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Two young lads dress as Honey Monsters for a fancy-dress event in the late 1970s. You remember the Honey Monster, don't you? A gruff, (cuddly?) character dreamt up to advertise Sugar Puffs in the 1970s? Well, this is just one of the memories in a new collection of my photographs published today by Café Royal Books ..

To mark the launch of Eccles, Salford, Manchester 1970s-1980s I have a special offer to tell you about. I have a Limited Edition of just 40 of the books - which I will send with a 7x5 inch print of one of the images from the book - for just £20 each. (Plus P+P.) Email me here and pick a number between one and twenty-six. I'll send you the signed booklet and whichever image that corresponds with ..

I'm thrilled to be a part of the amazing CRB collection, joining such renowned photographers as Shirley Baker and Daniel Meadows and finally getting my work to a wider audience. Interesting, too, to have my work edited by a third party and see what they consider a workable set of images ..

And so, as the Honey Monster never said .. 'Tell 'em about the book, Martin'!

  

 

 

 

Tell 'em about the exhibition, Martin..

It's like bloody buses round here! Having just teamed up with the chap that's making the Chris Sievey film I spent yesterday meeting with an artist who wants to involve my work in his future shows, and then checking out the venue for a new exhibition I'm having! Three new projects in the space of two days! Phew! Anyway, the 'new' venue is a restaurant in Eccles called Smiths. It offers wall space to local artists, and the owners invited me to exhibit after seeing my Twelve for '13 show at Eccles Art Gallery. This new show will start in the middle of May and, well .. Smiths? Guess what pictures I'll be showing! Correct! Although, as well as my Morrissey shots, the idea came up in conversation that I should show a few of my archive photographs that relate to food and drink. Restaurant? Food and Drink? Geddit? To be honest, I didn't think I'd have enough pictures for that to work ..  and then I started trawling! I've ended up with over a hundred shots that have something to do with food or drink. Today's image is one of 'em.
Have you worked it out?..