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The guy on the left is Berlin And That contributor Chris Butler, and this is me bigging him up.

Here's the bumpf that's going out on Manchester Art Gallery's news letter to announce the donation of my artwork for that sleeve what I did. It's on show now I here, but I haven't seen it yet. I might go tomorrow.


"We are thrilled to announce that the artwork for Bury-band Elbow’s Mercury
Award-winning album, The Seldom Seen Kid, has been loaned to Manchester Art
Gallery.

Painted by Manchester-based artist, Oliver East, it depicts a cube which
represents Piccadilly train station while its frame, made by Tom Anstell,
is from the old banister of the 'Temple Of Convenience', an underground bar
on Great Bridgewater Street within which the band wrote many of the album’s lyrics.

Elbow’s frontman, Guy Garvey has commented:"The album is about life and
death, love and loss, good times and bad in this city. It seemed fitting
that Oliver's painting with its tower cranes and sky scrapers, high brick
walls and shiny glass buildings should be the front cover. Tom’s frame is
perfect. The Temple has been a hub for artists and musicians for years.
That banister had been very necessary for most of them.

Chorlton Meadows

If I had seen this on a walk for a book I would have written “wall end terrace black stain bird in flight”. As it is it was just on my road but I thought it worth sharing.

Had a bit of a confidence wobble yesterday, you know the kind when you spend a year working on something with very little reward, repeat three times, then start to wonder what the point is? I was looking at possible online models to get work out there for free or a nominal charge; see if that worked better than books. But what am supposed to show this little fella in years to come? “Pull up a chair son, let daddy show you this PDF he made”? Fudge that; for better or worse, I’ll stick with printed-paper for now.

As you were.

(WARNING: CONTAINS NAUGHTY NAUGHTY)

I’ve just shared this on an Elbow forum, maybe drum up some pre-release interest, so thought it only fair that you see it n’all. I’ve just written the index of all the artists in Berlin And That, to go in the back of the book. They mainly wrote them themselves, including Uncle Guy Garvey. Enjoy.

Swearing from Trains Are...Mint

Swearing from Berlin And That.

Now that's progress, you get me?

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Building site from Trains Are...Mint.
Building site from Berlin And That.

That's progress y'all.

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I’m currently going through the scans of Berlin to pick out stray lines and that, which is a massive ball ache, a good three day job when you throw in escorting me mam to the DaDaAwards and random chores, so to brighten all our days I thought I’d share this perfect scan of David Mackintosh’s page. You’ve seen it before in that rough PDF I released but here it is all nice and shiny.