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spit like this on smell your mum we needed money, pure and simple. i've been trying to break through with my music for years and needed something to a) feed us and b) help fund the music. i'm always thinking of new and interesting ways to offend people's sensibilities (hey, you're talking to a guy that has 'fuck you' tattooed the length of his forearm!) so decided it was about time to put my ideas onto t-shirts. so, in 1999, i set about designing a shit load of tees. i managed to scrape together the cash to get the first batch printed up ready for the erotica festival held in london's earls court. this was in 2000. although i have about 40 designs, i couldn't do any more than 5 so i picked the 5 most varied - something for everyone. one of the things i'm proudest of with the tees is that they're not just offensive for the sake of it. some of them have messages, some are quite clever and some are a little bit cheeky. hey, there's nothing clever in a t-shirt that just says 'fuck off', right?! any donut can do that! anyway, the erotica show went really well and i sold out. the one thing that struck me was the impact the smell your mum t-shirt had. in fact, it was voted the most offensive t-shirt in the world at that show; an accolade i am most proud of. 2001 was one hell of a fucking year and, instead of being able to capitilise on the success of erotica, hit the skids big time. were we alcoholic? no fucking idea - all i know is it took us a litre bottle of vodka to get through the day. and, when you have no money, having to find some for that is a bitch! it was then that me & vikki hit upon the idea of selling her used panties on ebay. the cash started rolling in and we were pissing ourselves, literally! one dude wanted them pissed on, so I duly obliged - although i'm sure he meant vikki piss??! anyway, believe it or not, that dug us out of a hole and we used that cash to make a bit more cash. next thing we know, we're talking about setting up our own fucking record label! so, 2002 has been a tough year - lots of hard work - and it ain't stopped yet! we started both recording the spit like this ep and setting up the record label in about march. now, record labels are not cheap to do and, in the beginning, tough to keep afloat so it soon became apparent that we needed to be bringing in some other cash or we'd be dead before we started. it was then i remembered my t-shirts. so, i dug up the old designs and they still looked fresh and they were still ahead of what everyone else was doing - hey, this could work! we got a load printed up (plus a brand new design) for the bulldog bash festival august 2002 - again, it was always the smell your mum shirt that got the most attention. now we knew we had a good product. then, as we were packing up to leave, a guy called b***n came along from a company called g****l marketing. he loved them and wanted to take them round the fucking world! jackpot!! so, at the time of writing, we're sorting that shit out. g*****l recently showed them at the londonedge alternative fashion show where they went down a treat! for the moment at least, that is the history so far of the smell your mum brand. and we got big plans. meetings set up with some japanese buyers to get them out to asia and ideas for fucking skateboards, ashtrays, condoms, more tee designs - the whole nine yards! and all this from some dirty down and out rock n roll band. watch this space - looks like my dream to piss-off a planet may just come true after all... zion * censored to protect the guilty... for more information on the smell your mum range and to view the latest stuff, visit smellyourmum.com w w w . s p i t l i k e t h i s . c o m
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