Ian Dury and The Blockheads
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.
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.
The Banana Splits (‘Tra-La-La, La-La-La-La!’)
A collection of three T-shirts featuring three motifs.
Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
Please also find a collection of four poster pictures available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
‘Flipping like a pancake, popping like a cork, Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork.’
The Banana Splits was a show Hanna Barbera put together in the 1960s (a cross between The Monkees and Rowan And Martin’s Laugh-In) with a mixture of live action slapstick, bubblegum pop, the serial Danger Island and some brand new cartoons (in particular The Three Musketeers and The Arabian Knights done in the style of their ‘animated classics’ series). The show was created specifically as a vehicle to promote Kelloggs breakfast cereals.
The show was a great success, not least of all because unlike so many Hanna Barbera productions corners weren’t cut to meet network deadlines, and audiences enjoyed the ‘variety show’ style (which resulted in HB thereafter flogging the format to death). It spawned a hit single, a hit album and all manner of tie-in merchandise.
But Hanna Barbera cancelled the show halfway through the second series, much to the dismay of children (and their parents!) and network executives at the time, all because Kelloggs didn’t renew the sponsorship deal as their own merchandise wasn’t seeing much extra sales out of it.
The fate of what had been America’s leading Saturday morning TV show first illustrated the danger of media creators becoming too concerned with pleasing sponsors or advertisers before their audience.
Michael Stipe of R.E.M. claimed their only album ‘We’re The Banana Splits’ had a greater lasting influence on American pop music than any other, as did The Ramones and the Beastie Boys. Tongue-in-cheek, perhaps, but even reggae legend Bob Marley borrowed the ‘Tra-la-la, tra-la-la-la’ for his own ‘Buffalo Soldier’, and the Banana Splits theme tune is still adapted by sports fans worldwide forty four years since its release.
A collection of ten T-shirts and a set of hooded tops featuring various motifs from Tom Robinson and TRB’s artwork 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 three poster pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Tom Robinson is an English musician and writer famous for two singalong anthems – ‘(Sing If You’re) Glad To Be Gay’ and ‘2-4-6-8 Motorway’.
The song ‘Glad To Be Gay‘ has been recorded many times with updated lyrics concerning contemporary gay issues (ironically a song originally protesting against intolerance towards gays now has lines protesting against gays intolerance to others).
‘2-4-6-8 Motorway‘ (part stolen from the sports chant ‘2-4-6-8-Who Do We Appreciate?’) is almost the opposite. In the 70s, truck driving was very much a heterosexual male preserve with a ‘jack-the-lad’ culture, and the song celebrated that side of a trucker’s life compensating for the long unsociable hours (casual sexual encounters with lady hitchhikers and soft drug abuse in order to stay awake and alert).
His final major hit, ‘War Baby‘ concerned East and West Germany, and the senselessness he felt for the same nationality being pitted against one another for ideological reasons.
Dr Feelgood
A collection of Dr Feelgood t-shirts and a set of hooded tops featuring various motifs from their artwork 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 three poster pictures available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Dr Feelgood was an aggressive Rhythm and Blues band from Canvey Island in Essex whose tense onstage act inspired the punk and new wave movement of the 1970s. Their live album ‘Stupidity’ shocked everyone when it entered the Britisk album chart at No.1. in its first week – no live album had ever done so, let alone that of a band that had never had a hit single and usually played in pubs.
Their guitarist Wilko Johnson later played with Ian Dury and The Blockheads and plays executioner Ilyn Payne in the series Game Of Thrones.
Peter Lindahl (Musician And Painter)
Please find a collection of fourteen poster pictures and two 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.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Moonrise Kingdom
A collection of five T-shirts featuring artwork from or inspired by the indie film Moonrise Kingdom.
Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
Please also find a collection of thirteen poster pictures, two frescos and a mural available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, the frescos use a mesh by Dyokabb at Sims Angels and the wall sized mural uses 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.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Dead Kennedys – Holiday In Cambodia (100th Post!)
It’s Jazz-Hands highly tasteful 100th post!
Three t-shirts (will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults) and three poster pictures for your Sims 3 game.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
Defence Of The Accused: ‘Driven to it by EA Store Sets, M’Lud!’
Hail the start of the international corporate suck up towards new oil power Cambodia!
Re-educate the masses that Cambodia is Xanadu, a really wonderful place that loves freedom, justice and interior furnishing for The Sims 3.
