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david apps photography

david apps photography

About Me


If you live in London and would like to take a look at my
Photography & design works, on Saturday the 27th of October
I will be at:
The Space,
St Pauls Arts Trust
269 West Ferry rd
Isle of Dogs
London
E143R3
From the 4th of November, every Sunday up until Christmas! I will
be at the Backyard Market, just of Brick lane.
This is situated next to 93 Feet East & near to The Vibe bar
IDEAL FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS!
limited eddition screen prints £35.
Fifty signed & individually numbered designs called the Italian Job.
Go to my website for purchasing by clicking on the add below.
START YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING HERE, JUST CLICK ON THE ADD BELOW.
From the late 70s into the mid 90s David Apps was the drummer and a founding member of The Manufactured Articles, Asano Macabre, The Beat of the Beast, The Cow Said Yes and Spunky. During his career David had also shared a stage playing along side of Nick Cash of 999 and Edd Tudor pole of Ten Pole Tudor. After The Swankers/The Strand a certain Wally Nightingale was replaced by Johnny Rotten as the band metamorphosed into the Sex Pistols. As fare as history has been documented it is thought the only other band Wally played with was The Beat of the Beast. He sadly died in 1996, a lost soul with unfulfilled dreams. At The Beat of the Beast farewell gig David passed his drumsticks over to Vom Ritchie of Die Toten Hosen, had Chris Dollimore of Del Amitri on guitar and sang a painfull rendition Anarchy in the UK. Before smashing his drum kit up David spent two years with his last band Spunky, and then gave up music.
Over the years spent playing in bands David had met, played or become friends with most of the people he had grown up listening to. With endless stories he then wrote a book on his tails entitled: A Drum Beat Behind, this will hopefully be published sometime in the near future.
With his manuscripts written and the dreams of fame left behind him David then turned his creative mind to photography. In 2003 he picked up a camera and hasn’t put it down since. With an eye that captures every moment in his wonderfully thought provoking way David has become a remarkable creative photographer in his own right. On his web site there’s no information written about him, because it’s simply not necessary, every photo speaks for itself. Writing by Dwayne Dibbley.
david apps photography & design on this site & the linked website can be purchased in any size or format.
But not as a one off screen print.
8 x 10 inch mounted prints £5
10 x 10 inch canvas prints £25
A3 canvas prints £35
A2 canvas prints £55

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My Interests

Photography. The camera is my weapon for my self expression!

I'd like to meet:

throughout my life I've met most of the people that I'd found interesting or admired, including Glen Matlock, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Poly Styrene, Jayne County, Siouxsie Sioux, Steve Severin. Rat Scabies, Dave Vanium. Gay Advert, TV Smith, Dwayne Dibbley, Nick Cash, Andy Ellison and Bill Legend of T-Rex, along with many others. But the high lights were when I met Mick Ronson of the Spiders from Mars. My junkie hero Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. Marky Ramone, the amazing Ramones drummer. And last but not least, the one and only Spike Milligan. The one person I wanted to meet but didn't died back in 1979 when I was just 15 years old/young. He was my teenage hero Sid Vicious.

Music:

I like all the best bands. The Ramones, Clash, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, X-Ray Spex, The Ruts, Generation X, 999, The Damned, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders, T-Rex, David Bowie, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, the Specials, Jimmy Cliff, the Small Faces, UK Subs, Adam & The Ants, Waxwork Dummies, The Boys Wonder and Bum. I believe by using music it to speak out about the wrongs in this world can help to put things right and change your life.

Movies:

Taxie Driver,Big Fish, The Italian Job, Clock Work Orange, Don't Look Now, Dances With Wolves, Billy Elliot & Bowling for Columbine. These are all films that have got to me, or got me thinking! I hate the TV and only watch films or coast on DVD.

Television:

As i've just said, what a load of old rubbish! I don't see the point in sitting watching other people living out a make believe life in East Enders or some other soap. Get of your Ass and do something!

Books:

Up untill I had written my book: A Drum Beat Behind, I had'nt read a book all the way through. I had always skipped the pages as I did with both: I'm Dwayne Dibbley and, No Irish, No Blacks and No Dog's. Once my book was completed, I then read the Cockney Reject. It was at this point that I realised that what I had wrote at the begining of my book was true: Anyone can write a book, but you ave to have lived first! And I believe I have.

Heroes:

There's no more Heroes anymore!...... Apart from Dwayne Dibbley......And myself! Be objective, be subversive and always be original! Never forget the ones you love, do anything you wanna do but don't throw your bloody litter on the floor. (Help keep London tidy & put it in the bin!)