Another collection of attention grabbing pin-ups from the pen of Harley R. LIMITED EDITION OF 25.
ADULTS ONLY. Order your copy now from our Etsy shop.
The third in this collectable series of art books is packed with marker pen pin-ups from the House of Harley archives.
Published January 2025. Limited edition of 25. A5 perfect bound paperback. 40 pages.
£4.50 plus postage. ADULTS ONLY. Order now from our Etsy shop.
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All the original drawings featured in Mesdames of the Marker Pen are available for purchase for very reasonable prices. See the growing range of pinups in our Etsy shop or enquire here about a specific drawing you’re interested in.
Free improvised noise from the deep UK Underground, enriched with dark pagan folky vibe and horror/supernatural elements. Dedicated to HP Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Austin Osman Spare.
For this 2001 recording, the core Pesterepeller trio of Savage Pencil, Ed Pinsent and Harley R were joined by vocal artiste Rob Brown and Peter Hope-Evans of Medicine Head.
“…an oppressively dark slab of freestyle Improv recorded in a single session… the epic sprawl and sustained impact of the music retain an undiluted potency.” – Tom Ridge, The Wire
About Pestrepeller
Pestrepeller (or Attack Wave Pestepeller, to give them their full moniker) specialise in a unique brand of detailed and noisy improvised music inspired by the occult.
The core of the band is a trio of Ed Pinsent – cartoonist (Illegal Batman, Windy Wilberforce, Drake Ullingsworth), Sound Projectorradio show and magazine – Harley R – publisher and editor of Ugly Mugcomic – and Savage Pencil – punk cartoonist (Sounds, NME, The Wire) and designer of album covers and t-shirts for bands such as Sonic Youth, The Fall, Sunn O))) and Rocket from the Crypt. The core trio are sometimes joined by honorary pests such as Sharon Gal, Peter Hope Evans, Rob Brown and Gary Ramon.
Pestrepeller have performed at the ICA and the Equinox ‘Festival of Scientific Illumination’. Recordings include Insect and Rodent Eliminator (Sympathy for the Devil records), Nug Yar (Prescription), The Cruel Sea (a collaboration with the Chelsea Magrigal Group), Isle of Dark Magic (Important Records), As Wolf (a split release picture disc with My Cat Is An Alien), Noises for the Leg, Alphabet of Daggers and Rough on Rats.
About this release
Track listing 1. Mold With a Mind (15:13) 2. No Screeches and Snakes And Deep Dark Menaces (07:15) 3. My Gun Scatters, My Gun Kills (20:18) 4. Dismembered Dead Things (14:54) 5. The Smell of Wet Fur in the Rain (06:05) 6. Teaching the Clouds to be Inverted Flames (12:35)
Recorded at LMC Sound. Released in 2005 on Important Records.
Engineered by Xentos and Lepke B, former members of cult bands The Homosexuals and Milk from Cheltenham. Cover image was supplied by Martin Stone, guitarist with Mighty Baby and Chili Willi and the Red Hot Peppers.
Listen to this excerpt…
Celophrane-wrapped jewel case CD. Long out of print, but the House of Harley has a very small number of copies on sale for £15+ p&p each from our Etsy shop. While stocks last!
This list was compiled while I was preparing to speak at the Battle of Ideas discussion, Is Modern Music Rubbish? Although I was critical about the modern pop industry, I wanted to acknolwedge some songs which prove, to my ears at least, that commercial pop can still come up with the goods now and then.
Click on the links to listen to the songs or immerse yourself in the whole set on this YouTube playlist.
“The Taylor Swifts and Beyonce’s of this world may be able to top the streaming playlists, fill stadiums, generate headlines, hold court to politicians and even awaken dormant economies when their circus comes to town. But outside of their admittedly considerable number of fans, how many of us could name or hum more than one or two of their songs? Or maybe, any of their songs?”
In October I took part in a panel discussion about modern music at the Battle of Ideas festival in London, along with Aaqil Ahmed, Rushabh Haria, Lysia Leal, Leo Villa and chair Andrew Calcutt. You can watch a video of the discussion below.
Look for an exclusive two page House of Harley comic strip, ‘It’s a Voodoo Christmas’, in the OCCULTZ Weird Christmas Special. This festively fungal A5 zine was created by Owen Michael Johnson and Satanic Mojo’s Jason Atomic as a souvenir for visitors to the OCCULTZ Weird Christmas Market, which took place in Oxford on, yes, Friday 13th of this month.
Other highlights include Mutartis Boswell’s Horrific Holidays and ‘The Sinister Siberian Shamic Psychedelic Roots of Santa Claus’ by Jason Atomic.
There’s a few copies left so contact the Occultz guys if you’d like to bag one before Santa lays his mitts on them.
Walk confidently into the breeze of the light indigo unknown. Flying Away 1 is the first in a series of limited edition House of Harley art books collecting vibrantly coloured sketchbook drawings inspired by the fabulous, frivolous and flyaway world of fashion.
These upscale selections from the House of Harley archive were drawn sometime during the 21st century and first published, with digital colour added, on the House of Harley blog from 2021 to 2023.
Published November 2024. Limited and numbered edition of 40. Full colour A6 booklet. 44 pages.
Big backsides – depicted with relish by Brazilian guest Alberto Monteiro
Windy Wilberforce – our hero imperilled under the scalpel of Dr Fengele, in chapter 8 of Ed Pinsent‘s The Saga of the Scroll
And precision-engineered parts supplied by the House of Harley:
Jack of All Trades – explains how to deal with a wasps nest in your bedroom
Life with Freda Nipple – onesies, hybrid working and urban birding
Mark E Smith Music Teacher – more life lessons from The Fall’s late lead singer
Sound of the Underground – an earth-shaking collision of politics and music
Alll wrapped in injection-molded covers designed by Northern powerhouse John Bagnall.
“Ugly Mug is a really, really interesting anthology out of the UK… doesn’t seem to be engaged in anything ‘on trend’, instead we have stark black and white cartooning with blunt, human stories. Magnetic stuff, not like the rest!” – Austin English, Domino Books
Published Sept 2024. A4, 56 pages.
“You want something different in cartooning and storytelling? Get this! Wild, unhindered creativity on display.” – Talking Small Press Comics
“Wild fun and the epitome of sheer creativity perfection… here is more racy fare than any British X-mas Annual of yore. These cunning creations teem with turbulent narrative force and visual clout, and come packed to the gills with wry and witty visual oomph…” – Win Wiacek, Now Read This!
“…things can get a little mad and sometimes leave you thinking ‘what have I just read?’ but it’s that eccentricity and flair that means you can’t stop reading and admiring what’s been put together.” – Comic Book News UK
“Ugly Mug continues to occupy a space in our indie scene that no other small press anthology series comes close to visiting. An unrepentant oddity, it’s that very outsider ambience that makes it such a continued draw in the UK self-publishing world.” – Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
A page of pencil drawings, some of which became part of Seb, Surrounded, the third episode in the ongoing adventures of singer Sébastienne, stranded in who-knows-where. Which real life singer is Seb based on? The clue is in the name.
As featured in Ugly Mug 7, the latest issue of the House of Harley’s annual comix-art anthology. New episode (and Ugly Mug) coming soon.
