer before me was at an all time high. Like a prima ballerina or virtuoso pianist, confidence seemed to flow from the very pores of all involved - I knew this was a different level of televised episodic competitive challenge based cooking. And so I felt compelled to document. To record. To celebrate.

After some searching for the most appropriate method of capturing the sights, the sounds, the smells of Gregg, John, Shelina, Aki et al in action (including but not limited to interpretive dance, slam poetry and animal puppetry), I settled on close up photography. It seems obvious now, but by my troth, many a pained evening was spent trying to express myself appropriately. Many a dark, lonely, pained evening...

And now I offer the fruits of my labour to you, my fellow connoisseur.

I would not be uttering a mistruth if I were to tell you that I captured literally hundreds of images across the fifteen episodes of series eight, but that kind of indulgence simply would not do. As anyone who knows anything about cooking will tell you, it does not do to gorge oneself. So I present a distillation of the very essence of the toughest cooking competition the known universe has ever seen. A photographic jus, if you will.

I present Close Up Masterchef Volume One. Bon appetit.

Get your copy of Close Up Masterchef Volume One from the Avery Hill Publishing Online Shop - it's here!

Tiny Dancing - Issue 7 (Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 11:53:00 +0000

Cast your mind back, dear reader, to the days of the dim and distant past. To a time of civil unrest, political skulduggery, and international warmongering. To a time of uncertainty, despair, and anger. To a time when you couldn’t be sure that one day would follow another, and so lived every moment as if it were your last. Yes, dear reader. I speak of August 2011, when the last issue of Tiny Dancing made itself known unto this world of tumult. So much has happened since then. So much has come to pass...

But one thing happened of such import that the foundations of the very internet were ever so slightly wobbled. I shall remind you of this one thing – the comics left Tiny Dancing. You remember this, because I told you.

And now here we are. Older. Wiser. Bigger. And we are comic-less. What does this mean? What could this possibly mean?

It means that like Crazy Mel at the start of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, a familiar yet strange figure is emerging from the smokes of the apocalyptic wasteland (well, Dartford – it’s a sad tale) to set the story straight. It means that Tiny Dancing 7 is here.
And we have so much to tell you.

Let us start with the basics, in bullet point format:

- 44 pages of captivation! More than ever before!
- Risograph printed on 100% Recycled Cyclus Offset paper stock! We’ve gone sustainable!
- Full colour cover! Beautiful and pretty!

The basics, then, fully covered. But what is contained within the plentiful, socially responsible, beautiful and pretty pages?

Well, we have a trio of illustrative debuts – firstly from Soju Tanaka, contributing two new, wonderful pieces. Soju has an exhibition in Japan over the next couple of weeks, and whilst I won’t be able to get there (living in London and that), if you find yourself over that way you must surely go and see it.

Edward Ward is a man who knows about the finer things in life – specifically Tom Selleck, David Bowie and birds of prey. It was only natural then, that he should bring them altogether in something that will make me happy forever. Check Edward’s blog on a regular basis, because it will make your world a better place.

And the final member of our trio is Lawrence Williams, who has given us some beautiful new work – I’m particularly chuffed that Lawrence agreed to contribute, as it was his zine that inspired me to start out on this crazy journey we call self-publishing, so it feels like some kind of full circle, self fulfilling… thing. You know? You know.

We’re overjoyed to welcome Tom Quinn back to our pages with a short story that only he could write (right), and equally overjoyed to be able to feature a new story from Germany’s favourite son Ulrich Haarburste. Ulrich of course needs no introduction, but it’s always worth being reminded of his seminal debut book.

But it’s not all about the new, we’re apoplectic with happiness at the returns of Megan Ancliffe detailing her ‘Open City’, the view from Steve Horry’s window, the latest ‘Tiny In Our Time’ from Michael Gosden and Ricky Miller (this time – Astronomy and Empire, and Lord Bragg on a bench with Captain Cook, of course), oh, and one more new – Spaceship Earth’s Free House Project, destroying the property bubble in one fell swoop.

So after all that, you want one, yes? Well friend, you need just mosey over to the all-new, all-shiny Avery Hill Publishing Shop, where you can pick up a copy without having to negotiate the traditional chaos of the shonky PayPal stuff I used to get so wrong. That’s the smell of progress. This is where the shop is:

The Avery Hill Publishing Online Shopping Experience

And so, it is time for us to part ways once again. To flog the Mad Max metaphor to death, we’ve taken on the crazy future punks, we’ve driven a massive lorry full of petrol around a desert, and we’ve come through the other side. Next time – Tina Turner in a brilliant wig. Can’t wait.

