SHORT RUBBISHMEN VIDEO FROM LAST YEARS ART CAR BOOT FAIR

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HELLO DEARS
HERE IS A LITTLE VIDEO
I FOUND ON THE WEBBBY
OF THE RUBBISHMEN
AT THE ART CAR BOOTFAIR LAST
YEAR
WE ARE A BIT
DRUNKED ME THINKS
MORE RUBBISHMEN NEWS
WE ARE WORKING
ON OUR NEXT FANZINE
AND LOTS OF NEW STUFFS
WATCH THIS SPACE
AND OUR WEBSITE
KISS KISS
ROBERT XX
www.therubbishmen.com


ROBERT

review of le gun exhibition

here is a review
of the le gun show
i found on a website
its very nice
and here are some
photo from a blog
kiss kiss
robert xx


You presumably already know about the collective of illustrators that is Le Gun, and their superb book/magazine of illustrations, and other artistic goings on. Well, this time they've put on a show.

A queue? A bloody great big queue greets us as we try and enter the show, hidden away on Arnold Circus behind Shoreditch Church, like a lost location in a children's book. Thankfully the queue is only for the bar, and we move through the first room: a place of mirrors, stuffed animal heads (one even with a fag nonchalantly hanging from its mouth), and the bar. Into a completely cardboard thirtieseque drawing room. Yes, thats right everything is cardboard and marker pen. Lightfittings, paintings on the wall, books on the bookshelf. There is even a cardboard piano in the corner. After marvelling at this, we passed through a decidedly Alice In Wonderland-like small door into the next space.

A space consisting of a huge mural running from one side of the room, right round to the other. It starts at an underground station (zone 7, and interzone only, of course) and moving through the sea-side, then sea through north Africa adorned with decidedly interwar scenes of decadence. At the end of this is more conventionally framed illustrations, albeit mostly conventional in frame only.

This really is such a superb conversion of the aesthetic of the already excellent Le Gun into a more 3D exhibition/installation, we fear that we shall be gushing about it in the manner of an excited 6th former for months to come. If you miss it, you'll only read about it in years to come and kick yourself that you didn't go.
londonist.com

By Oliver Gili

LE GUN 'The Family' Exhibition, Rochelle School, Club Row, Arnold Circus, Shoreditch, E2 7ES. Daily 12 till 6pm from Wednesday 27th August till Friday 5th September.
www.legun.co.uk

LONDON CALLING ONLY DAYS TO LE GUN BASH ON 27TH AUGUST

HELLO LORDS AND LADYS OF LONDON TOWN
TIS ALL GO AT THE LE GUN EXBO HQ THINGS ARE
STILL BEING MADE WORK IS BEING MADE MESS IS BEING
MADE ALL HANDS ARE ON DECK.SO IF YOU ARE ABOUT
ON WENSDAY EVENING POP DOWN TO THE EXBO
HERES ALL THE INFO
LE GUN ‘The Family’ Exhibition
LE GUN Issue #4

27 August 2008 - Private View & Launch

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Exhibition venue
Rochelle School, Club Row
Arnold Circus, Shoreditch 
London E2 7ES

Daily 12 till 6pm
27th August till 4th September

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Issue #4 of the narrative art annual LE GUN will be distributed worldwide from September 2008. The launch will coincide with an exhibition and temporary arts club taking place at the Rochelle School in Arnold Circus, Shoreditch titled
LE GUN ‘The Family’

‘Dear patrons, please charge your glasses and drink heartily 
for tomorrow you may die’

In the exhibition, the warped collective imagination of LE GUN presents a dysfunctional family of many generations, including a man with a crab on his head, the leopard walking heiress Marchesa Casati, and the original fat boy actor Joe Cobb. Raised on the the streets of parallel metropolis Legundon, an eccentrically Anglo-Saxon place of loose women, gin and cream cakes, and Francis Bacon’s butchers shop, they are an unusual dynasty. LE GUN’s gigantic black and white ink drawings record the families journey from their home cities murky streets and dens of vice, across a wild unchartered ocean to an outlandish Interzone of mind bending intoxicants and bordellos, and the jungle funeral of unloved street urchin Caliper Boy.

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Private View and Launch Party at the Rochelle School
Wednesday 27 August from 5pm

Extended launch party at Cargo till late.

