Kosmo Vinyl West Ham Art

He can be heard introducing the clash at shea stadium on the clash s live album live at shea stadium as well as many bootlegged performances such as.

Kosmo vinyl west ham art.

His pop art influenced collages with a punk aesthetic pay homage to the beautiful game particularly his beloved west ham united fc and the england us national teams. Cancel d bloggers like this. In case you missed his exhibition of collages at london s eb flow gallery earlier this month check out this collection of work created by life long west ham fan and music mogul kosmo vinyl since. Don t go to the pictures don t see bands don t go to a restaurant but go to west ham one of kosmo s most enjoyable periods as a west ham fan came during his latter years of regular weekly attendance between 1975 and 1976 when the hammers took part in an fa cup final versus fulham and a cup winners cup final against anderlecht.

Kosmo vinyl born mark c. As a child at west ham i saw george best denis law and bobby charlton which is the holy trinity of manchester united he recalls. Vinyl has had two one man shows in england one in london in 2013 featuring the west ham themed saitches and the other in somerset summer of 2014 on the subject of england and the world cup. And ian dury the blockheads.

Kosmo vinyl is one of the key figures of the 70s british punk scene perhaps best known as the promoter manager mogul ringmaster rabble rouser of the clash. It s a particularly chilly late january day in east london when kosmo vinyl and i first catch each other s gaze at the entrance to stratford station. I produced a piece for each game the hammers played each being posted before the next game kicked off. Photo courtesy kosmo vinyl.

A lifelong football fan kosmo has many memories of watching west ham play including matches against manchester united and manchester city. He was also co curator of the late ian dury s first art exhibition more than fair a retrospective shown at the royal college of art london. Is saitch yer daddy is was my west ham united art blog which ran for a full five soccer seasons from august 2011 until may 2016.