Tag Archive | "Trains Are Mint"

Open Arms – another Elbow & East production….

Saturday, April 9, 2011

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Well, we knew he was responsible for the artwork throughout the new (and frankly rather excellent) Elbow album Build A Rocket Boys. We even knew he’d done some short animations for some of the tracks. But none of that prepared us for the new Elbow single; Open Arms, with video by Mr Oliver East. Excellent [...]

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Elbow and East again, but this time they’re animated…..

Saturday, February 26, 2011

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Oliver East has been taking time off the Trains Are … Mint recently to reprise his role as record sleeve artist for Elbow. The new album “Build A Rocket Boys” is out in March, with new single “Neat Little Rows” out 28th February. More details, and previews at the Build A Rocket Boys website. The [...]

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Oli East’s doing the Elbow thing again….

Sunday, January 9, 2011

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Yep, Oliver East (of Trains Are … Mint) is doing more work for Guy Garvey and Elbow. New album cover and singles covers.

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Oli East speaks

Monday, November 15, 2010

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Oli East talks about his Ignatz-nominated Trains Are Mint comics with Sophie the ‘QunoSpotter’ in this short video interview (link via Tom Spurgeon):

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Trains Are Mint #7 online

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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Oli East tells us that the seventh Trains Are Mint is now online, totally free for you to go an read. Got to say I’m impressed with TAM #7; we’ve noted on here several times that Oli just keeps improving as time goes by, but I have to say I’m finding this issue, which is [...]

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Berlin and That exhibition pics

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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Artwork from Oli East’s recent Berlin and That was exhibited earlier this month in the J A Sinclair Gallery in Edinburgh; Andrew Gannon has the pics from the showing on his Facebook page. (artwork from various artists from Berlin and That, published Blank Slate, pic by Andrew Gannon)

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Trains Are Mint has new engine shed

Monday, July 12, 2010

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Oli East notes on his blog (in-between watching football players dash around to the enchanting vuvuzuela sound) that he’s set up a new home for Trains Are Mint. The new site is still under construction but Oli has already put up issue 6 of Trains Are Mint for you to enjoy reading, so go and [...]

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Oli East and friends exhibiting in Manchester this week

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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As Richard noted at the weekend Oli East has the third of his Trains Are Mint series from Blank Slate, Berlin and That, coming out this week, and to go along with it there’s an exhibition of artwork from Oli and his friends who contributed to the work, opening this week in Manchester. For this [...]

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Trains Are … Mint – Berlin And That exhibition…

Sunday, April 25, 2010

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Oliver East’s latest Trains Are … Mint collection, Berlin and That is finally out very, very soon from Blank Slate Books. How soon? Well, these are the finished copies, opened fresh from the printers at East’s house…. To celebrate the release, there’s going to be a Berlin And That exhibition – the preview is this [...]

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Trains are Mint #6 online now

Monday, March 1, 2010

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Oli East tells me that he has a new issue of  his Ignatz-nominated Trains Are Mint series (issue #6) completed and with actual paper issues costing a fair bit to do these days he’s gone online instead with it, with the whole issue available on his site for you to enjoy gratis, which is pretty [...]

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Oli East selling original Trains Are Mint… Artwork

Monday, November 30, 2009

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Oli East has decided to add some of his original artwork from his Ignatz-nominated Trains Are Mint… to his online store, should you be looking for a unique pressie for that special comics someone this Christmas. Original art from Proper Go Well High will follow,  Oli says, “as soon as I can find the buggers” [...]

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Proper Go Well High … Mint.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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Proper Go Well High by Oliver East Blank Slate (The full wraparound cover to Proper Go Well High) This is East’s second book; the first – Trains Are … Mint – was one of my books of 2008 (review) and I described it thus: “Sometimes a book just catches you perfectly, you fall into it’s [...]

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