Bones Gigs...

Hi Bones Followers, these are some trousers worn by me photographed by the lovely Abul Ahmed who I owe a slap up dinner too...and now the gig news..

In stripped down form (Lord Biscuit unavoidably detained  in foreign parts) we are performing at The Horse Hospital, Camden on Friday 15th March 8 til late, in a benefit gig for the Freedom Bookshop in Whitechapel which was  firebombed by fascists a couple of weeks ago. Also performing is Leafcutter John and various others plus Nervous Stephen  spinning discs etc....They've asked me to say if youve any books you were thinking of sending to the charity bring them along instead on the night to sell for the cause.

Also Stop Press!!!

The debut album The Ear: Bones & The Aft is nearly ready and will be launched on May 4th at The Tulse Hill Hotel, Norwood Rd, London....get it in the diary now!!!!

We are playing Saturday 25th of May in Brighton at Phoenix Arts....with local band Hamilton Yarns...as part of a big Artist Book exhibition in the gallery....

More gigs news to come soon....

Fantastic review of the Road Movie books by Jon Lander of Book Art Bookshop, 17 Pitfield St N1 (You can buy them there too......)

www.bookartbookblog.com/2012/12/english-road-movies.html?m=1

Good Lord its  Christmas time again

and  we hope you have a fantastic one...

full of snowflakes, spacecakes, time travel

morecombe and wise,

terry and june,

callard and bowser,

crocket and Jones,

Simon and Garfunkel

peters and lee

cannon and ball.....

...sunsets and sunrises, much good news

and tidings from afar,

long lost  soulmates,

songbirds rescued from ice and warmed back to life

misletoe kisses,

fancy presents, gloves socks chocolates

and many  dreams of the come true kind

are wished  for you

from Art Pop HQ,

by

Earbones and The Aft

Johnny Hammer

Brian Anvil

 and

Mickey Stirrup

PS...We have just been in the recording studio and have laid down, as they say, some musical masterpieces - namely

Brixton, Kings Cross, Stale Biscuits and a definitve The Son

coming your way in a variety of forms, 

some of them very hand made,

In the New Year which we

also happily wish for you...

See you all soon!!

Some more photos from the goings on last weekend....this time from the Attic, above Hackney Picture House on Mare St, Hackney  (Used to be The Ocean......)....seeing as most of you got lost somewhere on route.....great gig tho!!!....PS Last photo is me in 1978....as you can see, time has been kind to me...I am very rarely mistaken for a girl these days,  unlike Ian and Biscuit.

Here's some photos of us performing last Saturday at The Half Moon Herne Hill in front of  our newly painted backdrop and screens that took me months to make....also some pics of our wonderful guests Kill The Dandies, Lark and Captal.....They had to perform in front of it too... On a rainy night with England awash with floods and flu,  I only wish more of you could have seen it...but  maybe you'll get another chance next year?...... xxx. More Pics Later!!!

Roll up!  Roll up!........this way to The Attic 270 Mare St this Friday 23rd November and The Half Moon Herne Hill the next day, Saturday 24th November at 8pm..........Photo by 
my pal Abul         ....are those flies coming undone again????

This is my new painted Bones & The Aft

 painted performance backdrop..which will be unveiled 

in all its  glory probably at the upcoming Half Moon gig on 

24th November along with eight free standing

 painted wooden screens.....Too difficult to install 

at Hackney picture house I'm thinking....

Anyway....for those of you who like such details, 

 its acrylic on canvas - three bits sewn

 together, because the  finished thing is actually 

bigger than the bigest wall in my studio and

 I had to do it in sections and stitch it together ( Its about 12 ft by 8 ft)

These two are details.....the top image is most of

 the central image ..about two feet cut off each side

Golden,  Mythical South London, in 

front of which we shall proudly cavort...