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New! Due to the coronavirus situation, the Alexandra Palace Children’s book awards event was cancelled – bah – but lots of resources are now online including BEES colouring in and Artists’ Challenge – how to design a book cover. The main page is here with lots of rather good challenges from the nominated authors too. […]
Read moreHello there. If you’re a bit bored and want to listen to some music from 1999/2000 here’s just the thing. Siân and Dylan – who’d been in Oval on St Etienne’s label Icerink – formed a band called 100% Ponies. We did all the stuff and worked on Ataris using Cubase and using samples. […]
Read moreHello there – hoping you are staying well and keeping indoors. I’m eating biscuits and making really odd soup. Is anyone really bored yet? If you or someone you know in your household needs to do some colouring in, I’ve put some of the Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week etc Agatha Bilke book […]
Read more“Changes Wrought on our Hometown” Am talking postcards with comedy writer and performer Ben Moor on Tom Jackson’s excellent Podcast from the Past, out now. From my light stalking of Alan Bennett, to Ben’s own Moor and a very exciting hotel “restroom”, it’s all here.
Read moreA lovely commission was the tale of ‘Castor and Pollux’ – drawing ten black and white illustrations to sit alongside a poem and printed them up as a limited edition birthday book – just one copy. Here are some of the drawings. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”16″ gal_title=”Bespoke Books”] Other commissions include prints as gifts. A selection is […]
Read moreThere’s always new art at raw-art.co.uk. The Ten years of Raw Art exhibition on during October 2019 had lots of oil paintings with people with eyes on their noses due to a fascination with the photoshop “heal” brush. The show took place at the very good Atom Gallery in London N16 and you can now […]
Read moreThe Agatha Bilke books [Short Books] are still in print, for 8-12 year old persons, there are three in that series. The books are about an awful girl called Agatha who likes setting fire to things. The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke was shortlisted for lots of awards. It was also Children’s Book of the […]
Read moreEveryone Loves You When You’re Dead – an anthology of rock interviews by Neil Strauss published by Canongate, illustrated by me, is still available. It features Courtney Love and Rick James. To name but two. Go here for link to ruddy Amazon. You can purchase from an actual bookshop too. Selected images below. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”15″ […]
Read moreGrrrr! is a pop up art shop, because that’s the modern thing really isn’t it. We had two Grrrrs – both in Kentish Town, 2016 and 2017. For the Grrrr! website click here. The Shop featured the infamous Folk Art Brexit Protest Custard Creams which are now available in print form. “As seen” in the […]
Read moreWhere me ‘n’ Luke Goss chat about pop music in 1988. Except not together. Sometimes it’s on BBC iPlayer, check here.
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