Patrick Wray

Make Art! Video and Song.

A song 'Make Art!' I co-wrote with my friend The Legendary Mark Peter Savage entitled 'Make Art!' is featured on his fab new album 'Art is Embarassing'.

I am somewhat a ghost in the machine on the song but I wrote the lyric and do a bit of singing on it. The song is developed from another song I did with the same theme and title which was featured on my album 'Learning to Swim' (2020) which you can listen to here....

https://20x20project.bandcamp.com/album/learning-to-swim

The video which Mark put together is made up of my drawings and paintings. Most of them taken from the zine 'The End of the Beginning: Some Drawings and Paintings 2020-2024' which you can buy via the comics and zines page on this site.

You can watch the video here....

You can listen to the rest of the songs on 'Art is Embarrassing' here and buy a copy of the cd/dl here....

https://marksavage.bandcamp.com/album/art-is-embarrassing

Photo of me from 2009 which features in the 'Make Art!' video.

Gosh!Fest 2026!

I will be there at Gosh! Fest 26 with a load of talented folk. I am on at 5pm but you can check details and timings etc here.....

https://goshlondon.com/the-gosh-blog/goshfest-2026/

Previously Unpublished Clive Murphy Spitalfields, East London 1987-1996

A few pics that did not make the cut for space reasons in the new photo zine 'Clive Murphy Spitalfields, East London 1987-1996'

I sourced these from an archive of thousands of pictures held at the Bishopsgate Institute and they were edited down to the zine which you can buy here.....

https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/p/clive-murphy-spitalfields-east-london-19871996

Clive Murphy: Spitalfields, East London 1987-1996 Cafe Royal Books

A new photo zine I collaborated with Cafe Royal Books on of pics by my friend the historian, novelist and poet Clive Murphy is out this week.

'Clive Murphy: Spitalfields, East London 1987-1996' is published this week.

You can buy a copy here....https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/p/clive-murphy-spitalfields-east-london-19871996

Some of Clive's other books can be bought here...

https://www.clivemurphy.org/

A couple of photos included including the cover image have previously appeared on The Spitalfields Life blog.

There are many articles on the blog about Clive such as this one here....

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/06/a-walk-with-clive-murphy-x/

Here also is a piece of writing originally written as an intro to the zine but not included.

You can listen to my 2021 documentary 'The Extraordinary Life of Clive Murphy' originally

broadcast on resonance fm here......https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-extraordinary-life-of-clive-murphy/

On The Sound Projector Radio Show.

You can listen back to my appearance on the Sound Projector Radio Show here....

https://www.thesoundprojector.com/2026/05/24/avant-synth-pop-with-patrick-wray/

The show is hosted by indie comics legend Ed Pinsent. We had a lovely chat about music, my own artistic life and other stuff. Ed also invited me to play some of my favourite music and influences. I also played a few of my own songs.

The show is repeated Wednesday 27th May at 1am.

You can see the playlist here....

Japan – The Experience of Swimming
B-side ‘Gentlemen Take Polaroids’ (1980)
Todd Rundgren – The Night the Carousel Burnt Down
From Something/Anything (1972)
Cogs – Rollercoaster Heart Saga
From Laughter and Footsteps (Recorded 2001/released 2005)
China Crisis – Seven Sports For All
Peel Session (1982)
It’s immaterial – Missing
From Song (1990)
Ultravox – The Man Who Dies Everyday
Live at Huddersfield Polytechnic (1977)
The Skids – The Wanderer (A Challenge)
From Joy (1981)
Patrick Wray with Painted Romans – Dark times in a Yorkshire Landscape (2022)
Sudden Sway – 76 Kids Forever (1988)
Graham Fellows – Denise From Doncaster
From Love at the Hacienda (1985)
Patrick Wray – Learning to Swim
Joni Mitchell – Empty (Try Another)
From Dog Eat Dog (1985)
Patrick Wray – Oh Blimey (It’s Rachel Riley)
Waxworks – Honey In Toast
Unreleased (1998)
Patrick Wray – Spirits in Asia
Waxworks – Closed Shop
From Miracles for Hire (2012)
Patrick Wray – Jesus (Back in My Life)
Femcels – He Needs Me
From I Have To Get Hotter (2025)
Patrick Wray and Mark Savage – Make Art!
From a forthcoming Mark Savage album
Sudden Sway – Slumberland
From Ko-opera (1990)

11, 13, 15, 17 from Learning To Swim (2021)

Femcels/World Peace DMT Hand Drawn Dress actions!

Some recent hand drawn wearable art created to celebrate the current EU/UK tour of The Femcels and World Peace DMT. On the pics below the dress is worn by singer and painter Rowan Please who is in both bands.

The character in my comic cartographic zine 'The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs Out of the Drawing and Runs into the Entrance of Turnpike Lane Tube Station' is actually based on Rowan.

This came about after I had been looking through various fashion magazines looking for a striking outfit to put the character in and was having no luck. I then remembered Rowan who's work I had seen online after she said some kind words about my zine 'The End of the Beginning: Some Drawings and Paintings 2020-2024'. Any hey, Rowan seems to have elevated her day to day fashion sense to an artform and it is very much part of the bands visual aesthetic and spills into the songcraft as well.

It was really nice to be asked to make this frock and I should be making some more stuff for the bands in the future which I am really looking forward to.

You can listen to The Femcels here....

https://thefemcels.bandcamp.com/album/i-have-to-get-hotter

You can listen to World Peace DMT here...

https://worldpeacedmt.bandcamp.com/album/the-velvet-underground-rowan

You can buy 'The Badly Drawn Girl Climbs Out of the Drawing and Runs into the Entrance of Turnpike Lane Tube Station' for £2 here...

https://colossive.com/product/badly-drawn-girl-patrick-wray-colossive-cartographies-70/