[Daniel Silk]

islingtonnow.co.uk/?p=3439

"A long-running feud between Banksy and graffiti legend King Robbo has spread to Islington, with one of Banksy’s iconic works recently defaced with his rival’s name.Banksy’s grafitti on Essex Road, featuring three children raising a Tesco plastic bag on a flag pole, was partly sprayed over ten days ago."

[Daniel Silk]

www.islingtontribune.com/news/2010/mar/banksy-v-king-robbo-it’s-war-streets

"Banksy v King Robbo. It’s war on the streets"

[mishco]

i saw the council buffing the letters around the dog last week....they still left the dog though

[nigelbgg]

Mar 27, 2010 14:30:51 GMT 1 mishco said:

i saw the council buffing the letters around the dog last week....they still left the dog though

THATS the saddest thing about this whole saga.

[rillo]

[mattgold]

Isn't this how Biggie vs 2Pac started?

[dmtr]

Mar 8, 2010 14:03:49 GMT 1 Cedric Mnich said:

All that s**t is plain marketing. Except graffiti community certainly no one in art world knew about Robbo. Now, you can expect a ROBBO show in some gallery, prints, canvas graffitis, a book etc in the following weeks/months. I would bet it. Robbo most certainly wants his share of fame by now, knowing the fortune and celebrity of Banksy. Street Art is becoming more and more popular in Art magazines, exhibits and auctions and Robbo might want to be part of it and have a piece of the cake.
I'm glad to see the pics of the painted Robbo graff'. Seriously, the graff had already been over tagged. I'm not pro-banksy (I don't care, I do not live in England and never saw a Banksy real piece), but he's absolutely right in his interview : if you make graffiti on public or private properties you cannot claim them to be yours. It is the exact opposite to graffiti philisophy, isn't it ? Now that stupid feud might lead to Banksy's stuff defacing and even if I am not pro-banksy, his street art is far more interesting than the tags of Robbo and his mates(which are, from my humble point of view, dog's piss on a wall and nothing else, just to mark some imaginary territory). In a feud between Art and primal instinct of territory, the loser will be art, for sure because the latest will use violence, through defacing pieces.

Completely agree with this. I don't understand the comments like, "Street artists should pay their respect to the writers who paved the way for them". writers vandalized walls because of their own egos. They want to get their name all over people's property. "Robbo was here", who cares? They did it for selfish reasons. Street art, to me, while still vandalism, is less about "look at me!" and more about, "think about this". Hopefully Robbo wil make a few bucks selling some lame gallery pieces (30k for a canvas where robbo writes his name!) before he disappears for another 25 years.

[Daniel Silk]

[Daniel Silk]

Part 1

[Daniel Silk]

Part 2

[hero]

and heres the newest developments - banksy?

arrestedmotion.com/2010/04/streets-banksy-vs-robbo-copycat/

[Daniel Silk]

mog.com/blog_post/content/1123/1885240

"Writing on the Wall: London’s Elite Graffiti Artists Continue to Bleed Euros and Pounds, Pride and Paint"

[bigtlt]

Looks like the banksy pieces have been hit again, just seen this on Twitter
www.banksy-prints.com/2010/04/robbo-it-happened-again/

[nah]

*you're

[Daniel Silk]

www.banksy-prints.com/2010/04/robbo-it-happened-again/

[Max Beales]

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[spirit]

You can't believe this guy is in his 40's....comes across like a 15 year old.

[stanley]

The initial comeback had a motive behind it.

This is boring, childish, pointless & certainly no improvement at what was already there.

Im defo team banksy.

[thejoker]

Really? I can't believe this is still going on.

[alexnh123]

very naughty what?

[peggy]

Apr 8, 2010 16:25:48 GMT 1 spirit said:

You can't believe this guy is in his 40's....comes across like a 15 year old.

PEGGY THINKS IF THIS THE CASE THAT MAKES 2 OF THEM.

BUT PEGGY REALLY THINK THIS IS NAUGHTY LITTLE ELVES FIGHTING AN IMAGINARY WAR BETWEEN OLD SKOOL & NEW, WHILST MR ROBBO & MR BANKSY ARE SAT AT HOME TOGETHER, HAVING NICE CUP OF COCOA GIGGLING AT ALL SILLINESS CARRIED OUT IN THEIR NAME.

[Max Beales]

Apr 8, 2010 16:41:38 GMT 1 alexnh123 said:

very naughty what?

"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

Monty Python - Life of Brian.

[gwenie]

Apr 8, 2010 16:47:58 GMT 1 peggy said:

Apr 8, 2010 16:25:48 GMT 1 spirit said:

You can't believe this guy is in his 40's....comes across like a 15 year old.

PEGGY THINKS IF THIS THE CASE THAT MAKES 2 OF THEM.

BUT PEGGY REALLY THINK THIS IS NAUGHTY LITTLE ELVES FIGHTING AN IMAGINARY WAR BETWEEN OLD SKOOL & NEW, WHILST MR ROBBO & MR BANKSY ARE SAT AT HOME TOGETHER, HAVING NICE CUP OF COCOA GIGGLING AT ALL SILLINESS CARRIED OUT IN THEIR NAME.

AGREED

[spirit]

Apr 8, 2010 20:30:16 GMT 1 Max Beales said:

Apr 8, 2010 16:41:38 GMT 1 alexnh123 said:

very naughty what?

"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

Monty Python - Life of Brian.

I think the reason the "boy" is left out is because you're meant to replace "boy" with "toy" (a derogatory graffiti term meaning an inexperienced or unskilled writer)

[spirit]

"I'm not so interested in convincing people in the art world that what I do is 'art,' " Banksy says. "I'm more bothered about convincing people in the graffiti community that what I do is really vandalism."

From the LA Weekly interview. Great quote and thought it was quite relevant in this context.

[Max Beales]

Apr 9, 2010 11:22:21 GMT 1 spirit said:

Apr 8, 2010 20:30:16 GMT 1 Max Beales said:

"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

Monty Python - Life of Brian.

I think the reason the "boy" is left out is because you're meant to replace "boy" with "toy" (a derogatory graffiti term meaning an inexperienced or unskilled writer)

I think you're reading too far into it.. If he meant to call him a toy he probably would.

[spirit]

Apr 9, 2010 13:10:08 GMT 1 Max Beales said:

Apr 9, 2010 11:22:21 GMT 1 spirit said:

I think the reason the "boy" is left out is because you're meant to replace "boy" with "toy" (a derogatory graffiti term meaning an inexperienced or unskilled writer)

I think you're reading too far into it.. If he meant to call him a toy he probably would.

i don't. why do you think he left boy out then?

[walshy]

I think thats quality

Apr 8, 2010 16:00:33 GMT 1 Daniel Silk said:

www.banksy-prints.com/2010/04/robbo-it-happened-again/

[Max Beales]

Apr 9, 2010 13:14:05 GMT 1 spirit said:

Apr 9, 2010 13:10:08 GMT 1 Max Beales said:

I think you're reading too far into it.. If he meant to call him a toy he probably would.

i don't. why do you think he left boy out then?

I don't know..

[tonysantos2001]

here's all the new stuff

arrestedmotion.com/2010/04/streets-banksy-robbo-take-4/