please log in to view this image Football player buys Banksy at charity auction Queens Park Rangers star Joey Barton forked out thousands of pounds for charity in Kensal Green last week. The Midfielder splashed £6,000 on an original painting by influential street artist Bansky during a lavish auction at The Paradise pub in Kilburn Lane last week. The Urban Art Auction hosted by renowned artist âInkieâ showcased a range of paintings from a number of urban artists with all proceeds going to Great Ormond Street Childrenâs Hospital. Shelley Martin-Light, who organised the auction, spoke of the eveningâs success and the generous donation from Mr Barton. She said: âIt was a really great evening and all for a very good cause, Joey was such a gentlemen as well and his contributions will be a massive help.â The 29-year-old spent a total of £10,000 throughout the evening and he was full of praise for the event as well. He tweeted the following day: âAlways wanted to own something by Banksy and this is a great kidâs charity, so it supports a great cause.â The event raised £32,000 in total for the charity and Miss Martin-Light was delighted with the outcome. She said: âWe held an event in 2009 and raised around £25,000 so we are all really delighted we managed to raise more this time.â iReader
I knew that Barton would let us down if we signed him... Thought he was on the wagon. Next minute he's back in the boozer. Can't trust him as far as you can throw him! What a rogue!!
I thought Banksy's art was spray painted on walls. Had a image of Barton reassembling a wheelbarrow full of bricks in his front room....
You're right about the shirt Hammer. That's the new JB that is: out with the Gucci watch collection and the £100k motor. He reckons the £6 watches work just as well and a Prius better suits his eco principles. I do respect the changes. Nice to have a more conscious footballer around don't you think?
Joey Barton labels footballer lifestyle "vulgar" after selling £500,000 watch collection - and his car - UK & World News - News - People.co.uk Joey Barton labels footballer lifestyle "vulgar" after selling £500,000 watch collection - and his car Sep 18 2011 by Katie Hind, The People HE was football’s BADDEST bad boy – but things are changing in the world of Joey Barton. The star once happy in the blinged-up Premier playboy league has renounced his old *lifestyle and calls it “vulgar”. Joey’s flash £170,000 Aston Martin DBS is being ditched in *favour of a sensible Toyota Prius and even a moped in a far more spartan existence. He’s sold his £500,000 *collection of 24 designer watches, including pieces by Franck Muller, Hublot and Cartier, because he would rather sport a £6 number. He SIPS mineral water, READS books by anguished German thinkers and LISTENS to gloom-laden rock music. I met the multi-millionaire player at an art gallery and he told me: “I have changed and realised who I really am.” In an exclusive interview with The People he said: “Obviously I conformed to the footballer thing before, *otherwise I wouldn’t have bought a £100,000 car. “But you change as you get older. I’m 29. I’m not a young footballer any more. “You grow up and see things in a very different way. Ridiculous “I thought it was so wrong that I had a collection of *designer watches worth *hundreds of thousands. “People are struggling to put food on the table and there I am with flash watches and cars. I told my PA to get rid of them. “I can get a Casio watch for £6 which does the same job. “I am about to sell my Aston Martin to buy a Prius. I am sick of paying the Government all that tax on petrol. “It costs me £100 to fill my car and that only lasts me a few days. A lot of that money is going to the Government. “On top of that there is a higher tax charge and *because I am a footballer my car *insurance is *ridiculous. I am also getting a moped. It is so much quicker to get around London because the traffic is so bad.” Joey scored his first goal for new club Queen’s Park Rangers yesterday in their 3-0 win over Wolves. He switched from Newcastle United two weeks ago in a deal rumoured to be worth £90,000-a-week. He has become a Twitter sensation since the summer – with his musings on philosophy and music *attracting more than half a million followers. Morrissey fan Joey said: “I think I am definitely *misunderstood by people. “All they knew about me before was that I had got into trouble in the past. Now I spend a lot of time reading. “People look at my Twitter and see the things I write and they’re, like, ‘Who is that freak?’ But it’s me. Provocative “I love looking at the outside world and taking notice of things. It is so interesting.” Joey showed me the books in his bag. Some have been sent by firms eager for him to *mention them on Twitter. He has taken a shine to *the provocative German *philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who wrote titles including Human All Too Human before going mad and dying in 1900 aged 55. Joey revealed publishers are after him to write a book – no doubt hoping to cash in by painting him as a notorious thug who found wisdom. He said: “I have been *offered lots of book deals but I’m not sure what to write about yet. “I am into the environment and what I really want to do is an ebook so there would be no paper which means there’d be no carbon footprint. “That would surprise people a lot because it is not what they would expect from me.” Joey has been finding it hard to shake off his bad boy tag. In May 2008 he was sentenced to six months’ jail for common assault and affray following an incident outside a McDonald’s in his home city Liverpool. He served 77 days. Weeks before his *release he was given a four- month suspended sentence after *admitting actual bodily harm against team-mate Ousmane Dabo during a *row in training in May 2007. The bust-up ended his *career at Manchester City, where he began as a teenager, and that summer he was *transferred to Newcastle for £5.8million. Joey, whose girlfriend is 24 weeks pregnant with his first child, has realised he can stay out of scuffles by avoiding bars and alcohol. Clutching a can of mineral water, he told me: “I stopped because I would be out *drinking in the past and someone would come up to me *outside a bar and call me a p**** or something. If I was drunk I would go for them and if I hit them they would go to the police. So I find it better just to stay away from it now.” Python He was helped by Sporting Chance, the clinic set up by Tony Adams to aid high-profile athletes with addictions. I met Joey at a gallery in East London which is running an exhibition to mark the 20th anniversary of the launch of Nirvana’s landmark album Nevermind. It was close to his heart as a teenager, as were Oasis and The Smiths. Not surprisingly for a man who thinks about the world, Joey has strong *opinions on politics. He said: “I was Labour until the Gordon Brown and Tony Blair debacle. “Brown is a talentless idiot who I can’t believe was running the country. It was left in a mess. I don’t think the working class should be *running the country and that’s coming from me – I am working class. “I don’t like Ed Miliband either. He is a d***head. “His voice is so strange it’s like a Monty Python scene where you see the other MPs sniggering behind his back. I like David Cameron. I think he is doing an OK job. “I am not a Tory, though, I have very left wing views on some things. You can’t really put me in a box. I have lots of different thoughts going on in my head.”
It's actually a print rather than a painting. If it was an original painting by Banksy it would be 10 times that. Which would still only be a weeks wages. Anyway good and positive publicity for Joey and QPR. I might knock out some Joey Barton related art soon. Now that my Steptoe has been painted over at Ellerslie Road.
Viking, are you from Iceland or just playing ,as my son-in-law is a real Viking from that country! So please let me know, as he is from Reykjavik??
