Globe trottin ‘ graffiti fetish-ist  - INSA takes time out from takin over the world to talk to us . . .

1. Tell us who you are – what you do and how long you’ve been doing it ?

I’m INSA I use to write my name a lot now a paint shoes a lot. I do do a lot more than that put I guess that’s the easiest way to put it. Been alive 30 years been painting over half of that

2. Favourite 3 colors?

Pink

Black

White

3. Favourite 5 pieces of all time and why –

Any of Mode 2’s early characters could have been used but this is a good example of what I love.

Jeff Koons ‘Rabbit’ has always been since I first saw it in a book in school back in the late 80s one of my fravourite pieces of art. And last year I saw it for real at the TATE for the first time- I found it quite mad to think I had loved this piece for over 20 years but it had only ever been a photo I had seen.

This again isn’t the exact piece I am thinking of but an early DELTA piece when he wrote MESS it was in blue and had little white arms on each letter posing and was flat and 3D at the same time- it could have something to do with seeing it in the flesh aged 15 in Amsterdam after discovering northern lights for the first time- but it has always stuck in my head as one of the best pieces ever!

Soyayrama is one of my all time favorite artists- and his sexy robots are as cool as it gets.

The BIG DAVE’S GUSSET piece you see from the train between London Bridge and Waterloo- this has made me laugh for years and years!

4. Favourite city and why ?

Tokyo- cos no matter how long i could be their i don’t think i’d ever get to a point that i know it well and was bored.

5. Favourite food / drink /?

Sashimi or pork belly

Beer

6. Biggest vice ?

Beer

7. Biggest Gripe ?

Capatislism

8. Favourite shoe?

Predictablely the air max 90…

9. Favourite 5 tracks ?

Outkast- Get up Get Out

Masta Ace- Jeep ass niguh

Prince- Contvoversy

Dr Dre- Let me ride

Lil Wayne- A milli

10. Perfect day?

Waking up in another country hung over from a great night before but not bothered cos you’re too excited about the spot/gallery you’re about to paint- then after that a big fat meal in a good recommended local joint.

11. Whos the most famous person on your phone?

Hhhmmmm probably Jay-Z

(but that is just on mp3)

12. 3 people you would love to have a pint with ?

My mates Toby,Matt and Chris

13. 3 things you cant live without . . .

Heart- brain- penis

14. i am lucky/unlucky because . . .

I have never had a job….

15. Last time you were caught doing something ?

Last week not having a bus ticket- FUCK THE MAN J

16. 5 things that are within arms reach of where you are right now?

Keyboard

A sample heel for INSA HEELS

A ‘STEAKBOWL’ trophy

My blackberry

A biro from ‘Hooters’

17. what would u grab from your burning house?

My collection of topless girl disposable lighters

18. 3 things to do before you die ?

Have kids

Visit at least 20 more countries

Figure out whats the point of it all

19. earliest memory

Can’t remember….

20. any upcoming projects- shouts – final words !

Making lunch then doing some more emails……

More from the man like Insa – HERE !

LOUNGIN’ BREIFLY IN THE BADLANDS OF LUCAN BEFORE ANOTHER TOUR OF THE WORLD – ITF WORLD CHAMP – DJ FLIP SLIPS SOMETHING IN YOUR (VERBAL) DRINK . . .

1. Tell us who you are – what you do and how long you’ve been

doing it ?

DJ Flip, from Dublin,Ireland.

I play other peoples songs,and tell people to make noise for party related reasons. Ive been doing this only the last few years, before that i just djed with my head down. Overall 11 years now.

2. Favourite 3 colors?

Ive always like turquoise, green when i was younger, and pink when i went through my liking Pauly Shore movies phase.

3. Top 5 favourite drinks?

The gayer the better

Malibu and coke is my fall back drink. Like when its dumb late and more beer would ruin my week,i go onto the Bu & Cokes.

Corona (i hate Sol, you hear me Sol? i hate you)

7up would be my weapon of choice for dinner. A lot of places like Austria and Switzerland dont have it in restaurants and shops. WTF like, giving me punk ass lemon flavoured fizzless crap.

