Archive

/the 108

spitting feathers

After strangling The Stool Pigeon music newspaper I became over-run with teaching across three years on three B.A. courses and so my publishing work took a back seat for a couple of years. I had also been drawing like a demon and learning how to make reproduction prints of those drawings in my down time which captured all my leftover energy.
          Michael Fordham, now working as a content provider for TCOLondon design group, asked me if I’d like to come onboard a project that him and artist and film maker Zach Sebastian at the company were planning with the Major League baseball group. In 2019 the MLB London series was bringing two baseball teams to London for the first time to play games in the Major League baseball season at the Olympic stadium that summer. Our job was to produce four quarterly zines in the lead up to the games with each edition focussing on two opposing teams and their respective locations.

back issues

001

june 2018

new york vs los angeles

See more

002

oct 2018

detroit tigers vs chicago cubs

See more

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.

HerringfleetWindmill

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.

SnapeMaltingsNewScan