Object.

Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not.
Arctic Monkeys

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is the debut album by English band Arctic Monkeys, released on 23 January 2006. The album became the UK's fastest selling debut album, shifting over 360,000 copies in its first week, and remains the fastest selling debut album by a band.It has since gone quadruple platinum in the UK .The album includes both tracks from the band's original EP, Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys, as well as their first two singles and UK Number Ones, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" and "When the Sun Goes Down". It has since appeared in several critics' publications, and is often cited as one of the best rock albums of the 2000s.


My favourite album. You just can't fault it. Alex Turner's way of storytelling is unlike any other. Any man who can throw in montague and capulet in a song and make it work is nothing short of a genuis. The album holds some iconic tunes such as, I bet you look on the dancefloor which became the anthem of nightclubs across the country. Even the riffs on the album were shouted back to the band.

The common thematic content of Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not has led to it being considered by some a concept album concerning "the lives of young Northern England clubbers". All tracks record first-person narratives of observations made within this context. "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor", "Still Take You Home", "You Probably Couldn't See For The Lights But You Were Staring Straight At Me" and "Dancing Shoes" all examine human behaviour in nightclubs. Alex Turner describes "Dancing Shoes" as being about "people always looking to pull when they go out however much they mask it." Other songs examine other aspects of nightlife; "From The Ritz To The Rubble" is an account of nightclub bouncers, while "When The Sun Goes Down" was inspired by prostitutes in the locality of their practice room in the Neepsend district of Sheffield. Other songs are themed on romantic relationships, such as "Mardy Bum", or youth subcultures, such as "Fake Tales of San Francisco" and "A Certain Romance". In NME's list of top 100 tracks of the decade, "A Certain Romance" was described as "a strangely even-handed song which starts out scorning local townies then appears to absolve them at the end of the song.

What I love about this album is how amature it is. That sounds like a negative thing to say about the debut album of my favourite band but I stick by it. They were still very much in their early stages and had only been playing their instruments for a few years. Let's not forget their ages the time of recording the album They were 19-21. Unlike many successfull bands, they prefered not to sing in a false american accent choosing to embrace their thick Yorkshire twang.  The album as won the band many awards

Awards5th greatest British album – NME, January 2006
Best Album – Q Awards, October 2006
Album of the Year – NME [1]
Album of the Year – Crossbeat Magazine (Japan), December 2006
Album of the Year – Time Magazine, www.time.com/time/topten/2006/albums/01.html December 2006[dead link]
Album of the Year – Hot Press Magazine (Ireland), December 2006
Best International Album – Meteor Music Awards (Ireland), February 2007
Best British Album – 2007 BRIT Awards, February 2007
Best British Group – 2007 BRIT Awards, February 2007
In 2009 the album was voted the 9th greatest album ever by MTV from an online poll voted for by fans/



NME REVIEW 10/10

It’s hardly surprising that the first words to tumble out of Alex Turner’s mouth on this record are “Anticipation has a habit to set you up/For disappointment”. I mean, can you imagine how it feels to be in Arctic Monkeys right now? Great, obviously, seeing as they’ve filled the gutter-rock gap left behind by the imploding Libertines, gatecrashed the proper pop charts with their debut single and been declared Our Generation’s Most Important Band™. But you’ve kinda got to feel for them. They’ve only released one proper single and the world awaits excitedly for the greatest album since God plugged in his Fender and started jamming with Joe Strummer. What’s more, these boys have got an instant handicap. Loads of us have already heard half these tracks from the internet demos which helped build their fanbase. The tidier production here fails to add any more life to those snarling versions (although any more life and they’d have escaped from the case and gone joyriding around Shire Green).


But that’s enough doom-mongering. After a while the hype and expectation is going to fade away and, when it does, all you can really judge Arctic Monkeys on is their haircuts. Sorry, I meant their music. And even if you’ve been fortunate enough to live with these tracks over the last year or so, they still sound more vital, more likely to make you form your own band than anything else out there.


Essentially this is a stripped-down, punk rock record with every touchstone of Great British Music covered: The Britishness of The Kinks, the melodic nous of The Beatles, the sneer of Sex Pistols, the wit of The Smiths, the groove of The Stone Roses, the anthems of Oasis, the clatter of The Libertines…


Of course, the Monkeys actually spent their teens listening to hip-hop. But where that really shows is in the lyrics and the frenetic pace at which Alex hurls them out of his gob. He’s a master of observation. Unlike, say, Morrissey or Jarvis, he doesn’t use his eye-spying skills to strike a blow for the freaks and misfits of this world. And that’s exactly why they work so well. They’re songs for everyone – from the shy romantic whose hopeless with the opposite sex, to the guy who’d still take you home, even though he “can’t see through your fake tan” (‘Still Take You Home’).


