MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE - A CAUTIONARY TALE WHEN DEALING WITH IMPATIENT, LYING IDIOTS

I sold two individual items to 1223coo on ebay, a man with impeccable feedback. His name is tomiaki hotta
who runs the very dubious looking website www.out-put.net . A clearly wealthy and not untypical of Japan, collector of punk memorabilia. Despite the recent shit weather in the UK, causing severe delays with postage and despite his refusal to pay for International Signed for postage, the IDIOT launched an early dispute against me with Paypal, who immediately froze the $261.00 he sent for the items. Despite having said they would wait until January 4 2011 to give the post a little more time, I awake today to an email and subsequent phone call at my expense with the case closed and no reasonable explanation as to why the set date was not adhered to.

Morals for this story - don't neccesarily assume that 4300 positive, 100% feedback on ebay means a person is honourable, sensible or decent. I have been fucked up the arse on Christmas Eve for £165, selling in part, a treasured item of mine for over 30 years due to the fact that I am ill and out of work - not even to buy a holiday or a jet-ski, just to pay my fucking BILLS! What was it Churchill said? "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

Watch this space.

My first ever non-Artery promo - for PISTOLA KICKS' - 'A BUTTON LIKE NO OTHER'. Comments welcome!

Its been awhile...

Westwood has issued a 21st C Anarchy shirt which is AWFUL!
I've made 30 shirts for 666... so much for the fucko's claim that they 'keep them near the door of their store (THEY DONT HAVE A STORE, DICKWEED) without security tags because theyre not that fussed if they get stolen'
I've made a few for an American punk record company too, all small (what happened to Americans all being fat? Here, its the punks that have got fat now, the American punks seem to have retained the scrawny look, bless 'em :D)
I've been to London to see the Queen, not specifically, just for a night out, to see a few friends and the like.
I'll stop there, before the list includes hoovering and dusting.

Next up - the shirt I made that has so far fetched £6000 in sales (£4000 refunded thankfully), the only supposed masterpiece that didn't make it into 'THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ABOUT SEX AND SEDITIONARIES CLOTHING'

Back in a bit.......

Ach.... illness sucks....

I have 15 shirts to stencil and videos to render for our forthcoming DVD release whilst feeling like death-warmed-up, hence the reason I haven't started to unfurl my massively uninteresting blog into something less mundane.
The good news is 666 will get their shirts on time and the Artery DVD - 3 Days In June - is released soon, featuring interviews and footage from the week which turned into a full-blown re-union, plus rare unseen archive footage and the promos from the 'Standing Still' EP!

My recent article in Friend Rock fanzine.....

http://friendrock.wordpress.com/downloads/ - select 'magazine' p21/22

New Artery video using the works of Otto Muhl & Kurt Kren

A little piece of Sheffield music history....

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/01/va-bouquet-of-steel-1980-shefield.html