In case you hadn’t heard, Sinner HQ is on the move.

We’re taking the shop to new premises, slap bang in the middle of the high street. The new shop has had a fair bit of interior construction and now, after what seems like ages, we’re finally on to the fun bit of painting and finishing.

So on sunday we had a bit of a painting party with brushes, beer and pizza. All the Sinners were there, getting splattered with emulsion, painting each other and… eventually the walls and stuff they were supposed to be painting!

It was a fun afternoon and we made great Read the rest of this entry »

We did five of them, but one buggered off before the photo...

It’s saturday afternoon, we’re all flat out as usual… then they arrive… you can hear them before you see them… a whittering, twittering, giggling gaggle of girls. Five girls booked in for the same tattoo – nightmare!

You can imagine can’t you, the noise of them, all talking at the same time, ‘ooh I’m nervous’, ooh I’m shitting meself’, ooh will it hurt’ etc, etc. Hair, teeth and tits Read the rest of this entry »

Ben in 'bible reading' shock!

There’s never a dull moment in Sinner World!

Last friday I took a phone call from a film producer who wanted to film in a tattoo shop using a heavily tattooed person. Cool eh! Anyway she asked if the crew could come down within the hour(!) – Game On!

So the crew turn up. Sound man, camera man, grip(? grip what exactly?), producer, runner etc. etc and I decide Vegas Ben would be the man for the job (especially as I had already been told this was for a religious film and I know Ben worships Satan!)

The crew set up the camera and lights then explain to a rather excited Ben that all he has to do is ‘look moody’ Read the rest of this entry »

Our weekend slave (soon to be full-time slave), Levi and her family have been raising money for her cousin Regan who has Retts Syndrome. They are aiming to raise £7,000 for a stairlift as Regan is unable to walk. So far Levi, her family and friends have raised £2,500 through various fundraisers. One of the fundraisers is a nude calendar, featuring the family (if you know any of them, it’ll be worth a laugh at least!), which they’re trying to get sold in the shops.

So here at Sinner HQ we’re going to be selling copies to you, the always generous, beautifully well dressed and extremely good looking readers(!) And for every calendar sold Seven Sins Tattoo will contribute the same amount. So one calendar is £10 and we’ll add £10 too.

If you Read the rest of this entry »

It’s that time of year again – the time when you count down the days, the hours, the minutes, when you can put the machines down and bugger off on holiday for a while.

This year the Sinner family headed off to the beautiful island of Crete. We’ve been to a fair few of the Greek islands, but never tried Crete and everyone told us how lovely it is.

So we’re up at 3.30am to get in a cab to the airport at 4.30am! Blimey, talk about early…! waste of time going to bed really… anyway, the little sinners take it all in their stride and are stuffing cake and biscuits in their faces at 5.30am at the cafe in the airport, while we’re downing extra strong cappucino’s just to stay vaguely awake!

The flight was on time and easy, then as usual when you get off the plane onto the tarmac in Greece, the heat just hits you, making you instantly relax and realise the holiday has actually begun – brilliant!

After a (longer than in the brochure) coach transfer to the hotel we rock up to the reception only to be told that our room wasn’t ready – ‘here we go’ I think, typical of our luck…

… but then… the (very nice) man at reception said ‘we apologise for the delay in getting your room ready, so we’re sending you off to the restaurant (one of four!) for a free lunch’ RESULT!

Then a nice man arrived in a Fiat Read the rest of this entry »

Here in the Sinner household, in Sinnerville, me and little Sinner seem to have got the fishing bug lately and keep getting up really early to go fishing in the local lake. There’s something really good about simply  sitting by the water as the sun makes an appearance, waiting for the fish to take the bait.

Those of you who keep up to date with this happy little Sinner blog(!) will remember how upset the little Sinner was a while back when he nearly caught his first big fish, only to get snapped up and left slightly weepy and wondering what could have been…

Well I’m pleased and proud to report that he managed to land his first, very decent common carp the other day. Typically this was his first cast of the morning, before I’d even managed to assemble my own rod!… one itty bitty bit of sweet corn and ‘bingo’ he was into his first carp fight, and he did a sterling job, playing it well and getting it to the landing net all by himself. It was an exiting moment in our fishing world and one we’ll both remember for a long time – well done you little Sinner!

Mouse boy Chris has finally got his back (almost) finished – at least it looks like a proper tattoo now! Ben and Iva pinned him to the chair and tore into him for a couple of hours. Poor boy didn’t like it at all, but hey – do we care? of course not!

