That there is the whole basis of the sequel to ETTGS.

Its like a Mr Bean film with Banksy gettin into silly situations with people spotting him.

Its Hilarious and wins him many Oscars

OR POSSIBLY NOT!

i hear you on this one Silky to some extent. His day to day must be filled with satisfaction and anxiety in equal measures.
i'm sure in general though the pros outway the cons. Can't see a show by my favourite artist; tonight, but i can go on holiday tomorrow to wherever i want!
Worst case scenarios; if his comments in the time out article is to be taken literally; then he sounds like he's concered about being identified and beaten up (like the lookalike).
And if the police spot him and he can't pay them off, then his lawyers argument that he is actually adding value to property could stand up and ensure he get's away with it. Doesn't account for trespassing etc etc but at least that's the main 2 worries out of the way. i think the worst would have happened by now though.

The film doesn't give anything away, its just people around Bristol must know who he is from back in the day when it wasn't a secret.

if i had that sort of bob.......my life wouldnt be difficult either

i think he'll have some trouble in his day2day but most of the time it must be really funny.....watchin people taken pics of his pieces, listening to discussions about him in a pub, etc.......i follow the mr bean idea

Exactly! He must have to be so careful everywhere he goes, everyone he meets, even people who have been mates with him for years It cant be easy.

That's assuming he still lives in Bristol. If you want to stay anonymous then you'd probably move to London, wouldn't you?

I'm sure the few pics we've all seen of him are really just his mate Dave... if he's clever enough to pull off some of the audacious stunts he's got away with, I think he'd be a bit cleverer about getting seen hanging out in old haunts, or even photographed smiling.

I'd also like to bet he's a member on here... winding people up trying to sell bollards

I am sure he lives in London. Either used to live in the east or still does.

but that's the thing... in one way he has been outed. That Daily Mail article (and no, i dont read that sh1te, but did catch this article) was pretty conclusive... but... nothting seems to have happened since, and it all seems to have been ignored.

thats the only time he's been 'outed' to my knowledge, unless others know otherwise?

and no one took too much notice of the Jamaican photographers pics, which in my opinion were him. So lets recap, we have a name and a face.....If PC plod really wanted to charge him with spawning a thousand vandals and vandalism on a fairly grand scale they could, the problem obviously lies in the fact that they do not know exactly where he is. A warrent for his arrest at airport security would be an easy way to knab him though.

I heard Banksy and the Stig were both in Daft Punk :-D

I think why people don't really care about "THAT" article is the fact that we never really found out much about Mr B in the sense that yes, we got background material on him, the who and where but i think what would cause more of a storm would be if we saw footage of the man himself in action and producing works on cam as it were. You could argue that we saw alot of this in "Exit" (imagine all the footage we DIDN'T see huh?!) But to see him warts and all as it were would make him human! As it is we have the odd pic (such as those from Peter Dean Rickards) and the footage from "Exit" but nothing that makes him human, if anything the teasing morsals that we've seen actually help perpetuate the man and myth more than anything else! As a great man once said "It's not what people say or do that's of interest, it's what they don't" By that lets take Exit for example, Since the museum trailers there has been speculation with regard to Mr B being left or right handed, also that he's married! At different points in "Exit" the wedding ring seems to disappear and reappear, also in the scene in the studio where he's producing the large "Applause" canvas using the OHP for the L.A. show, he appears to be using his right hand. Lets also take a look at what might be just another throwaway scene, Where Thierry is bouncing around on the trampoline whilst he's in the U.K. "visiting Banksy to show him Life Remote Control" , If you look at what else is going on with that scene you'll notice that the garden seems to be in a country location with remote rolling hills in the background and as well as the trampoline there is also a childs swing to the right of frame.

In conclusion i think that it's safe to assume that Mr B has a fairly regular life like that of any young married couple in there early thirties with a young family. He sleeps just like us, eats like us, hell he even s**ts like us! Granted he has a layer of financial security but i'm sure he doesn't really boast to his neghbours who or what he does, seriously, how many of you know what your neighbours do for a living? You may be on stop and chat terms with a few of them but nothing really that deep just the usual "how's the kids" and all that, therefore he could probably get away with saying that he develops websites or whatever and nobody would blink an eye.

At the end of the day we will only ever get to know the REAL Mr B if one of two things happens, 1, He decides to out himself, Doubtful this would happen as one of the reasons that he stays so hidden (unlike say Shep) is that there has now been SO much hype built up around him and he's built a nice little system of working so he can keep his public persona (Banksy) and private (Rob Gunningham or whoever it might be) private! I'm sure as well that having a young family he wishes to have some level of domestic normalicy. Or 2, if (god forbid) He splits from his wife.

In my opinion i think that with regard to his identity we should just leave it be, if he really wants to do something for the TRUE fans, not the flippers and speculators then he would release a video of his studio or even better a sketchbook with all the doodles and unfinished pieces of which he can add his own comments, that what, where and why if you will! I think if he did that then we will Really get to know the REAL BANKSY!

(And if he needs somebody to sift through all the stuff in his studio i'll be MORE than happy to oblige, after signing a non disclosure agreement of course

"For the first time ever, Banksy reveals himself to the public and gives us an exciting glimpse into his day to day life."