About STOT21stCplanB
STOT21stCplanB (sometimes pronounced STOT twenty one with a silent ‘stCplanB’) started out as a zero-ambition noise/alt-country rock band, releasing the nihilistic CDR only LP Satan’s Rat Trap and the Mouse that Wound Up Dead (2004) and the flood/love/disaster themed mini-LP Up To Yer Neck In It (2005), before turning attentions towards visual art disruption.
Describing themselves as Neo-Nothingist Anartists, three years of intense creativity followed, exploring and dealing with notions of “the puerile”, where the duo worked in a multiplicity of mediums from photo-montage, printmaking, painting, to political campaigning, crockery and making fake Banksys under the name Not Banksy.
In 2008, collaborators THE AQUARIUM L-13 (predecessor to the L-13 Light Industrial Workshop) hosted a fundraising event for Ken Livingstone’s mayoral campaign. STOT21stCplanB declared they would stand against him and put forward their own candidate known only as THE ASSISTANT. Despite designing some fantastic campaign posters they failed to get to the first stage of the elections and in bitter disappointment declared semi-retirement at the end of 2008.
The next 13 years were spent mostly painting landscapes and religious scenes of violence under the name Harry Adams, emerging occasionally for one-off projects, eventually succumbing to popular demand and re-activating the Not Banksy project in 2018.
Making and selling Not Banksys kept them very busy for several more years, culminating in the publication a memoir: The Not Banksy Book: Lying, Cheating, Stealing and the Death of Art Vol 13, L-13 Press 2021 (aka The Lob-a-Knob Book).
Currently STOT21stCPlanB have turned their attentions to mining, reimagining and remaking some of their past masterworks, but done better this time.
The rest will be history.
STOT21stCplanB Timeline
New Year’s Day 2000
The idea for a zero-ambition noise band called Scorpion Thunderbolt of the 21st Century proposed.
2003
STOT21stC founded. Founding members: The Janitor (lead guitar and vocals), The Assistant to the Janitor (lead guitar and vocals), Snakehips (bass), Clagfoot (drums).
2004
Name changed to STOT21stCplanB after a line-up change, now a 3 piece with just guitars and drums.
CDR only release of Enclave of Love EP featuring Sexton Ming followed by the LP Satan’s Rat Trap and the Mouse that Wound up Dead.
First exhibition Hey Ho Silver Lining at the aquarium’s No Hope Gallery. Opened on The Assistant to the Janitor’s birthday 19th July and closed on The Janitor’s birthday 26th July.
2005
Up To Your Neck In It mini LP released.
Second exhibition Little Bits of Death on a Sunny Summer’s Day at the aquarium’s Miracle Art and Inspired Sanity Gallery. 19th – 26th July again.
2006
Celebrity Arse Face exhibition at THE AQUARIUM L-13, 19th – 26th July.
2007
London THE END exhibition at THE AQUARIUM L-13, 19th – 26th July.
Pack It In exhibition, Ink’d Gallery, Brighton.
Not Banksy project started.
2008
Pandemonium in the English Landscape exhibition at THE AQUARIUM L-13, 19th – 26th July.
The Assistant for Mayor campaign for Mayor of London.
2009 – 2018
10 Years of NOTHING.
2018 – 2022
NOT NOT BANKSY
The Real Not Banksy Front
The New Not Banksy Realisation
The Emergent Is-Not Banksy AbNormalcy of the 21st Century Generation Z
2021 – 2023
The rediscovery, restoration and reconstruction of The Fish Island Prophecies.