The Life Of Hadley

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:48:00 +0000

Another Tiny Dancing Christmas!

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:13:00 +0000

There are two thing we like at Tiny Dancing; art and Christmas. We get art all the long year around - that's just the type of people we are - but Christmas, that's a different story. And we don't necessarily mean the one about the little fella in the manger with the cows.

Yes, we like Christmas very much, and have done ever since we got the Millennium Falcon as our main present in 1982. It's kind of been a bit downhill from there in all honesty, but it was a very high peak, and we're optimistic sorts.

So it's armed with that warm, gooey feeling that we bring to you our Christmas Offers. Just to break that down a bit, that's 'offers' that are exclusively related to 'Christmas', that involve us presenting you with the gift of value. Warm, gooey value.

'What are these offers?' the children cried. 'Why, they are thus!' replied the newly repentant Scrooge.

TINY DANCING CHRISTMAS OFFER NO. 1: Three Tiny Dancing's for the Price of Two!

That's right, until the end of December you can get issues 4, 5 and 6 of Tiny Dancing for only Four English Pounds! Now, stop for a moment - consider what that feeling is... that's right, it's warm, gooey value dripping down your chin. Enjoy it. You deserve it. And enjoy this special Tiny Dancing Christmas Offer No. 1 promotional image as well. The PayPal button works the magic.

OFFER EXHAUSTED

But that's not all! There is more! This is the more!

TINY DANCING CHRISTMAS OFFER NO. 2: A Free TYTHCV1 with every Reads Issue 1!

Now, some lucky souls have already been on the receiving end of this particular offer, and the feedback has been... I'd like to say overwhelming, so I'm going to - overwhelming. Until the end of December, everyone who buys a copy of Reads Issue 1 gets a completely and utterly free copy of The Young Tony Hadley Chronicles Vol. 1. It just gets put in the envelope. Just like that. You get it. You read it. You ask some pretty searching questions. Christmas is saved. Arty TYTHCV1 photo now.

OFFER EXHAUSTED

And with that we are spent. Our sack is empty, our cupboards bare. But we have a warm, gooey feeling about our person, and that's enough for us. Merry Christmas, one and all!

Reads - Issue 1 (Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:32:00 +0000

Despite the best efforts of all involved, the return from Leeds was made with minds, bodies and souls mostly intact. Thought Bubble was excellent fun, and damned inspirational to boot. What more could we ask for? Erasure being played as requested on the Saturday night, that’s what, but then we are very difficult to please…

So we begrudgingly return to the real world. We playfully teased you last week with a mention of Reads Issue 1, the new home of all things comic-like in the world that was and will once more be Tiny Dancing. Now we are coy no more. It is time to let it all hang out.

We showed you the wraparound cover, dreamt up in a fever by Ricky Miller and realised in a storm by Rebecca Strickson, and we told you it was amazing. But we were wrong. It’s also great – and how do we know this? Because Jock told us, that’s how. A wise as well as very nice man - we suspected as much. Here it is again, because it really is amazingly great.

But what else is there? Well as this is a first issue we thought we’d give you a bit of hot value. That explains the 48 pages (48!) that contain the next instalments of Ricky and Steve Horry’s dinosaur infested Hilary Harper expedition, Tim Bird’s beautiful musings on youth in suburbia, Michael Gosden’s first glimpse of the fate that awaits Shelby Matthews (I even helped a bit with that one), and Ricky rounding things off with the final pieces of the Metroland puzzle he's been putting in place in order to introduce the band. Here are some temptingly arty photos of all that:

I’m really not being a mental when I assure you that everyone involved has produced their best work, and that for the bargain price of £3.00 you will be owning something that we really are rather proud of. Get your hands on a copy by doing the Paypals below, or by sending me an email to work out what we call in these parts a ‘solution’. It’s what we’re all about. Unless we’re in a casino in Leeds at 4am, when we’ve got to be up in about four hours to try and be retail professionals for an entire day. That one we still need to put some work into.

THE AVERY HILL PUBLISHING SHOP!

EDIT: We think we've worked out the problem some people have been having with the PayPal link. It's all a bit fingers crossed, but we believe it had something to do with 'masking' - that could be a technical term, or we could have made it up - that's the level of competence you're dealing with here.

