Swindon Music

NO that is

But they are fucking shocking

they shouldn't be allowed oxygen.

Not to your taste then Adam? Quite an impressive gig list. And although it's not 'my cup of tea', it wasn't that offensive...was it?

Fuck me.

I do love all these little kids with full neck and hand tattoos that are gonna be fucked when they leave college and realise that their s**t screamo band is going nowhere and now not even McDonalds will give them a job.

Absolutely genius! Best parody since Spinal Tap. I mean, if this isn't comedy genius, what is?!

You just know that at home he has photoshopped that pic and he has his death knights armour from World of Warcraft on and he has a ball of fire coming up from his hand. Each night he rubs his little genitals while looking at the pic and listening to his mum tell him how "out there" his band is.

That would look great with a steaming turd in his hand with a little flag sticking out the top with his bands name (who I can't even be bothered to look up) on

I find it quite sad in a way.

Although I have two full sleeves and other large tattoos, I can meet anyone and there's no reason they'd ever think I had any tattoos at all, assuming I'm in trousers and a top with sleeves.

But I think this is the point. Full sleeves ceased to be 'impressive' many years ago. To be considered 'extreme' nowadays it does take full neck/hand tattoos... because that IS extreme.

I saw a band called For The Fallen Dreams last week. Their singer is 20, according to his MySpace, yet had both hands and his entire neck fully tattooed. His band has a deal and is touring overseas etc., so they've done pretty well. But, seriously, they must know it'll all be over within a few years, likely before he's 25. The music just isn't going to make them serious money because it's too extreme (and not outstanding enough) to ever really sell numbers.

What the f**k is he going to do for the rest of his life?

But you also, if i remember correctly, did them over a period of time so what you had was what you wanted and was also specific to you - you also had the time to evolve and understand what would be right for you. A lot of these people seem to have gone in and asked for "the neck with full sleeves please". All the ink seems to be about 2 hours old!

Fuck getting it all at once, id rather build it up with stuff from different parts of my life. I'm not going any higher than my shoulders or getting anything on my hands (im not tough enough)

That's true. They were done (and still are being done) over what is now a 20 year period. Other than the very first one, I've either designed them all from scratch or have modified other images (non-tattoo images) into designs I wanted.

None of them were done to 'fit' a band's image or to present a certain image in promo photos. In fact, other than when it's really hot, I rarely wear short sleeves. I couldn't give a s**t if they were never seen again by anyone - because they weren't done for other people.



Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. How does a guy of 20 end up with virtually a full upper body sleeve? I'm sure some of them must be tattooists themselves, I just can't see how it'd be sensibly possible otherwise. The sheer amount of artwork necessary to cover that amount of skin must, in itself, take a while to get together - assuming it's good stuff that you truly like and has some meaning to you.

Although, to be fair, I've never been one of those people who believes a tattoo has to necessarily mean something. A great design is a great design, doesn't really matter if it doesn't particularly mean anything.

I honestly thought it was a wind up, but I checked Amazon and, yep, they do have an album out!!!

I know I have quite a few tattoos myself but ive only really had the main ones done in the last five or six years or so but I really dont understand these kids going out and having full sleeves, their necks and their hands tattooed, in 40 years time they are going to look like crap especially on girls who go ahead and have all this work done (probably just to be a Suicide Girl!) its just going to look awful! I tried to tell my daughter this but she still went out and had a chest piece done, she doesnt regret it now but she will do!