Amos Blog

Wood YOD Edition 2 available this weekend.

2012-01-31T11:52:00.003Z

As mentioned in the post towards the end of last year, we now have a tiny handful of the Japanese made, Landscape x One Gram x Amos Wood YOD Edition 2. These very limited (worldwide edition of 50 pieces) beautifully hand crafted walnut YOD figures come disassembled in sealed bags within a clear plastic sphere. They fit together with the ingenious use of magnets holding the various limbs in place.

Obviously such rare items of exquisite beauty do not come cheap, so we will make these available exclusively for Gold Store Members this coming weekend. Look out for the mailer going out soon.

Edition 1 sold out in a few minutes last time but we have a few more to sell on this occasion. So if any remain after a few days we will send a general mailer and open these up for all to buy.

The Amos Generic Funhole

2012-01-18T12:19:00.004Z

Par Three.

Ball through the correct gap in the mouth.

Excrete out of the rear hole.

Thanks to Brand New History for asking us to work on their mini-golf project and their great rendition of our design. Top work!

Nearly there...

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Progress..

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on our golf hole continues...

See previous post...

Spheric Dialogues

2012-01-11T14:13:00.001Z

I've started drawing a new daily comic strip about existential spheres which you can read here.

Special Project

2012-01-10T22:36:00.004Z

Recently we were asked to design a hole for a miniature/crazy golf course. Our friends at Berlin based Brand New History are creating the course as a side attraction for a forthcoming streetwear trade-show. It's not everyday you get the opportunity to design something like this so of course we agreed.

We're currently getting daily updates of the build progress. It's great seeing this thing come together.

More soon.

Forbidden Planet Signing

2012-01-04T13:21:00.001Z

I am doing a signing for De Profundis at Forbidden Planet, London next Thursday January the 12th.

I will be drawing in each and every book sold

I will not draw King Ken in any copies of the book.

(That or any other kind of trans-narrative contamination is wrong.)

I will draw King Ken on random pieces of paper anyone chooses to bring along.

I will probably not draw potato-headed likenesses of anyone's children.

I will sign anything else anyone chooses to bring along (within reason), as long as nobody takes the piss.

Thursday 12 January 2012

18:00 - 19:00
Forbidden Planet London Megastore

179 Shaftesbury Avenue

London WC2H 8JR

Ronald William Fordham Searle

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3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011

Molesworth here.

Ho Ho Ho

2011-12-23T14:15:00.004Z

Amos wishes Peace and Goodwill to (almost) all.

IBYM London 2012 Full Image

2011-12-19T15:39:00.003Z

IBYM New Jersey teaser banner

2011-12-19T15:37:00.001Z

Wood YOD 2

2011-12-18T15:32:00.001Z

Thanks to our friends at One Gram in Japan for getting together with Landscape and creating another hand modeled wood YOD, this time in walnut. They come in an edition of 50 pieces in total and as far as I know these have sold out in Japan. But we'll have a (very small) handful available through our European online store sometime in the new year.

New Graphics

2011-12-09T18:27:00.001Z

New graphics uploaded on the Amos Website.

I'll Be Your Mirror - London 2012

2011-11-21T14:31:00.003Z

Amos will be working on the visual designs for the I'll Be Your Mirror event at Alexander Palace in May 2012.

James Jarvis at The Standard NY Tonight

2011-11-10T16:55:00.000Z

I will be at The Standard Hotel Shop tonight, Thursday November 10th from 1800-2000. I've also made a big drawing on the window which might be worth checking out. Please come along and say hello.

KAWS, PictureBox & The Standard present

James Jarvis book signing, exhibition and live drawing in celebration of his new book De Profundis

November 10th, 6-8 p.m.

The Standard Shop (442 W. 13th St., NYC)

De Profundis UK Special Edition Now Available

2011-10-14T21:26:00.002+01:00

The 20 UK special editions of De Profundis are available now from the Amos Store. (It's a lucky dip - you can't choose which page of artwork you receive with the book, but they're all pretty good!)

Click here to visit the store.

De Profundis at the Amos Store

2011-10-11T08:59:00.000+01:00

On Friday October 14th the new James Jarvis book, De Profundis, will be available for sale on through the Amos Online Store.

The store will also have some copies of a special edition. This comes with a signed original black and white brush and ink drawing from the book. There are just 60 of these available worldwide and we will have 20 for sale at the Amos Store on a first come first serve basis.

The price for this edition of the book with drawing is £95.00.Strictly one copy per person of the special edition.

De Profundis

2011-10-04T16:42:00.002+01:00

James is very pleased to announce his new graphic novel, De Profundis, published by PictureBox of Brooklyn, USA.

A PictureBox special edition is on sale now. This is a limited edition of 20: De Profundis accompanied by a randomly selected original drawing from the book itself. You can buy the PictureBox editions here.

The Amos Stores in the UK and Japan will also each have 20 special editions up for sale later this month, making a total of 60 worldwide. More details on the Amos editions soon.

The wood is YOD!

2011-07-13T13:16:00.000+01:00

Following on from our post on June 24th we now have more information on the wood YOD. These were made by our Japanese licensee, One Gram, and interior design company, Landscape Products.

They are beautifully hand carved from polished solid beech and come in separate parts which join using steel magnets. They are produced in Japan so as you would imagine the quality is excellent. The edition is very small, only 30 pieces worldwide.

They sold out instantly when they went on sale in Japan. Due to their high price and scarcity we have only been able to get a tiny quantity for Europe from which we will have just 5 available for sale through store.amostoys.com. From this Saturday we will be offering these to Gold store members. Details will be emailed soon.

Unfortunately we do not expect to be able to offer the wood YOD for sale to any other membership level.

Online AMPW store now open to all

2011-06-30T16:50:00.004+01:00

Shop here at store.amostoys.com. At the time of writing there was one of the special edition Caleb's Adventures in Wonderlean comic book, still available. This very exclusive set has the comic with a one off James Jarvis hand painted cover and a 2 piece Caleb figure set with plain t-shirts (as in the strip). This is the last one available of this very limited edition of 16!

There are still a handful of James Jarvis drawings available from the 2011 gallery shop.

And please check the Wisdom of Caleb blog for the recent strips based on reader contributions. We will get the personalised original line drawings out to the contributors soon. It's not too late to send us your suggestions and receive your own dedicated hand drawn strip. Details here.

Thanks to all those who have already shopped at the store and JJ's Gallery. As always your support is very much appreciated.

Home of Metal

2011-06-25T19:18:00.006+01:00

On Thursday afternoon James and I made the trip up to Birmingham for the opening of a major exhibition at Birmingham Museum. Home of Metal is based on the city's undeniable links with the birth and propagation of Heavy Metal. The exhibition is curated by the wonderful women at Capsule, longtime local music promoters and organisers of the excellent Supersonic music festival. It covers the rise of Black Sabbath through to the birth of Grindcore, and all inbetween. The attention to detail is excellent and the execution is super slick. We thoroughly recommend making the effort to check this out if you get the opportunity.

