Free London Listings

"Celebrating  30 years of poster art. Every Thursday since July  3rd   
1980 I’ve  been  running this great night at a Soho club . For  the 
first  fourteen years at Gossips in Dean  Street and thereafter at St 
Moritz  in Wardour St. Each time a live band is  due to perform 
there . Me and some close friends have  made a flyer every week , now 
amounting to over 1200. To coincide with the  release of  Gaz’s   
Rockin’ Blues –  The First 30  Years , published this  year , the   
book and  exhibition will feature all the flyers and  posters I’ ve 
ever printed along with some photos and memorabilia. Robert Fraser 
used to tease me in the early eighties saying that these flyers were 
not art. I  strongly objected , He was introducing street graffiti 
artists Jean -Michel Basquiat  and Keith Haring to London and  I 
remarked , if they were artists so were we . Subway Gallery founder 
and artist Robert Gordon McHarg III has known me  for 25 years  and 
has agreed all  along that this  is genuine and good contemporary art 
and also part of Soho and London’s rich music and club history . A 
legacy of  our late 20th  century  era  that  defines our times, 
culture and taste in music and art." Gaz Mayall 2010 - www.gazrockin.com