I helped empty a room in my mums house today and for some reason felt the need to write a blog about it. The amount of forgotten stuff I found was amazing. A suitcase full of t-shirts. The story there being that around 2003/4 (I guess) my dear friend Chris Rees and I started a t-shirt company called Eccentricism. A lot of the designs were based on stencils of mine and some crazy images of his. I stand by the fact that we were the first to do the “Paper, Scissors, Rock” design (with three hands, the third going for the devil horn rock salute). We were listed in Kerrang as one of the top independent t-shirt companies around. I still have the cutting somewhere. In the end we folded the company due to the fact it was very much part time and we couldn’t REALLY see a way to take it up a notch. I guess we were more into painting walls that t-shirts. Don’t know what I’m going to do with the stock though! All hand printed. Good stuff. I think I will have to call a meeting with my co-Director.
Also found A LOT of old spray cans. Kind of made me realize how much I miss spraying walls. Found an old camera with loads of pics from those days on it too so I will have to sling a folder of them up somewhere.
The other most common find was lyric books. Found 4 or 5 with stuff in that I don’t even remember writing. A lot of early versions of stuff that ended up being le sac vs pip tracks to. I plan to sit and read through them soon. Some of it, of course, is really really shitty. Always fun to go through though.
My two BIG finds were (1) the copies of the original “Thou Shalt…” 7” that I thought I had lost and (2) a box of copies of my debut album. Both of which were limited runs of 1000 and I thought the “Thou Shalt..”’s had been stolen so that was a good surprise! Normally when I find copies of “No Commercial Breaks” I sling them on eBay. Doesn’t feel right doing that this time round though as I literally found about 40 of them!
There are numerous projects coming up next year (new le sac vs pip singles & album, a Scroobius Pip book, etc) so I think I will hold on to them and do some kind of give away around the time of those releases. Found a few bits from early shows too. My “Flow Chart” from REAL early on was a good find. Think I have a pic of it on my MySpace but it was good to re-find the original. Fuck Photoshop….its all about prit-stik and scissors!
Anyway, Im very aware that this is an incredibly pointless and poorly structured blog but felt the need to ramble something in more than 140 characters and felt that spreading this over about 40 tweets would just be bad twitter etiquette.
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