I think I’m starting to write my Memoirs or something. 
 

In 1991 I was one of the young budding cartoonists lucky enough to be chosen to be a “workshopper” on Rolf’s Cartoon Club. We were asked to create stop-frame animations to accompany his world famous song, Sun Arise which was due for a rerelease in the pop charts later that year. He even coaxed me into singing “spreading all the light all around” with him on national TV, which I was pretty embarrassed about at the time. This was the same year I started painting graffiti. 
 

I just got sent this video clip of Rolf Harris & 808 State from the same era, painting and recording together at Fon Studios in Sheffield. 
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In 1997 when I first moved to the city, I painted the same wall further down, which then became a (sadly short lived) Hall of Fame. The pieces ended up joining into Rolf’s original painting, which is still in tact to this day. I’d always heard about his collaboration with 808 state, but it’s amazing to finally see footage of it. 
 

Who’d have thunk Rolf was such a bad boy? This version is pretty swish too. One for the next mixtape then. Word. 

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