Sunday 27 December 2009

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas to you all


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Thursday 26 November 2009

Rock Around The Crockery exhibition

A Psychedelic tea party at Underdog art gallery, 6pm Saturday 12th December 09.

Exhibiting a collection of re-graffed defaced tattoo'd sculpted and generally obscene
Crockery! Tea sets coffee pots tea trays plates cups....

By some excellent artists and illustrators, Luke Drozd, Chris Hewitt, Benjamin Lock,
MINDZAP, Nick King, Michael Cowell, Tacot4Ever..

Also showing a collection of fine English art by artists Gene Bible,Carl Hoare, Trafford
Parsons, Scarlet Monahan plus guests.

Explicit Union jacks, and parliament under attack by a Giant Octopus! Now who wouldn't
like to see that?

So get yourselves down here for tea and cakes at 6pm on Saturday 12th December and get
first dabs on some wicked affordable Fine art, prints, and Crockery! In time for Christmas.

We also have Live music in the Belly of the Underdog from some great bands,

Gorrila, Rifftastic Fuzz filled retro rockers.

The Lucid Dream, Psychedelic garage rock all the way from Carlisle.
Plus very special guests!

Limited space for the gig so get down here early to avoid disappointment.

Look forward to seeing you all at,
Underdog Art Company
384 Old Kent Road London SE1 5AA

6pm sharp till late

Saturday 12th December

www.myspace.com/underdogartcompany
www.facebook.com/underdogartcompany
www.underdogartco.com

Monday 23 November 2009

Mindzap T shirts

Buy one, wear it with pride!

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Buy here

Monday 16 November 2009

Pimping stands

I've entered this design into a competition to pimp a stand for a cool little magazine they give away in the South West called 24/7. Hopefully it'll do the biz

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Friday 13 November 2009

Stone Turner- Some live footage

This is some footage Mindzap cut for Stone Turner from a live session in a sweaty practice room, getting this job wasnt too hard as I play guitar and all that. The drummer is Rich who also plays guitar in the noisy and frankly awesome Koresh and on the bass is Isabella who I was formerly in the band Stubb with.

Thursday 12 November 2009

Rock and roll and teapots??

MINDZAP will be customizing a teapot for the Underdog Art Co. 'Rock Around The Crockery' show on 12th Dec. Come down and take a look as theres going to be kick ass bands etc for the opening of the show. The theme is rock influenced crockery!

Wednesday 21 October 2009

LOUD HOWLS 2010

Mindzap are putting on a two day festival next year called LOUD HOWLS.

Venue: The Gaff, London
Dates: 10th-11th April 2010

The two days will feature the best selection of rock, psych, doom, stoner and generally riff fueled bands all in one venue for your ears and eyes to feast upon.

Theres going to be some surprises. More news coming soon!

Bands wishing to play and other inquiries should be fired to the email below:

loudhowls@gmail.com

Tuesday 20 October 2009

LOUD HOWLS

Mindzap will be hosting its first festival next year, the two day event will be held at The Gaff in London on 10th-11th April under the name LOUD HOWLS! More news soon!

Monday 21 September 2009

Filming Cherry Choke Video 'Domino' this weekend

Mindzap Productions will be filming a video for Cherry Choke this weekend, the track is called Domino and will feature on the bands second album. The shooting of the video will be blogged and put up here for you reading/visual pleasure after the weekend.

Tuesday 26 May 2009

Big Linda/Sabatta/Trippy Wicked poster


Latest poster design, Trippy Wicked will be giving these away to 30 people who turn up early enough. A3 sized. Signed and numbered

Friday 8 May 2009

Cherry Choke video in the pipeline

Mindzap will be making a video for Cherry Choke in the near future. Mat Bettancourt (guitar/vocals) former member of Josiah and the Beginning and current member of Kings Of Frog Island along with Gregg and Dan make up this UK acid psych rock band. Check them out here

Roadsaw gig review

Theres a review up on Ninehertz.co.uk for the Roadsaw gig, check it out

Mindzap all dayer photos

These were taken by Nicolette, more on the way soon

Roadsaw:

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Grifter:

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Monday 4 May 2009

What an awesome weekend!
















Firstly we had the event at Underdog Art Co. called 'The Underdog rock'n'roll
poster riot' which got a great turnout. The artwork was all superb and the bands
were awesome, Outskirts of Infinity seriously rocked out, great band.

Then on the Sunday Roadsaw. Such a great day, cool people, 10 great bands,
loads of beer. Good times! I want to do it all again, minus the hangover i have
today!

