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Teenage Dreams Never Die

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2015-03-28 TeenageDreams+

The ‘Teenage Dreams So Hard To Beat’ line from the Undertones’ ‘Teenage Kicks’ is back after a 21-month absence, officially unveiled on Saturday (2015-03-28) during the Urban Village festival (Belfast Live). The new version makes no mention of DJ John Peel, who helped promote the song and after whose 2004 death the original was painted (Tele) by TDS (The Dark Side). The new version was painted by TDS together with youth from Doyle and Ballymac Youth clubs – the sig is below.

See also: Teenage Dreams | John Peel

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B. A.

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2014-09-06 HaddockTynedale+

“In loving memory: Andrew “BA” Haddock. You still live on in the hearts and minds of the family and friends you left behind. Missed by all your family and friends in Ballysillan.” The board above to a local lad who died young sits next to rock-wall seating and a sculpture on Tyndale Drive in Ballysillan.

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Bruised Orange

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2014-10-27 OrangeOnWire+

Street art in North Street – oranges on a wire looking none too steady or healthy. The one on the right has gone a bit pear-shaped and appears to holding an ice-pack to its face. Or is it a mobile phone for oranges? Artist unknown (send e-mail or leave a comment). Next to a tag by Inkie.

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Sign There

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2015-02-23 UnityWalk1+

Here is another set of tags (after the selection from the Cupar Way “peace” line in Sign Here), this time from the city centre, specifically Unity Walk and Garfield Street.

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(For NOTA (none of the above) see previously: CNB12 | The Sun Will Make You Blind | Belfast Butcher | Street Life | Keep ‘Er Lit)

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Compare 2014-10 with …

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… 2015-02.

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Sign Here

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2014-06-29 Eoin+

Here is a gallery of seven pieces of street writing from the Cupar Way “peace” line, starting above with Eoin (see previously: Kiss And Make Up) and ending with NOYS. The wall, and the works on it, are covered in the signatures of tourists who come to see the wall and the murals of west Belfast, though these images (taken between June and October of 2014) are mostly of fairly fresh work.

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Mr. Lee

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2015-02-14 DevlinLeeDogs+

Patrick Devlin mashes-up the scratched-up Mr. Lee (from Bruce Lee’s final movie, Enter The Dragon, 1973) with the jacket-and-tie style of early Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction). On the door of the Red Barn Gallery. Previously: Blowing My Mind.

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Pizza Pipe

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2015-01-13 PizzaPipe+

A string of melted cheese from a pizza and the curve of the stem of a pipe together form an arc in this new work by Kev Largey (tw | Fb) on the rear fence of the Sunflower.

Also at the Sunflower: No Topless Bathing – Ulster Has Suffered Enough (includes Malarky street art) | Wolf (James Earley)| Sleep Sweetly (Inkie). KVLR also has a piece across the street: The Men Who Stare At Bikes

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Blowing My Mind

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2015-02-14 DevlinGrenade+

Stencil street-art from Patrick Devlin outside the Red Barn Gallery in the city centre: a man in suit and tie is about to pull the pin on the grenade that is his head.

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Art Is A Hammer With Which To Shape Reality

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2014-12-18 DMCJMKShoreRd+

Arts For All (Fb | Web) is a community arts organization in north Belfast, sponsoring workshops and events, giving space to artists-in-residence, and putting on exhibits in its John Luke Gallery. The image above is of the mural on the side of their own building on the York Road, painted in 2012 by JMK (Jonny McKerr) and DMC (Dermot McConaghy) – their signatures can be seen on the brickwork at the right. Arts For All were also one of the sponsors of the recent WWI mural by Jonny in Tigers Bay: The Undertaker | The Home Front.

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I Love Petrol

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2014-12-25 ILovePetrol+

Spanish artist Marta Revillas (Web | Fb) painted the remaining shutter on the Bigg Life Arts centre. Her piece depicts a bikini’ed woman with fox ears and tail astride a motorcycle with an extended fork. Launched 2014-09-26. For the other shutters, see Lost In The Music and Art Lab.

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