Hugh Frost
Guest Posting 30 November – 04 December 2009
A graduate from the University of Brighton in 2006, Hugh spent a brief spell at American Apparel in LA before returning to London to focus on music under the name Sportsday Megaphone. Having released his debut album, So Many Colours/So Little Time in 2008, he went on to play across the UK as well as in Germany, Holland, France, Sweden and Japan. During the past year Hugh has concentrated more on the design side of things and is currently setting up LANDFILL, a publisher and MANYMONO, a colourful but cheap zine printing service.
What have you got planned this week?
Some fun freelance 3D design, printing some wrapping paper, working on an identity for an opera, a bit of writing for a new musical project, going home for dad’s birthday, reading some Sci-Fi and Ruscha at the Hayward.
What do your parents think you do?
My mum used to be a freelance textile designer and they’re both interested in art and design, so they get what I do.
Who do you look like?
Someone thought Rory McCartney and I were brothers. And Vincent Oliver was sure that Rusty Santos and I ‘had the same face’ but we didn’t think so.
What’s your favourite sense?
Probably Humour. I’m not a particularly witty person, but I do have a huge capacity for silliness.
Tell us something people don’t know about you…
I’m quarter Polish, I’ve never been to a wedding, I love gherkins, I can only type with my index fingers and I don’t know which notes are which on a piano but I’m good at catching grapes in my mouth.
Did your education count?
Yes, for sure, I loved every minute from foundation to graduation. Particularly during the time I spent in Minneapolis on exchange being taught by Santiago Piedrafita. His passion for exploring emerging technology and how it could be exploited as a platform for visual communication was infectious. Another teacher at MCAD had the tongue in cheek motto “If you can’t do it good do it big. If you can’t do it big do it red”.
I often wish I’d paid more attention to music, maths, science and languages whilst at school, but it’s hard to imagine being interested in that sort of thing by choice at that age. I don’t think the potential ‘WOAH!’ factor of a lot of the drier subjects sinks in.
What word can’t you spell?
Bourbegnon (Bourguignon)
Tell us a good fact
In pre sampler-based keyboard days the lush harmonies on 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love” were created by mixing down hours of sustained single note vocals to a 16 track desk and playing the sliders to create chords. FACT.
What’s Next?
Hopefully a mountain of diverse printing and publishing in the new year through LANDFILL / MANYMONO and seeing where this new musical project goes. 2010 sounds so futuristic, how could it fail to be anything less than totally rad?
What’’s your ‘Plan B’?
Back to school? Preferably not as a caretaker.
