THURSDAY 17 MARCH 2011

...was officially the best day ever.

First, my other half's niece was born. Hello Kitty, welcome to the world. Hope you have fun!

Second, Jonathan Edwards (illustrator, not formerly Christian triple jumper) put my Serge Gainsbourg picture up on his brilliant Draw Serge site.

Here's mine, but go have a look at all the other Serges - there are some real gems.

Third, I got my copy of 2011 3x3 Illustration Directory. A very handsome volume it is, and I'm very pleased to be sharing space with some top talents. Go have a browse on the t'interweb version: http://www.3x3directory.com/

Fourth, I found out that we The Little Philistines will be playing at Meadowlands on Sunday 29th May.

Hoozah!

Got an interview for Illustration MA on Monday so hope the good luck lasts!

HOT POSTER!

Here's the poster for our gig next Friday 4th Feb. As my friend Lucas said: "Nice symmetrical bums".
Sadly, Symmetrical Bums will not be playing but a great night it promises to be all the same. Tickets available here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/105062

HOT PHONE! HOT PHO-ONE!

Happy New Year! We, The Little Philistines release our new single Hot Phone on iTunes on 7th Feb and we would dearly love you to come to our SINGLE LAUNCH EXTRAVAGANZA on Friday 4th Feb at The Good Ship, 289 Kilburn High Road, London town, NW6 7JR.


We will be joined by a roster of our favourite talent, namely Bordeauxxx, Cop On The Edge, Keith John Adams, Ben Folke Thomas and special DJ guests including Recharged Radio's Alex Watson.


Doors open at 7.30 and close in the small hours of Saturday morning and I believe the whole shebang will cost you about a fiver.


Huzzah!

Please sir, my head is on fire

YO YO YO!

Cover art for our new single, Head on fire / Stick together, available on 15 March from iTunes.

Come to our launch party on 12 March at the Good Ship: http://www.myspace.com/thelittlephilistines

Book your tickets now! http://www.wegottickets.com/event/71903

THOSE LITTLE PHILISTINES!

I wanted to put together the best of the weird characters who end up on the Little Philistines flyers. Here's how it turned out...

RETURN OF THE LP'S

The Little Philistines return to the wonderful Buffalo Bar on Tuesday 8 December.

Come one, come all, come see us before Yule!

Full details here: http://clubfandango.co.uk/gig.php?id=1280

LITTLE PHILISTINES ON iTUNES

Our new single is up on iTunes. We're really rather proud of these songs. Hope you like 'em. Here's the accompanying artwork.

POP & FOLKS

I had a great weekend at Sellindge Music Festival in Kent. We opened the main stage on Saturday and the crowd were were wowed by our music (I hope) and Rob's dress sense (I am certain).

Went to see my folks in North Norfolk the other day for some cake, coffee, nature and natter. Here are some sketches of the Riordan Seniors.

HAIL APOLLO!

Here's Apollo, god of music, culture, reason and other stuff, including the plague(!)

This is for The Apollo, an arts and culture super-fest that's going on for the whole of June in an old video shop in Herne Hill.

Launch night is this Thursday, my band's playing on Thursday 18th and hopefully I'll be doing a little exhibition of work on Thursday 25th.

More details to follow

LITTLE PHILISTINES

Flyer for the LP's this week at Mother Bar. We'll be warming up for our festival slot at Sellindge on Saturday.

Wooh!

BIRDS

I drew this picture for my Mum's birthday. She's a big bird lover. It wasn't meant to come out quite as menacing as it did. Happy Birthday Mum!

And, in other exciting news The Little Philistines were joint winners of the Sellindge Music Festival tournament. We get to open the main stage for the mighty Supergrass on Sat 6 June. WOOP!

GIG TUESDAY 17 MARCH

Flyer for gig at Bullet Bar, next Tuesday. This Saturday's the final of the Battle of the Bands for Sellindge Festival. If we win we'll get to share a stage with Supergrass - woop!

Long time no blog. Been sorting out my website and sending work to commissioning editors. Also been playing with the Little Philistines - the gigs are coming thick and fast this year. Here are the flyers for the two latest gigs. People seem particularly enamoured of Mr Fox - he's so suave...

BLUE FLYER

Just worked this flyer up for our gig on 4th December. It's from an old sketch I did of the alien rock band in Dan's Frequent Flyers comic. 

THE LITTLE PHILISTINES

We have a gig. Here's the red and white flyer - ooh how very White Stripes I hear you cry...

FLYER

Apropros of nothing, here's one of my band's flyers, customised by the rain.