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INTRODUCTION


Are you ready to get your ink on?! Te beast returns, but with a brand new home!


NBAF 2013


Tere’s also a chance to witness the traditional hand-tapping art of tattooing, as Lawrence Ah Ching - originally hailing from Samoa – demonstrates the ancient art using bamboo sticks and ink.


As ever, it’s not only the tattooing that’ll get pulses racing, as the entertainment schedule delivers some knock-out blows this year. On the Saturday, we’re hosting our own Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School class, giving punters a chance to try life drawing interspersed with burlesque performance from some of the biggest names in the scene. As it that wasn’t enough to keep your glasses steamed, Sunday might just top it, with the notorious Fuel Girls in attendance. Te stunning girls prove they’re more than just pretty faces and cute asses when they dazzle the audience with their perfected skills.


What do you get if you add up the months of the Kardashians’ last relationships, the mental age of Danny Dyer and the cumulative amount of time Rod Stewart’s maintained an erection over the last 10 years? You get a figure that doesn’t come CLOSE to the five years that the Norwich Body Art Festival has been kicking around for now.


Being the grand old age of 5, us organisers – Outline Magazine and Indigo Tattoo Studio – felt we were big and ugly enough to make some bold decisions, and so have upped and moved the convention round the corner from our old haunt to the shiny trusses of Open on Bank Plain.


Te venue has got a reputation recently as being the place for wild merriment, frivolity and embracing all things entertaining, being the resident home of calendar highlights, Bo Nanafana and Festival Asylum. We felt it was only right to squeeze our little tushy between these events and make Open our home.


With an even bigger home, it was our duty to fill it to the brim, like a heaving bosom tipping Naigara Falls-like over a tightly pulled corset. And that we have! We have a record number of tattoo artists from all over the country and beyond, and we believe the calibre is higher than ever, with household tattoo names Xed LeHead, Paul Naylor and more all in attendance.


For those magpies among you, there’s a wider range of smaller treasures and the big vendors you’ve come to expect, as we introduce the NBAF Market. It’s worth scurrying round the building to find a unique gift from a huge range of traders. Or take matters in to your own hands as Print to the People return to give you a chance at screen printing your own merch! It’s a little bit like us setting you to work in a sweat shop, except you pay us, and your fingers won’t bleed as much at the end of the day.


If you’re reading this and feel like you haven’t been invited to the party, shuffle in to the light and come and join us! Tickets will be sold on the day, although numbers are limited, but you can get your sweaty mitts on them by buying them off the website for the first week in August, or picking them up from one of our outlets. Norwich: Indigo Piercing and Tattoo, Te Rock Collection, OPEN, Rude Boy Studios, Beatniks. Ipswich: Obsession Tattoo Studio. Fakenham: 4Skin.


See you there! NBAF Team xxx


Photo by Gill Jones


BIG THANKS TO


Te Indigo and Outline Posses


Te King of Social Media, Luke Parish Queen of Ticketing, Amy Wells


Rick, Ann and all the Open Team City College


Martin from Sith Art Collective Anita – Norwich City Council Perry – Total Tattoo


Gem, Em and Kev’s respective family and friends NORWICHBODYARTFESTIVAL.CO.UK |03


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