Recently it’s all infrastructure all the time. Working on getting studio spaces set up and ducks in a row. Not so much time for actual art making :( However i thought i’d share two images, that have for different reasons had a big impact on my practice. The first image, above, is a club flyer from the late mid 90′s probably 95 or thereabouts for a collective called Desert Storm. I went to a few of their nights in Nottingham at that time. I loved what they were doing politically as well as musically. In 1996 Desert Storm took their sound system on the road to war torn Sarajevo.

The Desert Storm flyer shows a turn table sporting a “Nort” insignia from the 2000AD story Rogue Trooper. Again this comic was a big influence i’m not sure how or if it gets expressed thru the work so much… but in terms of downtime i’ve spent a lot of it reading Rogue Trooper and of late tracking down collected trades at Wizard World and such….

Despite the “Southers” being portrayed as the “good” guys in Rogue Trooper i love that DS took the “Nort” logo…… as a Northern Englishman i could never quite relate to the idea of cheering the “Southers” on…. ok back to my infrastructure play.