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Help for Heroes is a charity very close to the tattooed communities heart. For some, one that’s a little too close for comfort, but when Ink For Heroes was announced, you just knew that the troops would rally for the occasion, and boy, did they ever...
This summer we saw a great gang of people come together to show...
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It’s cool to bring a different story to the table when doing a show write up sometimes. It was a cracking show for sure but being as you all know the drill by now, we thought we might take a shot at bringing you some behind the scenes action from this top flight event:
Once again, the Bournemouth Tattoo Convention...
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There are many tattoo conventions in The Netherlands but all of them fade in the light of The International Amsterdam Tattoo Convention.
The event, with its three days, is slightly longer than we're used to. Most of the tattoo expos are one-day events with few lasting for the whole weekend. One of the organizers...
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It’s 2:20 pm, and people in the line in front of the old brewery hall TAP1 are starting to get impatient. There are probably about a hundred people waiting to get into Copenhagen Ink Festival 2011, which was supposed to start 20 minutes ago..
The reaction is perhaps understandable, because some of the people...
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As the months are thundering by I stop to look at my diary and realise we are now halfway through our trip; it has gone scarily quick...
We are already booking flights to New Zealand, Singapore and Thailand; however, for the next few months we are settling down in Brisbane.
Brisbane or ‘Brisvegas’, as the locals like...
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The first impression you get, looking out from the window of the plane, is that there are a lot of trees and snow. An endless carpet of forest with lakes in between. So it's kind of a surprise when you land in Helsinki to find that the airport is so modern and efficient. Not a polar bear in sight.
Due to the cultural...
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The first show of the year on the South Coast got off to a fantastic start - you can’t beat a coastal event that’s held on a pier! There’s just something so brilliantly British about something like that, but honestly, how many more years will it take me to learn that you can’t win a fluffy meercat from one of those...
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The North Lakes Tattoo Show is always a personal highlight of the UK convention scene; being one of the smaller, more intimate shows you could be forgiven for thinking this is just another small local show, but you couldn’t be more wrong! With a long history and a lot of expectation behind it, every year the show...
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Porn, best stud and orgasm-contests and still family orientated? The Tattoo Body Art Expo in San Francisco is just one of seven on the tour of Megaproductions gigantic shows in the American tattoo world and its goal is to be big, varied and weird…
"You should go to the convention in Pomona. It’s better. It’s even...
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Well as the old saying goes, conventions over here seem to be like buses, you wait ages for one then they all come at once! This month I have two conventions in two different cities in a week.
The Sydney tattoo expo is undoubtedly the highlight in a lot of peoples convention calendar, now in...
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One of the oldest towns in France, Toulouse was founded by the Romans in the second century AD and is dubbed the ‘Pink City’ because of the colour of the principal local building material: brick. Located between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 730km from Paris, Toulouse is considered to be a very important...
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The New York City convention got started the year after the ban against tattooing in New York was lifted. Twelve years later it’s still held in the Roseland Ballroom, a couple of busy, bustling blocks away from Times Square. This is a convention that offers more than just tattoos, but all of that is happening outside...
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Derby’s State of the Art tattoo, body art and music festival kicked off to a storming start on Saturday 17th July 2010, marking the tenth anniversary of this legendary convention weekender. Queuing punters filled the main hall setting the tempo for a very busy weekend indeed.
Over 100 artists were ...
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For the first three days of April the 7th ‘Convención internacional de tatuaje’ was held in the centre of Madrid...
One should keep in mind that the art of tattooing and piercing is not yet the accepted phenomenon in Spain as it is in northern or western Europe. One Spanish Tattoo-artist told me: ‘Of course tattoos...
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If the word Pontins conjures up images of mouldy chalets, unidentifiable stains and soggy beach trips, then you will be surprised to learn that twice a year this unlikely venue plays host to a rock n roll event of legendary status. Fast motors, huge quiffs, an abundance of leopard print and a bar which serves mini...
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This was the fifth year that the Gillingham convention had been held at the King Charles hotel just outside the actual town center of Gillingham in Kent. When we arrived we got a pleasant surprise as the main area where the convention is held had been totally refurbished and I must say looked so much better for it....
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For some reason Scotland has been largely overlooked when it comes to Tattoo Conventions. Up until now that is. For the last few years we have had Piper Jim’s Aberdeen show but that catered for the whole of Scotland. So Bribs – Skin Deep’s long-standing contributor and all-round good bloke decided to put on the first...
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This year the venue for the seventh ‘Europe Event’ in Paris was held in the Montreuil district. Previous years the show, has been held in Austerlitz but the organisers felt that the new venue was better fed by public transport giving access to the show to more people, all coming along for some new ink, or just to have...
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The weekend of the 22nd / 23rd of October saw the first Cardiff tattoo convention organized by the guys at Silverhand jewellery. The venue was the old coal exchange in Cardiff bay and the idea was to have something a bit different to just the normal convention format. To this end they decided to call the show Tattoo...
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Whether you’re passionate or simply curious about tattoos, the convention in Milan is the place to be. It is undeniably one of the most interesting tattoo conventions in Europe and a safe bet artistically speaking as long as you’re not agoraphobic.