So, if you can't get the PayPal button above to work go here and use the PayPal button on that page - it'll look exactly the same, but it should work.

If you're still not having any joy with the PayPal after trying that, send me an email at
dancer@tinydancing.co.uk, and we'll sort out another way of transacting. We won't let the machines beat us. Oh no.

ANOTHER EDIT: Or, get yourself down to Orbital Comics, because we've finally got our act together and got them stocked up with some hot copies, just in time for Christmas. Whilst there, check out the Solipsistic Pop exhibition, and Ryan Hall's Mr Freeze Takes Over Christmas and be amazed and inspired in equal measure.

NEW! NEW! NEW!

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:37:00 +0000

And lo, they did say that after the calm did come the storms and that. And they were very, very right indeed.

We've been a bit quiet lately. If you've seen me walking down the street, I may have nodded and serenely smiled, perhaps even proffered a cheeky wink, but deep inside I was a tumultuous whirlwind of new. 'New what?', you may well ask. 'New this!' is my response.

THE FIRST NEW - following a meeting in a pub a little while ago (yes, we have meetings - sometimes we even have an agenda), we decided it was time to relieve the pressure building on Tiny Dancing's dainty seams. It couldn't take it anymore. Something was going to blow. So we opened the little pressure relieving tap and what did spew forth? The comics did. The comics did spew forth. We took that as a sign, and if you know anything about us at all, you know we like a good sign.

So we took the comics, and we cared for them, and we gave them a new home. That home is called Reads. Here is the cover image for Reads Issue 1, by Rebecca Strickson. It is amazing.

Reads Issue 1 will be born this Thursday. From that point forthwards, Reads will be the receptacle of the amazing comics from the likes of Tim Bird, Michael Gosden, Steven Horry, Ricky Miller and more that you've seen in Tiny Dancing, and will put them together in a beautiful place where they will live side by side and make you happy. Happiness is a good thing.

And fear not - Tiny Dancing will live on, and will blossom into an even more fulsome creature, with all the same creative wonders that we had before, but with more room for more of them wonders. Tiny Dancing Issue 7 will be out by the end of the year with a bit of luck, and it's already shaping up to be a bit special.

THE SECOND NEW - with Reads spewing forth from Tiny Dancing, it looks to me like we have something of a publishing empire on our hands. And if you know anything about us at all, you know we like a good publishing empire. So following a different meeting in the same pub, we decided it was time to make all this a bit official. Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you - Avery Hill Publishing. We've got a logo. This is it.

Reads Issue 1 will be the first Avery Hill publication, Tiny Dancing Issue 7 will be the second, but the third... well, that's where we get a bit dreamy. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I've said too much. Let us speak of this another day...

THE THIRD NEW - for the first time, this weekend we're going on a journey. Against all common sense and expert advice we're getting on a train armed with boxes of our wares, and we're going to 'Leeds' for the Thought Bubble Festival. We have a table. We have a backboard. We have to summon up enough energy to man said table for two days. This is still very exciting though.

All the information on Thought Bubble is here. It looks likely to be something of a weekend with lots of special guests, talks, signings, and... us. We're on Table E in Saviles Hall if you want to look us up. We'll be the chaps who look like they haven't got a clue what's going on. Speak softly and soothingly when you first approach us. We find that works the best.

That was the new. I feel a lot better now.

The Return of The Tiny Dancing Podcast

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:42:00 +0000

Back in the dim and distant days of Tiny Dancing, when we didn't really exist and were not people of art, we used to talk about stuff and then make that talking available for people to listen to, if they were that way inclined. You know the type.

Then we stopped doing that, didn't do anything at all for a bit, then started doing Tiny Dancing as a venerable publication of the great and the good, which you know about because we tell you about it often enough.

But we'd stopped talking, and if there's one thing we at Tiny Dancing like more than beautiful illustration, writing, comics and other stuff, it's talking. So we've started again.

We're calling this talking 'Issue 6', because it seemed topical and because we read an article about selling stuff on the interweb, and it said it was a good idea. We talk about what we've got in Issue 6 (topical), what other people have got in Issue 6 (topical), and round things off with an interview with Steven Horry - the man, the life, the art. All in all, the two magic words. Added. Value. Right click.

