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2012-01-25T19:32:00.003Z

Fête du Vin

2011-07-20T09:52:00.002+01:00

This Saturday is the Fête du Vin in Chassignolles - if you happen to be passing you can taste some of the wonderful natural wines at the sublime Auberge (poster drawn in Chinese ink and French wine by yours truly)

Hmm...

2011-07-01T13:57:00.000+01:00

... must be about time to overhaul the website again.

Some Lobster Club screenings...

2011-03-28T23:05:00.002+01:00

Oops. Lobster Club screened at Athens Animfest last week (20th & 21st March). It's screening in Greece again at the Corfu Animation Festival 7th - 10th April.

There's also a screening in London on Saturday 9th of April at Exploding Cinema as part of the Pullit Transmission group show at

Transmission
Bond House
20–32 Goodwood Road,
Newcross Gate, SE14 6BL

Doors open 6pm - 11pm Screening starts at 7.30pm. Why not arrive early and take in the gallery show before the films start?

Lobster Club in London 13/01/11

2011-01-11T17:20:00.001Z

Lobster Club is screening as part of the London Short Film Festival on Thursday 13th January at 20:45 at Riverside Studios. More info: new shorts 11: God's Lonely Men pt 2 (Under Attack)

Jastogov klub screening in Ljubljana

2010-12-06T22:07:00.002Z

I'm very excited to be flying out to Ljubljana, Slovenia in the morning for Animateka - Jastogov klub screens in 'Best of the World 1' on 7/12/10 at 9pm

Homaariklubi screening in Tallinn, Estonia

2010-11-19T13:24:00.003Z

Lobster Club screens this evening (19/11/10) at 7pm as part of the Southern Breeze programme at Animated Dreams festival, Tallinn, Estonia. I'm sitting a cafe opposite the cinema with an icy cold beer right now.

Some upcoming Lobster Club screenings...

2010-11-04T16:32:00.001Z

some of which I'll be showing my face at:

Cocotte Minute competition at Brest European Short Film Festival on Tues 09 Nov 22:30, Wed 10 Nov 18:15, Sat 13 Nov 11:00

onedotzero at BFI Wed 10 Nov 16:00, Sat 13 Nov 13:30, Sun 14 Nov 20:30

Lobster Club online!

2010-10-07T17:58:00.000+01:00

If you live in the UK, you can watch Lobster Club on Channel 4OD (iplayer) until October 24th. If you don't live in the UK or you'd rather watch it high quality without adverts, ask me nicely and I may send you a link and a password...

Lobster Club in London at BFI

2010-10-04T17:54:00.003+01:00

Lobster Club is screening at onedotzero_adventures in motion at the BFI:

new british talent 10

A captivating showcase of fresh work by the UK's brightest sparks and styles in animation and indie filmmaking today.

Wed 10 Nov | 16:00 | NFT3

Sat 13 Nov | 13:30 | NFT1

Sun 14 Nov | 20:30 | Studio

Club Homard - refusé

2010-10-02T21:04:00.002+01:00

Lobster Club has the dubious honour of being included in the Salon des Refusés screening at Ottawa International Animation Festival on October 21st.

Golden Kuker, Bulgaria 16/10/10

2010-09-27T14:53:00.001+01:00

I'm looking forward to attending the Golden Kuker International Animation Film Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria where Lobster Club is showing in competition on Saturday 16th October at 8pm

Lobster Club screening 02/10/10

2010-09-27T14:45:00.002+01:00

7th Naoussa International Film Festival, Macedonia, Greece on Saturday 2nd October at 19.15

Lobster Club on C4 24/09/10 2.20am

2010-09-22T07:37:00.003+01:00

Lobster Club will be aired on Channel 4 this Friday night at 2.20am - so ask your mum if you can stay up late, or set the VCR.

Lobster Club screenings on 26/09/10

2010-09-22T05:35:00.004+01:00

Branchage Festival comedy-themed selection screening at 1pm on Sunday 26th September at the Jersey Arts Centre, St Helier, Jersey www.branchagefestival.com

Portsmouth Film festival SEASIDE SHORTS screening programme
Sunday 26th September 5PM at The Loft (Kings), 39 Albert Road, Southsea, PO5 2SE www.portsmouthfilmfestival.org.uk

Auberge de Chassignolles

2010-07-22T13:21:00.003+01:00

If you happen to be near Chassignolles in the Auvergne this weekend, Lobster Club is screening in a new festival of food films organised by the sublime Auberge de Chassignolles

Don't forget your tickets...

