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The Tattoo Gallery

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About Me

Greetings from The Tattoo Gallery, East End of Adelaide! We've been around as a Rundle Street Tattoo Shop for over 40 years, and in it's current ownership over a decade! We have a great team with Tribal Mike, Owner/Operator and his artists Baby Dave, Andy P - these guys have been with us since the inception of their tattoo careers.Morag handles the piercing requirements and pretty much manages the studio while Josh and Sarah make our lives that little bit easier by being great helper-outer-studio assitant dudes!Check out our website www.tattoogallery.com.au - it's been around for a while but received a well-needed facelift in January 2008....In Ink....Tattoo Gallery Crew

Scarface Highlights to Eminem's "Go To Sleep" Nvzble Productions
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My Interests

Art in all forms, design, music, movies, martial arts, boxing, animals [spesh sharks, big cats, snakes, reptiles, cats 'n' dogs but not jack russells or fox terriers], shopping, hanging out, stupid t shirts, cooking, drinking wine, vodka, champagne, tequila [strictly shots] and foreign beers, british and american motorcycles, muscle cars, boats and stuff that you can hang on to gettin' towed behind a boat, tattoos, some piercings, having a laugh, talking shit and taking the piss!

I'd like to meet:

A whole heap of dead people like Jim Morrison, my Granny, John Lennon, Phil Lynott, Keith Moon, Syd Barrett, Elvis, Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra, Bette Davis. Those still alive and kicking [ass]; Keith Richards, Johnny Depp, John Leguizamo, David Bowie, Willem Dafoe, Steve Tyler, Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Rosanna and Patricia Arquette, Uma Thurman, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Juliette Lewis, Al Pacino, Cher, Patti Smith, Rob Zombie, Christopher Walken, Edward Norton, Madonna, Dennis Hopper, Bob Geldof and the fucking asshole who ran over my cat in December 2004! In the tattoo scene we would like to meet Guy Aitchison, Bob Tyrell, Dawei Zhang, Horioshi III, Ed Hardy, Bugs, Paul Booth, The Leu Family and Kat VonD......

Music:

Currently listening to BLS, Pink Floyd, Rage Against The Machine, Ministry, Rob Zombie, Swing, Billie Holiday, Danzig, Velvet Revolver, Lou Reed, Aerosmith, Whitesnake, Ted Nugent, Van Halen, some GNR, Iggy Pop, Black Sabbath, Faith No More, ThinLizzy, Whitesnake, Patti Smith, Pendulum, The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, FatBoy Slim, The Gorillaz, Mahalia Jackson....

Movies:

True Romance, Natural Born Killers, Boondock Saints, Platoon, Out of Africa,The Exorcist [especially NO 1 and No 3], The Omen [all including the latest remake], 3000 Miles to Graceland,Pulp Fiction, Dusk till Dawn, The Godfather [all except 3 was too long and drawn out], Serpico, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devils Rejects, Interview with a Vampire, B grade horrors like "Reanimator" and "PHANTASM" love the quixenart weaponry! Dumb and Dumber, Team America, Click [love the scene where Adam Sandler shards in David Hasselhoff's face while the "pause" button is on], Transformers, The Simpsons, Resident Evil I II & III, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with Robert Downey Jnr and Val Kilmer - radical......

Television:

Ladettes to Ladies, Fonejacker, anything with fucking Gordon fuckety-fuck-fuck Ramsay in it, Parental Consent, Outrageous Fortune, Wife Swap, Weed, Miami Ink, LA Ink, ....

Books:

Slash's Bio, DaVinci Code, Jo Cappobianco's Pin-Up Girls, any books about crime history, criminals or underground societies, old school rockstar biographies, recommend "The DIRT", individual diaries and history of Motley Crue.....br

Heroes:

My Mum and Dad who were always there for us through thick and thin! Mike's mum who loved us even though we wore black all the time and had tattoos! and who made the best roast pork crackling in the universe! Steve Irwin who made us all freak out and care about Australia as an ecosystem, Jacques Cousteau and his legacy for educating us about the ocean and the amazing creatures that live there, our daughter Heather who is just awesome and Sir Bob Geldoff who is a fucking Irish Saint and needs to be the President of the World RIGHT NOW!!!

My Blog

National PTAA Convention 2008

On the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of May 08, the PTAA hosted it's National Tattoo Convention, held at the Sebel on Albert Park.The Tattoo Gallery packed up all the tattoo gear, crew, family, friends and clients...
Posted by The Tattoo Gallery on Fri, 16 May 2008 08:29:00 PST

Patti Smith

Patti Smith.....RESPECT.A rocker, a poet, an artist - a womanI’ve listened to her music since I was a teenager and it still evokes passion.Patti Smith has inspired men and women in the music sce...
Posted by The Tattoo Gallery on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:17:00 PST

Koi Fish Tattoo

Hey there, so the new pic was The Tattoo Gallery's feature tattoo for the month of February, 2008.  This koi was inked by Tribal Mike on a very cool lady Kat! Check it and heaps of other rad body...
Posted by The Tattoo Gallery on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:49:00 PST

RESIDENT EVIL-EXTINCTION

Mila Jovovich plays Alice, the kick-ass hero of Resident Evil-EXTINCTION, the latest zombie horror/sci fi movie in the so-far three film compilation of the video game turned major box office hit!Umbre...
Posted by The Tattoo Gallery on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:58:00 PST

Tattoo Wars - Foxtel

Has anyone watched Tattoo Wars?? Discovery Channel and Hugh 'Chopper' King [dude that brought us Americn Biker Build-Off] has made 6 ephisodes of Tattoo-Wars between world-renowned and up-and-coming t...
Posted by The Tattoo Gallery on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:27:00 PST

Heaven N Hell Tour - Adelaide, August 5th 2007

Morag  & Phil Well, when the tickets to Heaven n Hell went on sale and sold out the same goddamn morning, we thought we were royally fuckt...our chance to see Dio/Iommi/Butler work their musi...
Posted by The Tattoo Gallery on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:34:00 PST