"SWITCHBLADE" - the other guys

another cover i made a few years ago - released on butterfly records, barcelona. well, "switchblade" is exactly the right title for me, so it was obvious to paint an evil rocker looking for trouble at the corner of a street, while a tiny little girl dressed in a pink gown runs away in fear. the backside of the sleeve the songlist, sleeve notes and both characters again - this time the rocker spoiled it... the record is a superb vintage 60s beat and rocknroll performance by this french band "the other guys" that sadly doesn't exist anymore as far as i'm concerned. BUY it, if it still is in stock at butterfly records - it is more than worth it!!!!
check: www.butterfly-records.com

MURAL PAINTING at the ALTES THEATER Bar-Restaurant in dessau

achtung: here we have some heavy art stuff - the mural i've done for the ALTES THEATER in dessau, saxonia, germany. since the location is connected to the local theater, the task was to incorporate scenes and themes from famous plays in the wall painting. the painting is in fact a mixed media mash up done on computer and then printed on canvases. what sounds pretty ugly at first isn't that bad, cause there was no intention to mimic a "real painting". every character and scene is painted and drawn with different pencils, colors, brushes or styles and some are even cut-outs, copies from old advertisements or or woodcut prints. the big wall in the restaurant was only divided by a small bar in the middle, a rectangular hole on the far right side and a partition element fixed on the wall. i really had my fun doing the scenes on the upper part and the "audience" on the part below the bar...
dig the photos of the restaurant (courtesy of benny uebe - i haven't been there yet) and scans of the sketches i made right before starting the whole action...

JIM CARLISLE and his MONTESAS rhythm boys

the ole lovesick blues boy JIM CARLSILE comes over from the UK to make 2 exclusive concerts in germany - and we got the honour to support him! the concerts will be on friday june 24th in our hometown KASSEL at the club "unten" and on sat. 25th of june in my former hometown FRANKFURT at the wildcat night in the orange peel club! and here's the poster i made....you can see mr. carlisle swingin his guitar while our shrunken heads hang like a trophy from his guitar's neck...AAARGH!
guest DJ is pascal perrault from paris!