Real name Gav. I write stuff, read stuff, make noise with stuff. I like to make things like books, badges, er, books about badges , compilations, mixes, pancakes and stuff. I write for Creative Review magazine and have recently contributed to Plastique and Wonderland . I love all things to do with visual communications – graphic design, illustration, photography, advertising, animation, music videos, record sleeves, posters...
I also love collecting things. Mainly T-shirts, posters, trainers and records. I can be found spinning old vinyl and pressing play on CD players at the following regular London shindigs:
Get Involved – every 1st Thursday of the month
@ The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, W1
If you like jumping around, dancing, smiling and shaking maracas - then this could just be the best thing ever... Each month, my glamourous co-host, Becky (Grandmaster Nolan) and I encourage everyone present to quite literally get involved in the most amount of musical mayhem we can possibly muster... As tambourines, maracas and various other musical instruments are dished out and enthusiastically bashed to a blistering soundtrack of rockabilly, rock’n’roll, r’n’b, country and soul...
Gerry’s Joint – every 3rd Saturday of the month
@ The Boogaloo, 312 Archway Road, N6
Gerry’s was set up in January 2005 as an outlet for all the cool old music we like but never really got to play. Chuck Berry, Sam & Dave, The Kinks, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates... Since starting this regular Rock’n’Roll shindig, we’ve made a lot of new friends, made a lot of people remember that dancing and whooping is a lot of fun – and we’ve also learned a lot about what records really make a party jump. The more raucous, the more infectious – the better! Come along and shake a tail feather!
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My first book, Guerrilla Advertising, has just been published in Japan as a hardback book with carrier-bag style handles – so that as people carry it around, it becomes the medium for a self-promotional guerrilla style campaign. Nice! Click the image to read more...
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This is the special edition of my Badge/Button/Pin book. It’s about badges and the super-limited edition shown here comes packaged with ten real badges by the likes of Antoni + Alison, Build, Fred Deakin, Kim Jones, Trevor Jackson and more... Which is great, providing you like badges, that is. Click the image to find out more...
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I wrote a feature for Plastique Magazine’s Issue 2 called Vive La Revolution – which was a celebration of record sleeve art post-digital revolution. Shown here is the cover of the issue and the first of the feature’s three spreads.
The other two spreads show a selection of sumptuously packaged record and CD sleeves, many of which are mine and which the magazine had shot specially.
I’m still gutted that the guys at Plastique lost some of my much coveted record collection and disappointed that they weren’t even interested in reimbursing me for the "missing" bits. Still, working with Matt Willey at Studio8 (who art directs the magazine) was a real joy and I love how he presented the feature.
