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Book Band creator, Ryan Maconochie, featured in June 2008 Issue of CS magazine.
Excerpt from CS: “Ryan Maconochie puts the “art” in party. The graphic artist and creator of Star RM throws can’t-miss events to introduce his Book Band publications, was a founder of collective-party space Country Club Chicago (where he still hosts his bashes) and, in his spare time, creates kick-ass maps highlighting important points of interest- like the best spots for late night eats.”
Interview with Kate Templin follows:
CS: What’s your favorite night to go out and where are you going?
RM: I like going out straight after work on a Thursday or Friday and hopping around town from place to place. I usually start downtown and end up in Wicker Park.
CS: What’s your drink of choice?
RM: Valpolicella.
CS: How do you pre-game? (What the last thing you do before you go out?)
RM: Have a cocktail on my roof.
CS: Where do you go/What do you have for a pre-night-out meal?
RM: If I could eat dinner at Avec every night for the rest of my life, I would be a happy
man. I would order the foccacia, the chorizo stuffed dates, and whatever else the wait
staff recommends.
CS: Where do you go for a last minute party outfit?
RM: Toss up between Penelope’s on Division or Haberdash on Wells.
CS: Where do you go to pick up a last-minute date?
RM: MILF…seriously…it’s a mother’s group that my wife is a part of.
CS: Who do you call if you’re having a clothing crisis?
RM: The Fondude. AKA, Dan Jividen. He is wise on all things style.
CS: What’s your nightlife secret weapon (a fun friend/a perfect lipstick/an
especially intoxicating drink, etc.)?
RM: My custom made maps of continuous bar-hopping fun.
CS: What’s your fallback spot?
RM: Richard’s never fails.
CS: Who’s always the most fun?
RM: My wife is like Amy Poehler, Kristen Wigg and Elizabeth Hurley rolled into one.
CS: Who’s your go-to DJ? Promoter?
RM: Mr. Matt Rucins from Schuba’s is a knowledgeable man.
CS: What’s the song you’re listening to in the car on the way over?
RM: According to my I-Pod, I have listened to Stephen Malkmus? “Out of Reaches?” 31 times, and I just downloaded his new album two weeks ago.
CS: Most you’ve ever tipped?
RM: I try to go 20%. I would have given the guys at Schwa a million dollars if I could. They
were awesome.
CS: Have you ever slipped the doorman a 20 to bypass the list?
RM: I hate lists.
CS: What the worst nightlife faux-pas?
RM: Vomiting on another person. Not cool.
CS: What’s your favorite bygone bar or night? (specific time/place)
That super cool blue room that was downstairs at the original Harry’s Velvet Room on
Clark.
CS: Favorite evening accessory?
RM: A pen. I write down notes about stuff as ideas come to me.
CS: What’s your most regrettable outfit?
RM: Wearing pants that are too short and/or extra large t-shirts.
CS: What trend will you never go back to? What look will you never
resurrect?
RM: I never was a fan of cargo pants.
CS: Who’s your Chicago nightlife style icon?
MR: I worship the guys at Taco Burrito Palace on Halsted and Fullerton.
CS: What velvet rope would you never want to cross or cross again?
RM: I wish I could cross that rope that lets pilots go through security checkpoints at the
airport quicker. Does that count?
CS: Who’s your least favorite/favorite door guy?
RM: I don?t know any door guys.
CS: What’s your favorite non-alcoholic nightlife option?
RM: Biking along the lakefront.
CS: Where do you go to see the cutest guys/girls?
RM: The cutest girls work at Sprout on Chicago and Damen.
CS: What’s the best hidden makeout spot?
RM: The roof of Marina City.
CS: What’s your dealmaker (i.e. What would make you definitely want to talk
to someone)?
RM: Incredible originality. You can sense it from a mile away.
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Excerpt from mag.nificent: “Maybe 5 years from now Book Band will be the new Visionaire and I can say I was there before Terry Richardson.”
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Excerpt from the Art Dump: “Interesting new art + culture journal out of Chicago.”
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Excerpt from Time Out Chicago: “Every few months, artist Ryan Maconochie gives five artists 30 days to create 10 pages of material. He then collects it all together into one gorgeous little collaboration called Book Band. ”
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Excerpt from the Chicago Reader: “Local designer Ryan Maconochie calls himself the curator, not the editor, of Book Band, a bimonthly periodical that will publish work — short stories, plays, illutrations, poems, cartography — exactly as submitted by invitees.”