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Mik puffed his cheeks out and began... A long time ago in Beeston, South Leeds little Mickie Gallagher discovered the joy's of drawing cowboy's and spacemen and superhero's...no girls allowed. After a turbulent career in insurance, oil and construction Mik ended up where he should have gone in the first place, Bradford Art College. Then he left having played with ink, tape-recorders, punk and obscure eastern european cigarettes. More construction work followed as his art career floundered then in January 1983 Mik found his vocation, the brown paper bag and the biro became his tools as he wandered from Leitrim to London doing portraits. A degree in theology rounded everything off nicely... Mik lost his marriage and everything... A new dawn broke on some morning in May Nov 94 when Mik trod the boards for the first time as Mik Artistik surrealist, semi-finalist, performance poet, stand-up, performer...phew!!! 2004. Mik Artistik's Ego Trip was born. 2008. In the last 14 months or so, we, the undersigned, Mik Artistik's Ego Trip played with Faust, Chumbawamba, did Latitude, and at Glastonbury sold over a thousand quids worth of albums...thank you. We got on Rock Fm in September and cars were crashing as people got so distracted by our tunes. October, the Idler magazine took us on as the light of the world, we played their bash and left grown men like Zodiac Mind Warp, Tom Hodgkinson and the drummer from the Jesus and Mary Chain weeping with joy. The Colony Room Club in Soho, home of Francis Bacon, George Melly and all the Brit Artists this year experienced the full force of the Ego Trip and bowed down! Big thanks to Radio 1, to Rob da Bank for playing "Window Cleaner"... and we got on the footie programme on Radio Leeds. 2009/2010 What a blaster of a year! Eighteen festivals an art exhibition and we still havn't won the Mercury Prize... or the Uranus Prize...or the Turner Prize. We've added a Todd Rungren / Paul Young element to our sound and hope that this will bring us bounteous rewards. A lot of big things on the 2010 horizon...ships, Radio 4 and a film...and a documentary. ______________________________________________________
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