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Now the Northern line has been getting smashed for years but I had never done one so it was time to stake the yard and go painting. It was a quick mission after work around 7pm. Three of us set out to the plot and left Buffie sitting on the station to take the running shots. As we encountered the forest that surrounds the plot and falling arse over tit several times we made it to the spot where we could see the driver pull up. We sat there all masked up and ready to go, when the train pulled up. THe driver fucked around as usual getting his lunchbox and paper all ready then left his cab. It was time to dash to the train and paint but one small thing was wrong. As we got to the train my mobile phone started ringing....The driver on the otherside of the platform must of heard it ringing and thought " where the hell is that coming from..?? "
Well we carried on and got finished so it wasn't too bad. However the moral of the story is ' Turn the phone off when painting '
Friday night action in the East...

The three of us needed to bag a few more of my old favourites the CENTRAL line. We got there quite early and staked the yard out, everything being cool we snipped the outside fence which led to the compound. After staking out the yard and taking a wander along the fence something caught my eye. It was like an optical illusion I could see that there was a hole in the fence. As I walked along and got up close I couldn't see it anymore. It was either the excitement or me going mad but I was sure I had seen a hole. As I walked back with my cutters in hand to talk to the others about the optical illusion I looked one last time and low and behold I see it again. Wide open and extremely inviting I ditched the cutters and begged the others to follow me through the hole. We couldn't beleive our luck because if we had tryed to cut the hole it would have taken an hour and made shit loads of noise. Lets just say with the good fortune and 30 minutes we managed to bang 3 panels and some heavy bombin on the rest of the waiting stock. It ran on the Saturday all day and I managed to catch it in Liverpool st where shit loads of tourists and footy fans gazed as the fresh burners rolled through the heart of the capital.

Now I have been painting trains and tubes since Jan 1999 and many people ask me whats best trains or tubes.

Well there are so many differences between the two, due to the fact of hottness, do-ability and the running shots. Firstly I have had more chases and close shaves in BR yards than I have from tube yards. I guess it comes down to security because tube yards have trips, lazers, cameras and movement sensors to slow us down but it doesn't make a yard unaccessable. Fuck man we are the real terrorists' because we can go through all the security the government lays down and still smash the system. I mean what if we were planting real bombs on them trains....running through the capital and BANG!!!Makes you wonder eh!!

As for BR yards they have hardly any security but many of them are active all night to keep us out. They patrol with dogs and stuff but when ever you go into a BR yard how many of you including me have thought this is fucking easy, no problems here tonight, then bang you get lazy and you end up being chased out.!!!

I guess I love the tube yards because you have to be proper stealth and never get lazy....its hot, hot, hot so you need to be on top of things or you get the legger we always dred.

The other question many people debate about is whats' better walls or trains. Ah! now there is a can of worms to be opened. Personally I feel graff belongs on all surfaces be it brick or steel. Can you seriously look at a burner on a train and say thats the freshest production with characters and a theme running through it....no because it never happens unless you are in Germany which I have witnessed full on burners running through Hamburg station in rush hour...

No you never really see it but only on walls. Some of the productions I have seen over these last ten years have been mind blowing. Its like graff got taken to a much higher level than when the New Yorkers held the crown. Sure they started it and ran it for decades but then Europe took over and now the rest of the world gives up its creations every weekend to ideas that would seem impossible to imagine. Each year you get a new breed of artist role out and blow minds constantly away.

Can we really push the boundries that far when we paint a train in less than an hour.???



One of my favourite missions of the year 2000. I had been given a flick by a guy in a pub of this yard and it fascinated me about how the hell to get in there. I spent two days looking for the yard and another checking out the way to get in there. Looking down drains into the sewers was not a barrel of laughs I can tell you.

After getting the posse together on the Saturday and going out for a few drinks we ended up in this squat party down in Peckham. Man it was a cool crowd and the Stella's flowed with the zoots. We made the decision to get to the yard for 3 am but we were havin fun and getting hammered. After the bus journey and some nasty street bombing, pissed up of course, we got to the yard.

Save all the juicy details for those who were there, but we rocked 4 fresh panels and got it filmed to add to the pleasure. I wrote on the undersides about keepin the scraps rollin...due to the fact that a jumped up twat implied at his own peril that I only painted scrap trains.....he who laughs last, laughs the longest springs to mind coz this was one yard he would never try to get in for the fact of being to scared...lol

This was one mission that really took all night. We got two car loads ready to bowl down to Funbridge for some wholecar action and everthing was good until we arrived. After checking out the trains for guards and any other security, we got our shit together and rolled upto the platforms. Well no sooner had we climbed up onto the platforms I climbed up onto what I thought was something completely innocent but turned out to be a movement sensor. It was only then that I noticed there were around 10 of them scattered along the platforms..Fuck sprang to mind and get the fuck out of here came along straight after. We hung round in utter disbelief because this was the easiest yard in the world and had given birth to most of the UK's wholecars over the years..

