Ian Dury and The Blockheads

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A collection of eleven t-shirts featuring various motifs from the artwork of Ian Dury (and also The Blockheads) over the years.

Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.

All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.

As there’s no Teen Male hooded top with the basic pack, there’s a Teen Male Tracksuit top instead.

Please also find a collection of twelve poster pictures (including some paintings by Ian Dury) and three murals available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.

The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli and the wall sized murals use a mesh which comes once again with many thanks from Helen-Sims, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.

Download

To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.

Enjoy – ‘Oi Oi!’

Ian Dury was a controversial figure who overcame severe disability (he was cripped during the 1949 polio epidemic from a contaminated public swimming pool) to became acclaimed as an artist, an actor, a poet and above all as a musician.

Along with Dr Feelgood, Dury’s band Kilburn and The High Roads (named after a London Underground Station) was the major inspiration for the punk and new wave scene of the late 1970s. A large part of Dury’s success was incorporating his disabilities into his quick-fire on-stage act that parodied old music hall entertainers.

The band metamorphised into Ian Dury and The Blockheads and scored a surprise self-funded hit album, ‘New Boots And Panties!!’ (the name taken from a shop sign) and a number one single with ‘Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick’. They also enjoyed success with ‘What A Waste’, ‘Inbetweenies’, ‘Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3)’, ‘I Want To Be Straight’ and ‘England’s Glory’. The name of another single ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’ became a staple phrase of the English language.

Dury released ‘Spasticus Autisticus’ to protest the 1981 United Nations International Year Of The Disabled which he saw as patronising instead of helpful. Dury later worked with the UN on projects concerning AIDS and polio.

Ian Dury died in 2000.