Posts Tagged ‘Moans’

Yesterday I heard the word on the grapevine that Goldie had been spotted on West Midlands BBC show “Inside Out” talking about the problems facing the children’s welfare system in Britain. Whilst this is an important issue, the big news for me was that he’d also been spotted in Digbeth, and in front of a couple of my paintings to boot! Many thanks to TX,  @Noc67 and Graffiti4Hire for letting me know, the man Chu for hinting locations to the show crew, and to the Beeb for putting me on the air…

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Also spotted with Goldie were Moans and Officer Nice. Anybody who’s seen the image of Officer Nice’s “Golden Boy” has inevitably asked themselves who the heck it is. I won’t ruin the fun, but I will say that they are American, famous, dead, and grew up to be not very nice at all…

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You can watch the segment of “Inside Out” online here.

My new series Gods/Angels/Monks is due up as soon as I can start to cover print costs and paint, which could be a couple of weeks. However – with my standard level of impatience – I can’t be hanging around waiting all that time!

I only really went to the Bench today to grab some caps and colours, but while I was there, I decided that I should get something up so that I could feel I was making some progress. A quick amble round the corner showed that the boards I wanted to hit on the corner opposite Digbeth Coach Station had already been nabbed for adverts. The boards just down from that showed some recent hits by Lucy McLauchlan and TX , so I made do with a clean-ish section in between the two of them and started getting up.

Having a ciggie and just getting my paint on when lo and behold, who walks past but the man Moans. A brief chat becomes a daytime paint session and before you know it we’ve done our work and are on our way. Not bad for a something neither of us had planned – but that’s life I guess! I particularly liked his little squre headed dude over on the left…

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