2010-06-24T10:48:00.002+01:00

Lobster Club is screening in competition at the Soho Shorts festival on:

Thurs 22nd July 15:30 at the ICA

Sun 25th July 18:15 at the ICA

and

Mon 26th July 15:30 at the Soho Film Lab

More info at Rushes Soho Shorts

I had to print this out and stick it on the studio wall...

2010-06-20T11:53:00.003+01:00

via www.kiddierecords.com

Lobster Club is coming home.

2010-06-01T16:13:00.002+01:00

Lobster Club has been selected in competition at Soho Shorts Festival so it will finally be getting some public screenings in London!

Thurs 22nd July 15:30 at the ICA

Sun 25th July 18:15 at the ICA

Mon 26th July 15:30 at the Soho Film Lab

Booking is essential. Tickets go sale Wed 16th June.

Lobster Club - in a park

2010-06-01T13:49:00.003+01:00

Lobster Club will be screening in the Film Tent at the Ejector Seat Arts Festival in Palmerston Park, Southampton on Saturday 5th June at around 4pm. www.ejectorseat.co.uk

Lobster Club in Bilbao

2010-04-22T14:42:00.003+01:00

Lobster Club is screening at ANIMABASAURI – ANIMABASQUE (FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE ANIMACIÓN DE BASAURI-BIZKAIA) in the KARRATU Competition on 25th and 28th April. More information

Connaissez-vous cet homme?

2010-04-20T23:47:00.002+01:00

Hummer Club - Stuttgart screenings

2010-04-12T15:26:00.003+01:00

Lobster Club is showing at Stuttgart Internationales Trickfilm Festival on May 5th at 11pm, Gloria 1 in Panorama and on May 8th at 9pm, Metropol 3 in British Shorts. I'll be attending - will you?

Lobsters (1936)

2010-03-06T09:06:00.001Z

Lobster Club screening 13/03/10

2010-03-05T14:36:00.003Z

Screen South Digital Shorts + Q&A at Minghella film festival, Isle of Wight.
3:00pm, Saturday 13 March, Cineworld, Screen 2. Ticket: Free. Reserve your place on 01983 822490

Lobster Club screening 13/02/10

2010-02-03T10:47:00.003Z

There is a screening of Lobster Club in the Screen Out Loud competition at Animated Exeter on Saturday 13th February, 1.45 - 2.45pm at Exeter Phoenix.

Lobster Club

2010-02-03T10:34:00.002Z

If you're an animation or short film festival, the chances are you've received one of these lately; a screener DVD of Lobster Club. Chances are, too, that you've decided not to select it for your festival. Some have, however (bravo!) and I'll be posting information about any upcoming screenings here.

Custom rubber stamps by Blade

oops

2010-01-27T01:05:00.001Z

You caught me in the middle of updating the site. I'll be tidying things up over the next couple of days. Check back again for updates.

Thanks,

Milo

It was a magazine in a bag.

2010-01-27T01:04:00.007Z

cover for half-baked magazine #2 (1995)

Speaking of lobsters. Back in 1994 I spent the summer getting intimately acquainted with all things fishy working in the kitchen of The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow; meanwhile getting reports from friends back in London of wild art parties and riots on the streets. I couldn't take the small town life any longer and hotfooted it back to the big city where I teamed up with some like-minded artists to make half-baked magazine, a photocopied A3 magazine-in-a-bag. To coincide with each issue we had a launch party called... the Lobster Club. These legendary (?) booze-and-ska-fuelled parties were usually held in pub function rooms around the Brixton and Camberwell area including a lovely Jamaican pub The Denmark (now sadly converted into flats). Jerry Dammers was a regular face, Peter Davison (yes - Dr Who!) came along to one and, at the last ever Lobster Club, rocksteady legend Alton Ellis performed - the crappy PA cutting out every time he hit the high note in Sitting In The Park.

Scrape the Trouble Off Your Boots is a comic strip I drew while I was working down in Cornwall, shortly before moving back to London. I have scanned it in from the photocopy that appeared in Issue #1 of half-baked, so it is pleasantly wonky and faded. Looking back at it today I realised how important it has been for my work: the name Lobster Club makes its first appearance here, as do the ubiquitous moths (see Moron), I adapted or 'reimagined' the strip ten years on in 2004 as Payé, Balayé, Oublié for Mococo magazine and the main character crops up again in Second Class Smoker. Basically, I have been remaking it over and over again in one form or another for the last 15 years. Maybe I'll have a new idea one of these days...

cover for half-baked magazine #1 (1994)