Green Synergy '07

Another back in the day poster, 2007. A round up thing for the Green Synergy festival that went on in venues around Wexford Street and Harcourt Street in Dublin.

DJ Medhi R.I.P.

One from 2007 and one from 2009. DJ Mehdi was a regular visitor to Dublin, most recently at Forbidden Fruit Festival back in June. Sad news that he has died in Paris.

Flying Eyes

Flying Eyes poster for a gig in The Boat in Toronto from 2007. Was reminded of this today because my itunes randomly threw up their awesome song I Don't Believe. Great band, broken up now. When Flying Eyes toured Ireland they saw a bloody fight outside a pub in Kilkenny, that was the inspiration for this poster.

Black Lips

Black Lips are playing Dublin tonight. That reminded me of this. Not the best poster at all. I'm sure I have posters from '07 and a good one from '09 around somewhere.

The Skatalites

Legends The Skatalites from 2007. I have another one from 2008, but it's not up to much.

Nina Nastasia

Another one from 2007. Nina Nastasia & Jim White. Simple album cover poster. With an album cover this good it had to be used.

Jason Molina

Simple poster for Jason Molina playing Dublin back in 2007.

No the greatest poster for Bonde Do Role from 2007. Dreadful actually, well the skull repeat background had potential. Blog trivia: the last BDR post remains the most viewed post on this site (?). Super Extra Bonus Party supported them at this one.

Colleen

A poster from 2007. Colleen on the Leaf label. Another album cover job. Grand though, I like it.

Beirut

A Beirut poster from 2007, they're back here in August.

Antibalas 2

They ditched the afrobeat orchestra by this stage, back in Dublin in 2007. This is just an edited version of their Security album cover with a bloody awful info section at the bottom, yuk, what was I thinking?

Duke Special (yo yo tour)

Duke Special two town tour from 2007. Check out the dates, a bit mad.

Racine

Back in 2007, Racine played a gig in Dublin. Here's the ultra simple poster for it.

Large Mound / Flying Eyes

Large Mound and Flying Eyes Irish tour poster from 2007. LM is of course the band I play in and FE are a band from Toronto with my brother on drums. Posting this because I got the news that Flying Eyes are getting back together!

The poster was a bit of a laugh to do. It was a deliberate attempt to do something in the style of Maggie Taylor, pretty poor attempt but still fun.

Bonde Do Role

Poster for Brazillian band Bonde Do Role from 2007. They had played Dublin a few times before, this time they were promoting their Domino album With Lasers. The poster is based on that album cover but made from scratch. Their logo was very easy to redraw and the statue is just a stock photo, probably the same one used on the album cover. But, yes, the elephant in the room.. that outer glow. I'm not proud.

Oh, I think this gig was actually cancelled in the end because someone left the band. I see they're a 4 piece now.

Basia Bulat

Basia Bulat, on Rough Trade, from Canada playing Dublin in 2007. This was around the time I was doing loads of posters in this style, like the supersystem one I posted a few days ago. I suppose it also helped that these were pretty easy to do and I was worked off my feet at the time.

New Young Pony Club

New Young Pony Club poster from 2007. Another example of BIG LOGO.

Blanche

Poster from 2007 for Detroit band Blanche. They have an album called "If we can't trust the doctors..." which is a cool title. I thought this blog was in need of a bit of colour.

Seeing as though I'm a regular music related blogger I'm obliged to do an albums of '09 post. I've been giving it some thought. (ha! as if anyone gives a shit)

Seasick Steve

Seasick Steve poster from 2007. At the time I was "Seasick who?". Four visits to Ireland later in 18 months and he was in a venue 10 times* the size of CrawDaddy. So expect a few more Seasick posters on this blog. So anyway, this is the 1 colour billboard version which accounts for the BIG text. These things need to be read from a passing vehicle.

* total guess

Flying Eyes (again)

Here's the second poster I'm posting for excellent (but split up) Canadian band Flying Eyes. This was actually for their last gig before their drummer (my brother) left town for a year. I decided to post this because, yea, it's a cool poster but also because I just noticed that the same vulture image is used on the cover of Them Crooked Vultures' new album. They went down the ol' animal-head-on-human route though.