The 90's was a rethink for me as the most of the eighties writers I had known had now disappeared and the 'Summer of Love' had changed things for ever. While most were screaming 'Aceeeeed!!!!!!!', I became one of the main faces on the wall scene in London. Along with Snatch, Rough, Mean, Shu2, Stet, Shun, Busk and a handful of others, I carried on as I still do today keeping halls of fame in heavy rotation.

Score Dedic Vz - 1988, Tonbridge Yard. The first ever Red, White & Blue!!!

1999 was much the same as any year as far as I was concerned, a routine had developed. After years on the circuit it's more about maintaining the habit and developing your style. You don't start the year with any great plan or mission, just a string of past mission's and chapters that tell a story. Don't get me wrong, it's not about going through the motions, it's about still pushing the boundaries and constantly looking for new and original ways of taking it.

Every year takes it's course and it isn't until the end of the year that you can look back and sum it up. January is always a great time for reflection as a writer, another chapter closes and a clean page is sitting in front of you.

99 followed 98, a year of travel and learning, with trips representing England to paid events in France, Holland and Germany meeting the cream of Europe and watching their different approaches. From experience I can say you'll learn more in a week painting abroad that three years in this uninspiring scene.

99 on reflection was taking this approach and applying it in London, and straight away I have to give credit to those I have connected with, most notably Dek, who have listened to my ramblings and in turn helped create some real classic walls. Others include Tener (as always), Crok (rarely as always), Shine, Jyer, Rhise, Merc & Astek.

I have to say in 99 I've had the most active year of the last five, and thats really nothing to do with heart or dedication .. it's simply finding writers with as much heart as myself. Not to suck my own dick, but over the years it's been hard to find other writers with as much energy to take it to the next level, but this last year has been inspiring more not for what we have achieved but what we can achieve if things continue. 99 has seen some memorable walls, my personal favourite being the Tufnell Park whole wall .. a day where everything came together to pull of a painting, not a string of individual pieces. Ego's left at home for a common goal, someting very rare on these shores, yet everyone went home a better writer.

Shine/Quest, Dek, Rhize & Skore - Tufnell Park 1999

A 14ft x 120ft wall in 8 hours stinks of teamwork (ps. Don't judge it on the lame Graphotism scans). Other memorable walls for me include the Ladbroke Grove 'what goes around' whole side, the Camden whole side, the Fulham 'killer bees' whole side (purestyles!!) and on the solo my Fulham whole wall.

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