ITS GOING TO BE A SMASHING NIGHT
I TELL THEE
KISS KISS
ROBERT X
www.legun.co.uk

I HAVE TWO PAINTINGS IN mysteryspot collective SHOW

HELLO LOVES
I HAVE TWO BITS OF ART WORK
IN A SHOW BY THE MYSTERY SPOT COLLECTIVE
THE SHOW IS ON AT INDO IN WHITECHAPPLE
CHECK OUT THE BLOG
AND IF YOUR DOWN IN THAT PART OF TOWN POP IN
BEST WISHES
KISS KISS
ROBERT X
www.mysteryspotcollective.blogspot.com

LE GUN SELLS OUT

hello loves
here is a blog about
how le gun has sold out
just a week to go
till the le gun exbo
lots of things to be
getting on with
bye for now



Le Gun ‘sells out’
But are they cut out for mainstream publishing success?
Published on Thursday, 14 August, 2008 | 2:00 pm
Above: D&AD guest finds someone to take home. (Who is this? let us know!) Photograph: Christine Donnier-Valentin.
There were bizarre scenes at the D&AD Awards this summer, writes Luke Pendrell, as the increasingly ebullient ‘creatives’ conversed, danced and ultimately departed with a variety of two-dimensional characters. Not account managers, but life-size cardboard cut-outs made by Le Gun, the London-based collective of designers and illustrators featured in ‘Garage Band’ in the Summer 2007 issue of Eye (no. 64 vol. 16). Over the past year the Le Gun members have managed to continue their distinctly independent approach while balancing the pressures of economic survival and creative autonomy with a wry sense of humour.


In addition to populating D&AD’s ceremony with hundreds of monochrome figures – an inspired commission from Matt Willey’s Studio8 (see ‘Wanted: self-images’, Eye no. 66) – Le Gun’s illustrators and designers have produced visuals for Madness’s vaudeville-inspired show The Liberty of Norton Folgate at the Hackney Empire and created a series of limited edition T-shirts for fashion label The Duffer of St George.
Perhaps more significantly, the collective has signed a deal with Mark Batty Publisher, which (they hope), will secure the long-term future of their occasional publication, also called Le Gun, with its rolling, seamless (and ad-free) montage of images and texts. The deal will enable future editions of the magazine to be published in its distinctive large format (343 x 245mm). The first three editions, now out of print, are to be republished in a single volume. Their activities are documented regularly on their blog.
Le Gun #4 is to be launched on 27 August with an exhibition and ‘temporary arts club’ entitled ‘LE GUN: The Family’. This promises ‘a rich and slippery harvest of pictures and words’, including work by Andrzej Klimowski, Will Sweeney, Paul Noble, Barry Miles, Sebastian Horsley, Richard Milward, Iain Sinclair and Michael Smith.
Below: two- and three-dimensional party people (who?) at the D&AD Awards, summer 2008. Photograph: Carl Court.

Le Gun no. 4, out August 2008.

VIDEO FOR BABYSHAMBLES FRENCH DOG BLUES

HELLO LOVES

Our good friend David Mullett has just directed this video for Babyshambles new single French Dog Blues. The video is set in the LE GUN Shoe Shop of Curiosities in Hackney. The video stars befezzed shopkeeper Robert Rubbish, and the drawings of the gin swilling French Dog and of Peter Doherty and the band are by Neal Fox, and animated by Ron Winter and his friends in New York.
LAST YEAR THIS VIDEO WAS MADE I LIKE IT IT REMINDS ME OF THE OLD SHOP AND LAST SUMMER
WE DID MEET BABYSHAMBLES THEY CAME TO THE SHOP FOR A PHOTO SHOOT
BUT ALAS PETER WAS BEING KEPT IN A POLICE CELL IN BEATHNAL GREEN
POOR CHAP.THEN WE WENT OUT FOR A CAMDEN DRINK UP WITH THEM
WHICH WAS NICE.
DAVID MULLETT IS NOW LIVING IN THE STATES TRYING TO GET A SUNTAN ON
HIS ASS WHILE WE ARE STILL IN WET AND GREY LONDON.
FOR MORE MULLETT MAGIC CHECK OUT HIS WEBSITE
KISS KISS
ROBERTX
www.mullett.tv/
www.FrenchDogBlues.com
www.myspace.com/french_dog_blues
www.legun.co.uk

LE GUN EXBO AFTERPARTY FLYER FOR THE 27TH OF AUGUST

hello one and all
here is the flyer for the le gun exbo after party
links to all bands and djs below
this should be a cracker
cant wait
hope to see you all there
kiss kiss
robert x


http://www.myspace.com/agaskodoteliverek

http://www.myspace.com/beggarsband

http://www.myspace.com/transsib

http://www.myspace.com/nervousstephen

http://www.myspace.com/subjectmusic

www.cargo-london.com

http://www.legun.co.uk