Ignit Ploaeg is hard to explain. Next to my first workshop that Andy Lee allowed me to share, was a screen printing carousel. We began a series of T shirts and the, now, legendary fanzine that featured the characters 'Happy Bastard', 'Jesus the Wierd' and the unforgetable 'Brian Cancer'. Check out the Ploaeg blog. I'll dig out the pages and put them on the blog. It was deep down handbag anarchy for battered housewives everywhere. Nothing before or since has come close to the potential of Ignit Ploaeg. In the current digital age it would have been a househould name. Who knows. They may come back to collect their rightfull place in cultural history. Who could forget 'Happy Bastard and the Dead Fish Fogie', probably the best critique on disenfranchised miners, reduced to fruit picking, in Thatchers Britain. The name came from the dialect of Evening Post salesmen in Leeds city centre. 
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