I invented what is without a doubt the worlds gayest drink

West coast cooler rose & a shot of malibu dunked in, then down in one (quite a big shot)

Tastes like christmas and hand jobs.

i wanna say whiskey, but the shit kills me the next day. Worst hangovers ever.

Honourable mention to baileys & ice.

4. Favourite city and why ?

This is hard for me. Do i judge on scenery,fun times ive had there,fun shows, etc. Ive had great shows in some boring places id never go to if i wasnt playing.

Overall though, i think Vienna. Its beautiful,really clean,and lots to see, also never sleeps, there seems to be stuff to do every night. Word up to the Waxos,who dont come to my shows anymore im there so much. So word up to Daniel from The Twin Towas from now on, every time i come,hes the only one who hangs out anymore, we drink in a place called….ah i forget, its an Irish bar, oh wait, Waxy Murphys, but we’ve renamed Tits Mc’Gees. They have 1 euro shots there weekdays, so many a night ive fallen out of there.

If you havent been to Vienna you’re playing yourself.

For shows,Switzerland is always fun.

5. Favourite food / drink /?

It used to be Thai, but sadly ive grown a vagina recently in my stomach, i cant really handle spicy food so much.

I HATE Chinese food though, and of course 150billion% of the time when the “what shall we have for dinner?” on tour question comes up, Chinese is always first mentioned, then i have to tell everyone about my vagina, and how it makes me feel shit.

Apart form that im not picky at all.

6. Biggest vice ?

Does that mean bad habit? If so, falling in love with porn stars and girls i see on tv/internet on a day to day basis.

7. Biggest Gripe ?

Porn stars and girls on tv/internet not falling in love with me on a day to day basis. And shit djs.

8. Favourite shoe?

It would have to be the classic Adidas shell toe,its all i seem to own right now.

9. Favourite 5 tracks ?

Ever?

I couldnt say,it changes so often. At this exact moment i would have some Burt Bacharach in there. Close to you maybe, The Carpenters. Also maybe not. Honourable and possible top 5 mention to Patrick Swayze – she’s like the wind. The story behind it is amazing, he wrote it for his wife, they got married in 1975 and stayed together his whole life. That’s so rare in Hollywood.

10. Perfect day?

I honestly cant answer this question without cringing,or sounding really cheesy.

So il say finding 50 euros on the ground. I cant think of anything better, finding 100? Don’t be ridiculous.

11. Whos the most famous person on your phone?

hmmmm, depends whos asking, like in Ireland girls would know a Boyzone member more than they would Atmosphere, but im gonna say Slug.

I don’t want famous peoples number’s.

12. 3 people you would love to have a pint with ?

dead or alive?

If alive

George Clooney

Brad Pitt

George Pitt
13. 3 things you cant live without . . .

Music

Family

internet (sad but true)

i guess i’d get the survey would say X if this was family fortunes, as surely water,food, and oxegen would rank higher.

14. i am lucky/unlucky because . . .

Im lucky because i have an amazing and very supportive family.

Im unlucky because the job/career i have chosen is pretty dumb.

15. Last time you were caught doing something ?

I never get caught red handed.

16. 5 things that are within arms reach of where you are right now?

I was trying to hide the fact that im a lazy so and so, but yes, im answering this in bed.

Laptop

blanket

remote control

heater (i live in Dublin,and its Winter)

my Joan Collins/Hugh Hefner robe

17. what would u grab from your burning house?

It would be a toss up between my family,and the laptop. Hmm. Hopefully il never have to face this.

18. 3 things to do before you die ?

Have a baby (that i know of)

Have a baby i dont know of

Reunite on Oprah.

19. earliest memory

My Dad pushing me out of the way of a car that crashed into him. I must of been about 3,maybe 4.
20.  any upcoming projects- shouts – final words !

