Nice and greasy

We've recently uploaded some more greasy spoon / cafe images to our Flickr page. It's definitely a labour of love scanning in all those wonky Lomo LC-A shots of yesteryear, but the Crap City Collection will be expanding again soon with the addition of 'Coin-Op' launderettes. Watch this space...

Sketch of the Week

Rick - Broad Bean Lunch

Nigel - Wired For Sound

Andy - Glider (Polystyrene)

Sketch of the Week

Nigel - ‘Analogue’

Andy - ‘Don’t Spook The Horse’

Rick - ‘Measure Twice, Sketch Once’

Reworn

We've recently revamped Reworn.co.uk. If you have a work shirt, pair of jeans or tracksuit top that needs recycling into a dress, apron or laptop case, just consider giving it the 'Reworn treatment'. To view the site click here.

rEEEEfreshed

We've now revitalized emilychalmers.com. Everytime you visit the homepage you'll be able to view the eclectic range of Emily's Es.
Click here to examine, then hit 'refresh' to see another random E.

NIGEL HAS HIS PHOTO taken with Suggs

In a rare showbiz outing, Frank swanked along to the Madness album launch party last Thursday at the Light Bar (in The Liberty of Norton Folgate of course). In our typically low-key style we did some celeb-spotting... which included two people from Eastenders (Gary and Billy, apparently), that portly bloke who gets picked on by Marjorie Dawes in Little Britain, Gaz Mayall (John's son), the harp player from Alabama 3, Billy Childish, and architectural historian Dan Cruickshank (who Rick drunkenly spoke to)... a real happening party crowd!
Anyway, a few drinks later, the band came on and did a stirring set of numbers from the new album including their magnum opus (the 9 minute title track), and some foot-stomping hits of yesteryear. All in all, it was a jolly good show indeed. Well done lads!

Got Folk?

Frank has just splashed out on the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Anthology of American Folk Music edited by Harry Smith. 84 tracks across six discs, and a huge influence on the folk-boom of the 50s and 60s. It's a lovely big box set with various marvellously wonky documents reproduced from Harry's originals, plus some more up-to-date cultural overview stuff from the likes of Greil Marcus. Should hopefully keep us entertained for a while.