Gaz Mayall: Gaz's Rockin' Blues 30 Years Anniversary

" Celebrating  30 years of  poster art.  Every Thursday since July  3rd  1980 I’ ve  been  running  this great night at a Soho club . For  the first  fourteen  years  at Gossips in Dean  Street and thereafter at St Moritz  in Wardour St.  Each time a live  band is  due to perform  there . Me and some close friends  have  made  a flyer every week , now amounting to  over 1200. To coincide  with the  release of  Gaz’s  Rockin’  Blues –  The First 30  Years ,  published  this  year , the  book and  exhibition will  feature all the flyers and  posters  I’ ve ever printed along with some  photos and memorabilia. Robert Fraser  used to tease me in the early eighties saying that these flyers were not art.  I  strongly objected , He was introducing street graffiti artists Jean -Michel  Basquiat  and Keith Haring to London and  I remarked , if they were artists  so were we . Subway  Gallery founder and artist Robert Gordon McHarg III  has  known me  for 25 years  and has agreed all  along that this  is genuine  and  good  contemporary art and also part of Soho and London’s rich music  and  club  history . A legacy of  our late 20th  century  era  that  defines our     times, culture and taste in music and art. "