(Shhhh! Don’t mention most of the Khmer Rouge escaping justice for a genocide that’s left half the surviving population aged under 22 years of age, being a safe haven for western child molesters, all those landmines no-one’s in a hurry to clear, the murder by police of environmental investigator Chut Wutty, etc, etc, etc, etc…)
Lonely Island was created and owned by Rflong7/13, but was taken over by some undead Simmies for a bit of peace and quiet after involuntary resurrection from Ivy Hill Graveyard. It includes some others escaping from their own ‘life issues’, and is a sanctuary for the much maligned Butterfly of Doom and many other misunderstood species of Sims nature.
Just another night at Tyneham Castle...
‘Ah, I have expected you. Prodah. You would not come all this way for tinvaak with an old Dovah.’
‘Mmmm, you prodah and tinvaak me as much as you like, big boy!’
‘You have indulged my weakness for speech long enough. Krosis.’
‘Mmmm, you indulge your weaknesses on me as much as you like – rrrroooowwl!’
‘This is what I love about him. It isn’t all about non-stop thu’um, he really wants to communicate.’
‘Yeah, I bet he’d like going shopping for shoes and walks in the summer rain as well.’
‘I have overcome my nature only through meditation and long study of the Way of the Voice.’
‘***Sigh!*** I could meditate on the way of your voice all day long, dreamboat!’
‘Hear my thu’um. Feel it in your bones.’
‘Oh yes, YES! Thu’um me good and strong! You know you want to!’
‘Aaaah yes! Sossedov los mul. The dragonblood runs strong in you.’
‘***Mimblewimble!*** Oh you raunchy beast! Cover me in your hot steamy Dovah Sos!’
‘The Blades were right not to trust us, we were made to dominate. The will to power is in our blood. You feel it in yourself, do you not?’
‘Grrrrrooooowl, you’re so hot when you get all masterful! Dominate me all you like!’
‘See that’s why the Greybeards don’t want anyone else getting to meet him. They’re the jealous-possessive type. I bet they want to know everyone he texts with on his Twitter.’
‘Yeah Willow, and that Delphine, she’s the dumped girlfriend-that-can’t-accept-it’s-over type. That’s why she’s got it in for him.’
‘Yeah, totally, Hazel. What a bitch.’
‘Psycho-bitch I reckon. Just ‘cos, like, she’s got the hottest ass in Skyrim, thinks she owns the place – and I bet it’s just padding in that Blades armour anyway.‘
‘Yeah. If I ever saw her, I’d tell her straight, like, “face it girl, he’s just not that into you, so go suck it up bitch!” ’
‘Yeah, totally Rowan!’
‘Do you think something might unlock if I went back up to him wearing dragonscale armour? You know, the dovah in me reaching out to the dovah in him?’
‘Mmmm, I think he’s more a leathers outfit sort of guy.’
Outside Tyneham Castle a few hours later…
‘Not again! They said they’d be ready and to meet them here at ten.’
‘Nnnngggggh! I bet they’re still playing Skyrim from last night when we left them, redoing the Throat Of The World parts again!’
‘How many times is that now they’ve said they’ve had to redo that bit because it didn’t work out right for them? Surely between the three of them they ought to have got that part right and moved on?’
‘They just haven’t been themselves of late. Dare I say they’ve been sounding a little, pfft, how can I put it?…’
‘Chick-Lit-ish?’
‘Yeah, that word you said, Haily!’
‘We’re supposed to have been playing Gnubb two hours ago! Two hours waiting for them to get ready! Who’s for breaking down the door, going down to the basement and shoving those Exo Edge joy pads up their jacksies?’
‘Seconded – with the one that’s left getting the console!’
‘Make that thirded – and forget lubbing them up beforehand! Gordon Bennett, it’s a beautiful day, too hot for computer games!’
‘Never mind one that’s been out for six months! Switchy thought Switchy was obsessed with dragons, but they’re taking it to a whole new sphere of derpyderpdom.’
‘What do they still see in that bit of the game after all this time?’
The reason?
Paarthurnax
When you have the sexiest voice in Skyrim,
who goddamn CARES if you’ve slaughtered
a few thousand poxy Nords?
(And Elves, Bretons, Argonians, an Orc, maybe a Mammoth or two…)
Fields Of The Nephilim (Sheer Faith)
A collection of ten T-shirts featuring various motifs from the artwork of the inimitable Fields Of The Nephilim over the years (done by the McCoy’s visual arts company, Sheer Faith, whose artwork you see every day of your lives probably, without realising it!).
Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.
All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.
Please also find a collection of nine poster pictures and five 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.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
You can also get a different T-shirt motif and hooded tops over at The Mare’s Nest.
Mark Ryden
Please find a collection of twenty two poster pictures, fifteen base game frame pictures, five frescos and four murals available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.
The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, the frescos use a mesh by Dyokabb at Sims Angels 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.
To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.
Enjoy!
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