Nice one Chris now lets do some more and get you ‘tattooed up’!

the one that didn't get away!

Been taking the little Sinner fishing for a while now and he absolutely loves it. Every weekend it’s ‘Can we go fishing Dad? can we, can we…?’

So the other day we went to our local lake which is really kid friendly. Basically you can drop your hook in anywhere and catch something! This particular day was lovely – really warm and sunny without burning the shit out of you, and the fish were really biting well. Little Sinner keeps on trying to catch bigger fish so we tried the method his grandad uses with much success – floating crust. And bugger me it was wicked! The big old carp all stay near the surface when it’s warm and like a bit of bread and you can just watch their big gobs pull the bread and your hook down into the water and ‘BANG’, you’re into a nice fighting fish!

My personal best by far was this nice mirror carp – what’s nice for me is I spend ages drawing and tattooing all kinds of carp so catching a big one it’s great to see all the detail and stuff that makes them such a great tattoo. Unfortunately, little Sinner didn’t catch his big fish…. he was so close to one but got his line properly snapped with a loud crack, so that was that. He’ll get there soon I’m sure.

Until next time…. happy fishing!

Oh yeah! Seven Sins Tattoo has just celebrated it’s 10 year anniversay!

It seems like only yesterday that we opened the doors to the world. Back then everyone told me it’d take about five years to get properly established, and I guess they were right. After five years we really started to get into a higher gear and the work just kept coming. Nowadays after ten years in business, it’s flat out, non-stop tattooing for all four of us, which is fantastic! Our diary is always full and the customers are always happy!

We have a brilliant customer base who trust us and our work completely – there’s no better compliment than people letting you do pretty much what you want on them!

So to all our customers, past, present and future, I’d like to say a massive THANK YOU for all your support!

And here’s to the next ten years eh…!

Happy Birthday to all you Sinners!

I hate the poxy tabloids – rubbish red-tops – lazy bloody journos the lot of ‘em. Full of made up bollocks and sensationalism. But I hate poxy ad men more. Those jumped up little cretins in their designer red rimmed glasses and snazzy braces (see we can stereotype too wankers!) sitting in their shabby little offices, scrapping the barrell to come up with yet another  hackneyed excuse for an ad campaign.

Step forward the tossers who came up with this garbage for Suzuki – you know who you are… and what’s more so do I! This ad campaign is running currently in the Scum and other red top tabloids.

You can just imagine it can’t you…

…it’s friday afternoon – they’re up against a deadline (who cares, life goes on etc) and they’ve just got back from the poncy wine bar …

‘Oh Nigel we need to get this campaign wrapped up before we nip off to pick up the charlie from wossisname’,

‘Ooh I know Colin, lets brainstorm this one and get some lines racked up’.

Seconds pass by… tick, tick, tick…

‘Oooh I’ve got it Nig!’,

‘Go for it Colin!’….

‘You know how tattooists can’t spell right?’,

‘Really Colin, is that true?’,

‘Oh who cares, everyone know they’re all thick, that’s why they just draw on people for a living, so no-one will care, it’ll be a laugh!’,

‘Ok Colin, hit me with it…’,

‘Well Nig, we’ll have a model bloke who looks like a tattooist a bit, but hasn’t got any tattoos right, but we can draw some on, no-one will notice…, and he’ll be doing a tattoo right, on this big blokes back, and… here’s the sell right… he’s spelt the tattoo wrong! It’ll be wicked, we’ll get the campaign finished, and we can get down and sort the charlie right!’.

‘Ooh Nig you’re a bloody creative genius you are!’

‘Sorted!’

Well that’s what I imagine happened in the Suzuki ad men’s shabby office anyway – because if they had any brain they’d find that we tattoo artists aren’t thick – I have an National Diploma in Art & Design thanks – we can actually write and spell too. Some of us get together regularly to make the tattoo world a safer and better place for the rest of you, lobbying parliament, holding educational seminars for environmental health officers and taking on the big boys…

Besides which tattooists in the modern world use computers for lettering design and have ‘spell checkers’!

So to you sorry ad twats at Suzuki – absolutely NO ‘RESPLECT’ you cocks. Next time you want to stereotype an art that takes a lot of hard work and pure skill to do well, pick on something else…  maybe advertising eh? Doh! that’s not an art, unless it’s the art of bullshit of course!

Oh shit, better make a… wait for it…. ‘Swift Exit!’

Lame doesn’t even come close…