The Tiny Dancing Podcast - Issue 6

Tiny Dancing - Issue 6 (Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:46:00 +0000

It took 5 months. It didn't need to, but it did. I blame the ills of society, but what can you do? Get on Tiny Dancing Issue 6, that's what!

But filling in for the vacuity of Big Dave's Big Plan isn't the only reason why you should get involved. Let's start with the cover, by Becky Strickson. Not only is it a wonder in itself, as you can see, but it's also the first of our covers that has the potential to offend Tom Cruise. It is also exciting to touch. Now that's what a front cover is all about.

We've got the return of Hilary Harper by Steven Horry (spoilers etc etc etc), this time collaborating with Ricky Miller, who himself adds another layer to the ongoing mystery of Metroland.

H.B. provides us with the most insightful and apt comment on the entire hacking debacle I've yet to see, which in itself renders any need for further pondering by Committee completely redundant. It's brilliant.

As is the first Tiny Dancing outing from Tim Bird, a man who walks the city with his head held high, as we scurry around with our blinkers on. You need to keep an eye on Tim's website - he's a goddamn creative machine I tells you.

Rounding out the newcomers is Marianne Da Costa, who gives us a beautifully evocative piece of writing, accentuated by a return to biro love from the aforementioned Miss Strickson. We love Marianne, and we love her writing. We want her to do more.

Emma Hammond makes a welcome return to our pages, with an erotic re-imagining of Lucy's discovery of Narnia. This one gave a few of the Tiny Dancing regulars a bit of a flush, but not your erstwhile, worldly-wise Editor - on no. And we need to mention that Emma's contribution coincides with her work on The Dream Of The Fisherman's Wife, an anthology of work based on the theme of erotic mythology - find out more here.

Megan Ancliffe shows us how ancient science can achieve the impossible (make Queen's Park both interesting and beautiful), whilst Michael Gosden embarks on what looks to be an epic tale of animism, pharmaceuticals and suspense (that's what he tells us, anyway).

And closing out the issue, Ricky and Michael combine on an attempt to understand imaginary numbers with a helping hand from Melvyn Bragg, whilst I make sure the edges are full with all killer, no filler.

In conclusion, we think this is the best issue we've put together so far, so there's absolutely no reason we can think of why you shouldn't buy it. Well, there might be one or two, but kiddies could be reading this, so let's keep it clean.

Techno-money is sendable via the Paypal below, but you can get a copy from us in person (Ricky, Steven, Michael and Becky have all been stocked up and sent forth into the world), there should be some in the usual outlets in the not too distant future, and we're also manning a stall at the Wonder Hill Market next Saturday the 27th of August, more of which will be revealed later. And if none of those take your fancy, drop us an email and we'll sort something out.

EDIT: You can now get Issue 6 and The Young Tony Hadley Chronicles Vol. 1 from Extra Bones, a new zone created by Andrew Kerr within the walls of Utrophia, at 120 Deptford High Street. It's a shop, a trading post, a collection display and an HQ for side projects, related and un-related to the main Utrophia project. It's full of wonders and delights, so make sure you take your purse with you for you will need it, and it's open on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

ANOTHER EDIT: Orbital Comics, London's very finest comics emporium, is now all stocked up with Issue 6's! Have a peruse through their small press racks and you'll find us in fine company.

THE AVERY HILL PUBLISHING SHOP!

So, yes. Issue 6. Finally.

The Young Tony Hadley Chronicles - Volume One (Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:09:00 +0000

Of course, this had to happen. The wave of almost fervent indifference following our threat to make some actual real copies of The Young Tony Hadley Chronicles - Volume 1, was palpable. And when our public speaks with one voice, we, your servants, must surely listen. So, here for the holding in your real hand, the looking at, and the reading of, is possibly the peak of my creative career so far. And that's saying something.

In a bid to stir up what will doubtless be a consuming frenzy to get your hands on one of these little beauties, I thought I'd casually drop in that there's a limited number of just fifty available. And no more will ever be made. Unless they go really well, then we'll print shitloads, and try and hawk them everywhere. But you? You will have been there at the start.

Oh, and did I mention the exclusive content, that will never been available anywhere else? I'm sorry, I've gone too far, let us pretend I never spoke of it...

