Entries Tagged as 'Xenz'

May 2, 2008

Not A Penny Off The Pay… Opening Night Review

So, am back from the opening night of the ‘Not A Penny’ show, and damn was it good. Many people met, many discussions had, and some art viewed too. It was a crazy night, let me tell you about what i can…
Got there later than intended, and saw the first of the shutter pieces i’d [...]

April 20, 2008

Glastonbury pieces over the years…

Meant to blog these at the end of last week, but the Nick Walker show got in the way. Anyway, really pleased to have these, sent over by Graham Paris, they’re some photos of TCF and Bristol related graf pieces done at Glastonbury Festival over the years, including a bit of Banksy that you may [...]

April 9, 2008

Weapon of Choice review - 45RPM and China Mike

So, back from this month’s Weapon of Choice. An awesome line up of artists, and, as it turned out, an awesome line up of DJs and acts, perhaps almost too awesome…
So, as ever, here’s the traditional blank ‘canvas’ shot at the start of the night.

China Mike’s up first, during an awesome dub act, DJ, MC [...]

March 19, 2008

Exciting news…

With spring starting to hint its way into reality, there are loads of rumours flying around at the moment about stuff coming up for the summer, artist’s shows, secret events, nods and winks, you know the score.
All hush hush mostly, but found out yesterday about one i can mention on this blog, Mr Jago and [...]

January 24, 2008

Back from the smoke

Was in London today meeting a few friends and acquaintances, some graf related, some not, but saw some stuff that I thought would be of interest.  Found out some other stuff that will be of interest to cover here later in the year, but here’s the present day for now.
Walked past the site of the [...]

January 19, 2008

Graffle night review

So tonight was the Graffle draw night, and they’d certainly done well in the final choice of venue! Posh as you like, and a window outside had pleasingly been expertly decorated by Mr Jago. My camera did two shots of this, not sure which is better to be honest, so here’s the flash and non [...]

January 7, 2008

Woodmancote Road, Bristol

Another road you wouldn’t really spot this, running between Ashley Road and Shaftesbury Avenue, but one totally worth checking out for lots of varied work, some awesome. A large post this, but really do read to the end, it gets better!
Starting up at the Ashley Road end, there’s this odd but good piece by, i [...]

December 27, 2007

York Street, St Werburghs

Had someone arriving at the blog searching for “house graffiti bristol st werburghs” and reckon this is the one they may have been looking for. It an absolutely massive piece from Paris and Xenz, and is properly awesome. Good location for it too, York Street’s a bit of a cut through down to the M32 [...]

December 26, 2007

A Christmas ramble

Had a day off yesterday, but wouldn’t you know it, when you’re not looking for graf, the graf comes looking for you.
Took an after dinner walk to prevent falling asleep, and ran into this van, expertly painted by Paris, Xenz and Milk. Had seen photos of it before online before (which of course i can’t [...]

December 19, 2007

Xenz show closing

I love email newsletters sometimes, just had one from the Forster Gallery, saying the Xenz show is closing on the 22nd of December. If you haven’t been yet, you really should, it’s really very great.
Also, the boards outside of the gallery that he painted up in an awesome dark cities style are now up for [...]