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Sharpen your pencils.

I have known Dave the Chimp since my days at adrenalin when he lived and skated with one of our writers. A prolific artist who has built skate parks, published zines and books, directed videos, painted murals and designed clothes and skateboards. We were even in a band together for a bit.
      Way before the middle-classes got their crayons out and started colouring-in those twee little books for ‘adults’, Dave conceived the idea of a colouring book for children using graffiti artists work as the content. The book was picked up by Lawrence King and the biggest argument Dave had with them was over the name. The publishers didn’t like the idea of kids meandering outside the lines (of anything) but Dave countered that they should be encouraged NOT to follow lines or paths of any kind if we were to encourage creative freedom and questioning minds in our youth.
      Around 75 of the world’s biggest names in street art contributed work to the 256 page book which was printed on off-white pulp stock with a special flouro orange Pantone 806 on the cover.

Herringfleet Mill

Back when I was a kid before I discovered punk rock, the family drove to this wonderful place a lot. I would chase grasshoppers and throw flea darts at my brother, dad birdwatched across the wetlands through his U-boat binoculars and mum would sit down and rest after carrying the picnic all the way from the car through the woods, over stiles and down to the riverside on her own. There was usually a whole roast chicken on a plate wrapped in tin foil and we all had our own plates and cutlery too.

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Snape Maltings

The fact that a world famous homosexual composer of opera came from my home town frequently gives me pleasure and optimism. Like The Borough’s Aldeburgh fisherman Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten also sought solace from all the wagging tongues and pointed fingers.
In 1966 he found it just up the river Alde at Snape in a disused maltings complex that within a year he had expensively converted into a purpose-built concert hall in which he and his lover, singer Peter Peers, could hang out in privacy whilst rehearsing, developing and performing new works. The hugely popular Aldeburgh festival has been held here since its completion in 1967.

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