Paypal, come and find me and thrust a pound coin in my sweaty palm, barter a chicken egg - the usual:

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Tiny Dancing - Issue 5 (Not Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:29:00 +0000

There are three simple reasons why it's taken sooooo long to get the downloadable version of Issue 5 up for your clicking on. These can be summarised as follows:

1 - I am easily distracted. Things that have distracted me recently include my cat, Game of Thrones, Football Manager on the iPhone and Duncan The Wonderdog Show One. And that's possibly in the last week.

2 - The company who we use for our web-hosting-type-stuff being a bunch of fuckwits, and taking a month to sort out something which didn't need to be changed in the first place. They gave us some money back, but still.

3 - Volume 2 of the Tiny Dancing Audio Library, which accompanies Issue 5, being a total ballhang to turn from twenty-odd individual files into one that you can download all easily. So much of a ballhang in fact, that I've still not finished it. I may have not even started. Like I say - easily distracted.

But rather than find other things to do than sit moving little tracks round in Logic all day, here is the electronicalled version of Tiny Dancing Issue 5, with Volume 2 of the Audio Library to follow shortly. Probably. Actually, now X-Factor has started again, I wouldn't hold your breath.

Tiny Dancing - Issue 5 (Not Real Version)

Tiny Dancing - Issue 4 (Not Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:29:00 +0000

I am built for heat. Anyone who knows me knows that I am built for heat. But even then on a day such as this, when weather forecasters have to look up what we call it when temperatures get above twenty-nine degrees (start at 'thirty' chaps, and work your way up from there), I have made some classic errors.

Firstly, I've started watching a new television series that is rather good, and have powered through the first four episodes without as much as mopping my brow with a moist wipe. Answers on a postcard as to what that series might be. And that's not a trick question.

Secondly, I've decided to make a curry, so I can use up the chicken that's in the fridge. It was on it's sell by date and was possibly smelling the wrong side of keen, but I'm arsed if I'm going round the shops again. I've get six more episodes to go, and no time to waste.

And as they say, these things come in threes - so to fall in with that I've decided to hoist the non-touch version of Tiny Dancing Issue 4 up the futureweb flagpole for all to see for miles around, along with the first instalment of the Tiny Dancing Audio Library, which of course came free with the please-touch version - the ever mysteriously titled (not really) 'Journeys'. This is of course the most opportune of timings, because no doubt everyone is indoors this evening squinting at a laptop screen and trying not to splash rogan josh over the keyboard, primed to receive such an offering. Just like me.

So here you go, you little culture vultures - stop your circling and start your... downloading. Got away from me at the end there.

Tiny Dancing - Issue 4 (Not Real Version)

Tiny Dancing Audio Library - Volume 1 - Journeys

The Young Tony Hadley Chronicles - Volume One (Not Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:59:00 +0000

After what will be included in promotions textbooks in years to come as the very model of a teaser campaign - a single post on Facebook and a Tweet that didn't upload the image properly - it is time! Yes! It's the downloadable The Young Tony Hadley Chronicles - Volume One!

Not only does it collect together the first five TYTHC's from Tiny Dancing's 4 and 5 (in one clean, tidy, consecutively paginated place!), it also contains three (three!) exclusive new TYTHC's that will never be seen anywhere else ever, AND some exciting facts about our hero gleaned from 'intensive research' (which might just be having a quick look at the biography on his website)! And it's all free! (Just an aside here, this post will also be included in promotions textbooks in years to come as an example of best in class usage of exclamation marks to generate enthusiasm!)!

I may get some of these printed up at some point in the future, but for the time being - enjoy Tony Hadley on your computer screens please.

The Young Tony Hadley Chronicles - Volume One

Wallace Faces

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:58:00 +0000

Some paintings of faces pulled by Gregg Wallace during Masterchef 2011.

Dazed Live Zine Exhibition curated by Jotta

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:49:00 +0000

jotta: Absolut London from jotta on Vimeo.

We told you ALL through the medium of 'social networking' that Tiny Dancing was taking part in the jotta curated zine exhibition as part of the Dazed Live weekend t'other week, and if you look very carefully at the video above, you might be able to see issues 3, 4 and 5 minding their own business in the corner somewhere, like content, well behaved puppies. You see, we were being truthful.

It was a rare honour for our modest publication to be in the company of such luminaries as Sniffin' Glue, Vile, and Chainsaw, and we trust that you took the unique opportunity to peruse such a historic collection of self publication and human evolution.

Aside from curating outstanding exhibits, jotta also continually illuminate and elucidate so much that is good and arty, so bookmark, sign up, stalk etc. etc. as is only right and proper in this day and age.