Just working on a partnership with Marc Stretch of Foreign Legion. We tour all the time together now, its so much fun. He works so hard, as do i (live) so it make sour show better. When hes finished rapping,he doesn’t go into the crowd or to the bar,and “chill” he stays on stage and rocks with me,hyping. So our live show is literally a minimum of 2 hours, up to 4 hours. Depending. We did a show in Switzerland in November, we started at 12am and stopped at 5am. 5 straight hours rocking. So trying to push us forward, get our names as a unit more known.
We had nicknamed ourselves Black Powder and The Smug Brothers (Smug Bros is taken though) We’ll think of something dumb.

Check us on www.facebook.com/deejayflip & www.facebook.com/marcstretch . Myspace is dead.

Shout out to everyone i know,toured with,rocked with,slept on their couch, slept in their girlfriend, drank a beer with, stole beer from,kissed.
I love you all in different ways. Thanks for caring. I also have music, check out All City Records in Dublin for my vinyl and cds and DJ Flip action heroes.

I fuckin love this routine with the Necro beat – Flip killin’ it ! !

Ireland’s most original names in graffiti and one of my favourite writers

- J O R tells us why , what and which . . .

1. Tell us who you are – what you do and how long you’ve been doing it ?

My name is Jor and I started Painting Graf about 16 years ago and oil painting about 3 years ago

2. Favourite 3 colors?

In oils, yellow, red and blue cause they make the rest. But in spraypaint I’d say Montana-Bruise, Car Plan-Ford Peppermint Sea Green and Hycote-Sandglow

3. Favourite 5 pieces of all time and why – (please include links)

Artz has a certain soft approach to his can control and shapes that many spraypaint users don’t achieve. Even some of the best out there can have a harsh or tense technique. I also love the subtlety of colour in this image and how the background is part of the piece and not separate to it. He can adapt to a wall. The wall contributes to how the piece finally looks.

To me this simple drawing portrays more realism than an elaborate painting or even a photo

This is a still from one of the slickest animations I’ve ever seen “The Secret of Kells”. I love the painterly background and the teeth of the cats shadow. The whole fim has great styles and composition.

This is my favourite thing so far that he’s done

Joyce’s Da.

4. Favourite city and why ?

Dublin, cause its where all my friends and family live.

5. Favourite food / drink /?

Tuna Steak, Galway Hooker Ale

6. Biggest vice ?

Plastic

7. Biggest Gripe ?

Ignorance

8. Favourite shoe?

My Swiss hiking boots

9. Favourite 5 tracks ?

North Wall Freight Depot to East Wall Freight Depot

10. Perfect day?

Bloomsday

11. Whos the most famous person on your phone?

Dylan Mac Cabe

12. 3 people you would love to have a pint with ?

Vic Reeves, Oscar Wilde, Dylan Mac Cabe,

13. 3 things you cant live without . . .

Language, Soap, Music

14. i am lucky/unlucky because . . .

I live in Ireland/I live in Ireland

15. Last time you were caught doing something ?

Cant remember.

16. 5 things that are within arms reach of where you are right now?

Leg, phone, chair, charger, wall

17. what would u grab from your burning house?

Insurance papers

18. 3 things to do before you die ?

Cut down a cocao pod

Learn an instrument

Shoot my name onto a wall with a machine gun

19. earliest memory

Listening to my parents radio

20.  any upcoming projects- shouts – final words !

Paint loads

Shouts to everyone

Lets hope theres life on Europa

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One of the hardest working men in showbiz and riddim killer for life – T-woc creeps out of his local cosy boozer and hits you with some knowledge . . .

1. Tell us who you are – what you do and how long you’ve been doing it ?

t-woc, i’m a producer, record collector and dj for 13, 10 and 6 years respectively

2. Favourite 3 colors?

blue(sky) green(grass) yellow(sun)

3. Favourite 5 guinness pubs inna fine style . . .

Grogans (castle st)
60′s orginal first press glory with excellent artwork and sumptious pint, appeals to young and old ‘mislabeled’ castle lounge on cover, no sound no video. top pub for top people!

