In the final week of April, the art collective Le Gun descended upon the inside of Cargo to paint a specially commissioned mural on the outside of the lounge area and on the DJ booth

Spending three days working all the hours that God gave them, the Le Gun collective set to work creating a black and white wonderworld, Within that world stood a bar and within that bar, lurked a decidedly odd clientèle being served unholy concoctions of inebriating substances with a side orders of the most bizarre sustenance

On closer inspection, the details reveal themselves to you, it’s like indulging in some people watching with no fear of being caught. I collared one of the troop and made him answer some inane questions. You know, for shits and giggles.

Wow, there’s a lot of you in Le Gun! What’s the story, how did you guys all end up painting together?

We all met up at the Royal College of art, a few years ago, at the base of it LE GUN is made up of 4 illustrators and 2 designers but when we have a job similar to the one at Cargo we call in the troops ( mainly contributors to the magazine). The magazine was started while we were at the college. We had big parties to raise the money to print it, and decorated the parties with big wall drawings we all did together. The murals we do now evolved from that.

What are the advantages and disadvantages to working in a big team like this?

We have all worked together quite alot now so we all know how it works and what each one of us is good at, there are some disagreements some times. We all have quite different personalities but generally we are all wanting to head in the same direction, none of us are that interested in being commercial we just want to do our own thing and have a good time doing it.

What’s the story behind this mural?

The general idea was that it would be a continuation of the bar or some sort of feast, alot of it was made up on the spot. There is a bit of a psychedelic influence and also the occult. We have been inspired a lot by the band Hawkwind lately

What’s up with the dude with a big afro on a leather skateboard? Are there regular characters you guys paint?

The afro man was created by Bill Bragg , there some characters we regularly but most of the time we try and make characters up to suit the mood of the place, some characters can be found in the pages of LE GUN, this is what makes it fun for us and finally the people looking at it.

What’s next for Le Gun?

We are planning an exhibition called The Family at Cordy House on Curtain Road in Shorditch in June so look out for it, we will also be working on a set design for Madness at the Hackney Empire, and we are decorating the Royal Festival Hall for the D&AD awards.

The new issue of LE GUN will be out in June/July at all good bookshops. Go to www.legun.co.uk for more info