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The Front Room Art Trail is an amazing local Community event in Totterdown (Bristol) which does exactly what it says. It allows you to view independent art in house to house style and so provides great exposure to work whether that is ceramics, oil paintings, water-colours or whatever. As for Grumpy Git Clothing we are going to be locked into the 'Star and Dove' which is a local fine alehouse with our t shirts, aprons, gift sets, flat caps and other goodies laid out on tables. We were there last year and had a great weekend as happy customers stocked up on Christmas goodies in the comfort of a good pub. Hope you can make it and if you are not local it's an excellent introduction to the warmth and cosmopolitan attitude that warms this corner of England.

http://frontroom.org.uk

 

 

Will I Am is the lead singer and chief lyricist of the Black Eyed Peas just in case you didn't know and here he is working on an early draft of "My Humps". If you think this would look good as a unique t shirt design we would love to hear your comments on the score a design section OR Facebook OR even a nicely scribed letter like wot they used to do in them days

"I Wish I Was Deep instead of just Macho"..if only!!! Signed versions of this funny t shirt by original BIFF creator Mick Kidd are still unbelievably available and may be worth a small mint on the Antiques Road Show in 3100. Mick could have been a founding father of Pink Floyd.. but wasn't.

Never mess with a man carrying a rolling pin especially when wearing our TMG funny apron for men ..you have been warned so legally we are covered should you meet such a person in your local kitchen ! Our design has an adjustable strap to circumvent any girth so should make the perfect quirky gift so there is no reason to be grumpy at all! A quirky gift and soon to be part of our Grumpy Git Cooking kit available later in the year.

 

Here's a shot of Mick Kidd, one half of BIFF whose rhetorical, dry, sometimes lateral and satirical designs and cartoon strips adorned many bookshops and stalls throughout the 1970's. These will be returning mainly as T shirts, aprons and beyond over the coming months available only with Grumpy Git Clothing. This T shirt says "I wish I was deep instead of just macho" and is available online with signed copies, yes signed copies around £20.

       A big thank you to WOMAD 2011 for putting together the most eclectic music festival of the season. Huge variety of artists from Baaba Maal to Ayarkhan (from northern Siberia) to Mali Techno..brilliant and with all Security provided by the Grumpy Army above                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

We are currently putting together lots of new material and style on our Facebook Pages so hope you 'Like' our new Landing Page. We are currently talking about extending this to include contests on our Facebook pages which will be judged by the number of 'Likes' each submitted design collects, so watch this space. NOT only that, but we are seriously talking about adding a flying pigeon game that poops on certain deserving individuals below..

Who would you have as your prime recipient of one in the eye?

And it will not be our last. We will be working in sole collaberation with Mick Kidd and Chris Garratt, the original founder members of the 1970's dry humour-based magazine and an early expose to the art of satire. We will not only be reproducing some of their earlier and most successful designs in our clothing, but working with them on using their somewhat off-key view of the world focusing on contemporary issues. We had some ideas on who could replace Victor Mature in this print but decided on keeping the original character.

To celebrate our first anniversary here is Daryl Dugdale, winner of our first slogan competition for his entry 'Hung Like a parliament' . We pay handsomely of course for any slogans or graphic designs (see Feed the Pigeon) and of course there is always a buzz in seeing someone wearing one of your own ideas. We always encourage public submissions with entries for Palin, Gaga and Budget Cuts proving the most popular topics of the last week.

Indeed something's was-a- rustling when Grumpy Git Clothing took pure 'action shots' of clothing in a local and very atmospheric Cemetery one hot Sunday with models Chris, Jack and Miss H. The photos all show part of our range for 2012 and are about to be uploaded to the website. A lot more in the area of product development to come including the availability of mix and match 'kits' plus a whole new series of T shirts, aprons and other stuff.