The meagre Amos contribution to the Home of Metal exhibition.

JJ with his more considerable contribution to the event. This was taken from a cover he drew for the Face Magazine, back from who know's when.

Part of the excellent Grindcore/Anarcho Crust exhibit, dealing with the birth of the genre in the early 1980s. This is largely created from a small selection of Napalm Death founder member, Nic Bullen's personal collection. This includes actual photos, letters, original scribbled lyrics and Punk/Anarchist 'zines he both collected and worked on at the time, together with Miles Ratledge (another Napalm Death founder member).

Nik Napalm himself, probably slightly confused by my gushing enthusiasm for his contribution to the exhibition.

Kriz and Zip, Birmingham skateboard legends, owners of long running West Midlands institution Ideal Skates, and all-round top blokes. They are pictured here in front of a 1980s scene from the Mermaid, a venue they regularly frequented in its heyday. They may well have been at this particular show.

Wooden YOD business...

2011-06-24T10:59:00.003+01:00

Contrary to what has been written on other blogs our online store (store.amostoys.com) will not have these for sale on July 2nd. However they will go on sale through the Japanese Amos online store from that date and it will be possible to buy direct from Japan.

However, we will be getting some sent to Europe, from Japan, for our online store, but not many as they are very expensive. We'll post full information here as soon as we have it.

Happy Summer Solstice 2011

2011-06-21T17:10:00.004+01:00

Online AMPW delay

2011-06-15T22:34:00.002+01:00

Unfortunately, due to a couple of technical problems, we’ve had to delay the launch of the Online Amos Miniature Public Workshop.

Everybody will now be able to access the James Jarvis Gallery and the new Gallery store from Wednesday June 22nd.

Gold members will soon receive a further invite and more information about the special AMPW online store. More invites will be sent out to other membership levels when appropriate.

Thanks to all those who have already sent us suggestions for Wisdom of Caleb comic strips. We have definitely received some nice ideas. We will post the first new strip, and announce the first gift winner, next Wednesday on the Wisdom of Caleb blog. Please keep the ideas coming.

Keep checking back here for more info.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Amos Online Miniature Plastic Workshop

2011-06-11T14:00:00.004+01:00

Amos Online Miniature Plastic Workshop

After our successful workshops in Tokyo and London we welcome you to the Amos Online Miniature Plastic Workshop.

From Wednesday June 22nd we will offer for sale some of the products that were available at the previous workshops in Tokyo and London. This will include the limited Caleb’s Adventures in Wonderlean comic book. This is an online store exclusive as it is not available anywhere else in the world. The store will also carry a few long sold out specials, and other items that have been unavailable for general sale in Europe.

There will also be an online gallery of original James Jarvis drawings which will be available for sale through store.amostoys.com

Keeping in spirit of the workshop we would also like you to help us with a special series of Wisdom of Caleb comic strips that we will post through the Wisdom of Caleb blog. We want suggestions of objects or subjects that we can use in the new strips. We will credit the author of any suggestions that we use and, if they forward us their postal address, we will send them a special thank you gift. If you would like to offer ideas then please email caleb-at-amostoys-dot-com.

Watch this blog for more details soon.

Stoner Radio on Demand

2011-06-10T17:47:00.002+01:00

For anyone who may have wanted to hear my show for Domino Radio, but couldn't make the anti-social scheduling, you can now listen to it on demand at the following address:

http://dominorad.io/show/russell_waterman_stoned_rock

I reckon it's worth a listen if you like a slightly heavy stoned rock/psych sound. I'm getting some nice feedback too!

And the chap from Norfolk who I forgot to name is Luke Abbot.

Radio Change

2011-06-07T18:34:00.004+01:00

In the unlikely possibility anyone is interested, I've just been told that my radio show will now go out a couple of hours earlier at 1am. I've corrected the time in my earlier post.

www.dominorad.io

On the radio...

2011-06-07T14:43:00.007+01:00

I recorded a radio show for Domino Radio which you can hear live if you happen to still be up in the early hours of Thursday morning June 9th at 1am BST. You can actually hear it on a radio (97.7 FM) if you're within a few miles of Wandsworth, South London, and they can bleed out the local pirates.

Or you can stream it online, direct from the Domino Radio website.

If the show gets archived I'll post the link at a later date.

More info on my show here.

yet more of 16

2011-06-01T12:03:00.000+01:00

still another of 16

2011-05-31T12:02:00.000+01:00

SHIFT | PEOPLE | JAMES JARVIS

2011-05-30T12:31:00.000+01:00

SHIFT | PEOPLE | JAMES JARVIS

and another of 16

2011-05-30T12:01:00.000+01:00

another of 16

2011-05-29T12:00:00.000+01:00

one of 16...

2011-05-28T22:57:00.001+01:00

Today at AMPW JJ did these...

2011-05-28T22:54:00.002+01:00

Back at the Outlet.

2011-05-27T00:11:00.003+01:00

James and I will again spend a Saturday afternoon at the AMPW at KK Outlet. We'll be there this Saturday, May 29th, from 2pm-5pm. If you happen to be in town then please pop by and say hello. Maybe even help us with another Wisdom of Caleb cartoon.

Hope to see you there.

KK Outlet
42 Hoxton Square
London
N1 6PB

+44 20 7033 7680

AMPW - Workshop week 1

2011-05-21T11:59:00.000+01:00

Thanks to those who came to see us at KK Outlet earlier today. James and I had a great afternoon.

And a special thank you to Blossom Mills for her inspiration for our AMPW Wisdom of Caleb strip. Sorry about the naughty word!!!

You can view the full strip for a short time at www.wisdomofcaleb.blogspot.com

We'll do it again next Saturday.

and there's this...

2011-05-18T17:11:00.004+01:00

Russell as Rufus.

The result of a long weekend at the very last May, Minehead, All Tomorrow's Parties festival.

It will be missed!

AMPW Update Part 2

2011-05-18T16:53:00.002+01:00

James and I will put in some personal time at KK Outlet this Saturday. Like we did in Tokyo, we will attempt to produce a Caleb comic strip with the help of who ever is around at the time. We will also be available for questions, general ridicule and abuse.

We will sign any copies of the Wonderlean comic presented to us and James will be available to sign other product bought from the store at KK Outlet.

Jarvis and Waterman will be in the house from 2pm until 5pm on Saturday 21st May.

KK Outlet
42 Hoxton Square
London N1 6PB

AMPW Update Part 1

2011-05-18T16:44:00.004+01:00

In conjunction with the event at KK Outlet we've been doing various bits of press and interviews.

Here's a link to a couple of my recent online efforts (with a more personal touch).

