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When I was in London I got to hang out with my good old pal and one of my favourite artists working in the UK. French.
After sharing a deep fried Mars bar between 3 people and all feeling ill - Thanks Stu! No, really! - I got to see what he’d been up to lately.

This is Stu with the battered Mars Bar and the Whitstable Chip shop proprietors.

At work.

Inspiration.

Amazing new stuff made at this simple desk.

This is where the tea break goes down.

I also spotted this death country hand-made tape by Marcus Oakley there.

Check out French’s blog it’s updated almost daily with the good stuff.

While we were in London I got to see my old band play. It’s an almost totally new line up and Dan’s songwriting is better than ever as is the band. Look out for By The Fireside, (or listen here) they regularly play London and I know they will tour Australia next year.

In the back of the van on the way to the gig.

Seriously, keep an eye on these guys. They are IT!

Andy from Value King put up his show ‘First Time Round’ .

Tristan Ceddia

Joseph Allen and Mark Drew. Hanging side by side.

DL76.

All pics stolen from Mark Drew/Making Ends 

IzRock Pressings is super proud to be included in the Nieves library by way of Marcus Oakley’s The Idea of Something amongst such amazing titles. Can you spot us in there dwarfed by greatness? Photo stolen from Nieves Flickr

When in London, make sure you check out what’s happening at Pat Graham’s 96 Gillespie Gallery in Arsenal.
Currently there is a Needles and Pens (San Francisco scene gallery) curated show that is amazing titled Hope Springs Eternal.
Hope you get to make it.

Thanks to Kris (publisher of London’s best new art mag Paperback) for all your help towards this launch.
Oh and the man is down with Serps Press too. Now you know he is on it.

So we turned up at Nog Gallery’s newly renovated space.

So we got to it.

French dropped by to lend a hand. Cheers, brother.

This is Max the gallerist and Nog mastermind shooting the works. Thanks for everything, Max!

So Hamburg. Nothing beats time spent with Mr Stefan Marx. Love that guy.

This is Anne. She is a local hero for carrying the largest Brixton briefcase.

We went to the Poodle Club, a raucous club near the port where they also have tiny art expos. Stefan had filled the whole gallery with fire scorch illustrations on large wood panels. They had kept all the pieces to decorate their back room. I felt an affinity with this character.

There was this gnarly and tight bowl built behind a squat on the main drag of the cool area.

Good man and faved conspirator, London’s PMH had a show at Vicious gallery open the previous weekend. They were still cleaning up from the UK bombardment when we arrived!

He is a refreshing gift to Hip Hop.

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PMH

Stefan had these amazing Wesley Willis drawings that he is showing at the aforementioned Pudle club.

This is the flyer.

Here we visit Stefan’s studio. So much amazing new work in there.

Looking looking looking.

Fireworks.

Toy Soldiers.

Song for Dougy.

This is how he gets there.

Krueger Fine Arts. Open for business.

Stefan Marx - The Prince of Hamburg on top of the city.

Got to Berlin and went straight over to Circle Culture to see the Sads play.

But passed this great tin foil bike on the way, I saw a couple of these over the weekend.

It was pretty packed, so people watched from behind on the other side of the glass.

Now we had become the number one groupies, we saw them the following night too!

Along with the Sads gigs, Aaron was in town to hang a Sister Corita show hot on the heels of the one we did at Monster Children Gallery in January. This one is at Circle Culture Gallery in the Mitte area.

This shot is of Circle Culture Gallery director and snappy dresser Johann, our ever-gracious host and long time pal Claus Heuwinkel, sound maker extroadinare and scorpio Dave Stone, the beautiful other half to the (what will be) IzRock Empire, and far right multi-talented art-maker-happener Mr Aaron Rose.