Sylosis Poster
This is a really storming line-up in a classic venue that has just been rennovated. I let rip with halftone heaven in the poster.
Wallpaper
While waiting for nobody to turn up I spent this sunny day enjoying some photoshop sluttery with that Skull toy. It looks so computer generated yet was just photographed in my garden.
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Found Object
Have you ever seen a scarier kids toy? Someone give me some metal artwork to do !
Tout Par Tout 15th Anniversary
Tout Par Tout is a european tour agency whose name means Everything Everywhere. Was thinking of a lady that travels around a future world chainsmoking and being prepared to do everything, everywhere. I wonder if they will like it?
Beef Warehouse Summer 2009
This Summer has already been great, Beef Warehouse played ATP earlier in the year. Andy Beef made a Baby, David Beef made a giant tent and we all hit Latitude together.
Now the week after next we are the Beef Warehouse soundsystem at the Leeds
Festival Piccadilly Party stage. Our biggest gig of the year by far. See you there.
About 4am on the Sunday night...
Night Time at Latitude
Mik Artistic playing in the tent of Love and Gratitude
People pay me to do the weirdest things
On the way back from Sonisphere I get a phonecall ‘Are you about tomorrow morning, fancy like being a Roadie Stereotype for some F1 shoot’ Free money so I say ‘yes’.
Next stop Leeds Festival
Sometimes my shizzle stinks good.
This Graph shows that Sonisphere was more popular a search phrase in July then Reading Festival, or Download Festival for a first year festival that is no mean feat. I am darn proud of everyone involved, and chuffed all our plans came to work or in other words I rule.
Recently it hasn’t all been good. Last year I think i earnt £4k total and really couldn’t get a arrested (but could play Metallica’s One end to end). All over 2008 trying to get a job i took concepts (3 of which were pinched) went to potential employers with my hefty skillset and they looked at my CV saying?
‘Eh I don’t understand any of this/ You say you do production,online,design,community,analyst business development how can you do all of it ? / You cost too much / you aren’t in tune with our company doctrine’
The reply is
‘Do you even know what you are hiring for ? Try working for yourself for the last 10 years / You don’t actually take online seriously then / Doctrine ? Ahh I am not fit girly enough’
Is not the answer that will get you the job, but is the truth.
2009 kicked in - we were all doomed.
Finally a chance meeting and Kilimanjaro & Sonisphere was prepared to listen and put some faith in The Random Works of Doktored. Rock Festivals in the UK are very oversubscribed, the press aren’t behind metal at the moment, the Industry said ‘You are dividing the audience’ or took me aside to say ‘it isn’t doing well isn’t it?‘. We kept our head down, kept our cards close, spoke to the fans, every day all day. They said we should throw a happy birthday for James Hetfield, we organised a party for Hetfield. They said we should do something for founders we did something for founders, they wanted to change the T-Shirt, we changed the T. We never tweeted a press release, and talked one on one with as many people as possible.
Online doesn’t wait for third party approval, and without any big money tools, streaming, fancy gimmicks or a viral memes, and just a lot of Elbow grease and ground roots support, the Sonisphere website in July in the UK alone did 3.1 Million Page views and over 700k unique visitors without a fold out banner ad in sight.
To all the people that help make it happen: Stuart, Kililive, Mastodon for letting us into your world, The Mahrs brewery, Frank the murder photographer, Tom O’Meara I can’t afford the medical bills, Phil from Machine Head, Thrash Hits, Adam at Sho, Jon at Inpreparation, That tramp we gave a duffelbag to and the guys at the Crobar, Everyone on the forum for making it such a nice place. We all owe each other a beer or two look what we made!!
More scrims - Germany
This time with more photoshop touching up. Looks lovely.
My first Scrims
Old James Hetfield strutting his stuff in front of my flaming ball Scrims
Just working on artwork for Daft Drunk At the Lexington
Beef Warehouse used to run a regular packed out themed clubnight called ‘It’s All About…’ at North London’s Boogaloo until April 2008 when the less hairy one got barred for quarreling. They wanted to start a new night but got sidetracked with appearances at ATP, Latitude, Glastonbury and Leeds whilst narrowly avoiding arrest for indecent exposure at a family village fete in the Cotswolds.
They’ve since played festivals in New York, fashion shows in Barcelona and car races in Los Angeles – but there’s no place like home and, having broken his collarbone at the The Lexington earlier this year following a mosh pit malfunction, the hairier one decided there was a no better home for a new Beef Warehouse monthly meet, which they’ve just baptised as ‘Daft Drunk’.
Arm yourself for an intoxicated Friday night mix of jumpy jumpy electro, inappropriate rock and some really bent showtunes.
Beef Warehouse presents Daft Drunk
at The Lexington (formerly Clockwork),?96 - 98 Pentonville Road?N1 9JB
Friday 26th June 11pm until 4am
Free