The Good Fuzzy Archive contains old builds, my collection of old pedals, my life in bands and music, my queer and trans cultural work and some of the ways in which I’ve curated this. All my past work brought together for the first time. Take a look around.

Collecting and Curating

As well as making and selling Good Fuzzy Sounds, I work as a curator and am part of a team that makes award-winning exhibitions at the London Transport Museum, like Hidden London.

At the museum we talk a lot about the power of objects to communicate and tell stories, and how to interpret them. Over the years my work has influenced how I think about Old Stuff. I realise now that my old builds and collections tell a kind of story too.

Early websites

You might like to start with an old website and a blog which reveal some of my early interests in collecting and making non-mainstream guitars and pedals.

Cheap Trashy Weird Old Guitars are Where It’s At (2000) http://goodfuzzysounds.com/cheaptrashyguitars/

Simon’s Musical Den (2008–2015) https://musical-den.blogspot.com (you can see deadlink content from this ancient blog via the Wayback Machine)

The Stratford Hoard (2009)

I worked with artist Alan Kane on an exhibition about collectors in my local area. Some of my guitars and pedals were put on display at Stratford Station. Posters advertising the exhibition showed some of my guitars and were displayed all over the London Transport network. The project was supported by Art on the Underground, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Transport for London.

Poster for The Stratford Hoard featuring an archive of eight guitars on a white background — The Stratford Hoard poster, seen across the whole London Underground network

Man in checked coat and hat observes a display case of vintage guitars at Stratford Station — A stylish passer-by admires the collection

Pedals on display in a glass cabinet in Stratford Station — The Stratford Hoard pedal display

Scholarship

Read the essays I wrote for my MA in History of Film & Visual Media in Film History MA Work, 2005.

Young autistic person looks out of the frame on a scan of a photographic negative. The negative is held by a finger and thumb which have come out unnaturally bluey-green in the scan. — At the museum, 1990, photo by Hugh Robertson

If you’re really keen, here are some works that have been supported by my curatorial practice:

London Transport Museum (2017) Omnibus: A Social History of the London Bus. London: Unicorn Publishing Group.
London Transport Museum (2017) Goodbye Piccadilly: From Home Front to Western Front. London: Unicorn Publishing Group.
London Transport Museum (2016) London by Design: the iconic transport designs that shaped our city. London: Ebury Press.
Parmentier J. (2015) The World in A Mirror: World Maps from the Middle Ages to the Present Day. Leuven: Exhibitions International.
Bownes D. and Green O. (2012) Underground: How the Tube Shaped London. London: Allen Lane.
Murphy S. (2005) Northern Line Extensions Golders Green to Edgware 1922–24. Cheltenham: The History Press.
Taylor S. (2001) The Moving Metropolis: a history of London’s transport since 1800. London: Laurence King Publishing.
Green O. and Rewse-Davies J. (1995) Designed for London: 150 Years of Transport Design. London: Laurence King Publishing.
Taylor S. (1992) A Journey Through Time: London Transport Photographs 1880–1965. London: Laurence King Publishing.