Oh! Inverted World - May 19th

It's been two months of ridiculous sunshine since the last Oh! Inverted World, and now we're back at Old Queens Head with Dan Michaelson, I Am Harlequin and Professor Penguin, it's going to be ace.  Here's a flyer, gets you in for £4, and features the Magnolia that's directly outside my window.  For a few weeks in Spring it makes the view beautiful.  Actually come to think of it, appreciating the seasons and the colours they bring really is another sign that I'm getting old....

Oh! Inverted World - Feb 17th

Oh! Inverted World rides again this week, and I've been seriously slack making a flyer.  But there's one good reason, it already sold out, so I was telling myself this is more like a souvenir poster or something. Wait, who am I kidding.  I'm feeling seriously nostalgic for Japan at the moment so that probably influenced the subject matter, and I'm currently only reading books by Japanese authors or travel books from Japan.  It's a narrow but awesome field.  My favourite is Alan Booth's 'The Roads To Sata' which tells of his epic 3000km walk from the head to toes of Japan.  It can be summed up by him waking up, walking, grumbling, drinking a beer, walking, grumbling, drinking lots of beer, having a hot bath, sleeping, but hidden in there is a deep love for both the country and the art of travelling alone.  It has an amazingly romantic ending as well, ahhhh.

Currently reading Isabella Bird's 19th century tales of travelling in Japan, it's a bit random and quite bigoted, but viewed through a filter of old times understanding, and when you consider that she travelled alone through the rural parts of a Japan just entering the 'modern' Meiji era, it's all pretty incredible.

Ok, so this Thursday, ahem.  It's going to be an amazing show, Grouplove riding in on a wave of saucy hype, Big Deal and also Chad Valley playing too.

o o o o Oh! Inverted World Boat Party o o o o

Oh! Inverted World, the legendary (ahem), super fun (yay) club night is going nautical and rocking out at The Tamesis Dock in Vauxhall on 24th November.

Playing are Superhumanoids, Sunderbans and at least one more act to be announced soon.

Filthy Dukes Album Art

FILTHY DUKES - 'NONSENSE IN THE DARK' - ALBUM SHOOT

Was commissioned to shoot a 5ft wide giant wooden eye on location in Winspet Quarry, near Swanange. The resulting images were used as cover and booklet art for the Filthy Duke's debut album 'Nonsense In The Dark'.

An access road would have helped, the rain, mud and darkness definitely didn't but with Ollie from the band, art director Stuart and Kelly from Polydor fighting the elements it all came together. Pint of local ale in the pub that night to finish and three hours sleep in the back of the van on way back. Job done, brilliant!

check their music out HERE, and there's some live shots from a recent gig at Matter, London, included below.

Location: Winspet Quarry, near Swanage

Client: Polydor Records

Album: 'Nonsense In The Dark' (2009)