[insite]

Right to help ease the boredom of waiting around to not buy a print I've gone and nicked a few choice cuts off Flickr. First up is a piece from the late '90's, check out the tags on the left.

Photo by Walt Jabsco

Banksy is known to have been part of DBZ (dry bread'z crew) and to have worked with Kato most famously on the Cato St mural (below), could this be an early tag?


But even better IMO is this, photographed by Kato himself


Check out the far right of the pic


Now I know that the kids are one of Banksys early stencils as I photographed the same design elsewhere in Bristol myself but given the rumours of his real name could that be the cheekiest tag ever ?


Sorry for all the pics but it's a kinda visual storey and I thought it might be of interest and I'm bored with my lad off school sick.

[corblimeylimey]

Cheers insite, nice to see some of the old stuff again.

Bankz, Robert Banks, Robin Banks?

[Daniel Silk]

Great stuff Insite ;D +Respect for postin that

[saltandiron]

corblimeylimey said:

Cheers insite, nice to see some of the old stuff again.

Bankz, Robert Banks, Robin Banks?

www.robertbanks.co.uk/cgi-bin/painting.pl?key=21

quite a departure from his usual style....


p.s. cheers insite for posting these, really interesting to see some early freehand stuff.

[dmandpenfold]

Nice thread insite, here's some more of his earlier stuff i picked up last year courtesy of a tour with another forum member...

[saltandiron]

I never knew that 'playing it safe' stencil was banksy! I've seen a photo of it without the tag to the right.

[headphonesex]

dmandpenfold said:

NIce!

[daveh]

Thanks to everyone for posting ;D - hadn't seen any of those before!

[Hugs]

All in Bristol.
Cato st is /was tagged just above st sign,HW is fading fast as is barcode now.

[insite]

Hugs, Cato St's so good he tagged it twice

[insite]

Kato's recently put up a load of old photo's on flickr

www.flickr.com/photos/catobristol/

[Monkey]

Awesome pics, Does Kato have his own site?

[insite]

northernmonkey said:

Awesome pics, Does Kato have his own site?

No idea. I only recently heard of him myself when someone left a narky comment on one of my photos of Cato St, you could always leave a comment or two on his flickr pics and ask.

[dmandpenfold]

i recognise the HW hugs, nice werk mate...anyone seen this (apart from hugs) - apologies it's not quite perfect i had to stitch a few pics together from my phone

[Hugs]

pics taken courtesy of a very large and heavily tattooed fella late 1 night...i'll say no more ehh mate!

[carl]

Great thread Insite, Really nice to see this stuff.

Hugs? Explain this stuff on the wall? Who? what? Where?

[dmandpenfold]

yep hugs he was a rather robust and hairy individual with a bottle of beer in one hand, a penchant for a spliff or two and a very pleasant demeanour...

[Hugs]

It's very ealry piece by Banksy,in Bristol.
Dman...he is a indeed a tip top fella.

[dmandpenfold]

It is an original, sprayed on the wall of a mates shop in exchange for a bag of weed (allegedly), it is about 8 ft tall by 15ft wide, it's huuuuge like the hairy nice chap

[Hugs]

A few more,all in Bristol

[cashman]

dmandpenfold said:

i recognise the HW hugs, nice werk mate...anyone seen this (apart from hugs) - apologies it's not quite perfect i had to stitch a few pics together from my phone

Oh man....THAT is what im talking about
Fuck the stencils Banksy needs to get back into the old skool methods

[RBK]

Here's another old gem:

[airsine]

rklimek said:

Here's another old gem:

This is great, is there anymore images of the rest of the room?

[Hugs]

Re the bugs piece,it's sprayed direct to the wall with a proper frame around it,you can make the frame out in the pic i posted as it's side on.
cheers

[insite]

First Cato St piece from '98

Photograph by Kato www.flickr.com/photos/catobristol/441287401/

[Hugs]

Just looked at the Flickr site,the barton Hill pieces..is that the old settlement??
Looks like it...some top bands played there...think Siouxsie & the banshees,The Jam allsorts from that era if i remember right ( long time ago)
Some grat work to see on the site,well done insite

[insite]

Cheers Hugs, afraid I can't help with the Bristol history/geography I've only visited a handful of times and usually get lost ;D

Whilst we're all reminiscing I have to admit this thread has taken me back a bit as well, it's just like being back at school and copying everyones homework before taking all the credit

[insite]

Found some more bugs, now long gone, read the storey here; tinyurl.com/yoxzbr

[Curley]

I remember that whole episode on here last year over the brick.....
I believe its in a photo (or was) in Get Your Banksys Out

[corblimeylimey]

Great thread.

Here's some pictures of roguetrooper's trailer that I've reposted here from an old thread going back to March















And inspiration pics from Kal976





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