Dazed (1996, 13 years ago!)

That last post on indie discos reminded me of the DAZED days. Dazed was an indie night in Dublin run by two of my housemates (Liam & Biggley). I did their artwork. We did plenty of Letraset/Scalpel/Prit-Stick work but the poster on top here is when I got access to a Mac on a local newspaper and we went digital. It was 1996. I have books full of print outs and notes. The note attached to this poster reads "Entire document re-built on the Performa 400 and lo+behold it works! Have to do to the MacII what i did to the P400. Only problem is I DON'T KNOW HOW I DID IT" and "Justification is rubbish". Great days.

The lads got brave and added a second Dazed night (the Dazed Weekender) that year and pictured here are poster and flyers for their May live line-up. Crap poster but interesting to see the number of bands still going, 1, maybe 2.

Sabotage (indie club 101)

A few years ago, 2006 I believe, I was asked to do a poster for an indie club night in Sligo.

On the left is my initial design. This seemed logical to me, loads of album covers so that students can steal the poster and stick up in their grotty kitchen and discuss all night over tea. Because that's exactly what would have happened in my shared house in the early '90s. By the time I did this it had been a while since I was at an indie night so my selection might have been a bit off. I thought, well surely they're still playing crap like Nirvana's Heart Shaped Box and The Stone Roses' I am the Resurrection? Surely the DJs are now playing crap like The White Stripes, The Arctic Monkeys and The Killers? Plus it's an indie disco, there's always one dj that sticks on The Beach Boys, The Doors and old Bowie. I'm being mean. I snuck in a few of my personal favourites even though they were unlikey to ever be played. Oh and that amazing Cardigans album cover. Anyway I must have got it totally wrong because the design was turned down.

On the right is the poster that actually got used. Which is still a decent job. I just couldn't image it on our kitchen wall.

Discuss.