Lee Scratch Perry. Badman.

Haven’t blogged in an age because I decided to get offline and make some stuff with my hands. Here are some things I made -

Also got a pinterest – which is good for storing my craft ideas! Really hard to escape how horrifyingly twee about 99.9% of other users are though…

Oh and I have got a new bike which I’ve been riding everyday. It’s pretty hot!

I love Nathalie Du Pasquier‘s designs. They remind me a little bit of the geometric prints I see on the African batik textiles that adorn the shop windows of Peckham but more 80s and more candy coloured. Nathalie Du Pasquier was part of the post-modern design and architecture group Memphis which was started by Ettore Sottsass in the early 1980s.

Jive Turkey was a club night which took place in the city hall ballroom in Sheffield in the late 1980s. This video was featured in this Faith interview with DJ Parrot. You can read an article from 1988 about Jive Turkey, written by Jon Savage, here.

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Amazing Aerobics competition footage from 1987. This is the song:

Pop television has never been done better than the Italians did it in the late 70/early 80s. I am deadly serious.

Not serious about this one, it’s crap.

Loving Panthers at Givenchy and Monkeys at Prada.

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