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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 18:17:32 GMT
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 18:18:21 GMT
20 January 2013 Rowdy, Haka and Mr Riks  45RPM  Alien, Khoi, Kace, Nose, Young and Ryder  Khoi and Midas  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:15:14 GMT
27 January 2013 Zesk and Khoi  Cold and Sony  Epok, 3Dom and Vodka  Haka  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:16:23 GMT
4 February 2013 Haka tribute to CKOne  Boswell  Midas  Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas  Boswell and Lokey  And something from the archives. This 1971 Rover P6 is in an old warehouse and boatyard which has been derelict for at least 15 years and probably a fair bit longer than that. Demz and Dowz were two members of Crew Mess who absolutely smashed the city in the mid-2000s. They were the first to hit lots of spots around Bristol - rooftops, tracksides, abandoned buildings - and their pieces are still up years later.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:18:26 GMT
10 February 2013 CM, ASK and KTF crews and Oick  Haka  Lokey, Boswell, CageOne, Andy Council and Rowdy  Vermin  Jon5  And something from the archives. Anyone who's been to Bristol to check out the graffiti or a show is bound to have seen Westmoreland House which is known locally as 'the Beirut Building' because in the late '80s it wouldn't have looked out of place in the Lebanese capital. However, although Beirut has been rebuilt twice since then, Westmoreland House still looks much the same 25 years later. This is without a doubt my favourite Hall of Fame and, because it's virtually inaccessible these days, hardly anything has gone up in the last few years. You'll get an idea from the tags which surround this Sickboy temple - Rowdy, Cyclops, ATG, Ponk, Demz, - just how special this place is and the standard of work that's still up in Westmoreland House.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:19:19 GMT
17 February 2013 Soker
Andy Council
Zesk
Soker and Deamz
Keys, Focus, Newz, Refa, Smak, Amoe, Amok, Madson and Some
And something from the archives. I think this Banksy piece was from about 2000, although my memory is a little hazy and, because it was shot with film, my photo unfortunately doesn't have a date stamp. It was on the same wall which he later painted the guy handing out the window which is still there.
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:19:52 GMT
24 February 2013 Silent Hobo  KaiOne  Jahoer, Smak, Khoi and Zesk  3Dom  DBK, 45RPM, Rowdy, Sickboy, Afta, Sony and Xenz  And something from the archives. While I'm on the topic of Xenz, here's Bristol's answer to the Sistine Chapel. The Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Apostles was the city's Roman Catholic cathedral until the 1970s and then it was used as a Steiner School. Since then it's been derelict and has only occasionally been used for anarchist squats and leftfield parties and it was during this time (c.2007) that Xenz painted what was originally the side chapel and which was later the school hall.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:20:49 GMT
1 April 2013 Soker and 3Dom  Gumbo and Howls  Cosh  Phick and Oick  Loch Ness, Lokey, Shabs, Boswell and CageOne  And something from the archives. If you've got a train into Bristol then you've probably seen the giant, derelict Parcelforce buildings next to Temple Meads train station. This piece by Ponk and Sickboy was painted back when they were both part of the 'Ave A Go Heroes (AAGH) crew before Ponk joined Roid and co. in the Heavy Artillery crew and Sickboy moved through to London.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:23:15 GMT
8 April 2013 Rowdy, Andy Council, Bandito and Jody  Boswell, Lokey, Tarqs and Shabs  Vesar and Young  Dead and Epok  Rose  Mr Jago and Soker  And something from the archives. While we've on the topic of Jago collaborations, here is my favourite street piece by anyone over the last few years. This was painted around the back of a club called Clockwork by Dale 'Vermin' Marshall and Mr Jago in 2010. The piece was entirely untouched, which is almost unheard of in this area of town, until the club was torn down last year. Here's a rough-cut video of the piece being painted here. I think Dale and Duncan are both incredibly passionate, thoughtful and original artists and I just love their work.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:27:11 GMT
9 April 2013 I thought that people might be interested to see the current state of the remaining pieces by Banksy in Bristol. Funnily enough, although every stencil piece that goes up seems to be attributed to Banksy by some people, the majority of Banksy pieces in Bristol which are still in a reasonable state were painted freehand. Anyway, here we go: Hanging Man This got hit with a paintball gun a couple of years ago. Mild Mild West This also got hit with a paintball gun at the same time as Hanging Man but it got cleared off straight away. Take with money with Inkie and Mode2.  