GAZ'S ROCKIN’ BLUES
30 YEARS ANNIVERSARY
Gaz Mayall
2 JULY-14 AUGUST 2010
" Celebrating 30 years of poster art. Every Thursday since July 3rd 1980
I’ ve been running this great night at a Soho club . For the first fourteen
years at Gossips in Dean Street and thereafter at St Moritz in Wardour St.
Each time a live band is due to perform there . Me and some close friends
have made a flyer every week , now amounting to over 1200. To coincide
with the release of Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues – The First 30 Years , published
this year , the book and exhibition will feature all the flyers and posters
I’ ve ever printed along with some photos and memorabilia. Robert Fraser
used to tease me in the early eighties saying that these flyers were not art.
I strongly objected , He was introducing street graffiti artists Jean -Michel
Basquiat and Keith Haring to London and I remarked , if they were artists
so were we . Subway Gallery founder and artist Robert Gordon McHarg III
has known me for 25 years and has agreed all along that this is genuine
and good contemporary art and also part of Soho and London’s rich music
and club history . A legacy of our late 20th century era that defines our
times, culture and taste in music and art. " Gaz Mayall - 2010
TIME OUT 1-7 JULY 2010