MYSPACE pages: www.myspace.com/ella_guru and www.myspace.com/thedeptfordbeachbabes
MYARTSPACE: www.myartspace.com/ellaguru
LONDONART: Ella Guru
YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/RoastCat

Note I am not a band. If you see 'Ella Guru' listed as playing, it is the band Ella Guru from Norway. We each borrowed the name independently and will continue to peacefully coexist.

New and upcoming events + Deptford Beach Babes gigs:

• Most of my recent work will be in the Stuckist Group show: The Stuckists: 'An Antidote to the Ghastly Turner Prize' (photos from the private view are here)
  6 - 29 Nov 2008
  View Two Gallery
  23 Mathew St, Liverpool L2 6RE, England
  Thu & Fri 12 - 4 pm, Sat 12 - 5 pm (complimentary drink on Sat pm) or by appointment with Ken Martin.Gallery tel: 0151 2369444. Web site here. Map here.
• Deptford Beach Babes mini-tour of London! Next gigs:Friday 14 November Shunt, London Bridge tube station; Saturday 15 November Gypsy Hotell @ Barden's Boudoir, 36 Stoke Newington Road N16.
• Cycle trip with Lucy: Journal still in progress: http://roastcat.wordpress.com. The Netherlands, Germany and Lithuania. With videos.
• Sexton & Ella in Charity Auction: "Hi, I'm Robin, and this November I will be running the ING New York City Marathon in aid of The Prostate Cancer Charity (registered charity 1005541). By running the event (and several more in 2009) I am hoping to raise a HUGE amount of money for this amazing charity. A lot of my fundraising is achieved through the auction of signed memorabilia donated to my cause by celebrities and public figures around the world so it isn't unusual to see signed items ranging from the cast of Eastenders to Us Presidential hopefuls (and everything in between) on my auction lists.
  "This week will see a whole new run of auctions, including two pieces of artwork created by Sexton Ming and Ella Guru for my fundraising. 'Conquest Mouse' (Sexton) and 'Punch Up Swans' (Ella) will both be available on auction in the next couple of days. Do pop by my official fundraising website http://robincharityfundraising.bravejournal.com to get some more information on my fundraising (past, present and future), and to see what other amazing items are available for sale.
  " I would like to take this chance to thank both Ella and Sexton for taking the time to help my fundraising out and for tolerating my endless stream of emails. I look forward to seeing you over on my site! Cheers, Robin"
• Re: the Saatchi showdown, I have no idea the result either. But still, thanks to all who voted!
• I've got a story in this book - No Such Thing as a Free Ride?: A Collection of Hitchhiking Tales, North American Edition - it's a collection of hitch hiker's tales - mine is about hitch-hiking around Zimbabwe with Science Fiction writer China Mieville before he was famous (in fact I changed his name to "Sam" in the story). "Filmmakers, politicians, stand-up comedians, poets, journalists, and carpenters all come together through the shared experience of hitching a ride..."
• The Deptford Babes are taking a break til September or October.
• The Deptford Babes at Bradstock: photos here.
• I finally finished my Rome travel diary, 2 months late. Start here and click through to the four days' of Spinal-Tap like rehearsals, running through ruins and undressing angels.
• Sexton, Ella and Lucy are contributing to Music Therapy secret postcard art sale - so if you want to buy an original postcard by one of us for the bargain price of £35 (all proceeds go to the charity), go along and find our pieces - all anonymous so watch out or you might get a Tracey Emin by mistake, thinking it's Lucy's! http://www.musicastherapy.org. This postcard sale is in London, by the way - Postcards can be viewed in person at the launch and Reception at Gillions Art (495 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 4LW) on Friday 16th May from 6:30-10pm. Presales viewing will be on the website from Thursday 15th May. http://www.musicastherapy.org
• Video of Beach Babes in Studio Gizzard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcGrGbayMXU
• Photos from Deptford Beach Babes gig: Saturday 8th March, 12 Bar Club, central London, with Sir Francis Dashwood and the Hellfire Club: photos here.
• Photos from 100 guitars in Rome: from Tom Hughes, Bernardo, Edoardo (with mug shots of everyone!), Slovenians and me. First video here. And another video here.
• “Live” painting gig: Saturday 17th November a huge sucess! photos on www.rockabaret.co.uk
• Urban Nature at www.spectrumlondon.co.uk, I had 2 paintings in this show. November 2007-February 2008.
• Interview on myartspace.com. No need to log on, just go read it - and look at the pictures.
• Stuff on Myspace: Photos of Deptford Beach Babes gig 23 March at South London Pacific, and Ella's page.
• Gunfighter Ballads and Winkling Songs CD. Sexton Ming and the Deptford Beach Babes each have a song on this slice of audio insanity from the Daily Twit. More here.
• From the Walker to Whitchurch: Pelican paintings and goose prints now showing at the Modern Artists Gallery, Whitchurch-on-Thames.
• Photos from the Walker show: Ella and Sexton's paintings, and the front of the museum. More details below.
• Download a Stuckist picture on your mobile from www.candyspace.tv (click 'still', then 'art'). Images by Sexton Ming, Ella Guru, Paul Harvey, Naive John, Frances Castle, Joe Machine, Philip Absolon and Charles Thomson.
• Listen to Deptford Beach Babes MP3s: "Deptford Beach" and "Surf Hell". More about the Beach Babes can be read on the music page.
  

• Portaits for pets! Click here for details

• New Book out now: "Choice Cut FIllets" - poems by Sexton Ming, illustrated by Ella Guru. See sample pages Little One or King Kong, or go directly to the shop.
• Photos: Cuba | Yorrick's birthday - Berlin | Barcelona | Romania, Hungary etc - August 2002 | Deptford Beach Babes 2002 | Tasty Ones in Germany | Wedding | Wild Weekend
• Old news from this page now archived.

Thanks to:

• Don Van Vliet for letting me use my name
• Mr Crisp for telling me I'm weird
• Mr Ming for being a fabulous bride and inspiration
  
  

  OUT NOW: the Deptford Beach Babes long awaited full-length CD on RIM Records! read the review in the Morning Star Listen to MP3s: Firewater Samira Codine