{"id":7349,"date":"2019-11-14T13:39:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T13:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/?p=7349"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:27:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:27:44","slug":"community-focus-murkage-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/community-focus-murkage-dave\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Focus: Murkage Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moving from East London to Manchester when he was 18, Murkage Dave started putting on nights that quickly became a staple of the city\u2019s club scene and beyond. But though he first made his name as a promoter, he\u2019s always been multifaceted. \u201cI\u2019ve always been doing music since I can remember. I\u2019ve been drawing cartoons and writing short stories and songs since I was about five,\u201d he told us. \u201cSo it was just something that I\u2019ve always done since then and I guess that I\u2019ve just got less shit at it as I\u2019ve gotten older.\u201d Now carving out a space for himself as a musician, his \u2018Murkage Dave Changed My Life\u2019 tees have been a firm Everpress favourite. For his insights on style and running campaigns, read on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 1778px;\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aRoKo3bHPp4?rel=0\" style=\"border: 0; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"encrypted-media; accelerometer; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>ON HIS EARLY INSPIRATION<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Really it was boredom. Well, trying to get your brain out of the loop that it goes on, that starts even from when you\u2019re at primary school. You know, you do the same thing every day, then you do the same thing every weekend too. I guess music was something to get my brain out of that loop.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7402\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7402\" src=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MURKAGEDAVE2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MURKAGEDAVE2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MURKAGEDAVE2-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MURKAGEDAVE2-768x919.jpg 768w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MURKAGEDAVE2-855x1024.jpg 855w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph courtesy of Murkage Dave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>ON THE FAST-FASHION INDUSTRY<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s kind of butters isn\u2019t it. I guess there\u2019s a lot of suffering attached to that level of comfort and we\u2019re not even taking advantage of it, because it\u2019s people in other countries making those clothes; sometimes very young people. I\u2019m not sure what the solution is yet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every T-shirt that we make, we\u2019ve sold and it\u2019s gone to someone that wants it<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>ON HOW STYLE IS CHANGING<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social media has really changed communication; before it was what clubs you went to, what places you were hanging out, and that would influence how you dressed. Whereas now those clubs and places are online, and people swap their ideas online. So now you might go to Australia, Japan, Ghana, wherever, and you\u2019ll meet people that dress the same way because they can be into the same stuff.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7404\" style=\"width: 938px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7404\" src=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedave3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"938\" height=\"1055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedave3.jpg 938w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedave3-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedave3-768x864.jpg 768w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedave3-910x1024.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph courtesy of Murkage Dave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>ON WHY HE STARTED SELLING T-SHIRTS<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I needed to make money!<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>ON WHY HE USES EVERPRESS<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think the Everpress model is wicked, because of the fact that we don\u2019t waste. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every T-shirt that we make, we\u2019ve sold and it\u2019s gone to someone that wants it<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I feel that that really helps me and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I feel like it\u2019s a better way to do things<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in general too.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7408\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7408 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedve4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedve4.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedve4-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedve4-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedve4-1024x614.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murkage Dave&#8217;s album cover, photographed by Dean Martindale (@deanmartindale)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>ON SEEING PEOPLE IN HIS T-SHIRTS<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a good feeling, it means you can go up to someone and say, \u201cEh, nice T-shirt.\u201d At the very first headline show that I did at the Sebright Arms in East London there were loads of people wearing my T-shirt. It was an overwhelming night in general.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find your own path and put your own footprints down<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>SOME WORDS OF ADVICE<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To anyone wanting to follow in my footsteps, I would say don\u2019t! You can be influenced by someone, I\u2019m inspired by other creators and that\u2019s cool, but I\u2019d always say it\u2019s better not to imitate other people. As cliche as it sounds, be yourself \u2013 still be inspired by people you rate, but find your own path and put your own footprints down.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7411\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7411\" src=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedave5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedave5.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedave5-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedave5-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedave5-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/murkagedave5-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murkage Dave, photographed by Dean Martindale (@deanmartindale)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0Our series has seen us speak to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dvujanic\/?hl=en\">David Vujani\u0107<\/a><\/strong><strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kyleplatts\/?hl=en\">Kyle Platts<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/community-focus-joey-yu\/\">Joey Yu<\/a>, so be sure to check out the other interviews.\u00a0And you can shop Dave&#8217;s latest T-shirt\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/murkage-dave-community-focus\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promoter and musician Murkage Dave tells us how the profits from his Everpress custom T-shirt pre-order campaigns have help him do what he does best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":7399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7349"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7533,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions\/7533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}