Borin Van Loon: Seventies Rock

The Slits (oil on board)
Rock Art prints

The Slits, avant-punk anarchists, were about to release their prime album 'Cut' which featured them nearly naked and covered in mud (in a photograph by Penny Smith). I took that image of them and put them into St Trinians uniforms - well, nearly - and maintained the mud motif with hand-prints and grafitti featuring some of their lyrics. They scratchilly covered Marvin Gaye's "Heard it through the grapevine" with Budgie on drums. It didn't quite match up to their superb John Peel sessions of a year or so earlier (now, at last available on CD). Johnny Rotten wound up married to the mother of the Slits' lead singer, Ariana.

Gary Numan (oil on board)
Rock Art prints

Gary Numan had ditched his band Tubeway Army and the 'New Man', often with bleached hair, invaded the pop charts on several occasions ("Are friends electric?", "Cars"). He has even had a rebirth as an artist of integrity recently after a near-crash or two as a private pilot and years in the wilderness as a buffoon.