Who were the main players in Bristol when like Inkie and 3D from Bristol and the Essex you arrived? Rockers. This was all alongside the pioneers and the avant-garde pushing it back then like Futura 2000, lokkiss, Jon 156, Vulcan, Crayone, Paris, Banksy, Inkie, Lokey, Dbz, Fsh, Awkward, Tes, Shimz, Turroe, Infoe, Feek, Nick Walker, Dicy, Shabz, Rowdy, Vermin, Jago, Will Barras, lewis the Barron, What motivated your decision to live in Bristol? My friend who I started painting with moved there to study at the art college and I’d gone up to Edinburgh to do the same and after we finished in 1998, I decided that moving to Bristol was a good idea as I wanted to do more murals. Banksy had organised a weekend graffiti event in Bristol called Walls on Fire and I basically came down for that and stayed for 9 years.
How much influence did Bristol have on your style as an artist? A lot of my work got lined out in the early years and I developed my style to accommodate this and this is where the floating city scape’s and scribbly rawness comes into it. Bristol was and still is a busy scene, you have to have style to stand out and you have to put effort in. Working with the