What Turner does have in common with Mozza and Jarvis is that he’s a funny little fucker. And his humour is so easy to identify with, that mere observation serves him more than adequately. Forget the flowery fantasies conjured up by Dickensian Doherty – these are tales of the scum-ridden streets as they are in 2006, not 1906.


So you get the tongue-tied tart in ‘Dancing Shoes’, the bored band-watcher in ‘Fake Tales Of San Francisco’ and the guy whose girl’s got the hump in ‘Mardy Bum’ – all sung with a voice so authentic it could land the lead role in the Hovis ads. This record’s heart lies in Yorkshire, and it’s usually down the local Ritzy disco, getting the cold shoulder off the bird it fancies and ending up in a scrap by the taxi rank outside. It couldn’t be any more Saturday night unless it woke up, bleary-eyed, next to a 16-stone munter with herpes.


The knock-out punch is saved for the finale, though. And when it comes, it smacks you three times. Just to make sure, like. ‘When The Sun Goes Down’ is the sound of the streets long after the Ritzy has kicked out for the night, ‘From The Ritz To The Rubble’ is a three-minute blast that dares to take on that most grotesque of creatures (nightclub bouncers, not Kerry Katona). The clincher, though, is ‘A Certain Romance’. As perfect a pop song as you could ever hope to hear, it rivals even The Streets in its portrayal of small-town England, a place where “there’s only music so that there’s new ringtones”. Alex’s message is compact yet delivered with dazzling poetic flair: “All of that’s what the point is not/The point’s that there ain’t no romance around here”.


By the time it finishes, you don’t feel sorry for Arctic Monkeys any more. They might have been swamped in more hype than Shayne Ward ballroom-dancing across the set of I’m A Celebrity… but all of that’s what the point is not. The point’s that there ain’t no disappointment around here.


Tim Jonze

The CD.

Contents of the album. (CD, booklet containing images of the band and friends. Alot of the lyrics of the album tell stories of going out to nightclub with mates)

Postcards.

In 1894, British publishers were given permission by the Royal Mail to manufacture and distribute picture postcards, which could be sent through the post. The first UK postcards were produced by printing firm Stewarts of Edinburgh and early postcards were pictures of famous landmarks, scenic views, photographs or drawings of celebrities and so on. With steam locomotives providing fast and affordable travel, the seaside became a popular tourist destination, and generated its own souvenir-industry: the picture postcard was, and is, an essential staple of this industry.

A typical "saucy" postcard by Donald McGill

In the early 1930s, cartoon-style saucy postcards became widespread, and at the peak of their popularity the sale of saucy postcards reached a massive 16 million a year. They were often bawdy in nature, making use of innuendo and double entendres and traditionally featured stereotypical characters such as vicars, large ladies and put-upon husbands, in the same vein as the Carry On films. In the early 1950s, the newly elected Conservative government were concerned at the apparent deterioration of morals in Britain and decided on a crackdown on these postcards. The main target on their hit list was the renowned postcard artist Donald McGill. In the more liberal 1960s, the saucy postcard was revived and became to be considered, by some[who?], as an art form. This helped its popularity and once again they became an institution. However, during the 1970s and 1980s, the quality of the artwork and humour started to deteriorate and, with changing attitudes towards the cards' content, the demise of the saucy postcard occurred. Original postcards are now highly sought after, and rare examples can command high prices at auction. The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by a publishing company called Bamforths, based in the town of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England. Despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly 'saucy', postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. Sold by newsagents and street vendors, as well as by specialist souvenir shops, modern seaside postcards often feature multiple depictions of the resort in unusually favourable weather conditions. John Hinde, the British photographer, used saturated colour and meticulously planned his photographs, which made his postcards of the later twentieth century become collected and admired as kitsch. Such cards are also respected as important documents of social history, and have been influential on the work of Martin Parr.

History of package holidays.

In the early days of flight, going away to your favourite destination was a luxry only for the rich. But with the arrival of package holidays/budget airlines - it became open to the masses.
An early form of package holiday was organised by Thomas Cook in 1841, offering customers a return trip between Leicester and Loughborough. The first package tour of Europe was organised by Cook in 1855, and by 1872 he was undertaking world-wide tours, albeit with small groups.


