F24 Podcast

Easy people and welcome back to the F24 Podcast, my name is David and as often as possible I have a creative come over to my studio in North Acton to talk about their lives and interactions with London, or whatever place they are from, culture and creativity. This addition to the F24 UK Culture Archive, that’s what I’m referring to as now.. is Cappo who has been a top level lyricist since I first heard him and got into UK Hip Hop in 2001 thanks to Juse from Highbury. Capps lives in Nottingham and we wanted to get this conversation in so we did it on zoom, a dope couple of hours. Cappo dropped his first album in 2003, same year I opened the shop and the Zebra Traffic boys made sure it was in the stock at the shop the moment RareKind was co-signed by Brighton’s Don, HP of the Lost Souls and he’s been in rotation ever since. At the end of last year Ewan at RareKind Records in Brighton checked in and asked if I’d heard Cappo’s latest album, I hadn’t.. Ewan popped it in the post and couple days later I’m bounc

Easy People.. Hope you are all good. I've had / having a mad year so sorry about the lack of recordings. A couple of weeks ago though I had the pleasure of having your favourite podcasters favourite podcaster, Theme come round for a chat on F24 after me doing his and Amba's hit podcast Armshouse to your Mums House. It was our second time properly hanging out and we clicked real well. We have a real open and honest conversation about Theme's come up, his home life, various schools and some dope stories about his experiences of being a rapper and writer in our amazing UK Cultures. Loved having him over, if you don't know get to know - @armshousetoyourmumshouse - every wednesday eve the guys will have you in stitches from their skits and stories and intrigued by the topics they bring up, sometimes alongside guests. Enjoy this F24 and check them out, enjoy your weekends..

Mr.Zonk, the All City Diabolical Dubstar came over for an amazing an open and honest chat about his experiences of growing up in London and finding culture, the graffiti culture and how it moulded him to the man he is today and what a journey he had along the route. We are the same age, met in our teen years at his home in Cricklewood, just up the road from Kilburn, my manor and even though is was the mid nineties his name preceded him, in a big way even back then.. We’ve hung out, crossed paths and painted over the last nearly 30yrs but I’ve never had the pleasure of just a firm one on one conversation and it was epic.. Mr.Zonk is a true gent of the culture, a true King, and one that loves the culture so deeply it runs through his veins like fibbing’s and a home-made pen. An absolute pleasure having him come visit, this is Mr.Zonk’s London, Culture and Creativity story.. This is F24, enjoy.

Hello and welcome back to the F24 podcast, my name is David and as often as possible I have a creative come over to my studio in North Acton to have a chat about their life and interactions with their city, culture and creativity. Hope you are all enjoying the new recordings I’ve been doing, you probably get the vibe of how much I love my culture and making this archive of interviews that I hope are looked into in the future as a reference for this time makes me proud, we’re having some great conversations here.. Imma keep em coming. So this week I had the pleasure of meeting Roger Gastman, the man behind the Beyond the Streets exhibition which toured the US and is now over here at Saatchi gallery from the 17th Feb, quite a ground breaking show to be seen in our city. The show he’s put together is the amalgamation of his time and experiences and education within the graffiti culture and the broad depths its shown him, and that’s perfect for an inquisitive person like me, right up my street. I’ve known of

This week I had Krek, TJ Dolan, who kindly came down from Manchester to visit the studio and have a chat. We’d never got to meet before and I have loved his work from the start, loads of style, courage, playfulness and colour in his work from his letters on steel and cement to his paintings on a variety of mediums. It was great having him round, I learnt so much about him and loved the vibe he brought. This is some of TJ Dolans culture and creativity story, enjoy..

What a mad time hey, worlds changed, places have changed, we’ve changed! But what stays is culture, a constant, a forever, and I learnt a lot about that and its strengths, even though I preach it, from this conversation, so it was a great one to kick off what we’ll call season 2 of F24. Mode2 was in town. We’d be talking a little via message for a while and also had my friend Kash co-signed me which got me a big step closer to this conversation. A dream come true, after the first, where he put me up at Carnival this year after I set him some paint. I’d never properly met Mode, never had the chance to have a conversation.. He’s been a name in my life for nearly 30yrs and undoubtably yours too.. I haven’t heard many interviews with him so I didn’t know how this was going to go.. Some of you maybe used to a format I’ve developed in these interviews, this was nothing like I expected, its an amazing in-depth conversation full of analogies and historical fact about culture and cultures. He lives a life full of

So I had my break from the podcast, 2021 started and I felt it was time to get back to the converstations.. I love it, missed it and now my head is in the right place.. Ive had three chats so far and the first to drop is Askew, from the TMD crew hailing from Auckland New Zealand, the dudes been around the world and back, a couple times for his love for graffiti and our culture. I met him back 2006 when he was on his second European Tour and passed by Brighton where my shop was to paint at the Sleeping Giants Graf jam. We were in awe, he came along with German King Can2 and the Montana Team and met MSK’s Revok and Rime where they nurtured their lifelong friendship. Askew has been pushing style for years now, especially the last decade and to have a couple hours with him explaining his how he found the culture, what pushed and helped him assert himself to make NZ a country worth high regard for Graffiti and how it gave him the confidence to keep it going and become the artist he is today.. a real amazing convo,

