Bring on JAPAN!!

How cute are the puppies? I left the shop for a minute and so they are sitting at the window, watching to see when I was coming back! It's a shame we can't really bring them into the shop these days, we are just too busy now and too many people coming in and out and they just love everyone too much (aka jump all over everyone walking through the door).

Well as the title suggests we are getting pretty damn excited for our Japan trip! Count down is 4 weeks and 4 days (but who is counting):P.

So we are in oraganisation mode that's for sure. Lot's to organise and lot of work to get through before we go. Anyone wanting to get tattooed by Matt will have to wait till next year now, he is overbooked as it is. But hopefully in the new year he will be taking on some new work (that list is starting to grow rapidly now too), so be quick if your keen on getting something started in the new year.

I took some photo's of the shop the other day. The big room has changed a lot since we have Simone and Jamie in there now. So thought it was appropriate to have a photo update. Loving the new look, the shop is really looking lived in these days.

So we have some exciting news, we will be featured in a story that is going into the Advertiser in the next 4 weeks or so. They are doing a story on tattooing and wanted to interview Matt, I think the basic gist is about how tattoo's are so mainstream now and how popular the industry is these days. Sorry I am so bad, can't remember what the actual magazine is- but apparently it will be going in Saturdays paper at some point- so keep watch! Hopefully we don't sound like tools, like the last time we put ourselves in the paper:P

We are also currently updating Matt's portfolio and so we should have new work up on the facebook and myspace really soon. We are having a photo day soon to take a bunch of shots of stuff that has recently been finished. Matt has just had so much large ongoing stuff that it has been a while since he has had new stuff to show. We are just coming up to when a few of his really large pieces are going to be finished, so stay tuned for that one too.

Any who, that's it for this installment, riveting I know. Cheerio!

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Update day

Here are a few new small ones done this week, it's been pretty busy but now it's raining again nobody's about! The skull's another design of the £30 sheet

Some Boog flash...

Boxing Gloves to cover up an old tattoo...

And lastly a custom designed owl which was a lot of fun to do

Friday 24th September

We will be shut as we will be attending the London Tattoo Convention. If you're interested in the event which has been great every single year, then hit the link here.

A few small ones and a couple of bigger ones

In the process of completing some big pieces, so there'll be some more pics up soon. For now here's some of the £30 tattoos we have on offer and also a couple of sleeves.

WOW it's been a long time!!

So much for keeping up with the blog but we have good excuses for being slack.

So we had Taco Joe from Malaysia come stay with us and do a guest spot at the shop for a couple of weeks in early August. Thanks for coming Joe! We just feel bad that we so busy we didn't even have time to show the poor guy around! Joe got to do some really good tattoo's on Jamie (Rooster with a snake) and Simone (Fox).

We also had a short trip to Melbourne to see K-Os, which was awesome. Apart form seeing wonderful Melbourne again, we got up close to K-Os and enjoyed his show.

As most people are aware we now have Jamie and Simone working at the shop and we want to welcome them with open arms. They are a perfect addition to Progression and we are excited to expand our team. This is going to take some pressure off Matt (since he has been the only artist at the shop till now). This also means that we have artists available to do any small work or take on anything that Matt had no time to do before.

So we have had a hectic time getting the shop rearranged so as to get the two extra stations we needed to set up for the new guys. The shop has had a new face lift and is really coming along now.

Jamie and Simone are both getting really busy, we would suggest that if you want to get tattooed before christmas, this is the time to book (before their schedules get even more hectic). Plus there will be a week or more that they will take off around Christmas/New Years.

Matt will not be taking on any new work for the rest of this year but we are happy to take enquiries for bookings into the new year. We have only 8 weeks till we leave for our big trip to Japan and we are counting down the days!! We have been letting people know that we are going away but please take in mind if you have unfinished work we will be away from November 6th until early January.

work by Paul Nycz