// Buy Tees //

Big thumbs up to the Buy Tees t-shirt blog! They’ve written a review of our stuff, and it’s bang on target (apart from the bit about us being based in Margate, but we’ll let ‘em off). According to them we “offer up a hearty portion of cool designs and one-liners that suit a wide range of peeps from your local squatter anarchist to international jet-setter.”

They’ve expertly singled out our Jukebox, Mac and Truck designs as their favourites, and go on to say “it’s just that kind of label, you know, it starts off as a tiny little cult label and then everything starts to explode”.

Before we go kaboom and blast into a thousand tiny bits (damn that gas leak), we’d just like to say thanks guys, it’s always nice to get some positive feedback!


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Akane: Dancehall Head

Posted by: Reg on 30 July 2010
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// Friday Crafternoons //

The Make It Community Group offers a different mini-workshop using all sorts of materials and techniques each Friday afternoon at The Fishmarket, Northampton. Come and learn or share your skills!

The workshops are suitable for adults and older kids. Call into The Nook arts café, or phone 01604 639090 for details, or join their facebook group. Instruction is provided, and there’s a materials only charge of £3 per session.


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Jimi Hendrix: Third Stone From The Sun

Posted by: Kaiser on 30 July 2010
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// Viet Naan //

Just like the millionaire entrepreneurs on Dragon’s Den, we’re always on the look out for a gap in the market that we can fill with our own DeathGob branded product.

When we spotted one such niche yesterday, we were quick to act. Now we’re the market leader in Vietnamese Naan bread themed badges. In respect to this, we’re expecting high returns, with shares in DeathGob making good headway on the FTSE this morning.

If you have any bold, innovative ideas for badges or t-shirts that you would like to share with us, leave a comment below. If you’d like to speak with us more confidentially, get in touch with us via the contact page. We’ll happily pinch the best ideas off you and claim them as our own, while raking in the cash for ourselves, thanks!


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Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass: Ragas In Minor Scale

Posted by: Reg on 29 July 2010
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// Bicycle Basket Bazaar is Two! //

Congratulations to the Bicycle Basket Bazaar, which celebrates its second birthday this Saturday! There’s a double-whammy of BBB fun over the weekend to get as many people into the party spirit as possible.

On Saturday, the special birthday bash has a different location to usual. Instead of being couped up in The Fishmarket, the Basketeers will be let loose on the piazza in front of All Saints Church, bang in the middle of Northampton town centre.

On Sunday, the festivities continue as part of the Blink festival on the market square. The square will be decked out in astro-turf and white picket fencing, with glamourous 50s femme fatales dishing out strawberries and cream, with live tennis matches and tea dances.

The events on both days are free, but make sure you raid your piggy bank in advance, as there’s bound to be lots of handmade and home grown delights on offer!


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Oscar Peterson Trio featuring Milt Jackson: Satisfaction

Posted by: Reg on 29 July 2010
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// The Legendary John Peel //

If you’re too young to know who John Peel is, then listen up. He was the fella that brought new, bizarre and glorious music to us over the radio when we were kids. Long before the days of the internet, he was the source of the stuff we wanted to listen to and find out about. He also had the best voice in the world, and was on everyone’s fantasy ‘sit down and have a nice cup of tea with’ list.

His legacy still lives on here at DG Towers. We’re still listening to the stuff he introduced us to decades ago, but now we’re having to dig out the new and bonkers stuff via other methods.

Inspired by John, we’ve released two new badges. First is right place, right time, wrong speed, in recognition of Mr P’s uncanny knack of playing a record at the wrong speed (a mistake you don’t get very often with new-fangled mp3s). Second is what would John Peel listen to? Which is a tricky question to answer, but we’re guessing it would be challenging, strange and possibly very beautiful.


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Mondo Cane: Il Cielo In Una Stanza

Posted by: Reg on 28 July 2010
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// Bantam Bikes Update //

Bantam Bikes, the independent, rider owned bicycle shop run by the Pimp My Bike boys has now been open a fortnight. The combination of bike shop and pub has proved to be a hit so far, with punters getting a while-you-wait service over a nice cold pint.

The multi-storey car park directly behind the shop has also proved invaluable for people turning up with bikes that aren’t in a fit state to ride (even if arriving by car means you have to stick to fizzy pop rather than proper booze).

The shop’s opening times are 5-9pm Tuesday to Saturday at The Bantam, 7 Abington Square, Northampton. Tonight is also when the Northampton Fixed Gear and Single Speed gang get together down there, so it’s starting to be a hub for all things bike related. If you’re a fan of bicycles (and beer) get down there and check it out!


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Pet Shop Boys: Left To My Own Devices

Posted by: Reg on 28 July 2010
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// Badge Roundup //

Another week, and another roundup of what’s new in the DeathGob office. Yet again, badges are the order of the day, with three new designs for your delectation.

