The Pervy Girls: May 2010

The wonderfully talented Ciaran O'shea has taken 5 minutes out of his totally busy schedule to give us the O'shea Perv low down....

What do you do?

I design under the name Discordo. I've done a lot of music based work including The Horrors, No Bra, These New Puritans and Kate Nash, nicely eclectic and allows me to get stuck into illustration, video work, digital design, paper, scissors, glue. I also put on club nights starting at Southends' Junkclub and more recently ECC and OFFSETCIRCLES. The later a mutation between ECC and the fantastic Offset Festival (www.offsetfestival.co.uk) which we curate a tent at each year. Any spare time is spent playing records, making music as E.Gold or co-running a little independant record label called DiscError Recordings, putting out limited vinyls by bands including Ipso Facto, Ulterior, R O M A N C E, Death In Plains.

If you wasn’t doing this what else would you be doing?

Honestly i dont know. I've worked a lot of rubbish jobs, I definitely know what i wouldn't be doing.

Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?

Beauty is in the eye of the pyramid

Who do you think gets 'it' wrong?

Id rather pay attention to the people getting it right - Dean Chalkley, Passions, Angular Records, Darren Berry, Rhys Webb, The Horrors, These New Puritans, Offset Festival too many to name.

Who/what inspires you?

Typography. Designers like Robert Brown-John, people that transcend their disciplines like Trevor Jackson with Output Records, Playgroup and amazing design and video work. Hard working creatives like Dean Chalkley or people who speak their mind like Christopher Hitchens.