Gaz's Rockin Blues 30 Years Anniversaryry Gaz Mayall

"Celebrating 30 years of poster art. Every Thursday since July 3rd 1980 I’ve been running this great night at a Soho club . For the first fourteen years at Gossips in Dean Street and thereafter at St Moritz in Wardour St. Each time a live band is due to perform there . Me and some close friends have made a flyer every week , now amounting to over 1200. To coincide with the release of Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues – The First 30 Years , published this year , the book and exhibition will feature all the flyers and posters I’ ve ever printed along with some photos and memorabilia. Robert Fraser used to tease me in the early eighties saying that these flyers were not art. I strongly objected , He was introducing street graffiti artists Jean -Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring to London and I remarked , if they were artists so were we . Subway Gallery founder and artist Robert Gordon McHarg III has known me for 25 years and has agreed all along that this is genuine and good contemporary art and also part of Soho and London’s rich music and club history . A legacy of our late 20th century era that defines our times, culture and taste in music and art." Gaz Mayall - 2010