The Dragon Bar 1998-2008

The only book to document the birth of the street art movement - this is an oral history of the London’s iconic Dragon Bar featuring contributions from the pioneers of street art, including Banksy, Faile, INVADER, ELK, Mode 2, EINE, Lucie Flynn, CEPT, Sweet Toof, AIKO, James Jessop and many more. It wasn’t obvious at the time that the Dragon Bar in London’s Old Street was to be an era-defining place filled with decade-defining artists. No one knew these people would go on to do the things they did but when we looked back, and asked around, the artists agreed. The Dragon Bar was a moment in art history that deserves a book about it... The Dragon Bar toilets were legendarily graffitied, there were block parties out the back and the gallery space upstairs was given to artists for free. Banksy had his first ever London show there, Faile and Bäst had their first UK shows there, INVADER stuck one of his space invaders outside. And then it mysteriously burned down…

Created and self-published by Josh Jones and James-Lee Duffy, co-founders of the cult art ‘zine Pavement Licker.