The 405

Dazed Digital

Amos Porter II

2011-05-18T16:36:00.003+01:00

Once again we've collaborated with Japanese premium luggage and accessory brand, Porter. This time with the help of our friends at One Gram they've produced a wallet, hip/shoulder bag and a pen case.

Unfortunately the relatively high product price and weak GBP prevents us from importing these into Europe. However they can be bought directly from amostoystore.jp.

Amos x Porter Pen Case

2011-05-18T16:34:00.001+01:00

Amos x Porter Hip/Shoulder Bag

2011-05-18T16:33:00.002+01:00

Amos x Porter Wallet

2011-05-18T16:30:00.002+01:00

Caleb's Adventures in Wonderlean.

2011-05-06T15:19:00.006+01:00

16 page printed mini-comic book. Edition of 300

Numbers 1 to 16 will come with the plain "comic strip version" Caleb and Bare Lean Caleb figures, and an original James Jarvis hand painted cover.

On sale now at the Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop.

The London Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop is now open...

2011-05-06T15:00:00.001+01:00

Photos of the event and a few of the opening here.

And the Calebs are here!

2011-05-04T23:02:00.002+01:00

More AMPW Pop Up Shop

2011-05-04T22:58:00.004+01:00

A stolen snap of some of the gear that will be go on sale from Friday.

AMPW Pop-Up Shop Prep

2011-04-29T17:22:00.003+01:00

Just started preparing stock for the KK Outlet x Amos pop up shop as part of the forthcoming Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop. There'll be a bunch of stuff that has never before been available outside of Japan. I didn't realise how much we'd managed to accumulate for this. This is just a taster!

There's a nice surprise coming too. More news soon.

New tees available now.

2011-04-01T22:41:00.003+01:00

More at: www.store.amostoys.com

日本再起 Stand UP for Japan, May 1 2011, 1700-0100

2011-03-30T20:45:00.000+01:00

2 MANY DJS
EROL ALKAN
CARIBOU (DJ SET)
SPIDER AND THE FLIES (LIVE)
NATHAN GREGORY WILKINS
SKULL JUICE
THE HORRORS (DJ SET)
CONNAN MOCKASIN (LIVE)
BLACK CAT DJS
BARRY 7
BIG VERN BURNS
A-LINE (LIVE)
ALAKAZAM!
GILES DEACON (DJ SET)

ANDREW WEATHERALL (TBC)

+ MORE

INCORPORATING CHARITY AUCTION OF WORKS BY ARTISTS, ILLUSTRATORS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, DESIGNERS & GRAPHIC ARTISTS. AUCTIONEER - BENT (DAS POP)

Tickets are £17 through WeGotTickets.

Ticket price goes directly to CIVIC FORCE.

JJ and Will Sweeney at Heavy Pencil

2011-03-29T10:14:00.000+01:00

A couple of weeks ago, Will Sweeney and I took part in the Heavy Pencil drawing extravaganza that took place as part of the Pick Me Up graphic art fair at Somerset House in London. We appeared at the kind invitation of the supremely talented Andrew Rae.

You can see more pictures here.

Special thanks to Rob Green for the musical accompaniment.

New Will Sweeney animated music video.

2011-03-16T19:28:00.002Z

double click on video for full screen.

The Second Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop

2011-03-15T00:01:00.002Z

We are pleased to announce that Amos will join with KK Outlet who will host the next Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop, in London's Hoxton Square.

The format will differ slightly to the Tokyo event as this one will continue through most of May.

We are still finalising exactly what we will be happening but we will definitely show some of our classic vinyl and plastic figure work, on display together for the first time in the UK.

Shipping permitted, we hope to have the large format five foot Caleb's on show for photo opportunities, probably for the last time as at least one of them has already been purchased and will be provided with a permanent home straight after the event.

James will have a side gallery of A4 (and a couple of A3) drawings which will be offered for sale, another rare opportunity as with the popular online gallery from a few years back.

And there will be an Amos pop up store selling branded products, one or two hard to find imported items, a few other Amos favourites, and the odd surprise.

More information soon.

Events in Japan

2011-03-14T00:00:00.000Z

Like everyone one else we are shocked and moved by the scenes and reports that have come out of Japan since the devastating earthquake last Friday.

Some of those who read our posts will know we have many good friends in Tokyo and elsewhere in Japan. Thankfully, from what I have heard so far, they and their families are all well and doing their best to get through these terrible days.

Our thoughts are with all our friends there and the other people of Japan. We very much hope that things settle soon and they can actually begin to deal with horrors of the last few days and start the process of healing and reconstruction.

Major Moulty's Amazing Magical Plastic Band

2011-03-08T12:08:00.000Z

During our Open Studio residency in Tokyo we were presented with this awesome image. Unfortunately I have no idea who gave it to us, so if the person responsible is reading this please contact Amos and we will give you the credit you so richly deserve.

Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop - Tokyo - Day 2

2011-03-02T15:55:00.011Z

The final day of our open studio event was busier than yesterday thanks to better weather.

James worked hard producing spontaneous drawings for customers and visitors of all ages (including a load of young kids- always a great pleasure to see). And he finished the Japanese Wisdom of Caleb strips. Check out the beautiful second strip, "Spring is Coming", here. The final two Japanese WOC strips have been posted too.

Unlike yesterday, when we enlisted the help of many volunteers, today we needed one collaborator to help translate and provide us with Japanese text. Able assistance was provided by ever helpful, muti-talented, insanely patient, Mr Teruki Tatsuki whose beautiful handwriting makes him the third member of our Wisdom of Caleb Tokyo team.

All the drawings sold from JJs Gallery, the last (but by no means least) being bought by Mr Masahiko Tone from Brutus Casa magazine.

We are very grateful to everyone who came down and supported/took part in the event over the course of the 2 days, especially those who bought JJ's drawings and/or the Amos products available that were available.

Special thanks to long time Silas and Amos fans, Fumihito and Mari, who kindly bought gifts for James and me.

And big thanks to all at One Gram for their help, especially Sakata and Teru who organised everything so we could put the event together.

We declare the first Amos Plastic Miniature Workshop a great success and very much look forward to the next one soon.

The First Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop - Tokyo - Day 1

2011-03-01T17:25:00.003Z

After our music festival adventure we had a very decent turnout for the first day of our open studio event. There was a steady flow of people, despite the heavy Tokyo rain.

James sold almost 2/3rds of his drawings, on the first day.

We had the opportunity to meet some very wonderful, hardcore JJ/Amos fans.

And we sincerely thank those that helped us to produce the first of our special Japanese edition hardcopy Wisdom of Caleb episodes. These are a few of the contributors.

You can see the final strip here.

More soon...

Look Who's on the Speaker Stack...

2011-02-28T15:52:00.004Z

February 27th 2011

Studio Coast, Tokyo

The first Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop

2011-02-05T00:21:00.006Z

To coincide with our coming trip to Tokyo we will be joining our good friends at One Gram to host the first Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop.

