Dean Wareham

 

Poster for Dean Wareham who is playing Dublin in March. Photo was supplied.

Atomic

"Can you do a poster in a hurry for an 80s night?" Boom, done, first draft Mackey does it again. 

The Growlers

Here's a recent poster for The Growlers who play Whelan's in July.

Large Mound

Large Mound poster from 2008. A little more restrained that the one below. This is based on the cover of the album Raised On Rock which is a piece by an artist named Dave Ford, a truck drawing. I read that Dave is doing more Truck Drawings, check this facebook page. This drawing was from 2000 or 2001 so it's nice to read that it is still getting attention. Dave's latest work uses swings and lots of drums, looks cool. Here's his blog.

Anyway, Large Mound decided to play Raised On Rock from start to finish just like some famous band would play an important album. The mere though was hilarious to us. We asked Queen Kong to play, they'd just given us our first gig in Cork.

Red Queen Contest

Enough with the old stuff. Here's something that hasn't even happened yet. A band from my part of the country, Red Queen Contest, playing in Whelan's next month. Breaking the GGBB rule (good guys bad band).

James Blunt 2

I posted James Blunt's first Dublin gig a while ago, it was February '05. In April he was back but in Whelan's this time. He was in The Village in June and The Point in December.

Tight specs on this one again.

Dot Creek

Really old one this, price still in £!. Anyway, this is from 2001. Dot Creek were a really good band, most of the time. No, really. When they were ON they were fantastic, the planets didn't always align though. This poster is a two colour job for their album launch just over 9 years ago. All of the design elements come from their album cover, by the excellent Niall McCormack, I just put this one together.

Joan Of Arse / More Decade stuff

Irish band poster from 2001, well not quite. This was a poster from 2001 for Joan Of Arse. I just did a little bit of reworking on it, they would never have allowed their name to be at the top like this. Plus the original was done in the days of bad photocopiers so it was mainly white instead of black. The illustration was an etching by a then very young Nicole Murphy (now studying art in Galway).

I dug this out because I was thinking about Irish albums of the decade. Trying to narrow that one down was turning into a stupid long post with multiple albums by the same bands, like, how do you choose between 3 Corpo or 3 Rednecks albums? So just quit the crap and post ONE.

Joan Of Arse, Distant Hearts A Little Closer (2001).

My Irish album of the decade. A band on top of their game. This is full of ideas and hard work. They bit the bullet and went to Chicago to record it with Albini and did it. They even did two albums worth of recording that weekend, the second still hasn't been released. I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else in decade round ups. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. Find this and buy it.

Bright Eyes

An old 2 colour billboard poster today. This is for Bright Eyes playing Whelan's in 2003. I think this was his second time in Ireland, supported this time by me ol' mukka Goodtime John.