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… And for what will sadly be my final gig with Todger, due to the move to Canterbury:

I joined the mighty Todger on rhythm guitar about two years ago. Since then we have been playing in every toilet in London, perfecting our set for our new album: Last Of The Juggernauts, available now! Thanks to Mo Panella, and “Smokey Joe” Suarez, we got a really ace sounding record. To complement the music, I wanted something equally childish rocking, and so I set about making a custom devil truck, complete with succubi and zombies. I’m going to write a little more about that in a bigger blog post soon. Here’s the artwork:

The album is done, I’m frantically throwing artwork together, and this is where we are launching it. Facebook event is here.

Okay – so, I had this idea about opening a really hip t-shirt shop, a la Last Exit To Nowhere or Insert Coin, called “Fucking Cultists”, that would have all kinds of Lovecraftian geek-chic nonsense.

After wrestling with spreadshirt, and remembering how stingy they are with vector uploads, I have gone for a simple shop on Redbubble, which has a nice community feel. The t-shirts are a bit pricey, and I will continue towards the “Fucking Cultists” thing, but for now I thought I’d wack something up…

New fictional band. New logo. New t-shirt! It can be purchased from my shiny new Redbubble account.

New t-shirt for those Thumpermonkey fellows. Features a progress bar man<->pig heart synchronisation and a number of some secret significance… It can be purchased by clicking here.

Michael Woodman and Ian Baigent have successfully made a short psychological horror film, with the assistance of BRAG Productions, called Get Well Soon. With a bit of luck, it may appear in some festivals this year.

I produced some posters for it, which I greatly hope to see in the foyer of a London cinema soon…

I played a great abstract board game recently, Vector, which is unfortunately long out of print. Partly out of compulsion, and partly because it made a great home-made gift for my parents and parents-in-law, I put together my own version of the game for printing.

The game itself is Poker bluffing meets chess row/column pressurisation, but in two partnerships. Inspires a lot of “so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me” type double-think as you try and predict what wickedness your opponents are trying to trick you to walk into. Brain-melting and very fun.

I made a full colour board, a set of full colour cards to be printed from ArtsCow, a rulebook and scoresheets. Download them here:

• Vector board (PDF/ZIP, 7 MB)
• Vector cards (JPEG/ZIP, 9 MB)
• Vector rules (DOC, 33 KB)
• Vector scoresheet (XLS, 30 KB)

Or download everything as a single ZIP file (17 MB).

Quick cover for the demo/promo CD of new Tooting Bizarre Euro-proggers The K!Nights Of Rad.

The excellent interstellar octopus image is by Tariq Raheem, who has kindly agreed to its use. Check his work out on DeviantArt.com.