Bergman: Scenes From A Life

Inca Berry Beret

Watch out for the purple rain.

Party Dogs

Back in March, I entered a competition to design a set of stamps for the Finnish Posti, based around a celebratory springtime theme. Well, if there was one thing that I noticed about the Finns, it was that they liked dogs. And drinking. And thus these juhlivat koirat - party dogs - were born.

For reasons that evade enquiry by good sense, logic and decency, it would seem that I didn't win. Unless I did win and the letter just got lost by Royal Mail. But anyway, I'm posting them here now.

It should be admitted that I got the KL (Swedish) and LK (Finnish) slightly the wrong way around, which, were I a Finn, would probably have seen my fragile life carried without ceremony into a darkling wood and there at once extinguished under a firestorm of fast-falling Nordic-walking sticks.

Sit Down For Your Love Rights

Take a load off your feet, Peter.
Yus.

Be Brave Rave

Me Toooooo!

Today I took delivery of the new R. Stevie Moore compilation on Cherry Red, "Me Too". Some few years ago now, Steve Potatoes played me R. Stevie's I Like To Stay Home and I unwittingly took my first dip into the deceptively calm shallows of RSM's bottomless swimming pool.

Somewhere along the line since then, the magnetic tape of fate somehow got tangled, and, while God was looking for a biro to wind it back in, I found myself drawing the cover for this new CD. I took inspiration, as always, from Lady & The Tramp (but also R. Stevie).


The CD is (typically) very, very good.. uncategorizable.. veering unpredictably between perfect garage pop, weird spoken word and acoustic bliss.. great stuff. I feel really honoured to have my silly drawing on this fantastic album. Check it out people!! You can buy it here, along with the ESSENTIAL Meet The.. compilation!

"Let's Rest Together", a heavy-headed jam that features (in fuller form) on the new comp.

Hey Kids!!

My good friend Mungo, of deranged simian rockers Brides Of Kong, recently held his annual bouncy castle party. Now, we all like a bit of "outsider art", don't we, but I wonder if having a children's play inflatable designed by a serial-killer mightn't be taking things a bit too far.

Disturbing. Bounce. Disturbing. Bounce. Disturbing..



Don't look at the hairy balloon men, and maybe they'll go away.



AAAAAAAAARGH THEY'RE COMING THROUGH THE WAAAAAAAAALLS