Here we will have a space for two days to show some of the work from our nine years of existence (and some pre-Amos). And there will be an opportunity to have photos taken with a couple of very special, one of a kind, life size Caleb figures.

There will also be a gallery of more recent JJ A4 drawings and the chance to buy the originals.

We will have a shop space selling past and current Amos products.

And for a few hours, late afternoon/early evening, James and I will host an open studio where anybody can come, hang out, drink tea and talk shit (with the help of an interpreter). Good times!

Then roll on London...

Sunday 27th February 2011

2011-02-04T11:15:00.005Z

We'll be in Tokyo the weekend of the above ATP/Creative Man event. James has designed the posters, merchandise artwork, the programme, and we have worked on some special features around the venue on the day.

Do come and say hello if you happen to be there too.

January 14th 2011

2011-01-14T18:56:00.007Z

Shocked and saddened.

Broadcast and the Focus Group

Caleb in Lodown Magazine

2011-01-07T15:58:00.007Z

Happy New to anyone who may stumble upon this post (except if you work as a ticket inspector for National Express East Anglia Railways - in which case a pox on you and your loved ones).

We have posted the last Wisdom of Caleb strips for the foreseeable future. We decided to end on a recent interview that Caleb gave to Berlin based Lodown Magazine for issue 74, published in December.

You can see the full interview and the rest of the Wisdom of Caleb series here.

The strips will stay posted for a little while longer, but will be taken down at some point soon.

Thanks to those that have followed it regularly. We very much hope you've enjoyed the series. Hopefully Caleb will be back someday.

On the First Day of Christmas Caleb Gave to Me...

2010-12-25T08:00:00.001Z

Over the next two weeks we will post the last of the Wisdom of Caleb for a while. Be sure to check it out here, before it moves on!

Winter Greetings

2010-12-24T08:00:00.000Z

Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, we wish you all the best for the Winter holidays.

The Amos Festive Lunch 2010

2010-12-23T20:30:00.003Z

Once more we gathered for feasting at our favourite kebab spot in Stoke Newington.

The plate in the middle is all meat!

The Best Dressed Man in Minehead Wednesday 8th December 2010

2010-12-23T20:21:00.004Z

That would be Tim.

Thanks to Derrick for this photo of Tim.

And if you want to see a very nice bunch of photos from the the 4 In Between Days (and some very nice bonus images of the countryside around Minehead), then check out Derrick's Flickr page here. Much better band images than anything we managed! Cheers.

ATP In Between Days - Day 4

2010-12-19T17:55:00.001Z

We decided to declare the last In Between Day as a day of Black and Doom. In true Amos style we had invited a couple of extreme Metal bands to see out the event, in anticipation of early-comers for the Belle and Sebastian Bowlie 2 weekend, which would begin the following day. More on the bands in a bit.

Keeping with this theme, we programmed Nicolas Winding Refn's moody Scottish Viking movie, Valhalla Rising, as the first event of the day. There was a respectable turnout at the cinema to watch this rather beautiful, slow-paced journey to hell and back.

It was the first time I'd seen this on a big screen and it looked stunning. Relentlessly dark and very brutal, it gave the audience something to brew on before the mid afternoon pub quiz.

Our good friend Rob Green was scheduled to host the quiz and give it his inimitable slant. Sadly he was ill and unable to make it to Minehead. So another friend, Bronagh Keegan (MVP of the previous day's book group), kindly offered to step in and set the quiz for the afternoon. She did an excellent job and managed to lift participants out of the doomy stupor that we had so painstakingly engineered through our choice of early afternoon film.

The quiz was won by an excellent threesome (whose team name escapes me now) but I'm sure it would have been a different story had team Beast Star (members of the band Mugstar) not been summoned to soundcheck two thirds of the way through, leaving just one member to play the last round. Especially as their guitar player, Neil, has made an appearance on Brain of Britain and had his progress halted only by a question on Amy Winehouse, not a subject you would expect any respectable experimental space rocker to excel in. Alas, he could not use the IBD pub quiz as cathartic therapy as he was called away with the rest of the band, and team Beast Star ended as runners-up by 1 point. My favourite answer of the day was to the question "What P is the nickname of a recently relegated former Premiership club." The answer given was Pudenda???

Before the evening's entertainment, James found the time to finish the masterpiece he had been working on in the main pavilion. He was helped by Jason Evan's inspired idea to turn the picture upside down part of the way through.

click on image to enlarge

One other thing to mention with regards James. He had offered to take out festival goers on a guided bike ride on the Wednesday and Thursday mornings. After managing to persuade him that it was actually a very tiny fraction of cyclists who took the pastime as seriously as him, and it was unlikely that any of the festival goers would fall into this percentage and so be up for hacking it up 25% plus gradient hills on hired mountain bikes after days of drinking and who-knows-what-other excesses, he eventually compromised and mapped an "easy" route for Wednesday's excursion. He actually had four takers for this first day. He nearly killed them. None of them could keep up with him and all ended up pushing their bikes up the main hill he picked to ascend. But apparently the views were spectacular on a reasonably clear morning. On day four, scheduled as the intermediate ride, unsurprisingly he had no takers, and if he did he wouldn't have known as he left early as they would never have kept up with him anyway. I'm sure he will fill you in on the details of the day four ride.

I haven't spent too long on the music in previous day's accounts but this day was a little more unusual so indulge me. First up was the brilliant Mugstar. We'd been hanging out with Neil and Jason all week as they decided to spend all four days on site. The bands had been coming and going through the course of the event but some of Mugstar and Cave had been around throughout. I had briefly spoken to Cave's curiously named keyboard player, Rotten Milk (that's Mr Milk to you but I get to call him Rotten), but didn't really get the opportunity to spend time with them (unlike Will who said they were all very nice chaps). But we all spent time with Mugstar and we were looking forward to seeing them perform.

Mugstar didn't disappoint. They were awesome. They rocked, especially their keyboard/guitar player Peter, who at the climax of their set, began hammering his guitar in such a way, that could only lead to rock 'n' roll carnage, and the old Pete Townsend guitar smash. Inevitably equipment was wrecked and we can only hope that he wasn't sorry after the buzz of the moment had waned.

Moon Duo were great too. Ripley had already played a set the previous day with Wooden Shjips, and this went down just as well with an appreciative crowd.

Sanae was captivating on keyboards.

So far, musically everything had been going marvellously. All the bands were amazing, and all had been well received by an appreciative crowd. That was about to change. It was Metal time.

James and I always have time for a bit of Metal. Whether the thrash of Anthrax and Slayer, or the less accessible experimentations of Khanate, we are always up for giving it a try. We had invited Doom legends Corrupted from Japan but unfortunately, due to legitimate personal reasons, they had to pull out a couple of weeks from the event. Thankfully US Doom legends Yob stepped in to replace them. More on them in a bit.

