It’s getting cold out, so we gather for something warming: beer, gloves and Buckfast. Inspired by the amazing knitted hats of Lake&Loch, we team up with them to invent KOZY: a glove/beer koozie hybrid that doesn’t take itself too seriously. We take in the knits, wash it down with a raspberry Belgium pale, and the O Street fam announces they’re opening a satellite studio in the USA. It’s a warm and fuzzy affair, indeed.
one band, two beers. the burning hell, fronted by a pair of canadian lovers, fill the studio with music as a gaggle of thirsty folk kick back beverages—a belgium pale and a smoked dark steam beer. o street adorned the walls with lyrics and illustrations based on the burning hell’s lyrics and designed a beer label unique to the band’s tenderness for beards. in the end, we hug, we cry, we throw our heads back and wail ‘pass the wine! fuck the government! i love you!’
nudes and good tunes: yes, it’s the aim of all the young nudes to make life drawing cool. when they fill our studio with sketchers and we crack open a lip-smacking good kiwi saison from dead end brew machine, we’re inclined to agree.
four amazing illustrators; mick clarke, chelsea frew, stuart kerr and tommy perman, flood o street’s walls with a big fresh batch of work. the studio is packed and a small one-off batch of bourbon-oaked cherry saison (at a whopping 6.8%) from dead end brew machine goes quickly. oh, and it just so happens to be o street director david freer’s 40th birthday — we hope the good turnout doesn’t go to his head!
work pictured by chelsea frew & tommy perman.
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on a very typically scottish night in november, amy & ali of recoat—a glasgow-based outfit creating and promoting contemporary urban art—crashed our studio with paint-spattered jeans and big smiles.
while enjoying a warming black forest gateau porter from dead end brew machine, the pair entertained a great big gathering of their favourite folk with a good talk, selection of work, new website and short street-art documentary.
we had a helluva time—more than worth the hangovers and the spray paint under our fingernails.
trendsetter lauren law is a visual artist and set designer who isn’t afraid to take on the absurd. she had one thing in mind when we gave her the keys to the studio: playing with food.
the result was a ridiculous installation of hula-hoop hotdogs, pineapple bowling and a pool-noodle orange bowl (you had to have been there). bon appétit!
beer: 6% raspberry ale by dead end brew machine
glasgow based el rancho records puts on a beertimes with live music and an exhibition of gig posters & album art.
johnny fronts kill surrrf and says he's nervous for his solo set. his mandolin is broken, so he's hacked a guitar with four high-e strings and a capo. it’s a mesmerising, intimate set that proves surf rock has soul.
beer: 5.6% straight-up pale by dead end brew machine
young guns dominic kesterton and orlando lloyd co-founded workhorse press, a perfect storm of contemporary illustration, 90’s tech and up-all-night vitality. posters devour the studio walls and they give a talk that should have come two or three beers sooner; there is disagreement on how to pronounce ‘risograph’.
there’s no lack of good blether: squiggly lines and bright colours make for excellent conversation starters.
beer: 6% passionfruit pale ale by dead end brew machine
in 1979, david wishart was a young prince of florida bmx — now he's a fine-art photographer in glasgow.
david exhibits large scale photographs of ‘chromies’, dust caps stolen from fancy cars to decorate bmx bikes way back when. o street designed a newspaper format zine, a little bit back from the main road, to accompany the work.
beer: 5.6% northwest american ipa by dead end brew machine
