Here at Sinner HQ we like a bit of the noble art…

Queensbury Fight League put on rockin’ shows all year and us Sinners are very proud to be one of the sponsors. On Nov 27 at Effingham Park they staged ‘Dynamite’, a packed bill of fourteen bouts with no less than three title fights. It was bloody freezing outside, so it was good to get inside and get to the bar.

The venue was sold out, totally rammed, and the atmosphere was pumping from the start of the first bell. Every bout saw the fighters giving absolutely everything they had and more, some of them fighting in public for the very first time – much respect!

Seven Sins were sponsoring the Queensbury Middleweight title, a five rounder between Ian Fletcher and Tom Green. Both fighters were challenging for the belt so it was going to be an awesome fight. The Sinners at ringside always support Tom. He’s a regular client in the shop and as hard as fuck! It lived up to the billing, with Tom showing his growing ring craft and really boxing clever, as well as launching into his usual bombardments! Ian was a very worthy opponent and between them they put on a superb fight. It went down to a points decision, with Tom coming out as the winner – and the new Queensbury Middleweight Champion! Nice work fella!

Something I failed to mention to anyone, was that the promoter Mark, who had the honour of being our first customer in the new shop, had mentioned to me while I tattooed him, that he would get me to present a belt on the night. I’d kinda almost forgotten about that, so you should have seen Mrs Sinner’s and the Alien’s faces when the MC announced that the championship belt would be presented by…. Chic Child of Sevennnn Sinssss Tattoooooooooo! They were a bit sunned and amazed as I headed off and barged my way past the bouncers (ha-ha), then once Ross Minter had given me the title belt I hopped into the ring.

It was a great honour for me to present the belt to Tom and have a photo taken to preserve the event. It will be hanging at my work station very soon.

Cheers Mark and the Fat Lip crew for another top, top night, with some spectacular boxing and a whole lot of fun!

Get yourselves some tickets (www.queensburyfl.co.uk) for the next one in February, you won’t be disappointed!

‘Evening lads of the village’

A wierd expression I know, but one me and my old mate Mark were greeted with by the landlord of the Greyhound one night years ago… sorry I digress…

Village life is a beautiful thing. Old fashioned, quant, bordering on the senile and demented! But so much better than living in some nondescript city where no-one talks to each other and everyone treats their neighbour with manic suspicion.

Anyway, the last May Bank Holiday in the Sinner Village, we had our annual May Fayre. The ladies of the WI go baking mad, filling their stall with awesome cakes, buns and biscuits. There’s plants for sale, ropey ceramics, grubby car boot tat, bouncy castles and more. The very modern lady vicar turns out to pour tea in the refreshment tent, there’s tombolas, fishing for ducks, maypole dancing, a May Queen, the absolute lot! And along with this they have competitions for everything from flower arranging to poetry to wine making. One of the categories is for painting – so I thought ‘Why Not?’ I grabbed a few off the studio walls, paid a quid an entry and left the lady taking the entries saying ‘ooh aren’t they all different!’

Well I like to be diverse you see and paint all kinds of stuff – I entered an artists pallette with a bulldog on it, a budha, a heart with wings, a flaming skull in blue and a Bob Ross inspired mountain landscape. (You’ve gotta love a bit of Bob Ross!)

So me, Mrs Sinner and our little Sinnerettes toddle off to the May Fayre and have a jolly old time. Eating cake, hooking ducks, trying to win a coconut (poor little Sinner boy is a lousy shot) and trying to shelter when the rain pours down as it usually does on a Bank Holiday! Then Mrs Sinner checks out the competition gallery and guess what… I’d only got 2nd for the blue flaming skull and 3rd for the mountain landscape! I was pretty chuffed and not too bothered that I’d been beaten by a pretty average windmill scene!

Picking up the rosettes (yes rosettes, I told you this was village life!) from the visiting vicar, he asked me which painting had got the 2nd place and didn’t bat an eyelid when I told him it was a blue flaming skull!

So there you go – tattooists are artists too

Rock ‘n’ Roll!

2nd Place for the Flaming blue skull

3rd Place for the mountain landscape