Tourism Teesside

09/08/2021

**Tourism Teesside Tenner Tees Sale**

We've put every single one of our tees on sale for £10 each. Lots of end of lines, sizes all over the place, but if you dig around you should find something you like (especially if you fit into a small)!

For fans of: Ravanelli, Radio Tees, Iggy Pop, The Mall, Chapman Family, Boro Rock Garden, Graeme Souness, the Pistols, Parmos, and the Bongo.

Tourism is intended to reimagine and celebrate the forgotten histories of Teesside in the North East of England. Through redesigning key brands and...

23/05/2021

Happy Sunday everyone! Wipe away you Eurovision tears and check out this BRAND NEW Tourism Teesside tee celebrating the legendary Arena nightclub in Middlesbrough in the 90s.

In the 90s the Arena resurrected itself from the ashes of the iconic punk venue the Rock Garden to become a northern powerhouse superclub, equally as famous for its indie nights as well as its dance ones - occasionally criss crossing the two, merging everything into a giant ecstatic multi layered party. Lemon h***h and Metz clagged to the dancefloor.

The design is a reimagining of a flyer for an amazing gig featuring 808 State and Moby in February 1993. Available in S/M/L/XL/XXL, white and grey print on dark grey tees, £15 each.

BUY: https://tourismteesside.bigcartel.com/product/arena-808-dark-grey

03/04/2021

We’ve restocked The Chapman Family tees as an Easter treat!

Designed to commemorate 10 years since the release of the album “Burn Your Town” the tees (based on the original promo designs) are available in white and black and are £15 each. S/M/L/XL/XXL. If you’re from outside the UK get in touch and we’ll negotiate shipping for you.

SHOP: https://tourismteesside.bigcartel.com/

23/03/2021

BRAND NEW TEE: to commemorate the TENTH anniversary of the release of Teesside band* The Chapman Family's album "Burn Your Town" in March 2011 we're putting out a special tee inspired by the original promo designs.

Available in black or white with grey and dark grey print in S/M/L/XL/XXL at £15 a tee.

*disclaimer...it was my band!

22/03/2021

Away from the t-shirts we're currently involved in a project about celebrating the historic music and culture of Stockton-on-Tees. Can you help? Do you have a favourite gig you went to in the town? Or a street performance at the Stockton International Riverside Festival that sticks in your brain? Did you see Carter USM at the Dovecot in the 80s? Or the man on the high wire going across the High Street in the 90s? Or maybe you even went to see one of the greatest bills for a show Stockton has surely ever seen: The Supremes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder and Georgie Fame at the Globe on April 2nd 1965? Maybe you saw the Amazing Spacefrogs at the Sun Inn.

We've got a seemingly endless list of acts and performers that have performed in a High Street venue over the years from the mid 1800s to present day but I might have missed something off. Please let us know your favourite.

19/03/2021

208 Newport Road is an amazing place. Opening in 1913 The Pavilion Theatre soon became the Pavilion Picture House, operating as a cinema up until 1960. Then it became Club Marimba in the 60s, famously a punk and metal Mecca in the mid 70s and 80s, a pioneering house and Britpop venue in the 90s, and a rock and roll den in the 00s before going back to dance.

On this site we've concentrated on the Rock Garden era but it's also worth acknowledging the time it rejuvenated itself and became a vital place to be for a new generation in the 1990s. The list of iconic names to play during this time from rave to house to indie is staggering: Oasis, Adamski, A Guy Called Gerald, Beautiful South, 808 State, Moby, Kirsty MacColl, Graeme Park, Roger Sanchez, Mike Pickering, D:Ream, Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox, Apollo 440, M People, Catatonia, Space, Ce Ce Penniston, Senser, Kula Shaker, Chumbawamba, Sheep on Drugs, Atari Teenage Riot, Dubstar, Placebo and many more, not forgetting the incredible amount of amazing Teesside bands that also played as support or as headliners themselves.

Did you go to a gig at the Arena in the 90s? What was your favourite?

18/03/2021

BRAND NEW RADIO TEES TEE!! Our latest Tourism Teesside tee is a tribute to the iconic and much missed independent radio station Radio Tees which broadcast from Dovecot Street in Stockton (about 20 metres from Storytellers pub) between 1975 and 1988.

The design is in black and red print on sports grey Gildan heavy cotton tees and is available in S/M/L/XL/XXL for £15 a tee. Get one while you can!!

BUY NOW: https://tourismteesside.bigcartel.com/product/radio-tees-tee-grey

10/03/2021

Buildings come, buildings go. They're planned, built, used, left to rot, then they get demolished and finally they get replaced ...sometimes. This is the site of the old Coatham Bowl on Majuba Road, (also known as the Redcar Bowl), demolished in 2014 and left in this state ever since.

In that bit of weeded over wasteland genuine music legends performed (albeit on a stage and not in some tatty bit of dirt). Daltrey swung his mic, David Coverdale brought Whitesnake back home, Ozzy rocked up in 88, and Poly Styrene gave Teesside a dose of groundbreaking punk with X Ray Spex.

Check out our tee tribute to the place (about the time Iggy Pop played there in 1979...yeah really!) here: https://tourismteesside.bigcartel.com

10/03/2021

Today’s Tourism deal of the day is this tee based on an advert from the late 70s for the iconic Middlesbrough Rock Garden venue: “If Your Taste is Rock...”. Only a TENNER, popular sizes selling out quickly, get them while you can! 🤟

SHOP: https://tourismteesside.bigcartel.com/product/if-your-taste-is-rock-tee

09/03/2021

Brand new Tourism Teesside designs to come really soon but in the meantime why not grab a bargain or two in the end of lines sale! Select designs only a tenner each!!! Get one while you can!

As well as new designs we're hoping to restock some of the older ones that have sold out. What would you like to see again? Club Bongo? Middlesbrough Tigers? Philmores? Let us know in the comments please so we can get you what you want!

SHOP NOW: https://tourismteesside.bigcartel.com

05/02/2021

BRAND NEW TEE celebrating the Coatham Bowl music venue in Redcar on Majuba Road - demolished in 2014, now wasteland - depicting a redesigned gig flyer for when Iggy Pop played there in 1979. Available in white or dark grey, limited stock, S/M/L/XL/2XL, £15 a pop.

SHOP NOW: https://tourismteesside.bigcartel.com

04/02/2021

BRAND NEW LIMITED EDITION TEE SHIRT DROP TOMORROW!

In the mean time, here's a picture of punk legend Iggy Pop at Coatham Bowl, Redcar on Sunday April 29th 1979 promoting his "New Values" album. Photographer unknown.