Here are some more photos from the exhibition, all by Dan Price.

Tiny Dancing - Issue 5 (Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:36:00 +0000

Finally! Finally, issue 5 is here (well, it was kind of here at the London Comic and Small Press Expo the other week, but let us not get hung up on the mereness of details, hmm?)!

Just as the long, cold winter seems to have been thwarted, we present to you good peoples another ray of printed sunshine with which to coax the shoots of growth from the gradually defrosting earth of inspiration. Yeah, that one kind of got away from me a little bit.

To shake the sleep away from your moley hibernated eyeballs (I'm going with it) we have wonders such as an astonishing front cover and Beefheart tribute from H.B., new instalments of Metroland and Hilary Harper from Ricky Miller and Steve Horry respectively (which if you ask me might just be their best work yet), a look inside the workings of The Park from Michael Gosden, further glimpses into the gifted minds and worlds of Rebecca Strickson, Megan Ancliffe and Joe Morris, and to top it all off, we're delighted to welcome aboard Leila Southgate and her paintbrush for the first time.

Slap Volume 2 of the Tiny Dancing Audio Library on the back (free sound!), mix in more Young Tony Hadley Chronicles, and finally add in a doff of our caps to the work of Derek Griffiths and Bobby George, and there you have it - issue 5 in all it's "glory".

So, you want one? You do? Splendid! That'll be two pounds please. This is how we do it:

1 - Firstly, we have the Paypal. Now, I only set this up once every three months when we have a new issue, and in that time I always forget how to do it. So there's a distinct possibility I've done it wrong, and it won't work. Let us know if it doesn't work, basically.

THE AVERY HILL PUBLISHING SHOP!

2 - Then, we have the sending of cold, hard cash. If you're up for that, send us suitable funds with a legible note of your address to our "drop house":

Tiny Dancing
12C The Gardens
East Dulwich
London
SE22 9QD

3 - We could do a swap of something. If you want to send us something to swap (and we're thinking other publications and such like, rather than any stuff you've got lying around your house that you don't really want anymore - which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but we're something of hoarders here at Tiny Dancing, and we have no space left to live in), then send it to us at the address as included under payment option no. 2 thank you please.

4 - Find me or one of our mobile vendors, and carry out a personal transaction. This will be easier now the sun is out a bit, and I may leave the house occasionally.

5 - ~~Wait until we get some into the shops that sell them for us. We haven't stocked them up as yet, but we will, so keep an eye on it.~~ UPDATE! There are now some copies of Issue 5 in stock at Orbital Comics! We love Orbital Comics, so when you go there to buy Issue 5, spend some time perusing the other amazing stuff in store like the cabinet full of original M.A.S.K. toys.

And now there are some copies of Issue 5 in stock at Sister Ray as well! We love Sister Ray, so when you go there to buy Issue 5, spend some time perusing their amazing array of music which fuelled an awful lot of our old music blog.

And so that is that. Let us part on the understanding that there are exciting plans afoot in the world of Tiny Dancing which will not only mean issue 6 should be even more of a good thing, but also that other projects are being "initiated" that we can't tell you about yet, just in case it doesn't actually work. Which it will, but just in case. Like I said - "exciting".

Marg? Marg!

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:16:00 +0000

Marg? Marg! is the new book from Rebecca Strickson, regular contributor to Tiny Dancing and all round amazing purveyor of illustration.

It's a small compendium of family sayings, a little tribute to parental wisdom and the universal brilliance of the poking things with a big stick, and is really rather special. We suggest you brighten up your day, and order your copy from Rebecca's online shop without further delay.

We'll also have some copies to sell on our table at the London Small Press and Comic Expo this Saturday the 12th of March, so that's another reason to come along and see us. In real life. Hmm.

The London Comic and Small Press Expo

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:57:00 +0000

In an unprecedented display of actually doing something, Tiny Dancing will be appearing at the London Comic and Small Press Expo at Goldsmiths University in New Cross on Saturday the 12th of March. We're on table 59. It sounds like a good table.

We've got all kinds of crazy plans afoot for our first ever outing at such a thing, and although we've had to shelve the midget rap karaoke (something to do with insurance), we should have other things to be taken away from us for nothing, and there will also the unique opportunity to get your hands on issue 5 a good couple of weeks before anyone else in the world will. If that's not reason enough to come along and see our faces, I'm not sure what you people want anymore...

