The Hands That Make The Paper

Photo Credits: Sian Jarvis / Matt Baxter

In August 2012 No-TiTLE Magazine turned 6 years old. The magazine is very much volunteer run and the Leeds-based zine have decided to showcase their volunteers’ skills by presenting an exhibition of their work at Dock Street Market.

The images feature a selection of local artists and bands including The Cribs, Pulled Apart by Horses and Sam Airey. Following the launch of the exhibition we asked The Boss, Nadine Cuddy some questions about the zine and exhibition:

In the latest edition you mention about the great people helping you put the magazine together and making the process worthwhile, how can people contribute to No-TiTLE?

We have so many areas that volunteers can be involved in from Writing, Photography, Illustration, Proofing and Editing and they can contribute as little or as much as they want.
The No-TiTLE Website has lots of information on how to volunteer in the certain areas, people can have a read and just drop us an email if they are interested.

The images in the exhibition are supported by a variety of local businesses, how did you select the organisations you’ve got involved?

We obviously wanted to approach business that are involved in the Leeds Music Scene so we put forward a package in the hope that some of them would say yes. Some of the sponsors were already avid supporters of the magazine and were happy to be involved from word go which was amazing.

You must have had quite a lot of images to choose from, how did you whittle it down to those we see in the exhibition?

It was so hard deciding what to include as so many of the images were so good, but I think it made it slightly easier as we didn’t have some of the original files for some of the images so it lowered the numbers somewhat. It was really amazing going through all the old issues and seeing how many people have contributed throughout the years, I felt really overwhelmed.

Which magazines do you read, if any?

When I do get time which isn’t often I like to catch up on the local zine’s that are around. I’m a big fan of Vibrations and The Rhubarb Bomb and I’m also am a bit of a sucker for the national zine Vice.

How do you think that the local music scene will be impacted by the opening of the arena next year?

To be honest I don’t really think it will have an impact on the local music scene. One bonus is we no longer have to travel to other cities to watch bigger acts because hopefully they will all visit Leeds.

The exhibition runs until Sunday 28th October and admission is free.