We also wanted a bit of Black Metal, a genre that has interested the pair of us for some time now. We knew it would be very hard persuading any kvlt metal band to come and play as this was a "hipster" festival, and understandably the organisers wanted to put on music that wouldn't piss off the festival goers. So we were happy that Nachtmystium agreed to play and ATP were up for it. Their recent records were getting reviewed on non-Metal sites and they were attracting crossover attention. But being flakey fuckers they decided to pull out with a week to spare, leaving us with a gaping hole and no BM. At this point I went back to a band I had repeatedly asked for (they had been on my original list I'd given to ATP) and this time Barry (main ATP man), always up for a bit of experimentation, was up for it. So we asked Dutch band Urfaust.

I love this band and actually met them when I went to see them play in Iceland earlier in the year. They had never played in the UK and they had never played at anything other than hardcore Metal events in Northern Europe. Despite managing to interest a few more adventurous muso types, their main following is very kvlt and they remain very underground. I was extremely stoked when they agreed to play the event at such short notice, especially after I found out that guitarist/vocalist Willem had just had a newborn daughter a few weeks earlier.

Anyway, they played and as you would guess they were intense, and they all but cleared the room. But they ruled. And they were one of only two or three bands to do an encore all week.

Those remaining were compelled and converted by their raw, hypnotic, pared back sound. And most importantly, the band seemed to enjoy themselves. Drummer Jim had family in the area and his cousin had come to watch him play too so he was in good spirits (and very pissed).

Jim was also very impressed that the headline act that night was Yob. These guys are legends in the world of Doom and we were very proud to be responsible for getting them to play in the UK for the first time. James had turned me onto them a few years ago and so it was the perfect (and possibly the only) band to replace Corrupted. Thankfully some souls had drifted back into the room and there was a respectable audience for what was to be an incredible set of very heavy, down-tuned, psych riffage.

Guitarist and vocalist Mike knows how to put on a great show and was super enthusiastic for a long set. For many they were the revelation of the four days and a very fitting way to end the festival. And they were very nice guys too.

There was a small after-party back at our chalet where our guests of honour were Mugstar and Urfaust. The latter were due to leave again in a few hours and I feared for them as they were trashed.

Actually Willem (the big guy) was fairly together, but Jim was contemplating killing me with a Russian Orthodox, self-defence shoulder squeeze, but only once he had thrown up (or rid himself of extremely debilitating hiccups). When I asked them how come they had come and played IBD their response was, "We were approached at a Metal show in Reykjavik, by a strange man looking like a policeman, who asked us to come to England and play at a music festival he was organising at a seaside holiday camp. Of course we fucking come!" Urfaust rule!

And what of the 'zine for the last day? There were badges.

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There was actually a prize for the first correctly answered crossword which was won by James (not Jarvis) and Rebecca.

Enough now! I'd just like to thank some people for their help in making the In Between Days a memorable event for all that were there.

Thanks to Barry and Deborah for asking us to curate and making it all possible. A special thanks to Barry for ultimately indulging us with band choices.

Thanks to Ruth for all her help and never-ending patience.

Thanks to Will Sweeney for his help and especially for his excellent 'zine contributions.

Thanks to Jason Evans for his excellent talk and DJ duties.

Thanks to Bronagh Keegan, host extraordinaire and top question master (mistress?)

Thanks to Godsy (DJ Cherrystones) for a great set on Wednesday night and some heavy shit on the Thursday.

Thanks to the Rollapaluza team.

Thanks to all the bands for their exceptional performances. White Hills, Emeralds, Cave, Ulrich Schnaus, Hallogallo, Factory Floor (best yet), Autolux, Caribou, Holy Fuck, Connan Mockasin (for the great train set too), Wooden Shjips, Four Tet, Mugstar (you were awesome in all ways), Moon Duo, Urfaust (rulers!), and Yob (the heaviest and mightiest).

Thanks to all the ATP crew for all their help over the course of the event. Shaun, Ros, Jamie, Jim, Sim, Andrew, Blake, Woody, Nichole, James, Pablo, Shane, Ade, Caleb, John, Vin, Ed, Willie, Alex, Arron and Stone.

And thanks to everyone who came down and made it a very special four days.

After a further selection of our own special posters for the event...

I'll leave you with Butlin's own contribution, some rather special and slightly bewildering motivational posters.

Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart.

2010-12-18T02:28:00.000Z

15th January 1941 - 17th December 2010

ATP In Between Days - Day 3

2010-12-16T18:41:00.000Z

Feeling slightly delicate by this time (this was my 6th day at Butlins and JJ and Will's 4th) we began day 3 of IBD with a ride on the local train service. Actually that's not strictly true as James had began the day many hours earlier and by this time had probably already cycled 50 miles before any of us had eaten brunch.

Anyway, the local West Somerset Railway is steam driven. So we were going for a ride to nowhere on a steam train.

I had prepared some mixes for the travelers which they could download before the journey, if they so desired. I think most chose to ignore these so I'm offering them up now if any one is interested. One, Two and Three. Usual right click to download business. Not sure how long these will stay up for. The first two (Getting There and Coming Back) are for getting baked and staring out the window. The third (and safer option) is a bunch of tunes with train themes.

The real highlight of the journey, besides the spectacular "Geology Wall" at Watchet Station, was Connan Mockasin who played an acoustic set in one of the carriages.

They played acoustic versions of songs from their excellent "Please Turn Me Into the Snat" LP and an Amos dedicated version of Tutti Frutti, which I managed to miss as I'd been watching from a platform on one of the stops. Suddenly the train started to move off while the band played in the carriage. Surreal stuff. The part of the set I saw was amazing and I've been assured the rest was too.

A quick mention for the best dressed man on the trip.

You can't get the full effect from this image but the styler was wearing a Gillingham Football Club (The Gills) knitted bobble hat, orange trousers, and a killer black cape with (I think) a twin lion's head and chain fastener.

The unusual juxtaposition of drinking real ale on a steam train, whilst at a rock festival was noted by more than one individual.

After the train ride it was time for high culture and a poorly attended book group meeting. We had been asked to pick a book to discuss, as had the other curators for the two weekends either end of our days. Our choice was Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, a modern masterpiece and a big favourite of James and me.

There were so few attendees that we took them back to our chalet to continue. In fact we knew all the attendees by this point. Honourable mentions to Ruth (who heroically led the session), Neil from the band Mugstar (a very smart man), Jason from Mugstar (a very nice man), Harry (all round decent gent), James, myself and Bronagh (pub quiz mistress and co-founder of upcoming denim fashion label, Fallow) who hadn't read the book but wanted to discuss it anyway. It was a very pleasant and stimulating couple of hours. Most civilised. The book is an essential read by the way.