Hello and welcome back to the F24podcast my name is David and as often as possible I sit down with a creative at my studio in North Acton to talk about their lives and interactions with where they are from, culture and creativity. But like most of you, I’m in lockdown on my narrow boat on the canal, I’m just west of the city limits and I’ve set up a little studio space outside under a tree next to my woodpile producing small paintings and sculptures. The effect of this worldwide lockdown is having quite an effect on me, but as any listeners will know what I love about creativity and its therapeutic assets.. I’ve been putting them to use and I hope you have too and are all well and bearing up with this madness, we’ll have it figured soon. In the meantime, I’ve been on skype chatting to creatives and getting these interviews done and this week I have Diego Bergia. Diego is from Toronto and his work caught my eye a couple years ago when I saw a 90’s style videogame online with Revok, Giant and Ces doing tags

Hello and welcome back to the. F24 podcast.. my name is David and in what were normal times, I invited creatives over to my studio in north Acton to have a conversation about their lives and interactions with London, culture and creativity. But we are what, 5 weeks into this worldwide lockdown.. the maddest time of most of our lives so I’m at home like the rest of you so decided to make this thing worldwide. I hope you’re all safe and well, the numbers we are seeing daily are crazy, quiet overwhelming but one thing for sure is that we’ve shown how much we can do for each other not what they can do for us. We’ve stood up and looked out for each other and helped where possible.. That’s love, on a massive scale.. that’s gonna do some dope stuff for us in the future, let’s keep it up. This week, well last week I had this conversation with New Zealand graffiti stalwart Vents from RTR crew Auckland. We had a dope chat, me kinda chatting into the future as he’s 13hrs ahead. We cover loads, what it was like where

Hello and welcome back to the. F24 podcast.. my name is David and in what were normal times, I invited creatives over to my studio in north Acton to have a conversation about their lives and interactions with London, culture and creativity. Currently though, we are on a world-wide lockdown, worldwide, an expectation for every human on the planet.. nuts! So, I’m home, on my narrow boat luckily with a garden, just outside London. Painting in my makeshift studio that I’ve made under a tree where we keep our wood pile, wondering what the fuck happened and when will it be over whilst listening to podcasts and music, painting, walking the dogs and chilling with my partner. I can’t deny I miss my studio loads and am worried about my business, but these things are out of my hands for now so for now it’s the mantra, this too shall pass… Given this time along with the rest of the world I’ve decided to push this podcast worldwide, everyone’s home so catch em now and have that conversation.. this week, not too far away

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This week, well last week Julien Cenz came over for a visit.. Basically, a day trip as he’s from South East London and that is a mission away! Anyway, real great he visited, you’ve seen his work, amazing futuristic paintings, dominated by beautiful renditions of various women on technical and fast-moving backgrounds. We had a dope chat, going right back to the mid-eighties and early bus bombing on se busses, knowing he wanted to be an artist, what was needed to achieve that and how he did it.. A dope insight on how an artist works. We chat about his influences, his drive and what he has planned for the future.. We don’t get the whole story obviously, but this is a good chunk of Mr Cenz’s interactions with London culture and creativity.. check his Instagram @mrcenz while you listen.. enjoy. This is f24. .

Last week I had Hana Sunny Whaler, a sign writer residing in South London. I met Hanah through a shared client in maybe 2016/17, we spent a couple days together working on a large wall painting directed by her then painted. It was a nice way to meet and we chatted freely, with Hana telling me about some of her plans and what she’d been up to so far. She was about to move to London and take on the Sign Writing world here, connections had been made and plans set. Since then Hana has taken London by storm and has a great team by her side, really great to watch and also met other shared friends. We have a lovey chat around her choices and route to get to be the dope paint slinger she is today. He life in her home town, through college and Uni, sofa surfing and hand to hand hustling her business. Real dope having her round, this is some of Hana’s London, via various places, culture and creativity story… check her @hanasunnywhaler on Instagram whilst you listen, Enjoy this is F24..

In October last year Pavan and I were working out how to meet up but things kept coming up and we had to keep re booking until one day in early December I’m scrolling Instagram and I see a sleepy faced Pavan, head resting on some boxes in a car basically saying goodbye to the UK. I didn’t want to get to him right away I thought I’d let whatever happen lie for a week or two and then we spoke, Foreign Beggars had dropped their last album, and this meant his visa was done… He was heading back to Dubai.. We chatted, it was a bit of a mind fuck for me, I’ve known Pavan for maybe 15yrs not properly but in stores, shared friends, jams etc, loving the music from the iconic Asylum Speakers album but you’d think I’dda known that he was on a visa, I’m nosey.. I needed to know and wanted the story for the archive, Pavan has done so much!. We booked a date, opened up skype and got chatting, its dope, honest, inspiring and I now have a complete new found respect for Foreign Beggars after having this chat.. they worked...

