Springtime Wardrobe Alert

I've designed some t-shirts for James Yorkston. They have a cat on them. James is just heading off on a mega-carpet-sale three-piece-suite tour with The Pictish Trail and Seamus Fogarty, so head along to one of these dates if you'd like to snag one (I imagine they'll also be available at Gnomegame).

Here's Seamus here modeling the navy blue version. I should say, Seamus has some new t-shirts of his own as well, which are also pretty good. They have cows on them. And Pictish has some depicting the eastern seaboard of his face (do not feed the gulls). So. There are the main facts as they currently stand. That is all. Good luck with the springtime and any fashion plans you may have for the season.

Wobbly Dog

I've just done a poster for The Pictish Trail's upcoming tour with Eagleowl. Johnny Pictish has been hugely supportive of my vague efforts to draw more pictures this year, and gave me free reign with this design, a tragic lapse in judgement which has led to this heartbreaking image of a wobbly dog, lost, with inconclusive packed lunch, in Volcano Bacon National Park. Let's hope he gets out of there okay, and that this doesn't mark the end of my association with Fence. Anyway, a pleasure to draw something totally free range, so thank you Johnny! Go and check out the tour, it is going everywhere, it's a big bus and you cannot miss it.


Michael Rocket by The Pictish Trail

Eagleowl - Eagleowl vs Woodpigeon (Live in Pittenweem) by RadioMagnetic

Hanging on for a Heron

I did this last-minute poster for a James Yorkston/Pictish Trail gig at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh this month. The heron is collaged from pages of Yorkston's highly recommended collection of tour reminscences, It's Lovely To Be Here. The pages cut up real nice.

Originally there was a cowboy Jesus (?) as part of the heron's beak, but it looked better without it. There is a weird painting of a donkey in there somewhere though.

The background elements are all taken from a Facebook gallery chronicling the custom-build of James' new guitar. But it probably just looks like I got some photographs of some chipboard and some scrunched up Quality Street wrappers, I know.