Just before the evening's music the organisers of ATP, Barry and Deborah, sat for a Q&A, giving hardcore fans a rare opportunity to probe them about their events. This was very well attended and the debate was lively. I also got to meet a few of the individuals who we had personalised posters for.

As mentioned in a previous post, James and I had come up with an idea to print up a bunch of different posters and stick these up around the various venues and thoroughfares throughout the whole 10 days and all three festivals. These posters made ridiculous commands or statements and could pop up anywhere. The ATP runners were deciding when and where to place them.

Specifically for the In Between Days we personalised a few to surprise selected festival goers. We'd never met these people before so they were completely unaware and once seen I think the posters had the desired affect. All the posters proved very popular and wherever they went up, they didn't last long. I think there were around 40 different designs in total (not including the personal ones).

Later that evening Connan Mockasin gave another performance, this time plugged in and on a static stage. We also got to rock out to the SF psych sound of the excellent Wooden Shjips, and groove to Four Tet's rhythmic electronic meditations. Once again we were spoilt with exceptional performances.

I'll finish this post with more superfluous nonsense from Wednesday's 'zine.

Still more soon...

In Between Days - Tuesday

2010-12-15T16:02:00.000Z

I decided to give Porlock Hill a miss and decided to try for slightly less extreme gradients this morning. I was joined for a ride by Kris from Ideal in Birmingham. I persuaded him to try the road up to Dunkery Beacon; unfortunately he was heinously over-geared and with only a 16-tooth cog at the back we decided that the one-in-four ramp at the start of the climb would be no fun so we went for a brisk 27k via Wooton Courtenay and Dunster instead.

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I was running a much less manly 13-29 cassette so I went out again to ride up to the top of the Beacon. It was amazing riding through the mist, but the road became too icy past the summit so I turned around.

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I was back for Jason Evans' inspiring talk about his work. Then it was time for Rollapalooza.

As someone who regularly witters on about running and cycling all the time, I felt duty-bound to crush all before me, and I didn't disappoint.

As I was reminded several times over the week, there was a music festival taking place, and on Tuesday we saw some great bands.

Most memorable for me on Tuesday were Factory Floor (I was concerned that Gabe might get into a fight with his synth-drums) and Caribou, who were pretty transcendent. You have to respect a musician whose PHD thesis was titled Overconvergent Siegel Modular Symbols.

ATP In Between Days - Day 2

2010-12-15T15:04:00.001Z

After a hearty brunch day 2 started with a talk given by long time friend, fellow ATP explorer, and all round photographic genius, Jason Evans.

I've know Jason (man in furry hat) for about 20 years and he still never ceases to amuse and inspire me. I check his Daily Nice site everyday and have many LPs in my collection sporting covers with artwork composed of his photos. His recent work with Four Tet is some of my favourite.

We invited him to give a talk on his work within the music industry and he chose to discuss how it was music that actually got him into photography in the first place.

Once again we suffered from slight technical problems. Despite spending the early morning successfully working out a way around the lack of Apple compatibility with the projector in the cinema venue, we arrived five minutes before the talk to find no projector at all. After a frantic 20 minutes or so we found the thing, Jason began his talk, and I struggled to cue his images at the right time as I kept missing the laptop key in the dark and strained to hear his words over the hum of the projector. He talked for over an hour and easily kept the attention of everyone in the room. His work and the processes he uses are fascinating. I think he inspired us all.

Next up was Rollapaluza. James invited these guys to bring their roadshow to the festival. They have two parallel bikes connected to rollers that drive a large dial. Individuals race head to head, on the spot, over a distance of 500 meters.

Clearly James was in his element and it wasn't long before he set the time to beat. Willing volunteers stepped up, but all failed to meet his mark. Even keen cyclist Kris (who co-runs seminal Birmingham Skate shop Ideal) could not match him on a head to head.

Granted he was two pints and a few smokes worse for wear so it was a brave attempt. I like to believe that on a clean day he may have given JJ a shock.

Check the sheer (but blurred) concentration on the face of the Bikemaster as he tries to squeeze one out to make his mark.

I was determined to see James humbled at his own game and there was a rumour that one of the New York contingent, among the ATP festival runners, used to compete in long distance bike races. I managed to collar him and persuade him that his real work duty of the day was to beat JJ (who by now had left the building triumphantly). I was looking forward to going back and telling James his time was beaten and he had a real challenger. But, alas, despite his age advantage, the guy had also been caning it for the previous few days and was woefully out of shape.

JJs supremacy continued into the evening. Amos even put up £50 prize money for the best male and female times in race offs between the evening's band performances. James said he wouldn't ride but as soon as a young pretender threatened to beat his afternoon time he stepped up to show him who was boss, and save Amos 50 quid.

And where was I during all this? I didn't even get on a bike having watched the dire state that the mere 500 meters left many of the competitors. Indeed, right at the beginning I had seen Will Sweeney preparing to race, left him to go back to my chalet for a smoke, and then 10 minutes later answered the door to a very pale and ill looking Will desperate for the bathroom. It took him a good hour to recover. I refused all offers to ride in fear of the mother of all whiteys. I know my limits.

The evening's entertainment was kicked off by former work colleague and Amos fan, Gabe Gurnsey and his band, Factory Floor. I've seen them on a number of occasions and this was the best. Gabe is a moody bastard on the drums.

There were at least a couple of times when I thought he was going to walk off during the set. But his compatriots Nik and Dom kept playing and he eventually came back.

Their set was being filmed by Vice TV but was unfortunately cut short by a fire alarm, probably set off by dry ice. I once saw Sunn O))) perform and start by filling the room with dry ice which set off all the building's alarms so summoning a disgruntled looking fire brigade (and not some demented demon as I'm sure they would prefer). Silly boys.

This was some how less comical and much more tense. It really fit the atmosphere Factory Floor managed to create during their set.

After, keyboard player Dom was hell bent on thieving some of the site posters we had created for the event. Although he did politely, and kindly, ask permission first.

These posters had been going up since the start of the first weekend and seemed popular with festival goers. More on these soon.

The other bands that performed on day 2 were Autolux, Caribou and Holy Fuck. All the bands were awesome. I've seen the latter two on a number of occasions but I can honestly say that their performances that night were the best I have seen. I heard others say the same of Caribou and there were people loving them who I would never have imagined. Another great night.

And of course there was a 'zine for day 2.

All the 'zines included new work from Will Sweeney relating to his Greenfuzz series (issue 4 soon... perhaps...). He did a series of Curious Facts, one for each issue. Click on the image to enlarge.

Other curious bits...

Again, click on the image to enlarge.

More soon...

Addendum to Day 1

2010-12-15T13:13:00.000Z

Having read JJ's post I offer this (courtesy of Will Sweeney) to illustrate the weakness of his Doom Claw.

When discussing the pros and cons of possible arm gestures for specific live music, we decided that the weakest move would be to punch the air in the effete manner of Cliff Richard, as he did during one of his lame and forgettable doing-it-for-the-kids-type numbers. The Cliff Fist should be reserved for boy bands.