Three kings! Heavy Weaponary Designated Picnic Area Apart from the fact that it's very badly faded, this piece has suffered from the rather unusual problem of its surrounding now being in too nice a condition. This alley was always being flytipped when the piece was painted but now it's been tidied up and painted the once-ironic message has been slightly lost. Poodle This is on the wall of the Barton Hill Dug Out ball court where Inkie et al. learnt their craft. There was a reunion painting session and barbeque last summer and unfortunately someone wrote over this piece without realising what was on the wall. Sunset with Inkie  This is round the back of my street. The Free tag has been there for years but a bit of my neighbour's gate fell off last year; hence the hole in Inkie's piece. Kebele with Lokey, Kato, Soker and Tes  This was part of a bigger wall with Lokey, Kato, Soker and Tes but unfortunately Doodlebubz (pretty disrespectfully in my opinion) painted over those old-school writers and inserted himself into a wall with Banksy. Rose Trap I think protecting graffiti behind plexi-glass is straight up ridiculous but this piece is in a far better state than all the other stencils around town from this era. Pierced Up Safe and sound in a tattoo parlour. Rollermania with Kato  Grim Reaper Fortunately this wasn't painted on a spot of the hull which hasn't stained. Also fortunately, the Harbourmaster hasn't buffed this piece like he did with the previous Banksy piece on the side of the Thekla. Quak Attack with Kato, Lokey, Tes and Soker  That is possibly the shittest tag I've seen. Ever. Gorilla with a mask The North Bristol Social Club closed and the new owner whitewashed the wall. Then he realised the gorilla was by Banksy and tried to remove the paint. If this was a real gorilla they would have put it out its misery by now  Blowpop Records Although this stencil is in a poor condition it's still in a far better condition than the once beautiful building it's painted on. Planning Permission Anyone still reading? More Heavy Weaponary Well it's in a better condition than the sign. It's actually St Andrews Road. And something from the archives. This Love Is In The Air was the most recent Banksy piece to be buffed in Bristol. I've got earlier photos of this piece somewhere but this is how it looked in 2009. Sometime around 2007 a fake LIITA was painted on the same wall and, being more recent, it wasn't as faded as the genuine piece. Anyway the owners whitewashed the wall last year but painted around the LIITA presumably so they could keep their Banksy. The only problem was that they painted around the fake LIITA and buffed the genuine one.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:28:19 GMT
15 April 2013 Andy Council and ShabOne  Khoi and Gorf RIP  Fiver, 3Dom and Haze  Crowes, ESM, Smak, Zynk, Elves, Khoi and Bandito  45RPM, Peter, Ebo and Richt  And something from the archives. This piece was painted in 2004 when the Iraq and Afghan Wars were in full swing and was buffed very shortly after it went up. If you're seeing this piece for the first time in 2013 it probably looks a lot like 101 other stencils you've seen over recent years but nearly 10 years ago this was fresh, relevant and effective and I've liked it ever since. I never did find out who painted it.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:35:19 GMT
21 April 2013 Philth  Rose   Midas  Midas  And something from the archives. This is in the print studio I used to use down on Spike Island. I loved the marks of colour left by dozens of different artists as they went into this room to clean their screens. I must have gone in and out of this room hundreds of times before I spotted this Sickboy tag and the miniature temple he'd drawn on the side of the door.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:37:29 GMT
30 April 2013 Dead and Epok  Xenz and Paris  Xenz and Paris (detail)  Mr Riks  Epok and Kleiner Shames  Mas, MSE and Soker.  And something from the archives. The Soker piece above is painted on a wall which until relatively recently featured this TCF crew burner from Guy Fawkes' night 2007. Since then Paris has done the art work for Coldplay's last album, Feek has worked on Aardman's animations, Acerone has put on one of the best and most overlooked show of 2012 in London but I've no idea what that Xenz fella has been up to since 2007. The other writers involved with this piece were Eko, Dicy, Ponk, Ziml, K148 and Seza.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:38:37 GMT
30 April 2013 Dead and Epok Xenz and Paris Xenz and Paris (detail) Mr Riks Epok and Kleiner Shames Mas, MSE and Soker. And something from the archives. The Soker piece above is painted on a wall which until relatively recently featured this TCF crew burner from Guy Fawkes' night 2007. Since then Paris has done the art work for Coldplay's last album, Feek has worked on Aardman's animations, Acerone has put on one of the best and most overlooked show of 2012 in London but I've no idea what that Xenz fella has been up to since 2007. The other writers involved with this piece were Eko, Dicy, Ponk, Ziml, K148 and Seza. |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:39:36 GMT
12 May 2013 Sickboy, Paris and Eko  Smak and Khoi  3Dom  JPS  And something from the archives. This is without a doubt my favourite stencil and it's by Jef Row. There's another one still up in St Werburghs but this particular piece was from 2004. It's relatively simple compared with the multilayered stencils we're used to nowadays but I love the pathos, message and execution.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:41:22 GMT
