Richard Sen's Bronx Dogs Learn a New Trick

Bronx Dogs aka Richard Sen and Paul Eve, release a new single Can't Be Funky, shortly, a cover of an old Bush Tetra's track Can't Be Funky. The idea to do the cover version reportedly came from Andy Weatherall and the pair have reworked it into a typically Bronx style old skool electro tune.

Coming out on Illicit Records shortly, the tune should revive interest in Sen, who remains one of London's great graffiti heroes, having caught the spray paint bug in 1986 on a trip to New York. Going on to serve two jail sentences for spraying his tag Coma on countless underground trains, the young teenage bad boy developed his skills be copying different letters from a book called Subway Art.

"It's really hard, it took me almost 3 years to get good but by then I'd been caught and had almost grown out of it," he told Skrufff recently.

"I started on my own then met up with other graffiti artists. Once you started doing it, you got to know everyone else, it was a big community with all different races and classes. That was one of the great things about it, anyone could do it."

http://www.graffiti.org/dj/tubes2.html (Old skool London graffiti site, includes shots of 'Coma', Sen's tube train work in the 80s)
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