Vladimir Raitz, the co-founder of the Horizon Holiday Group, pioneered the first mass package holidays abroad with charter flights between Gatwick airport and Corsica in 1950, and organised the first package holiday to Palma in 1952, Lourdes in 1953, and the Costa Brava and Sardinia in 1954. In addition, the amendments made in Montreal to the Convention on International Civil Aviation on June 14, 1954 was very liberal to Spain, allowing impetus for mass tourism using charter planes.


By the late 1950s and 1960s, these cheap package holidays — which combined flight, transfers and accommodation — provided the first chance for most people in the United Kingdom to have affordable travel abroad. One of the first charter airlines was Euravia, which commenced flights from Manchester Airport in 1961 and Luton Airport in 1962. Despite opening up mass tourism to Crete and the Algarve in 1970, the package tour industry declined during the 1970s. On 15 August 1974, the industry was shaken when the second-largest tour operator, Court Line which operated under the brand names of Horizon and Clarksons, collapsed. Nearly 50,000 tourists were stranded overseas and a further 100,000 faced the loss of booking deposits.


In 2005 a growing number of consumers were avoiding package holidays and were instead travelling with budget airlines and booking their own accommodation. In the UK, the downturn in the package holiday market led to the consolidation of the tour operator market, which is now dominated by a few large tour operators. The major operators are Thomson Holidays and First Choice part of TUI AG and Thomas Cook AG. Under these umbrella brands there exists a whole range of different holiday operators catering to different markets, such as Club 18-30 or Simply Travel. Budget airlines have also created their own package holiday divisions such as Jet2 Holidays.


The trend for package holiday bookings saw a comeback in 2009, as customers sought greater financial security in the wake of a number of holiday and flight companies going bust, and as the hidden costs of 'no-frills' flights increased. Coupled with the search for late holidays as holidaymakers left booking to the last moment, this led to a rise in consumers booking package holidays.


Budget airlines.

A low-cost carrier or low-cost airline (also known as a no-frills, discount or budget carrier or airline) is an airline that generally has lower fares and less comforts. To make up for revenue lost in decreased ticket prices, the airline may charge for extras like food, priority boarding, seat allocating, and baggage etc.


The term originated within the airline industry referring to airlines with a lower operating cost structure than their competitors. While the term is often applied to any carrier with low ticket prices and limited services, regardless of their operating models, low-cost carriers should not be confused with regional airlines that operate short flights without service, or with full-service airlines offering some reduced fares.


While tour and package operators have been offering lower-priced, lower frilled traveling for a large part of modern airline history, not until during the post Vietnam War era did this business model really escalate and take off. Through various ticket consolidators, charter airlines, and innovators in lower frills flying, such as Channel Airways, and Court Line, the traveling public had been conditioned to want to travel to new and increasingly further away and exotic locations on vacation, rather than short-haul junkets to nearby beach resorts.


The first low-cost airline was Southwest Airlines which started flying in 1971.

The first airline offering no-frills transatlantic service was Freddie Laker's Laker Airways, which operated its famous "Skytrain" service between London and New York City during the late 1970s. The service was suspended after Laker's competitors, British Airways and Pan Am, were able to price Skytrain out of the market.


In the United States, airline carriers like America West Airlines which commenced operations after 1978, soon realized a cost of available seat mile advantage in relation to the traditional and established, legacy airlines such as Trans World Airlines and American Airlines. Often this CASM advantage has been attributed, solely to the lower labor costs of the newly hired and lower pay grade workers of new start up carriers, such as PeopleExpress Airlines, Valuejet, Midway Airlines, and their like. However, these lower costs, can also be attributed to the less complex aircraft fleets, and less complex route networks these new carriers began operations with, as well as the vastly less costly and freshly trained labor force.


To combat the new round of low cost and start up entrants into the very competitive and deregulated United States airline industry, the mainline major carriers and network legacy carriers strategically developed no frills divisions within the main airlines brand and corporate structures. Among these were Metrojet and Continental Lite. These so called airlines within an airline however, proved to be very short lived, for the most part and a financial burden which were quickly disposed off when economic rationalization or competitive pressures subsided.


Among these low cost carrier survivors are US Airways, the product of a merger of a low-cost deregulation startup air carrier named AmericaWest and the post 9/11 reorganized through chapter 11 bankruptcy and national network carrier US Air, which markets itself as a low-cost airline and conducts long-haul flights. Usually though, its long-haul international fares are equal to other United States major carriers rather than offering the cost saving advantages of what are normally thought to be of a lower cost carriers offerings and services.

People go travelling for all sorts of reasons.
Wether it'll be for business, sightseeing or for the weather.


When someone describes their holiday the first thing they are likely to talk about is the weather. Most brits go away for that reason. They want to get away from the typical British weather. In some countries their winter is hotter than our summer so why shouldn't we.