Have a look at the Expo website for all the stuff that needs to be known and what else is going on, and how to get there and get in and so on - it starts at 10am and goes on until 5pm, so you'll definitely be able to get out of New Cross before night fall.

What FUN.

UPDATE! Here's a photo of our table on the day. Special mentions to the Tiny Dancing sign made by Rebecca Strickson, and the two haunting dog statuettes provided by Khan's Bargain, Peckham.

Tiny Dancing - Issue 3 (Not Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:24:00 +0000

Ah, a new year - a time for new hopes. New dreams. New ambitions...

But not here at Tiny Dancing. Oh no. Here is a bit of the old, in the form of the downloadable electronic not real digitialistic version of Issue 3, which you can now probably not get anywhere since we think they've all possibly been sold. Unless we've lost some somewhere, which is easily achievable. So yes, download this:

Tiny Dancing - Issue 3 (Not Real Version)

The new will of course be coming in a little (couple) while (of months), and until then you can still get your bountiful(!), colourful(!) and soundful(?) copy of Issue 4 all as per the post before this one, which in summary would be Paypal (even thought it props up evil and so on etc etc etc), the post, me, the shops.

Tiny Dancing - Issue 4 (Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:29:00 +0000

What's that? Tiny Dancing Issue 4 is here? Just in time for the yueltide? Oh, thank the Jesu child! And merry Christmas, everyone!

That is correct - with the festive season bearing down on us like an overly large child stuffed to the gills with Guylians, Issue 4 has landed in our metaphorical stocking for your enjoyment in between the eating and the drinking and the feeling slightly gippy. Better than a walnut, and a on a par with a satsuma. Which might possibly be our new tagline.

So what does this most... frosty of issues bring? Wonders we tell you, wonders (in a convenient bullet pointed format):

- a colour cover (magic)!
- 36 pages of joy (voluminous)!
- a compact disc entitled Tiny Dancing Audio Library Vol. 1 (enigmatic)!

But wait - who are the wise men, women and others who have come to present gifts on this night? Why, none other than Megan Ancliffe, Laura Coxeter, Michael Gosden, H.B., Steven Horry, Ricky Miller, Joe Morris, Rebecca Strickson and David White - truly, we are blessed.

So - enough of this mincing under the mistletoe, let us get down to business. Due to the sheer size and colour and free sound you're getting with this one, Issue 4 costs a princely two pounds. It's very much worth it though - of that we are CONFIDENT. And how can you make this Christmas the very best one since you got things you really wanted and not just a multi-pack of Primark pants and/or knickers? Take your pick, my beauties:

1 - The Paypal - it's a thing that works with made up money

THE AVERY HILL PUBLISHING SHOP!

2 - Send me two one pound coins, a ten pence and a twenty pence stuck to a bit of card with your address on to:

Tiny Dancing
12c The Gardens
East Dulwich
London
SE22 9QD

A copy will be dispatched forthwith. As long as the Royal Mail doesn't grind to a halt because they've got a few more letters to deliver of course, I don't know...

3 - Hunt me down like a Christmas turkey, DON'T throttle me, but DO give me two pounds in denominations of your choosing, and I will give you what you are wanting. I won't play hard to get. Haven't got the moves anymore...

And before we go, does anyone remember David Bowie doing the introduction to The Snowman? I bloody didn't.

Tiny Dancing - Issue 3 (Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:08:00 +0000

Ah, the difficult third issue. Difficult for me to get my arse in gear you understand, in no way difficult for the amazing people who have contributed yet more astonishing work for our pleasurings with apparent ease.

In an order of my choosing we have a boggling array of offerings from Megan Ancliffe, Michael Gosden, H.B., Steven Horry, Lovejoy, Ricky Miller, Tom Quinn, Rebecca Strickson and David White - and what's more this time we've enlisted the help of a real printer, so you don't have to put up with my wonky stapling. The pace of the progress is SCARY.

It's one pound again plus the price of a stamp if you need it sent out, which we think is about thirty pence or something. I remember when you could get a stamp for like 15p, and the postie would put it through your door with a cheeky whistle, a kind word and a ruffle of the hair for any scamp who might be in the vicinity... but then there was that thing with the kid with the wig, and it all got a bit upsetting. Oh well.

So how should we get this done - take your pick from this lot:

1 - Paypal - this totally worked last time, with electro-pounds whizzing about all ways. It might just work again...:

THE AVERY HILL PUBLISHING SHOP!

