Less than 3 weeks to go. Woooooo/ahhhhhh

Got to make a poster for @offspringmusic.bsky.social at the O2 in London last night. If you’re looking for a poster featuring a skating robot, with a bin for a head, with a raccoon living in it, then have I got the very thing for you!

Made a poster for Minus The Bear. Which is nice.

Made a poster for Minus The Bear. Which is nice.

Fucking hate this cunt.

Everyone seems to have stopped including download codes with records and I don’t like it. Not one bit.

This album is absolutely astonishing.

Loads of tickets flew out today. Keep em coming!

FRESH PRINTS! Buy some, if you like. All pretty limited in numbers. www.printsofthieves.co.uk/collections/...

In particular Aneesh Bhoopathy, from the design coop Forge, who designed the identity. A brilliant reminder to *employ human creatives!* www.curbed.com/article/zohr...

Well done Zohran! And of course the real victor of the day - typography.

I’ve had to make my Instagram account private, due to the hundreds of bot accounts that suddenly flooded the page over the past few days. I’ve blocked all I can, but if you aren’t a bot and would like to see what I do over there, feel free to follow: www.instagram.com/drewmillward...

One off new single..sometimes you just wanna do it like this. Route one. No subtlety. Dig out Superfuzz, Hairway, all those classics, and go old skool. Pay what you want. Take it for free. Hook up a speaker and play it for the trick+treaters heycolossus.bandcamp.com/album/hey-zo...

Happy Halloween! Here's a brand new single from HEY COLOSSUS to celebrate! "Hey Zombie" is a scorched and drooling knuckle-dragger and is pay-what-you-like on Bandcamp now: heycolossus.bandcamp.com/album/hey-zo...

Just pointing out that this gig is £15 for 7 bands.

I’ve had to make my Instagram account private, due to the hundreds of bot accounts that suddenly flooded the page over the past few days. I’ve blocked all I can, but if you aren’t a bot and would like to see what I do over there, feel free to follow: www.instagram.com/drewmillward...

Even closer to Endless Spite II as we continue to highlight each band. 1/2 tickets sold! FAST BLOOD’s sound comprises fast-paced, energetic punk rock with a nod to 90’s midwestern indie/emo, hardcore, and garage punk. fastblood.bandcamp.com/album/sunny-... Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk/outofspite

Got asked by @eisrecords.bsky.social to make some posters for their upcoming birthday shows. A triptych of prints, or one big print, the choice is yours. An honour to be asked.

Jesus Fucking Christ. Vote Green.

FRESH PRINTS! Buy some, if you like. All pretty limited in numbers. www.printsofthieves.co.uk/collections/...

Gen AI requires minimal creative or craft skills, works at enormous speed, and is touted as a way of crashing through limitations and gatekeepers, freeing your creative vision. So shouldn’t we have had some AI art that isn’t total shit by now? Or was speed and ease not the problem after all?

Pay day this week! Buy a ticket? theendlesshum.com/endless-spit...

As Endless Spite II is on the way we continue to highlight each band. A power trio from Newcastle, The Unit Ama have been in existence for 23 years. 2023 saw the release of their most recent album on Gringo. Listen: theunitama.bandcamp.com/track/observ... Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk/outofspite

Also.

After talking on here a little while ago about the relentless march of the music biz basically memory hole-ing any joy or career highlights you might've had because you haven't released anything in the last week, I thought 'you know what? fuck it, why not show off a bit?' So here's a thread:

Keep Kids Off Rings.

New prints up in the shop.

Artists are treated much like dairy farmers. “The product is going to be there anyway, pouring out of those dumb animals. Someone has to take it away or it just goes off, yeah? So we’ll price it at zero - taking it away is a favour - but sell it at a profit, cos people seem to love it. OK by you?”

This recent Agriculture album is absolutely breathtaking. I’m so rarely utterly floored by music nowadays, and when it happens it reminds me that music is about as close to actual magic that we have. agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-sp...

I’m in the process of packaging new prints for upcoming events. There are also 4 new screen prints in the works. Come see me at @vicepress.bsky.social Open House in a few weeks, I’ll be trying to instigate class warfare and sell gig posters, in a sea of movie posters.

Endless Spite II is fast approaching so let’s highlight each band as we get closer. And None of Them Knew They Were Robots are playing their first gig in 9 years & just released their 1st album in 22 years. Listen: anotktwr.bandcamp.com/track/the-last Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/outofspite

Watching a bunch of themed meme pages all hard pivot to ai is so phenomenally weird. It’s the same sensation I had talking to teenagers at college who dressed like punks or metal heads or whatever. Just devoid of any ethos apart from “me above all”. Really disgusting stuff. Hate it.

Fact of the Day: Simon Mayo’s real name is Simonnaise Mayonnaise.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

This is up on IPlayer at the moment and it’s excellent.

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

Not long now until @vicepress.bsky.social Open House.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I can’t.

Have a watch of this. youtu.be/5V-gVA4kahc?...

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Endless Spite II which takes place on 6th December, Kirkgate Community centre, Shipley, Bradford is just 2 months away! Almost 1/2 tickets have sold too! Info: theendlesshum.com/endless-spite-… Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk/outofspite

If you want your favourite independent creatives to make more stuff then you need to give them money, it's really that simple.

Absolutely incredible work by @danmumforddraws.bsky.social making me spit out my coffee today. 😂