The Weather

The experience.

1. Chichen Itza
2. Christ the Redeemer
3. Colosseum
4. Great Wall of China
5. Machu Picchu
6. Petra
7. Taj Mahal

These are all the New wonders of the world. You can only see these by travelling!
Ask anyone who has been to see at least one of these sights and the response would most likely be
"You have to see it to know what it's like" or something among those lines.

Chichen Itza, Mexico.

Colosseum - Rome.

Machu Picchu


You could argue that you've seen all these things before. On tv or on the internet. These photos shown show the scale and altitude of these wonders but in order to get a FULL feel, you need to be there and experience it.

Travel Posters.

Travel posters are designed to invite you to a new land and for you to explore exciting new things.
Here are a selection of some travel posters from different decades.

One of illustrator David Klein’s advertisements during the 1950s for TWA.
Notice the simple shapes, colours and the use of a sans-serif typeface.

Pan Am travel posters designed in 1971 by Chermayeff & Geismar. What’s remarkable about these posters — other than the minimal design and the use of Helvetica — is the power of the photography. The simple, sometimes monocromatic, images make a clear statement about the location and inspire the viewer.

Railway Travel Poster produced for British Railways (BR) to promote rail travel to the Yorkshire Dales. The poster shows a view of a hamlet nestled in a landscape of green pastures and rolling hills. Four lines of verse by the poet A.E. Housman (1859-1936) emphasise the pastoral character of the area. The pictureesque scenery is a warm one and invites tourists.

English Travel Poster produced for British Railways (BR) to promote rail travel to Yorkshire. The poster shows a view of Knaresborough, with the river and castle and a train crossing a viaduct. Notice how the beautifully painted image takes up most of the page making it the focus and the first thing people see on the poster. Their eyes then work their way down to the information/destination.

Activity.

Travelling -
My own experience.
They say that travel broadens the mind. Well, if that's true then I guess I'm not broad-minded!
As a youngen "Holidays" were long drives in a cramped family car. Devon, Cornwall, Brean.
These were the holiday destinations. It was always somewhere down south. I didn't mind this as I was a young city boy and any change in scenery is good. Quite a few things were different - The accent, the temperature (It was mostly really warm whenever we went on holiday) the people, actually being able to see the sky without a tall business building dominating your view, so it really felt like I was  "away". Anyway, this venture down south went on for many years until I found out that people actually went to different countries for the same thing. Only difference was that it was hotter, the beaches were clean and golden and the sea was as blue as the bluest sky. I wanted this. But being one of 5 at the time, financially, holidays abroad were out of reach. I eventually stopped going away on holiday right after my youngest brother was born which bumped the family numbers to 6. I was 14.
Many years had passed and still, no tan, no foreign tales. In 2009 I went on an "Educational visit" to Paris with my college group to learn about the arts. All we did was get drunk all the time but this was my first taste of truly being away from the UK. Once again everything was new, the accent was different like before but they weren't speaking English, the temperature- much hotter than Cornwall which seemed mild in comparison. I had been away and seen new things but I wanted to go further.


18th July 2011.
This was it. My first time on a plane. Me and my girlfriend went to Portugal. It was unlike anything I had experienced before. Being 38,000ft up in the air, seeing the world above the clouds, finding out no matter if it was raining on ground it was guaranteed to be clear and sunny in the air, using foreign currency properly, learning a new language and feeling the golden sand in between MY toes. Mine! I came back with not only a tan but a better knowledge of what it is like to go away  - Far away.  Travelling to portugal has definitely given me the travellers bug and I'm already looking to go away very soon.




My first time on a plane

                                           

The view from our apartment

The view on the way to the beach.

My feet in the sea.

The sunset.

Aqualand - The water park.

Landing at Faro airport.

Taking off from Faro airport (Portugal) to Manchester (from my phone)

So What is good?

What does the word "Good" mean?
Well the English Dictionry defines "Good" as -

Adj: To be desired or approved of.
Noun: That which is morally right; righteousness.

There is no denying that the word good is a positive word. It's opposite afterall is "Bad" - a negative word. "You are good looking" Once said to someone it could make that person  feel good about themself. Notice the use of Good in that sentence? Good can also be used to describe how one is feeling.
Good can be used to describe many things but you must be able to JUSTIFY why something is good and that is something I'm aiming to do this summer.
For this summer breif I must list and investigate

• 1 Object
• 1 Place
• 1 Activity
• 1 Opinion
• 1 Concept

And prove their reasons for being "GOOD"