They have arrived! Brand new shirts by The Xcerts and The Arteries available in the store now.
The Xcerts
First up we have a brand new design from 'The Xcerts'. They are one of our favourite bands so we are understandably excited to have them involved in the project. Their chosen charity is The Marfan Trust, so ALL profits from the sales of this shirt will be donated to them (read more about how the project works here). Check out the shirt below!
We caught up with Tom (drums) to find out a bit more about the shirt:
CG: Why did you nominate the Marfan Trust to donate to?
Tom: A dear friend of ours suffered from Marfan Syndrome and passed away
late last year, he was a long term friend of Murray and Jordan and I had
the pleasure of knowing him since I joined the band. He was a very
talented individual and has coordinated and designed
our artwork since the band began. There are 10,000 Marfan syndrome
sufferers currently in the UK alone and over a third of them die in
young adulthood, The Marfan Trust funds research into the cause and
prevention of Marfan Syndrome and we as a band thought
it a worthy charity to donate to.
CG: Who designed the shirt and what gave you the idea for the design?
Tom: I designed this shirt as a homage to H.G Wells' The Invisible Man
and to comic book artists such as Dave Gibbons and John Romita. The
hand-drawn image is based on Gibbons' Rorschach character from the
seminal comic book Watchman, combined with the invisible
man/ film noir theme.
CG: What are the Xcerts looking forward to this year
Tom: We have been taking time off from our usual extensive touring schedule
to write new material for our next record and are looking to record in
the next few months. The record will be released later on this year and
we are very excited to unleash it upon the
world!
The Arteries
Secondly we have reprinted the Arteries shirt. The original black and white design has very nearly sold out, but rather than get the same again we decided to change up the colours! Check out the awesome new version with red ink on grey!
The shirt has already helped the Arteries raise £270 for The Mumbles Lifeboat Station and we are sure that this new print will help them raise even more!
As usual, Common Goals can be found at NGNG's next Handmade Arcade fair on Saturday 6th April, come and say Hello/find out more about us :)