Happy new year and welcome back to the f24 podcast. I hope you’ve all had a great festive period and started the decade in a good mindset. It was a crazy decade we just got through, let's hope loads was learnt and we can move forward in a much more positive and empathetical way. First of the F24 Podcast for the 2020’s and the first in the new studio, Kid Acne… He came and visited whist on a trip from Sheffield his home town to the city, I was amped, it was gonna be a dope Monday afternoon. Ive seen his work since I started painting and was always impressed by his unique style, really different to what I was seeing in London and in magazines, it always stood out.. We’ve crossed paths over the years at various shows, jams etc.. Kid Acne or Edna has been Been in this culture for 3 decades now and has been dropping this unique style for nearly 25 years of that, that’s an incredible amount of work and it was a pleasure him coming round to tell us about it.. It as always isn’t their full story but this is gre

So, this week.. actually, lets jump back a touch, I remember the first time I met Fuel, it was at my gallery in Brighton, one of those jaw dropping moments when you realise who’s in front of you.. As he was walking off, I nudged Vibes who was hanging out as usual and said a bit too loud, You V, that’s King Fuel.. I felt a little embarrassed as I think he heard, but I didn’t care, he’d graced my shop. A couple months ago I had the pleasure of going South of the River to have a coffee with King Fuel, who for as long as I’ve been in the scene has had his name come along with folklore, rumour and legend. We chatted over a few coffees for hours without noticing the time go by. We spoke about loads of stuff, the culture, London, parenthood, mind and soul, therapy music, smoking, adventures.. a whole bag of goodness, it was amazing, mind blowing and an absolute treat.. I had to ask him, come over to North Acton and jump on the podcast, he agreed. We left it a bit of time so that conversation wasn’t fresh in our mind

This week, the Traphouse Tattooer.. You’ve seen his name around the city.. the first Traphouse painting I saw was on Berwick St over the old paperchase.. dope letters floating down a Soho street. Then I started to see it everywhere, then all over Instagram.. then friends talking, meeting, getting tattooed.. the wave had gained momentum.. 3yrs on I thought, that’d be an interesting chat.. I got to him; he’s about getting shit done so two days later he was at the studio. He came along with a good friend and we got into it. He’s lived an interesting life so far with stories to back it up. Graffiti and crime were a major thing for him, and creativity came through it all, I love that ish.. dudes lived a life… it’s a great insight into a trapper and creatives mind. Go check him @traphousetattooer on Instagram whilst you listen..

Im in Scotland, Elie in Fife to be precise and wow we’ve been lucky, beautiful sandy beach, amazing walks, great food and the weather.. goddam! Ive got a tan, although that’s pretty easy as I'm half Egyptian. Anyway, a much needed break and rest from work, I’m back in the city Monday to crack on with the rest of the year. Before I left for my holidays Australian Tom Gerrard came and visited me. Another artist Ive known for years and years.. We’ve painted, drunk, smoked, looked after each others friends with space to stay and also now both do a podcast about these creative lives we are living. Tom travels, like serious adventure travelling. Its been him and his wife's thing since meeting 20+ years ago. He’s from and based in Melbourne Australia and Tom gets us into that and tells us what it was like growing up there the 80’s and 90’s, a bit unconventional and quite dangerous for a 16yr old. He tells us what school was like, skating and his first graffiti experiences, friends and how those teen years went.

Welcome back to the F24 Podcast, my name is David every couple weeks I go and sit with a creative either at my studio on theirs to chat about their lives and interactions with London Culture and Creativity. This is the 50th Episode! yes.. I’ve done 50 of these recordings.. I’ve been building an archive on the culture coming out of our city and country, getting stories from people’s experiences, thoughts and adventures and what a journey we’ve been on. I’ll be eternally grateful for everyone’s honesty and frankness about their experiences, the graffiti writer in me has fully geeked out on some of the insight we’ve been given and the wonderer in me gets to know why and how they became them. So happy I made this project come to life, it’s made me think about the other things I’ve made happen over the years, I got to say I’m proud.. Because at times like all of us I aint got a clue what where or when, thinking about what’s next, how so sort that.. we get bogged down and before you know it one problem becomes tw

This week, well another honour.. this guy’s throw up was in my manor of Kilburn and Edgeware Rd ever since I could read graffiti, and that was from young.. And when I started writing in 95 the, from what I thought was an SM throw up was amazing, unique, one-line greatness executed the same every time I studied it.. Knowing it had been in my vision since the 80’s, but you don’t really study then, its later on when you yourself paint, I knew to look at these tags / throws and really see the excellence and mastery of a tool and form of hieroglyph. It was that and Up’s throw ups that I really loved as a kid.. and did so for many years.. It was only in the mid two thousand I found out the SM throw up was Eine! It wasn’t an S with a M on top, it was Eine’s… I first met him outside Petros Paint Store in Brighton in 2000-2001 he put up a sticker with EINE in block letters repeated at 45 degrees, black on pink. I knew of him as a train painter, killer full colour wholecars.. I was obviously chuffed to meet him, but I