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OUTER CIRCLE PUNK ART
There are two kinds of people in this city: 50 bus people and 11 bus people. Me? I'm 50 bus people, mainly because when I was 12 I stayed that night at my friend Nirmal's house and in the morning he put me on the 11 bus to get me home, but he put me on the one going in the wrong direction. So that journey took over three hours and I've not been on one since. Regardless of your preference in that double decker, Jets versus Sharks debate, both are celebrated in a new print from Rotunda Industries. "The idea for the print," says artist Dave Twist, "is that it's in the style of Sex Pistols designer Jamie Reid's classic 'Pretty Vacant' poster. Where the personal connection comes in for me — the memory of the 50 night service bringing me back to The Maypole for that extra trudge home to the Hollywood estate, after yet another punk show at Barbarella's, circa 1977. The teenage days of getting the Number 11 and heading over to Winson Green the long, long way, for band rehearsals. That original Pistols' design had the bus destinations as 'Nowhere' and 'Boredom' — which seemed about right for the outer circle." Rotunda Industries is a small B14-based team of musicians and creatives producing the kind of Birmingham-celebrating apparel and accessories that seem to resonate with I Choose Birmingham's audience. Founded in August 2021, their stuff has been worn by Joe Lycett, John Taylor of Duran Duran and Fuzz Townshend, to name but a few. Alongside apparel, they also produce vintage, Birmingham inspired fine art prints and homeware, all screen printed in the city. An A2-sized bus print costs £35.
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