Mission over I checked for a few other yards around the area but thought it would be better heading back for London. As we rolled up the A2 I thought about the DLR, as far as I knew it hadn't been done for a while. As we drew closer I realised that I hadn't brought my cutters with me and the only way in would have been the really bait way. We ALL made the decision that this was the only way if the night was going to be a success. Neadless to say it turned out ok in the end and we got the job done..



This was a real rushed effort in an already hot yard up north. There was only two of us and we managed to pull off two panels each. Not the best thing I have ever done but apparently the europeans liked it..!!!?? Thats me just putting the finishing touches to a two man effort. What made that night interesting was the party in the block of flats opposite and all of them watching us smack x4 panels up. Hence after a bit of shouting and bottles being thrown down onto us from the 15th floor it was time to finish up and go...its a cruel world


It makes me wonder sometimes why are we hurting ourselves so badly trying to create a piece of artwork that lasts for days or hours. We spend our whole lives hurting ourselves and each other for all kinds of reasons but you have to check your sanity when it comes to playing on live tracks. What posseses young kids and adults alike to cross that line and risk the blue flame of that 20,000 volt shock.

Life of youths of today are a struggle with poor upbringings and abuse in all four corners of the globe it's not a suprise that kids want to kill themselves to get a little respect. We have to look at what the new generation has brought us with the world in kaos and no one really ruling the lands anymore. Governments come and go but who is left to pick up the pieces of our broken civilisation. It makes you think what can really happen next. What is round the corner and how will we as a human race cope. From atom bombs to famine it just makes me feel that someone, somewhere is really trying to get rid of us. Have we spent to long on this planet and not learnt a thing to realise we are slowly killing ourselves. What will make us wake up one day and notice we have nothing left to fight over or kill.

Just think of your existence for a second and imagine how insignificant you really are. If you were not here tommorow who would really care. Immediate friends and family would mourn you but soon forget when the gas bill needs to be payed or Leeds are playing at home. How does your life really make a difference to the world when so much is going on...

Every person on this planet wants to belong, to feel a part of something that makes a difference. Some battle to become famous, some shun the attention, but how many of us want to have a say in what happens in our time. People struggle everyday to make ends meet but they still want to be proud of what their existence means to them. Everyone wants that dignity and to be able to hold their heads high when they have reached rock bottom. Has part of our nature to become destructive pushed the boundries in which we communicate. In times of struggle we strike out instead of express our true feelings with thought. Have we truly lost our ability to think about our actions and not use offence as a defence. Our society as we know it today reflects violence as entertainment, something to prize over. The art of intelect and conversation has long vanished with the creation of game machines and petty crime. Oh such fun is to be had in stealing cars and killing innocent bystanders that happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Life revolves around all the new technology that mankind creates but who is really in control of it all. Who has the power to pull the plug if it all gets to much for the innocent victims of consumerism.

The generation of today see through many guises of greed and waste and push the limits in which their elders panic buy to satisfy their yurning to provide. When man first walked this earth all he had was his skill and cunning to eat and keep warm. He created fire and made clothes to keep alive but what did our early descendants do for pleasure. They drew to chronicle their existence and represent the changes that they witnessed over the centuries. The first thing man thought of was ART. Our desire to develop and show others creation of life has been passed through thousands of years. Its our nature, its in our blood to show people around us what we see through our eyes. Everybody creates a different image in their own mind of how they view the world. Imagination is the greatest window you can ever look out of and so many try to show their own piece of mind.

Authority has put a block on the skill of imagination now with rules and regulations. Society may understand it, even like it but governments rule the land and if it doesn't comply with the norm then its outlawed. Censorship comes in all shapes and sizes and many battle for the right to express themselves but how many win. For thousands of years art has chronicled the struggle of mankind until today when it now seems illegal to push your opinions onto the unsuspecting public.

What ever canvas we choose to chronicle our time on this earth surely we should have the freedom to do so. There are so many different ways in which everday folk learn knowledge and the understanding what is right and what is wrong, so why class us as vandals. You want to have your say,right. You want to be seen by the masses and show them how you feel. What makes you tick and what makes you hurt is not too little to ask of normal folk. I guess our desire to gain power in knowing will always overcome. Remember knowledge is power and the true warriors are those who never shout, never strike and never need to face the enemy........