2 - Send me a pound, a ten pence and a twenty pence stuck to a bit of card with your address on to:

Tiny Dancing
12C The Gardens
East Dulwich
London
SE22 9QD

A copy will fly out then forthwith.

3 - Find me, give me a pound, demand I deliver the goods. This one might be the most 'fun'.

And if none of them float your boat, there will be some copies in Sister Ray on Berwick Street in the not too distant future, so with that I think we have our 'bases' truly 'covered'. Wonderful.

Oh, let us know what you think, what you don't think, what you like, that kind of stuff - we love to hear from you, and we do get lonely. Goodbye.

Tiny Dancing - Issue 2 (Not Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:45:00 +0000

Please don't be angry. Please don't be annoyed. Yes, it's taking a little bit longer than expected to sort out Issue 3. And yes, the crushing pressure of our own mortality means that is not a good thing (and it's all my fault to boot).

It's not far off though, and to try and win back a little bit of your patronic favour may we present you with the future-not-real-version of Issue 2, for the downloading thereof.

Now, cards on the table time - there are pros and cons with this particular incarnation. Yes, it's more electronic and less perishable, but it also means the full, seismic impact of the Interactive Future Page is somewhat lost. Swings and roundabouts and that.

So yes - Issue 3 looms on the horizon like a watchful, wary man-child, and may I ask you rest assured that once it gains the confidence and maturity to finally make it's approach towards civilization, it will truly be quite a beauty. And besides, we're all going to live forever aren't we, so we can all handle a bit of a wait I think.

Tiny Dancing - Issue 2 (Not Real Version)

Tiny Dancing - Issue 2 (Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Fri, 07 May 2010 09:58:00 +0000

Tiny Dancing Issue 2 is here!

After three whole months of toil, soul searching, gnashing of teeth and other such similar demonstrations of creative endeavour, issue two of Tiny Dancing is ready. Excellent.

And so we thought with nothing else of national import happening this week, let's push the little bugger out of the nest on the 7th of May to see if it'll fly and soar or crash to earth with a sickening thump and a last, plaintive chirrup. We shall see.

Due to the sheer quality of content, and also because I got a bit excited with one particular feature, we're going to have to ask you to give us one pound for it this time, which covers post and that as well - and when you see what we've got for you, we are CONFIDENT you'll agree a fair transaction has been conducted to the satisfaction of all.

Smoothly sliding over then to what we've got, we have contributions from new friends of Tiny Dancing Emma Hammond, Sam Ely and Megan Ancliffe, as well as the continuing works of Ricky Miller, Steven Horry, Michael Gosden, Rebecca Strickson and me. Amazing.

So, yes, one pound. There are three ways in which you can pay us that we can think of:

1 - Paypal - apparently, if you click on this here button and follow the instructions, magic things will happen. Let us know if it doesn't work, yeah?

SOLD OUT!

2 - Send me a pound stuck to a bit of card with your address on to:

Tiny Dancing
12C The Gardens
East Dulwich
London
SE22 9QD

(Having to trust the postie a bit there - living dangerously and all that).

3 - Give me a pound next time you see me, and make me write down your address somewhere so I can remember to send you a copy. I may even be carrying one around with me for an immediate exchange of goods.

If none of that makes any sense, which is more than possible, you can email me at dancer@tinydancing.co.uk, and with a bit of luck you'll find me in a better place to sort stuff out.

Or, if it all seems a bit complicated, Sister Ray on Berwick Street in London Town are now selling some copies from atop their counter. Easy.

Tiny Dancing - Issue 1 (Not Real Version)

noreply@blogger.com (Tiny Dancer) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:57:00 +0000

With Issue 2 now firmly in the 'being thought about quite a lot' stage, and most of the copies of Issue 1 now in the hands of... someone, we thought it was about time we gave 'it' to you in a computerised version for downloading.

Now we know we said the entire point of our new endeavouring was to give you something that was a real thing, but come now - we are not completely without fingers in the future pie.

And no doubt by now the real life copies out there in the possession of... someone are all dog eared from the relentless thumbing through and reading and that, so it's excellent timing really. Excellent.

So now, marvel at the full 24 pages of stuff that was put together by us for you on your very own computer screen, as we proudly present... the not real version of Tiny Dancing Issue 1. We thank you.

Tiny Dancing - Issue 1 (Not Real Version)