We’re getting the chance to meet some of our favourite L.A based artists at the moment. First El Mac came to town and we sorted him out a wall for his incredible gaucho piece, and now Probs has been braving the biting winds of Old Street with Remi/Rough and adopted Angelenos Dabs and Myla.

Big artists need big spots and there aren’t many walls in East London as visible as the Mother bar frontage on Old Street. The indigenous lesser-spotted hipster now has a beautifully painted lady surrounded by dreamed koi to drunkenly fall against courtesy of Probs. Dabs and Myla meanwhile turned their trademark retro styles to a top hat wearing sausage and ‘Stay Golden’ over a foundation of stripes by Remi. As always we’ll let the pictures do the talking.

Everyone has been moaning about the heating not being on enough and they’re stockpiling pumpkins and enormous tubs of sweets in the shops. It can only mean one thing, it’s Winter. It shouldn’t really be a surprise, it happens every year, but we don’t really feel like we’ve had a Summer yet this year so it’s a bit disappointing to be digging out beanies and big jackets already. Ah well, it’s never stopped us painting in the past and it’s also a perfect chance to post a few wintery pics from yester year. This Sin City inspired production featured Probs, Blam, Dep, and Bonzai. If snowy cold weather inspires this kind of quality work maybe Winter won’t be so bad after all.

Portuguese artist Odeith has been impressing us for years with his crazy anamorphic style, having seen a new video from him on Youtube the other day it seemed like a good moment to collect together some of our favourite videos from him. Some of the video could be better quality but you’ll get the idea. If you like what you see check out http://odeith.com/

Check it out, it’s mind-boggling time.

The best things in life are free apparently, which means art opening beers are one of the best things in life. You’ll hear no argument from us on that, free beer is pretty much our favourite thing ever, so when several opportunities to indulge in gratuitous beer all came in to alignment at once we happily jumped through that boozey stargate.

First on the list was Supremebeing’s White Canvas Project on Leonard Street. SheOne, Will Baras, Mr Jago, Bue The Warrior, and Dave Walker have all produced work and a T-shirt for the project and the standard was as high as you’d expect from this lot. We particularly liked SheOne’s double car doors and furniture, glossy and desirable objects covered in his signature futuristic letter abstractions. We were also very fond of the free flowing Becks, three down, no dinner resulted in Tom, having been given the nod by someone who seemed to be in charge, almost walking off with their mailing list notebook from the front desk. SheOne took it very well though. Booze 1 – Tom 0

We’d happily have stayed at WCP all night – good people, good art, free booze. But time was against us so we cracked on to the Moniker Art Fair at Village Underground. We made it as far as the big queue, but we hate queuing and there was free booze getting warm elsewhere so we’ve got no idea if it was any good or not because we buggered off to Stolen Space. We’ve heard good things though so we’ll go and check it out this weekend.

Arriving to a meh of hipsters (one of many collective nouns for hipsters that includes ‘a fixie of’ and ‘an irony of’) cycling away on their skinny bikes in their skinny turn-ups signalled that we’d missed the free booze at Stolen Space. Luckily the incredible paintings by Word To Mother more than made up for it. His tattoo and sign-writing influences are much in evidence on the found wooden panels that he uses as his canvases. It was good to bump in to lots of friends of EndoftheLine there and it took a lot to leave the likes of Ders, Ronzo, Dep, Tizer and Suki to the joys of the local pub as we forged valiantly onwards to Covent Garden for the West London Art Factory show at the Hospital Club.

EndoftheLine favourites, Zeus and Solo One, were our highlights of the exhibition, but the expensive bar drove us out on to the streets pretty quickly. In need of more beer and food we managed to catch last orders at Belgo. Kilos of mussels and chips washed down with quality Belgian beer was the perfect end to our gallery crawl. 

Overall we managed to drink a pretty decent amount of alcohol gratis, caught up with some of our favourite people, and even looked at some art. Thursdays are good days. Check out the photos and tell us what you like or don’t like in the comments section.

The 4th annual Meeting of Styles UK has been a long journey for us here at EndoftheLine. Having now had a chance to catch breath and reflect on the weekend that was, we’re extremely pleased with how it all went down. It was an entirely positive event, with no negative feedback other than a few petty internet haters and the residents noise complaints, but then we challenge you to put on an event in a residential area without that happening.

From the moment the artists turned up on Saturday morning it was always going to be a great day’s painting. The Ghetto Farceur boys from France rocked up with a 2 litre bottle of premixed pastis which was dutifully forced on anyone near them, 10 in the morning was a little early for us though. A big thank you to all the artists who made our job so much easier.

When you have your Summer event pushed back to October the weather is one of the biggest concerns. Luckily for us we had a pretty dry day with only the odd spit of moisture and the sun was even allegedly spotted once or twice. Picking out highlights from an event packed with show-stoppers isn’t easy, and everyone raised their game so high it’s even harder. We’ll let the pictures do the talking at this point, let us know which pieces are your favourites.

Musically we got down to the sounds of Chu-i, Rolls Royce, and Trol23 – who had the excellent ‘Granville Sessions’ and Si Philly jump up for a freestyle session. Mylon played hip hop classics to take us in to the main acts of the afterparty and soldiered through some technical issues with the decks. Reeps1, Crossbone T, and Buggsy all absolutely killed it before the mighty Phi Life Cypher stepped up and showed everyone why they deserve their legendary status. With Joe Driscoll’s incredible loop pedal skills and Wrongtom’s hard reggae riddims to finish things off in style it really couldn’t have been better.

Massive biggups to all those who painted, all the musicians, everyone who helped in any way no matter how small, we couldn’t have done it without you. Particular thanks go to Mylon, Jay, Tom, and Amuk for coming to help Probs, Matilda, and Trol23 prep all the walls (that was a LOT of black emulsion). Big shout to Cept and Snoe for pimping the party space, it really looked amazing. Boyd made the day so special by running the best workshops we could possibly have had. Mad love to the ever calm under pressure Chu-i who was the host with the most as always, and the event would’ve been nothing without the help of Natalie, Zia, Margot, and Riya. Lastly we have to biggup the Storm Freerun ninjas, who did mind boggling flips and gainers all day, and all the people who’ve left us such positive feedback, it means a lot. The tag on the Ghetto Farceur, Bonzai, and Epok wall sums things up nicely – “Meeting of Smiles”.

When you think of national stereotypes the first things that springs to mind with the Russians tends to be ‘they’re a bit crazy’…and they drink so much that the Russian word ‘Vodka’ literally translates as ‘water’. Well as we all know national stereotypes are for idiots and racists…but these Russians certainly aren’t doing much to alter this image. These antics are surely the result of both Vodka and craziness.

This recent street art festival in Poland was clearly all about MASSIVE walls. We particularly like our friend Aryz’s reclining lady and the incredible SatOne and Etam crew collaboration. Check out the flicks and let your mind boggle.

Buggsy has been blowing up of late and deservedly so, his thought-provoking lyrical content and incredible double-time flow are mindblowing. We first heard him on a reworking of the classic UB40 number – 1 in 10, and he’s cemented himself on to our office playlists with tunes like Born inna System (on the last Skitz album) and the recent smasher off of his new album – Down Dat Road. We’ve been saying it for a while, but we think he’s the future of British rap – a talent with global appeal. We’re very pleased, therefore, to be able to announce that Buggsy will be coming to bless our stage at Meeting of Styles. Yet another reason to put October 8th firmly in your diary.

Gully Side Acapella

Down Dat Road

Born Inna System