The weather is spring-like for the opening of the sixteenth Italian...
Help for Heroes is a charity very close to the tattooed communities heart. For some, one that’s a little too close for comfort, but when Ink For Heroes was announced, you just knew that the troops would rally for the occasion, and boy, did they ever... This summer we saw a great gang of people come together to show...
It’s cool to bring a different story to the table when doing a show write up sometimes. It was a cracking show for sure but being as you all know the drill by now, we thought we might take a shot at bringing you some behind the scenes action from this top flight event: Once again, the Bournemouth Tattoo Convention...
There are many tattoo conventions in The Netherlands but all of them fade in the light of The International Amsterdam Tattoo Convention. The event, with its three days, is slightly longer than we're used to. Most of the tattoo expos are one-day events with few lasting for the whole weekend. One of the organizers...
It’s 2:20 pm, and people in the line in front of the old brewery hall TAP1 are starting to get impatient. There are probably about a hundred people waiting to get into Copenhagen Ink Festival 2011, which was supposed to start 20 minutes ago.. The reaction is perhaps understandable, because some of the people...
As the months are thundering by I stop to look at my diary and realise we are now halfway through our trip; it has gone scarily quick... We are already booking flights to New Zealand, Singapore and Thailand; however, for the next few months we are settling down in Brisbane. Brisbane or ‘Brisvegas’, as the locals like...
The first impression you get, looking out from the window of the plane, is that there are a lot of trees and snow. An endless carpet of forest with lakes in between. So it's kind of a surprise when you land in Helsinki to find that the airport is so modern and efficient. Not a polar bear in sight. Due to the cultural...
The first show of the year on the South Coast got off to a fantastic start - you can’t beat a coastal event that’s held on a pier! There’s just something so brilliantly British about something like that, but honestly, how many more years will it take me to learn that you can’t win a fluffy meercat from one of those...
The North Lakes Tattoo Show is always a personal highlight of the UK convention scene; being one of the smaller, more intimate shows you could be forgiven for thinking this is just another small local show, but you couldn’t be more wrong! With a long history and a lot of expectation behind it, every year the show...
Porn, best stud and orgasm-contests and still family orientated? The Tattoo Body Art Expo in San Francisco is just one of seven on the tour of Megaproductions gigantic shows in the American tattoo world and its goal is to be big, varied and weird… "You should go to the convention in Pomona. It’s better. It’s even...
Well as the old saying goes, conventions over here seem to be like buses, you wait ages for one then they all come at once! This month I have two conventions in two different cities in a week. The Sydney tattoo expo is undoubtedly the highlight in a lot of peoples convention calendar, now in...
One of the oldest towns in France, Toulouse was founded by the Romans in the second century AD and is dubbed the ‘Pink City’ because of the colour of the principal local building material: brick. Located between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 730km from Paris, Toulouse is considered to be a very important...
The New York City convention got started the year after the ban against tattooing in New York was lifted. Twelve years later it’s still held in the Roseland Ballroom, a couple of busy, bustling blocks away from Times Square. This is a convention that offers more than just tattoos, but all of that is happening outside...
Derby’s State of the Art tattoo, body art and music festival kicked off to a storming start on Saturday 17th July 2010, marking the tenth anniversary of this legendary convention weekender. Queuing punters filled the main hall setting the tempo for a very busy weekend indeed. Over 100 artists were ...
For the first three days of April the 7th ‘Convención internacional de tatuaje’ was held in the centre of Madrid... One should keep in mind that the art of tattooing and piercing is not yet the accepted phenomenon in Spain as it is in northern or western Europe. One Spanish Tattoo-artist told me: ‘Of course tattoos...
If the word Pontins conjures up images of mouldy chalets, unidentifiable stains and soggy beach trips, then you will be surprised to learn that twice a year this unlikely venue plays host to a rock n roll event of legendary status. Fast motors, huge quiffs, an abundance of leopard print and a bar which serves mini...
This was the fifth year that the Gillingham convention had been held at the King Charles hotel just outside the actual town center of Gillingham in Kent. When we arrived we got a pleasant surprise as the main area where the convention is held had been totally refurbished and I must say looked so much better for it....
For some reason Scotland has been largely overlooked when it comes to Tattoo Conventions. Up until now that is. For the last few years we have had Piper Jim’s Aberdeen show but that catered for the whole of Scotland. So Bribs – Skin Deep’s long-standing contributor and all-round good bloke decided to put on the first...
This year the venue for the seventh ‘Europe Event’ in Paris was held in the Montreuil district. Previous years the show, has been held in Austerlitz but the organisers felt that the new venue was better fed by public transport giving access to the show to more people, all coming along for some new ink, or just to have...
The weekend of the 22nd / 23rd of October saw the first Cardiff tattoo convention organized by the guys at Silverhand jewellery. The venue was the old coal exchange in Cardiff bay and the idea was to have something a bit different to just the normal convention format. To this end they decided to call the show Tattoo...
Whether you’re passionate or simply curious about tattoos, the convention in Milan is the place to be. It is undeniably one of the most interesting tattoo conventions in Europe and a safe bet artistically speaking as long as you’re not agoraphobic. The weather is spring-like for the opening of the sixteenth Italian...