Black Mills Tapes vol.3: All pathways Open will be available on Jan 23rd via Bandcamp, if you missed the first 2 they’re still available at the same place from Pye Corner Audio.
Only found out about this poster the other week, by artist godmachine, unfortunately long sold out.
The sequel is here (you know, the one everyone loves the most), new SW-themed 2 track 7″ with attached vintage figure. Also, if you missed it last time, they’ve repressed the first Rave Wars. Be quick, 200 copies of each only, more pics when I get mine in the post.
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I have a track – ‘All Covered In Darkness’ pt.1 featured on the February issue of UK magazine The Word. Thanks to Andrew Harrison or Alex Gold, which ever one of you picked it.
I know I’ve already published details of this a while back but it’s been announced to the press in general this week and already been blogged by Design Week, Secret Oranges and ECBT2000ad amongst others. Here’s the final flyer with opening times, myself and Henry will be there on the opening night to drink chat and sign things if you wish.
There will be free booze, kindly provided by Peroni, and you can order signed gicleé prints direct from Scraffer.com which will also be on display (third one to be announced next week) as well as pick up an ultra limited postcard record (if they arrive from Vienna in time).
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Imminent new podcast being cooked up by Matt Johnson featuring myself in interview and my version of GIANT plus an exclusive listen to the new ‘Deep Space’ version I prepared for him and the planetarium shows. TheThe.com being relaunched soon…
The early bird pre-order offer of £12 for the comic-sized booklet / CD / flexi disc version of the album ends at midnight Friday 13th. Ninja have them in stock now so I expect pre-orderers will receive them before the shops do. The price goes up to £16 after that – check some images of the package here and pre-order here.
Just arrived, fresh from the Amorphous Androgynous (aka Future Sound of London) is a, frankly mind-melting, 17 minute remix of ‘The Illectrik Hoax’, a track from the album, featuring Natural Self on vocals. This has been in the pipeline for a while and they initially started work on a version of ‘GIANT’ but changed direction and so a three part Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble remix of the Hoax has been born. To say that they’ve thrown everything into it is an understatement, after a manic version of the original they proceed to tear it apart and reassemble fragments of it in two new versions.
Not only that but 2econd Class Citizen has also created what can only be described as an ambient acoustic version of the same track, completely different but brilliant in its simplicity. As soon as I heard it I realised it was perfect for the planetarium shows next week and it will get its premiere there. As to when these will be available and on what formats, I’ll get back to you on that but we’re looking at sometime in April.
I love the switch of sides, from Obama to Anonymous, Shepard Fairey has made using the same message. I fully expect a book of all the variants the Hope poster has generated some time down the line, it’s a real iconic image for our age, like Warhol‘s Cambell’s Soup Tins or the Smiley.
Limited CD/Comic/Flexi package has arrived at Ninja along with some A3 promo posters.
A very limited number of postcard records are on their way from a Vienna cutting house featuring an adapted track for the Pure Evil Gallery show on the 26th.
Most of the artwork is framed, just waiting on some mounts to be cut and figuring out how to present two of Henry’s pieces that have artwork on both sides!
Planetarium show is nearing completion, still some video editing to be done, the astronomers are coding footage for the full dome experience. There are various other video edits in progress too, more later. Two page spread in Clash magazine too.
Oh, and a remix is about to be delivered imminently apparently, not your average remix, for a post-album release around April.
She One – ‘Wildstyle Pour Homme’ painting, 1995
(124 x 100 cm, Aerosol paint and ink on canvas).
Commissioned canvases
On sale Jan 6th 9.00 Hong Kong time from 3A Toys. Might have to be an early birthday present to myself. I’m told he’s doing a version of Mazinger and possibly Gundam too if this goes well.
Gorgeous Kevin O’Neill piece on Steve Cook‘s Secret Oranges blog this morning
Forthcoming this Spring from Damiani. Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel is the first definitive examination of the international language of psychedelia, focusing on the most important practitioners in their respective fields with a deft combination of hundreds of unseen images and exclusive interviews and essays, Electrical Banana aims to revise the common perception of psychedelic art, showing it to be more innovative, compelling, and revolutionary than was ever thought before.
The artists include: Marijke Koger, a Dutch artist responsible for dressing the Beatles; Mati Klarwein, who painted the cover for Miles Davis‘ Bitches Brew; Keiichi Tanaami, the Japanese master of psychedelic posters; Heinz Edelmann, the German illustrator and designer of the Yellow Submarine animated film; Tadanori Yokoo, whose prints and books, defined the ‘60s in Japan; Dudley Edwards, a painter, car designer, and graphic embellisher for the London rock scene, and the enigmatic Australian Martin Sharp, whose work for Cream and underground magazines made him a hippie household name in Europe.
Yes please. €29.00 – Order it here
New web piece about the album and general Food-ness over at Magnetic Magazine
L-R, top to bottom: Tracklist mandala, boys on bikes, studio guards, Xmas fallout, Mr & Mrs, A Clockwork Hen, boys through glass, ceiling decor, cosmonaut: framed and unframed.
Garth Marenghi (of Dark Place fame) has a new site up for a series of fictitious pulp detective novels called ‘The Reprisalizer’ in ‘the violent paperback worlds of Terry Finch‘. The Reprisalizer, aka Bob Shuter, is a throwback to the 70’s in the same way as Life On Mars was, think The Sweeney crossed with The Equalizer, set in Kent. There’s also a gunslinger character called Draw too – ‘one man whirlwind of the west’.
The site is beautifully realised with excerpts from old novels on yellowing pages, reverse covers, a biog of Finch with ‘praise for the author’ and even vintage fanzines from the 80’s supposedly commemorating the books. Apparently the recent ‘A Gun For George’ film is also tied into this but I’ve not seen it yet and there are ebooks and podcasts promised as ‘coming soon’ too.
Illustrator Michael De Pippo created 5 retro posters for each member of the Muppet band Dr Teeth & The Electric Mayhem in anticipation of the new Muppet film release.
Disney got wind of them and licensed them for sale on their ACME Specialty Art site, some are sold out but a couple are still available. The versions shown here are the original designs with fake creases and misregistered print which didn’t survive for the Disney versions.
It’s a shame because these really give them the sense of original gig posters, also the date of the gig is the date that the Muppets first aired on TV, nice touch.