Brian Jonestown Massacre

2006 Brian Jonestown Massacre playing Vicar Street, Dublin. Here's the poster used for it. This was around the time the film DIG was released which is why the poster is based on the film artwork. I had another version based on their circular logo before I got the Dig brief. On a related note, last year I did a poster for The Dandy Warhols. I doubt I'll be posting that here, it wasn't such a great poster (not that this is a work of art).

Aimee Mann

As old as the hills this one. Aimee Mann print advert from 2001. This appeared in Irish music mag Hot Press. Just look at the ugly placing of the logos, ugh. Seemingly Damien Rice asked for the support. I had a chance to right some of the wrongs made here with another Aimee Mann show in 2008 which I might post someday.

Yo La Tengo (again)

Yo La Tengo gig in Dublin last night was fantastic. A real joy. The place was packed and the crowed just loved them. Their set was long and relaxed but also extremely well planned and executed. Instruments being swapped without any interruption. Ira even tuning and swapping his guitar during songs. Anyway, above is a photo of them onstage. After the gig some dude pulled down one of the billboard posters I had done and was getting James to sign it. I thought this would make a cool addition to the blog. Afterwards I had a brief chat with James, what did we talk about? The Best Show.

The Fall (Part 3)

Third The Fall post. This one is from 2004. Their most recent release at the time was the fantastically named "50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong" best of compilation. Let's see, how many more Fall posts will there be? I think two more. I wish I'd gone to more of these gigs. I've only seen The Fall live once.

Village People!

From 2008, a poster for Village People doing a show in Dublin. I had a look at their website and decided to go a little bit photoshop crazy on this one. Some of the tricks used in this poster would usually be totally out of bounds but if anyone can get away with it.... Anyway it's fun to do every now and again.

Yo La Tengo (tomorrow!)

A few days ago I posted a Yo La Tengo poster. Here is the 2 colour billboard version photographed in Dublin. Posting this version because the gig is TOMORROW NIGHT. Should be a good one.

Cassius

Poster from way back for French dj type Cassius. This was one of the first proper dance music jobs I had done so I have a soft spot for it. Dance music is not an area of my expertise and I've tended to over think dance work. I think it's only recently that I've nailed it.

Duke Special

Duke Special poster from back in the day. This was 2006. Here he is playing The Sugar Club in Dublin. He got more popular after this playing much bigger venues. Not sure what he's doing now, probably working on a new album.

George Clinton

Here's the first of four different George Clinton shows I've done over the years. I think this was 2003, his Irish debut. This is a 2 colour poster, full colour posters weren't being done back then. Inspired to dig this out because my friend and I were digging through records the other day and I found a GC album and put it on... go to say it didn't last too long. Erm, the kids didn't like it. More George Clinton posts later.

65 Days Of Static

From 2007, back in the days of the Temple Bar Music Centre (now called The Button Factory), a poster for British band 65 Days Of Static. Posting this one because I just read that 65Days are playing at the U:Mack 15th Anniversary gig this December, looks like it'll be a brilliant night. Looking forward to it.

Horace Andy x 3

Big post. Here are three posters, all for legend Horace Andy. The top left poster was one of the first shows in CrawDaddy, maybe 2004. The one with Johnny Clarke is from 2008, the middle one was, erm, somewhere in the middle. Two of them I like, one of them is a bit of a disaster ;-)

G-Unit's Lloyd Banks

Talking of getting away with it. Check this out. Poster for G-Unit's Lloyd Banks from 2003 or 2004. Brief, take the Beg For Mercy album cover and put Lloyd's head on 50 Cent and Tony Yayo's bodies. Pretty funny. Anyway the gig went ahead and nobody got shot.