Hughes (recent discovery behind 4 courts)
Instrumental very obscure pub on the classic northside dubpub riddim, with crackles and rip seats throughout, worth for quality of pint alone and weekend instrumentals with extended mix on weekends, pipes, guitar & mandolin solos , excellent piece in first press glory (plays vg-, cracks in walls, seats and cover vg)

The international (wicklow st)
noisey press of a slightly rough cut similiar to northsidedubpub riddim, video throughout, b1 side plays vg+ quieter but with comedy toasting set throughout, b2 plays for pickney vg-, some tin whistle and guitar on weekends, strangley attractive piece, some graffiti writting on label.

Stags head (dame lane)
recent rework of a classic, slight degradtion on the b-side with tourist guitar and fiddle piece on weekend, addition of serious female eastern european barstaff a welcome, strictly no audio or video. near mint

The Palace (temple bar)
80s relick of 60sclassic, retains some charachter of original but with tourist additions, great sound throughout the week, with guest appearance from some of the islands finest passing thru, some cracks on walls, a worthy cut.. plays vg+, pint excellent

4. Favourite city and why ?

great memory related, new york. just becuase of being there with my little

aussie nieces for christmas, hanging out with them in  manhatten

in this shit called snow(!), felt like i was in a disney movie.

good times related – Rio-  beach, weather, food, drink, music, records,records,records + ladies

5. Favourite food / drink /?

bbq’d red snapper / guinness. not together tho

6. Biggest vice ?

the aul drink

7. Biggest Gripe ?

no gripes, everythings all right

8. Favourite shoe?

at the mo addidas shell toe

9. Favourite 5 tracks ?

currently

the ambassadors – ain’t got the love (of any one girl) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H9FoByC1ZQ

cornell cambpell – jah jah me no born ya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIKH-tnCIck

the webs – hard to break a habit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iv3pbqB_YE&feature=player_embedded

the seeds – pushing to hard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmHTyLBIZ1g

deviant – shoes not not http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVEOgOkDgg

10. Perfect day?

wake up without hangover.. coffee in bed, irish breakfast in the Loving Spoon cafe, go digging, find a few  holy grails

i was after, BBQ and a few beers+ kick a ball about with mates down the beach, go see jimi hendrix / doors double bill,

err with a free bar.. .all night.sleep in good bed with good woman.. wake up without hangover, repeat

11. Whos the most famous person on your phone?

thiery henry

12. 3 people you would love to have a pint with ?

brendan behan, brendan grace & brendan gleeson

13. 3 things you cant live without . . .

something to do

drink

tunes

14. i am lucky/unlucky because . . .

lucky i got my head out of my arse

unlucky becuase it took so long to do it

15. Last time you were caught doing something ?

robbing CDs from HMV on grafton st, got carted down to pearse st

in a the back of a van

16. 5 things that are within arms reach of where you are right now?

coffee pot, sleeping girlfriend, box for akai MPC500, flip flop, george orwell – keep the aspidistra flying(unread)

17. what would u grab from your burning house?

as many of my boxes of 7″s as i could

18. 3 things to do before you die ?

learn to fly a plane, learn more spanish then uno cerveza mais and

write a hippy folk album

19. earliest memory

bee sting in wexford

20.  any upcoming projects- shouts – final words !

7″ vinyl ‘tzur man’ out this week, launch in the Pint

on 29th december

followed by 3rd part of delayed responses 12″ in late jan

peace to getnloose thanks for askin

MORE FROM THE MAN LIKE T-WOC HERE !

thanks for doing this ! ! !

Second’s out – round two. . . Wicklows synth lord and electronica chin stroker Sarsparilla is up next to be interviewed.

In his own words – ”  Sarsparilla was raised in a small synth community in the green mountains of Wicklow. He soon found their small town ways oppressive and formed an escape plan with his then mentor, John Carpenter. These men promptly escaped into the Dublin underground, soon master Carpenter moved to the US, but Sarsparilla stayed in Ireland to forge his own distinctive synthesized soundscapes. Utilizing the techniques master Carpenter had taught him and building upon them, he has crafted his own sound that is nothing short of extraordinary! “

