What’s this battle with Robbo and Drax all about, then?
‘I didn’t deliberately start a battle with Robbo – have you seen the size of him? In the ’90s him and Drax were infamous enough that we’d even heard about them in Bristol. The truth is I didn’t paint over a piece that said ìRobboî, I painted over a piece that said ìnrkjfgrekuhî. But either way, I don’t buy into the idea a wall ìbelongsî to a certain writer, or anyone else for that matter. ‘Traditional graffiti writers have a bunch of rules they like to stick to, and good luck to them, but I didn’t become a graffiti artist so I could have somebody else tell me what to do. If you’re the type who gets sentimental about people scribbling over your stuff, I suggest graffiti is probably not the right hobby for you.’ You are accused by the graffiti community of selling them out? How do you plead? ‘It’s hard to know what ìselling outî means – these days you can make more money producing a run of anti-McDonald’s posters than you can make designing actual posters for McDonald’s. ‘I tell myself I