First up is Broke Bike Mountin’, which is the perfect gift for all your gay cyclist friends. And yes, that is something that we have quite a few of, don’t you? Next we’ve got the new miracle cure for erectile dysfunction – Pieagra. It’s pretty similar to Viagra, but has a better meat filling. Lastly, Hot Chick is a literal take on, you guessed it, hot chicks.

Remember kids, you can stay up to date with all our latest designs and news by subscribing to our RSS feeds. Right, enough chit chat, the pencils in the design department need sorting out. Someone’s put a green one in with all the red ones, and it just won’t do.


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Mountain: Mississippi Queen

Posted by: Reg on 27 July 2010
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// Soapbox Chariots Of Fire //

The Devil’s Rejects Soapbox Race Team are back from Scotland, and they’ve got some new silverware for the trophy cabinet! Considering they trashed the soapbox on the practice runs the day before the race, it’s a surprise that they even took part, let alone achieve second place. The team who won overall broke the UK gravity power speed record at 64mph, so it was no shame to be placed after them; and TDR were only a second behind anyway!

The crash on the practice run smashed the front section of the car, breaking the front wheels and damaging the steering box. Undeterred, the team worked through the night in the hope of making her run again. Fortunately, at the summit of the mountain they were racing down, there was a cable-car engineering workshop. With a mixture of luck, brute force and sheer determination, they passed scrutineering the next day and were given the green flag to race.

After an increasingly difficult series of heats, The Mortician lined up against the best in the field for the final down the longest, fastest and most testing course in Britain. The rest is now written into legend, the greatest comeback story in the annals of soapbox racing. OK, so they didn’t come first, but they still beat their arch-rivals / best drinking buddies Centa Bavaria, who came in third. So it’s all good.

What makes it even more impressive is that by the end of the qualifying sessions, TDR were placed second from last out of a field of twenty eight. They were also competing against teams from Bentley who had spent £30,000 designing, building and wind-tunnel testing their racers.

Last year, when the team’s new soapbox was premiered at the Belchford Downhill Challenge, their results weren’t exactly much to write home about. They still managed to pick up the “Best turned out” award as a consolation prize. Now, they’ve proved that they’ve got the substance to back up the style, and are now proper contenders on the UK gravity racing scene.

They’ll next be appearing at the inaugural Dalby Forest soapbox derby in August, and then onto the main attraction of the year, the Belchford Downhill Challenge in September. Congratulations gents, you’re truly inspirational. Seriously.

Oh, and the badges DeathGob knocked up for the Scottish Cartie Association were a hit. Apparently “they went like snow off a dyke”.


Currently on the DG office jukebox
Vangelis: Chariots Of Fire

Posted by: Reg on 26 July 2010
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// The Devil’s Rejects in Scotland //

The Devil’s Rejects soapbox racing team are on tour! They set off from Northampton yesterday, and at 10.08pm last night they were in Carlisle (trying to locate some booze), and by now they should have crossed the border into Scotland. There won’t be time to relax with a few beers straight after their epic journey however, as the time trials for the Cairngorm Soapbox Extreme start at 5pm this evening. It’ll be whiskey galore after that though, with a full compliment of banging hangovers for the main event tomorrow.

Not only will they be head-to-head racing for the first time, but they’ll be taking on two (gravity powered) teams from Bentley, the legendary car-producer. Also racing are Team Weasel, winners in last month’s Catterline Cartie Challenge. They’re a formidable opponent because they’re in possession of a lucky piece of clothing, which just so happens to be one of our Toten Kopf Chopper Club t-shirts.

We’ve been promised live updates from the Devil’s Rejects via twitter, and there should also be more info coming from Team Weasel and the race organizers too. With a course that produces speeds of over 60 miles an hour down the hills of the Highlands, extreme race action is guaranteed.

We wish we could be there to see it first hand, but good luck to you all. We’ll be cheering you on, wearing our TDR badges and joining in with a few whiskeys of our own from the safety of the office. Hope you all make it in one piece, so we can have a few pints together at Belchford in September!


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Razors Edge: Train Train Train

Posted by: Reg on 23 July 2010
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// Happy Birthday Terence //

Happy birthday to Terence Stamp, who is seventy-one today! He’s one of England’s finest actors, and, as General Zod in Superman 1 and 2, he played the best baddy of all time! We love him so much, that we have badges and t-shirts (for girls and boys) with his lovely face all over ‘em.

Once again, apologies for disappointing everyone with our April Fool, where we cast him as Jor-El in our fictional Superman sequel, but the bit about his next film Ultramarines is actually true, so don’t panic. The Stamp-meister will be back on our screens shortly!


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Magnetic Man: Mad

Posted by: Reg on 22 July 2010
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