About me:
Uplift! is an alternative women's magazine. We're not one of those women's glossies that advocates the starvation tips of top models and tells you how to copy the look of some Z-lister...Instead, Uplift! offers intelligent views, questions the media around us, promotes creativity and is full of gorgeous art!
Uplift! started life as a gorgeously colourful 24 page printed publication, with a super 21cm square size. You can still buy this version from our current website - www.upliftmagazine.com. However, stay tuned for the new launch of Uplift! online, with all the same fabulous writing and beautiful imagery of old...but free, constantly updated and more interactive! The new online Uplift! magazine will be found at the same web address so keep an eye out!
Who I'd like to meet: Intelligent women who want to be shown a good time!
Women who are seeking an alternative to the crap magazines that are aimed at them and yet don't speak to them. Anyone looking for a satisfying read and beautiful imagery.
People who would like to get involved in Issue Two;
Writers, photographers, illustrators...Creative people in need of an outlet...People who may not feel confident in their creativity, but who have somthing to say!
Visit our message board and discuss the topics raised in issue one. Just click down here!
Hi friends at Uplift! Thanks so much for your friendship & support! I just wanted to let you know that my new e.p. “Paper Box” is available now on itunes. Drop me a line and let me know how you’re doing! Visit http://www.tunecore.com/music/gayleskidmore for a link to my itunes site. Cheers! Gayle Skidmore
...for Monday night sees the return of Rae Spoon to Leeds for the first time since Ladyfest back in April. Join us for a night inspired by Woody Guthrie, King Lear and burning down the gay scene, at a Common Place made cosy against the dark November night. Come down, choose a cushion and curl up and let Rae soothe you with his perfect sweet-sad prairie songs.
Rae will be supported by Ste McCabe our brand new favourite punkpop pisstaker: "A one man Buzzcocks, only more gay and more pissed off." and Ian Cockburn & the Whole World the Seven Inches frontman's anti-solo project, with songs of lost optimism and Pembrokeshire.
Rae Spoon is a young artist who proudly follows in the time-honored tradition of the singers he respects. Armed with influences such as Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams, he continues to mine the territory that lays between reverence for the greats and his own original perspective and voice. Rae’s cowboy-folk twang and prairie imagery is borne out of his history as an Albertan and his lyrics stem from his own unique life experience as a person who is transgendered (born female now identifies as male). Constant touring (mostly on the greyhound) with just a banjo and a guitar has also added to the depth of his storytelling.
