This will be available from the thesickboy.com website from the 1st December. Keep hitting refresh and I guess you might get one and find out what the button on the side is for....

Herakut and Luc Price have a show coming up at the Leonard Street Gallery from the 15th December 2007.

The Feeding of The 5000 gig, Shepherds Bush Empire featuring Steve Ignorant running through a bunch of Crass songs, Flux of Pink Indians, Zounds and Deviated Instinct. I was lucky enough to get a photo pass so here's some pictures from what was a great night. More here.

Here comes the PR bit:

The Frisson Gallery is excited to present a new exhibition by the very talented London based, Supa Dupa crew…. 

Santa's Ghetto 2007. For full details as and when they are known go to picturesonwalls.com

Well, while I'm still trying to work out what I think about the Gallows / Lethal Bizzle cover of the Ruts 'Staring At The Rude Boys' I thought I'd mention this event as it sounds like it's going to very, very good.

Over 40 'urban' artists are taking over the old Bridewell Police Station in Bristol this Christmas and filling it up with stencils, sculpture, prints, fine art, graffiti and just general mayhem. If you're thinking this is some kind of Assault on Precinct 13 style attack on the police station that's not quite right because the building is disused but it should be a great venue. The irony of the fact that the location is where many graffiti writers have been taken over the years is not lost on the organisers who include art-el.co.uk, beforechrome and steal from work. After a year of endless emails about new galleries being opened both online and in white walled spaces it's so refreshing to see something coming together that seems to be more like street art used to be, a bunch of artists getting together to have some fun. 

45rpm Adam 'adz' Koukoudakis Beejoir Brian Jones Cameron Robertson Celia Anne Garcia Chris Instinct Cyclops Daddisonish Dan Dicy Docvec Dora Dr. D Eelus Ekoe FLX  Ghostboy

Guy Denning Harry Simmonds James Cauty Jason Atomic Kuildoosh/Wet Shame Lady Lucy Let Them Hang Lucie Akerman Mark Hughes Mau Mau Maurice Doherty Milk Misteraitch Motorboy Mr Jago Mudwig Nick Walker Ozzy Mandust

Pam Glew Panik Paris Richt Rowdy Sainty sp-sepr SPQR Sums Sweet Toof Tinker Has A Posse TRXTR Tvrbo We Dream Of Meat ZIML

 More details can be found on 12 Days of Xmas. 

And yeah, I do love that Gallows track 'cos it just presses all the right buttons, pushes things forwards and takes nothing away from the original.

I caught up with Shepard Fairey at the back end of October prior to the opening of the Nineteeneightyfouria show (last few days - closes November 22nd).

You can read the interview with Shepard here.

I often get asked where to go to find particular Banksy pieces by people who are visiting London. Obviously Martin Bull's Banksy Location and Tours Book is the most comprehensive guide out there but here is something I promised a few years ago - a live map of a top 10 Banksy locations. It'll get updated anytime that anything gets buffed but at the moment they're all there.

I'm away from the computer at the moment so here is a preloaded blog entry.

New Conor Harrington work off Brick lane:

Snub paste up on the side of the Truman Brewery

Eine's work being used in advertising? Anyone know the score with this?

Current show at Leaonard Street Gallery - 'This Is England' by Matt Small

The fact that Banksy's work has risen meteorically in value has produced some strange responses. From being covered over in perspex in Portobello Road and Brighton to promises of destruction in Tower Hamlets it's all getting a little weird.

But this is the strangest of the lot:

"Works by maverick street artist Banksy are being restored by council workers to protect them from graffiti vandals"

Full article here: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23419866-details/Council+adds+its+own+touch+to+a+Banksy/article.do

Shepard Fairey's show with StolenSpace raised the bar yet again in street art shows. 20,000 square foot of space with so much quality work - it was a real head rush after walking up the stairs to find so much in such a huge space. Go see.

This money soon got hoovered up by the crowd

Shepard knocking out some Public Enemy

Canvas from the show

Canvas detail

A well mannered queue, no punch ups for prints - nice work Stolenspace!

Open invite from Hush for this evening and beyond