We saw Spoon and White Rabbits at the Electric Ballroom in Camden recently and what a superb gig it was!

The sound was extremely good, they’d obviously spent time getting it right. The atmosphere was nice, relaxed and friendly, and it wasn’t crowded.

White Rabbits were brilliant but they weren’t quite like their albums, with the drumming being very prominent – three people drumming at once at times!

Spoon were awesome, as we didn’t dare hope, playing a superb 90 minute set of numbers from the new album and many older classics. It was great to see them construct the music from the simplest of sounds. I didn’t take my D300 so didn’t get any good photos but then again it was all about the music!

A non-screenprinted poster design for this amazing “doom jazz surf” band. As soon as I started doing the artwork I checked out their music and was hooked. Maybe you should check it out too?

Thing is, I’ve definitely checked out their music before because they played ATP. So one of the questions I’ve been asking myself before is how not to miss buying music from bands I’m going to love later. Especially bands that, on first listen, don’t seem to turn on that lightbulb in my head. Especially because, I’ve discovered that bands I don’t think I’m going to like and pass up initially, can turn out to be amongst some of my favourite when they’ve had time to grow slowly in the subconscious of my mind!

This is my new gig poster for Dick Dale at the Luminaire on 2nd April. It might be interesting to screenprint it – I will see how I get on with the Geoff Farina & Chris Brokaw one first! It would look lovely though, screenprinted onto this brown card.

For more details of the gig please go to DAMNABLY.

These are the first sample swatches of my fabric patterns! Our idea was for me and Raspberry to combine forces – I design some fabrics which she can use in her work (and also sell the fabric in fat quarters or half yards).

I’ve been taking a lot of photos of natural elements so I played around with designs using seed pods, window frames, tied string in fences, ropes on beaches, bits of wood, pebbles, barnacles.

The first two designs here are of beach worn pebbles and shells, and a tied string fence. The designs are 42 inches wide but these are 5″ square swatches to check colour and quality of print. They are printed by Spoonflower. I think I will also look to hand print fabrics myself in the future but we’ll see what happens.

So we think we will have some finished pieces and fabrics available pretty soon, I will keep you updated!

Here’s a new gig poster design I’ve done for Geoff Farina and Chris Brokaw. The poster will be screenprinted and digitally printed. I will be screenprinting the poster and will let you know how I get on!

For more info about the shows please visit damnably.