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My piece for Meeting of Styles 2009 corner of Brick Lane & Bacon Street
photo© NoLionsInEngland 2009
Meeting of Styles London graffiti festival 2009 was held at the heart of the UK’s graff- land where Brick Lane meets Bethnal Green Road around the backstreets in Bacon Street, Sclater Street and along the Bethnal Green Road hoardings, the site of the RichMix wall.
A few of us had already been on a bit of a mission to bring proper graff back into this area, but this event certainly finished the job! I haven’t seen much of the new so-called ‘street art’ go up in the area since this lot’s been there.
Meeting of Styles is a world famous event whose aim is to bring together the best international graffiti artists with the best of the local talent.
It was a superb event showcasing a world of talent and styles with a great mix of stunning aerosol talent, much of it edging toward graphic design, comic art, visionary art and sc-fi which was enhanced by the top notch traditional graff and contemporary style writing.
It was very refreshing that it landed in the heart of a neighbourhood which was previously obliterated with some of the most barrel scraping and bandwagon jumping street art, stencils and paste-ups,
Big shout to all the London crew there Zomby, Wish, Fuel, Prime, Urge, Diet, Probs, PIC, Skire, Rigs, 10 Foot, Scip, 2 Kold, Band, Drax, Snug, Spoe, Tizer, Spat, Serva, Cade, Elk, Sieze, Das One, Beejay, Don One, Kist, Jive, Merock, Milo, Reeps One the incredible human beatbox, Jenny who took most of the pictures while I was painting and everyone who passed through and shared beer and happy times whose names have escaped me for the moment .
It was a great pleasure to paint lalongside so many great graffiti writers, aerosol artists, bombers, taggers and every mutation in-between in the heart of East London, one of my stomping grounds when I first started writing Elate back in those mad days of 1986.
How things have changed.
Meeting of Styles Graffiti Jam- Shoreditch 2009- Album 1- The Day Before
Meeting of Styles Graffiti Jam- Shoreditch 2009- Album 2- The Event
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Meeting of Styles Graffiti Jam- Shoreditch 2009- Album 2- The Monday After