In Between Days - Monday

2010-12-15T12:22:00.000Z

I drove down to Minehead with Will Sweeney on Sunday morning. We spent the journey bitching about the Graphic Arts. I arrived in time to start work on a large scale drawing and then went to check out a few of the bands playing. The highlight for me was the transcendent Black Metal of Wolves in the Throne Room. Russell told me that it was no longer de rigeur to throw 'horns' at Metal shows; one now makes a 'claw'. My attempt at this was deemed not manly enough – it's my delicate artistic hands, I suppose.

I've recently realised that watching bands and staying up late 'partying' is not unlike running or cycling. If you want to be successful you have to train regularly, and I've been out of training in the former disciplines for some time now. I managed to last the pace until 0300 hours when I retired to bed injured, after Russell's son, Caleb, told me how disappointed he was with my artwork.

Monday morning I vented my frustrations on a bike ride. One of the attractions of Minehead for me was its proximity to some epic hill climbs, so I headed along the A39 to Porlock Hill and wasn't disappointed. Exmoor was covered in low cloud, so I couldn't see much, but with a 25% gradient to get over I was focused on that. At the top of Porlock Hill I headed south over the moors and then back along the A396 to Minehead.

I was back in time to see Michael Rother eating Rice Krispies for breakfast. I was surprised – I had figured him for a muesli man – but I guess he has to let his hair down sometimes. I didn't see what Cluster's Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius had, so I couldn't make any generalisations about the nature of the Kosmische breakfast.

Russell and I then gave a talk to introduce Amos to the interested attendees. We then enjoyed a screening of Repo Man.

I managed another short bike ride to check out the hills above Minehead before checking out the bands...

ATP In Between Days Day 1

2010-12-14T16:07:00.000Z

We're back from our week at Butlins in Minehead. For some (like me) it was a marathon. 8 days of madness. By the time IBD began Ruth and I had already been there for three days. We had a great weekend watching top performances from bands such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Dead C, Wolves in the Throne Room, Bardo Pond, Boban I Marko Markovic Orchestra, Rangda, Flower/Corsano Duo and the mighty Oneida. The latter played for 10 hours solid on the Saturday so we kept dropping in on them throughout the day. They killed it!

James and Will arrived on the Sunday. James began a large format drawing in the main pavillion which he added to over the course of the next 5 days.

By the end of day 1 it looked like this.

So on the Monday morning In Between Days began. This was a much smaller festival as the majority of the weekends revellers returned to their daily routines. But for a very respectable hardcore, the next four days was to be driven by our music choices, specific events that we picked, and our takeover of the on-site TV channel where we got to choose all the content for 24 hours a day until midday on the Friday.

We started the day with an introductory talk about Amos to give festival goers some clue as to who it was that was programming their entertainment for the next four days. This was based on talks we have given for Candy Collective in Dublin and Copenhagen. Unlike with those talks we did not have the use of a projector as I was a spanner and didn't bring the annoyingly specific connector for the model of laptop I was carrying. Luckily, seeing this was the first event, and the 'zines containing the day's events had not yet been distributed, the turnout was manageable; so while walking up and down the isles with lap top in hand, we introduced the company, discussed what we did, and looked at some of our individual formative influences.

We also looked at some of our joint influences which initially drew us together (including shared music tastes) and discussed the history of how we began to work with each other.

Once the talk and a brief Q&A were over we showed the first of our chosen 35mm films in the cinema. Alex Cox's LA Punk Rock slacker thriller, Repo Man, was a big film for both James and myself. James and Will had never seen it on a big screen so it seemed apt that we get to show it here.

This was followed by another film great and a rare opportunity to see Godfrey Reggio's time lapse masterpiece, Koyaanisqatsi, on a big screen.

That evening we were treated to stunning live performances from New York's White Hills, Cleveland's Emeralds, Chicago's Cave, Berlin's Ulrich Schnauss, and the cosmopolitan Hallogallo fronted by German rock legend, Michael Rother, who earlier that day had amused James with his choice of breakfast cereal. I'll let him explain... Each band played an incredible set, spurred on by the intimacy of the event and the enthusiasm of the crowd. I think it's safe to say that just about everyone in the venue was blown away by the end of the night.

White Hills

Because of the intimate nature of the festival we wanted to try and personalise our involvement as much as possible, so one of the things we decided was to produce a handmade photocopied 'zine for each day. These primarily gave information on the days events, a personal summary of the bands, information on Amos, and the TV schedule for the day. There was also room for some silliness...

More soon...

Amos x Hello Kitty update

2010-12-02T16:31:00.000Z

A quick message to let UK residents know that Playlounge in London has managed to acquire a few of the vinyl figures. At the time of posting this they still had a few left in stock so if you're interested try here.

The 100th Wisdom of Caleb

2010-12-01T00:55:00.000Z

HERE...

In Between Days Update

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So as well as the bands picked for each day, which you can find listed here, there'll be a bunch of of other events/activities over the course of the 4 days. Some of these include:

Films we've chosen that will be shown at the cinema on site.

An Amos programmed TV channel running over all 4 days.

Talks given by our friend, photographer Jason Evans, the ATP organisers, and ourselves.

The infamous steam train ride with accompanying Amos music mixes and mulled wine.

Two morning cycle rides across the rolling hills of Somerset, led by James himself.

A Rollapaluza GoldSprint/roller racing contest.

James will also try and find the time to produce a large scale drawing.

There'll be a drunken pub quiz to end all pub quizzes.

There's a book club too, where attendees can discuss Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, a total Amos favourite.

We will also have the previously posted exclusive Amos x ATP Caleb figure of which the bulk will only be available at the event.

And for each day of the event we will produce a special hand made, copy-cut-glue zine for every festival goer.

Should be amusing...

For more information, or if you fancy joining us, visit the All Tomorrow's Parties site.

Urfaust at In Between Days

2010-11-26T17:53:00.000Z

Nachtmystium have flaked out on us and now won't be appearing at In Between Days. We wanted to keep a bit of Black Metal on the agenda so we asked one of my personal favs, Urfaust to come and play. I wanted these guys from the off but for one reason or another couldn't get them on the bill. But thanks to ATP head honcho, Barry Hogan, and the band's willingness to come and join us at short notice, we will have them for their first UK appearance. I actually went to Iceland to see them perform on my birthday earlier this year. They ruled.

I'm excited.

Should confuse a few people too.

http://www.myspace.com/urfaustfans/music

We'll post an update on planned festival events very soon.

Hello Kitty x Amos x Medicom

2010-11-25T16:44:00.000Z

As previously posted, Amos has joined with Japanese companies Sanrio and Medicom in a collaboration to produce a new James Jarvis designed plush toy and vinyl figure. These have now been released for sale in Japan.