21 May 2013 3Dom  Deamz and Kleiner Shames  DBK and Drek  Gumbo, Oath, 45RPm, Rudie and 3Dom  Rowdy  And something from the archives. Back in c.2007 Rowdy put on an exhibition of his rock art in an abandoned quarry which was also home to Banksy's zebra car. If you go to Rowdy's Facebook page and scrawl down to 14 April you'll see Rowdy's contribution to the Dots film where he talks about his rock art.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:42:11 GMT
24 May 2013 Vermin  SatOne  Roids  Sickboy, 45RPM and Work To Mother  Rowdy, True, Asok and Haka  And something from the archives. With Upfest right around the corner, I thought I'd upload my favourite piece from the 2010 event. Boom!  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:42:55 GMT
29 May 2013 Eoin, 2Rise, Vomet, Rask, Vodker, Neist and Epok  Deamze   2Rise, ASEB, Epok and Neist  Spore and Machism  And something from the archives. This is one of the those pieces which is often wrongly attributed to Banksy and which is actually by Dotcom and Slim. The piece went up in 2004-ish and this photo was taken a couple of years later. Since then it's been patched up a few times but is still going strong. If anyone hasn't come across this piece before it's right by the junction with the M32 and the piece depicts Michael Douglas' roadrage-inclined character from the film Falling Down.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:46:06 GMT
9 June 2013 Zadok  Stenk  Seifrei  Minto  Hogre  And something from the archives. For all the Stik fans out there, here's a piece painted in the former beer garden of a derelict pub a few years back.  And for all those who aren't particularly fussed about Stik but who still sni**er at 14 year old's humour here's something else for you.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:47:05 GMT
11 June 2013 Bristol handstyles  And something from the archives. I appreciate not everyone loves a good tag as much as I do, so here's the last of those writers painting a big, beautiful wall of stampeding animals for a travel documentary for French TV.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:50:21 GMT
13 June 2013 Cosmo Sarson  Aspire  Zase  Seifrei  Kleiner Shames and Sper  And something from the archives. For no reason other than the fact that his work is always amazing, here's some Sickboy from 2010.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:52:47 GMT
I suspect that this post is going to be so niche as to only be of interest to me, but never mind. I should start off by saying how highly I would recommend the book ' Children Of The Can' by Felix 'FLX' Braun, which covers 25 years of Bristol graffiti. There's some fantastic interviews with lots of Bristol legends like 3D, Vermin and Banksy. In his interview Inkie talks about painting at the Barton Hill Dugout in the late 1980's and says "We'd get the bus up to a remote train station and walk back down the train track into town, basically hitting everything on the way - trains, walls, the workers' huts, all the little electrical boxes. At one point I had it caned all the way from Clifton Down right over to Barton Hill, and out past the other side of Temple Meads." So basically, I thought I'd retrace Inkie's footsteps from Clifton Down down to Lawrence Hill which is the station near Barton Hill. There's obviously nothing left by Inkie or TUB, but the pieces which are up along the train line are pretty representative of the last 10 years of Bristol bombing; Stubz and Demz, Dotcom and Mos, DBK and ADNS. Anyway, here we go... Clifton Down to Redland
Redland to Montpelier
Montpelier to Stapleton Road
Stapleton Road to Lawrence Hill
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:56:50 GMT
23 June 2013 3Dom   Unwellcome Relatives: CageOne, Pen, Shabs and Lokey (painted at a small graffiti jam yesterday at the former Bridewell Fire Station)  My favourite Hall of Fame which is under 12 square foot in size (carved into the stone I can spot a Rowdy croc, a Cyclops hand, a Sickboy Temple, Sweet Toof gums, an LLBrainwashed brain and tags by Neas, Müdwig and Sepr)  Andy Council (this piece is painted in my neighbourhood of Easton and the spider is made up of various local buildings and landmarks - I can spot Stapleton Road Railway Station, Shah Jalal Jame Mosque, Kensington Baptist Church and W.G. Grace's former house.  And something from the archives. Following on from the Andy Council piece, and because Rowdy's got a kick-ass show on at the moment, here a collaboration between the two of them which has since been enveloped by vegetation and which has pretty much disappeared as a result.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:57:41 GMT
30 June 2013 Green (This is the former Millionaire's Row Hall of Fame; it's been pretty relentlessly buffed for the last 10 years so it'll be interesting to see how long this lasts.)  NKdM  Masai  Alex Lucas  Amuk, Atch and Epok  And something from the archives. Vermin with Australian artist Kid Zoom from 2009.  |
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Post by feralthings on Apr 7, 2015 19:58:32 GMT
4 July 2013 More Bristol handstyles  |
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