Good photos and video coming soon for both events


Wednesday 22 April 2009

Ticket making













































I knocked up these little dollar bill tickets for the Roadsaw gig, kinda fun

Saturday 18 April 2009

The Gaff



Today we went and put up loads of posters for the rock poster show at Underdog Art co. as well as checking out The Gaff where Roadsaw gig is due to take place. Looks like a brilliant venue, pinball machines, great PA, rock and roll styling. Got a couple of photos showing the venue and the poster up in the venue. Come along on 3rd May, will be great!

Posters are printed


Thanks to Sam at Underdog Art Co. I now have a load of freshly printed posters for the Roadsaw gig. I'll have some of these on the day available for cheap.

Thursday 16 April 2009

All dayer poster


This is the poster for the Roadsaw gig. I'll have some of these available on the day to buy for small amount. Bush Baby time!

Roadsaw to headline Mindzap all dayer May 3rd

Mindzap productions proudly present:

ROADSAW

There are scores of bands out there claiming to have the status of "legend" but only a few really meet the definition. Boston's Roadsaw is among that elite. Formed in the mid-'90's by Craig Riggs and Tim Catz, they raised the bar for riff loving hard rock, proving that the West Coast didn't have a lock on what most considered "stoner rock." They released a single on Man's Ruin, three albums ("$1,000,000," "Nationwide," and "Rock n Roll"), a compilation of singles and B-sides ("Taking Out the Trash"), toured the hell out of the US and Europe with the likes of Nebula, Orange Goblin, and Scissorfight, and then, like all good bands and unlike too many shitty ones, went on the dreaded "indefinite hiatus.

From the smoldering ashes sprung a handful of notable groups - the rootsy, Southern lovin' Antler, the cock rock of Quitter, among others - but while those acts made distinct marks, they never filled the void left by Roadsaw. Other bands that attempted to capture that unique Roadsaw magic fell woefully short. There was attitude or there were riffs, but the two never blended together in that awesome Roadsaw way. For the faithful, the best thing to do was to replay those classic albums and hope for a miracle

Crack open a cold one and get ready to rock the fuck out, because Roadsaw is back. After a successful US tour in 2005, an absolutely jaw dropping cover of Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" on the latest "Sucking the 70s" compilation, and appearances at both CMJ and South by Southwest, the band has reconvened to record a new album tentatively titled “See You In Hell” which will be coming out in the fall of 2007. The core "Rock n Roll" lineup is back, with bassist Tim Catz, Riggs on vox, guitarist Ian Ross, Dave Unger on keys, and long time friend and fan Jeremy on the Drums. The reinvigorated five-piece has already destroyed one Boston club this year - expect more devastation to come. This is the culmination of every great riff, of every memorable melody. This is the "fuck you" attitude that defines rock n’ roll. This is Roadsaw.

Obiat

OBIAT is LONDON-READING based multicultural entity uniting four members of different nationalities. Mesmerizing, hypnotic stoner doom with characteristic soulful vocals. The psychedelic, almost trance-like atmosphere sets this band apart from most other metallers. It's groovy & eerie yet still heavy, with a hint of eastern european touch(hungarian, polish songwriters)

Alunah

Female fronted Psych Blues doomsters from Birmingham

http://www.myspace.com/alunatheband

Crumbling Ghost

Folk, Doom and Psych

Formed Late 2008. Current and previous bands/projects Crumbling Ghost have been involved with include Koresh, Smallgang, Mordros, Among the Missing, Fantaplastic, Pombagira, Huge Baby, Platform, Seven Hour Germ.

http://www.myspace.com/crumblingghost

Grifter

Grifter are an ass kickin', booty shakin' whiskey rock band from Plymouth in the UK. Kicking out the jams with a shared love of Sabbath, Clutch, Scissorfight, AC/DC, Motorhead and ZZ Top, Grifter are the nuts!!!

http://www.myspace.com/grifterrock

Trebuchet

Trebuchet... Half-decent balls out rock machine driving home the agenda of power rock and roll with 10% effort. Trebuchet combine sloppy 4th hand riffs lifted from the treasure chest of tasty rock with screechy stretched vocals that sound as though they will give up at any minute. Just being in the presence of Trebuchet feels like you are in the middle of a midnight rendezvous with Sir Lord Baltimore and The riff from Stone Cold Fever by the "Pie".

http://www.myspace.com/trebuchetmentalrock

Ten Ton Tabby-

Heavy rock, Music for the modern woodsman

http://www.myspace.com/tentontabby

Cujo-

Two guitars, drums and walls of psychedelic mind fuck through devices

http://www.myspace.com/cujoinyourears

Mindzap lightshow throughout and DJ Hercules on the wheels of steel

Ticket is £6 on the door or you can buy in advance via the mindzap myspace page.