1. Tell us who you are – what you do and how long you’ve been doing it ? I am Damien Lynch aka Sarsparilla, I produce electronic music and have done for 13years 2. Favourite 3 colors? Green White Gold 3. Favourite 5 pieces of all time and why – (please include links) These are in no order, but all these pieces are great: Cake, Toast, Cheese, Pizza, Female Ass 4. Favourite city and why ? Dublin. Because its Deadly! 5. Favourite food / drink /? Meat and Beer 6. Biggest vice ? Meat and Beer 7. Biggest Gripe ? Snobby faced Fucks that dont move to make space for some auld one getting on the luas when its packed! Eventhough somone made space for them! Then I get aggro and makes me look like a mad Knacker! 8. Favourite shoe? Runner 9. Favourite 5 tracks ? AT THE MOMENT - 1.Surviver no easy way out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slhw62Fmci8 2. Men at work- I come from a land down under 3.Slayer -South of Heaven 4.Bob James- pure Imagenation 5.Imagenation  -Just an illusion 10. Perfect day? Sunny? Eating Beer and Drinking a smooth glass of meat 11. Whos the most famous person on your phone? Michael Jackson 12. 3 people you would love to have a pint with ? Rambo Rocky Cobra 13. 3 things you cant live without . . . My Nord lead 2 Synth My DMX drum machine Pussy 14. i am lucky/unlucky because . . . Lucky because I am doing what I love to do( Making music) Unluckey Because I have never won anything! 15. Last time you were caught doing something ? Robbing an Ice cream Mars when theyfirst came out, in me Local shop MR BRADY’S. He didnt get angry, he just got really dissapointed, and made me feel really sad. ” Not you Damien “He said ” Anybody but you”. 16. 5 things that are within arms reach of where you are right now? Nord lead,,DmX, Juno60, 606,202 17. what would u grab from your burning house? Everything! I would keep going back in! But if I had to grab one ting it would be me Nord Lead  Synth cause I have made too many patches that I love. 18. 3 things to do before you die ? Injecting Smack Going on a rollercoster Wanking in public 19. earliest memory Looking out the window and shitting myself. It cut the ars off me! 20.  any upcoming projects- shouts – final words ! Got New album coming out – Slave to the Cat-Gang- Plus I will be supporting The Redneck Manifesto in whelans for new years eve. MORE FROM SARSPARILLA HERE !

This is a new section on the blog that we are going to be updating regularly with different peoples interviews . . .

Kickin ‘ off with everybodys favourite studio gangster – Steve ‘Espo’ Powers

1. Tell us who you are – what you do and how long you’ve been doing it ?

steve powers, I do me. beeen doing it since ‘nam.

2. Favourite 3 colors?

Gloss Black, Semi flat black, flat black

3. Favourite 5 pieces of all time and why – (please include links)

These are in no order, but all these pieces are great:

4. Favourite city and why ?

San Francisco, after they legalize paint-gun hunting in the tenderloin

5. Favourite food / drink /?

fried/carbonated

6. Biggest vice ?

Miami

7. Biggest Gripe ?

complaining only encourages them to continue.

8. Favourite shoe?

those soaked-thru ugg boots your girl is wearing

9. Favourite 5 tracks ?

In no order

Railroad

Trolley

velodrome

keith richards right arm

The suits worn by unemployed chavs

10. Perfect day?

any day I regain conciousness

11. Whos the most famous person on your phone?

Konk

12. 3 people you would love to have a pint with ?

Arthur Guiness

Bobby Becks

Charles Grolsch

13. 3 things you cant live without . . .

air

water

chicken

14. i am lucky/unlucky because . . .

I paint awesome paintings/ people want shite that matches the couch

15. Last time you were caught doing something ?

what is this “caught”?

16. 5 things that are within arms reach of where you are right now?

walther .45

pint glass nicked from mulligans of poolbeg street filled with coffee

stack of bills

stack of euros

empty 6 pack of arthur’s finest stout

17. what would u grab from your burning house?

the fire

18. 3 things to do before you die ?

finish this fecking interview

kill street art

close me eyes

19. earliest memory

using the cast on  my little sister’s leg to break out of our crib and go watch tv

20.  any upcoming projects- shouts – final words !

NO ART ALL STREET. 18 wooster NYC Janurary 14th 2010

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