Unfortunately we will not be stocking these through our online store and neither will they be available through any of the usual Amos outlets in Europe. This is because exchange rates and import charges mean a ridiculously high retail price for each figure so prohibiting us, or any of our distributors, to import into Europe. It is actually cheaper for individuals to buy and import the figures from the Amos online store in Japan. So that is our suggestion for anyone that really wants either of these figures.

Please check this link for information on overseas orders.

You can buy the plush toy here.

And you can buy the vinyl toy here.

Good luck if you go for it.

Hello Kitty

2010-11-24T07:43:00.001Z

More info from Medicom here.

Yob at ATP IBD

2010-11-15T17:33:00.000Z

Unfortunately, for personal reasons, Corrupted have had to withdraw from the ATP In Between Days. We're gutted that we won't get to see this amazing band play in the UK once more. However, we wanted to find a band of similar heaviosity to replace them. And we have done just that. We are proud to announce that Oregon's psychedelic doom masters, Yob, will now play on the final day. Yob have been Amos favourites for along time now. This will be their first ever visit to the UK and we are proud to have them on our bill. Looking forward to being crushed by riff!

For more information and tickets check the ATP site.

Amos x ATP Caleb exclusive

2010-11-12T10:55:00.000Z

Available only at next months Nightmare Before Christmas, Bowlie 2 and Amos In Between Days, ATP events at Butlins in Somerset, UK .

Go Silver...

2010-10-28T18:33:00.000+01:00

Cheers to all online store Gold Members who bought Caleb during the pre-sale Your support is always appreciated.

Silver pre-sale begins tomorrow.

I'll Be Your Mirror

2010-10-25T18:05:00.000+01:00

Mugstar.

2010-10-25T11:04:00.000+01:00

Liverpool based rockers Mugstar have joined the bill for ATP In Between Days. They make a very pleasant spaced out racket drenched in experimental synth and guitar noises. Proper rolling cosmic stuff.

Hear them here.

The tee's looking pretty full now.

Meanwhile JJ and I are working hard on some special 'zines for the event. The first since YODzine. Back to cut and paste old style. Photocopier, scissors, Spray Mount and Pritt Stick. Silly business.

Everyone's doing it...

2010-10-17T15:44:00.000+01:00

Limited and exclusive to store.amostoys.com and amostoystore.jp.

Ships early November.

store.amostoys.com Gold Member Caleb pre-sale begins the weekend of October 23rd.

AMOS x ATP Inbetween Days Mix

2010-10-05T10:00:00.000+01:00

We've put together a free downloadable loose mix of the bands so far confirmed to play the December event.

Track list:

01 Neu!: Super
02 Moon Duo: Escape
03 Factory Floor: A Wooden Box
04 Four Tet: Angel Echoes (Caribou remix)
05 Cave: Machines and Muscles
06 White Hills: Dead
07 Wooden Shjips: We Ask You To Ride
08 Ulrich Schnauss: Goodbye
09 Autolux: The Bouncing Wall
10 Connan Mockasin: It's Choade My Dear
11 Nachtmystium: Omnivore
12 Caribou: Sun
13 Four Tet: Love Cry
14 Holy Fuck: Silva & Grimes
15 Emeralds: Candy Shoppe
16 Corrupted: El Mundo Frio (excerpt)

You can get it via the Pitchfork website, here.

Or directly from the ATP website here.

For Release November 2010

2010-10-04T10:00:00.000+01:00

We are proud to announce the release of our first soft vinyl figure for almost 2 years. Caleb has become dear to our hearts since he first appeared, 5 years ago, as part of the In-Crowd Young Ruffians set. Recently he has become the star of his own daily comic strip blog, The Wisdom of Caleb. He is also the poster boy for the Amos curated 2010 ATP In Between Days music festival.

Caleb will come in two colourways, white t-shirt and black t-shirt, and should be available, sometime in November, from most good Amos retailers and the Amos online stores in Europe and Japan.

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What I Did Last Sunday...

2010-09-25T20:04:00.000+01:00

Inquisition. 19th September 2010. Bull and Gate. London.

Click on image for full screen.

Cheers to Glass and French at Funeral Fog.

More In-Between Days.

2010-09-14T12:00:00.000+01:00

Another bunch of bands have confirmed for the Amos curated ATP In-Between Days Festival in December.

Autolux whose recent LP, Transit Transit, has been very well received in all quarters.

Factory Floor whose founding member Gabe Gurnsey used to work with us at Amos/Silas.

Ulrich Schnauss, king of dreamy electronic shoegaze.

Holy Fuck whose trance inducing electronic funk-rock is a live spectacle.

Connan Mockasin who make some very pleasant off-kilter soft psyche.

And we managed to get a bit of Metal too.

Nachtmystium , former purveyors of orthodox USBM, but now producing some very dark, substance abused, goth rock (retaining some of the BM chaos).

And last but no means least, from Japan, the mighty Corrupted; lords of epic, super heavy, stoned Doom-Meditational sounds. Saw this band play last year and they were incredible!

There'll also be movies, TV, a bit of art, and other events throughout the 4 days. We'll post more updates nearer the time. For tickets and information go to the ATP site: www.atpfestival.com/events/inbetweendays2010.php

In Store Now...

2010-09-07T10:23:00.001+01:00

... and much more.

Go to: www.store.amostoys.com

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Wood YOD Edition 2 available this weekend.

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Progress..

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Special Project

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De Profundis UK Special Edition Now Available

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Stoner Radio on Demand

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SHIFT | PEOPLE | JAMES JARVIS

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Today at AMPW JJ did these...

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Amos x Porter Pen Case

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Caleb's Adventures in Wonderlean.

The London Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop is now open...

And the Calebs are here!

More AMPW Pop Up Shop

AMPW Pop-Up Shop Prep

New tees available now.

日本 再起 Stand UP for Japan, May 1 2011, 1700-0100

JJ and Will Sweeney at Heavy Pencil

New Will Sweeney animated music video.

The Second Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop

Events in Japan

Major Moulty's Amazing Magical Plastic Band

Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop - Tokyo - Day 2

The First Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop - Tokyo - Day 1

Look Who's on the Speaker Stack...

The first Amos Miniature Plastic Workshop

Sunday 27th February 2011

January 14th 2011

Caleb in Lodown Magazine

On the First Day of Christmas Caleb Gave to Me...

Winter Greetings

The Amos Festive Lunch 2010

The Best Dressed Man in Minehead Wednesday 8th December 2010

ATP In Between Days - Day 4

Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart.

ATP In Between Days - Day 3

In Between Days - Tuesday

ATP In Between Days - Day 2

Addendum to Day 1

In Between Days - Monday

ATP In Between Days Day 1

Amos x Hello Kitty update

The 100th Wisdom of Caleb

In Between Days Update

Urfaust at In Between Days

日本再起 Stand UP for Japan, May 1 2011, 1700-0100