Jeff Mills

Poster for DJ Jeff Mills doing a Tripod gig earlier in September '09. The quality of the photo is terrible but in this case it's fine. I sort of regret the transparency on the "Jeff Mills" header, should have just left it flat.

Since around Sept I've been using the same font for all the dance music small print. It's a really crisp alternative to (beloved) Helvetica. Look at the numbers, they're excellent! I'm not going to say what it is, gotta keep something quiet.

Courtney Pine

Another 1 colour billboard poster. This one is for Courtney Pine doing it in Cork in 2008. My fav fonts come together on this one, Dinn and Clarendon.

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.

The Long Blondes

Here's a poster from 2005 for a gig that didn't even happen. I seem to remember working on things way in advance and putting them in the bank. So this poster for The Long Blondes was on the way to being finished. Then, the gig was off, and so it was forgotten about. I can see at least three things that would have gotten more attention. Oh well. The Long Blondes split up in 2008.

Liam Ó'Maonlaí

Here's a poster I did for a stint Liam Ó'Maonlaí was doing in Dublin in 2008. Are the Hothouse Flowers still going? The thing about doing posters for Liam, I always have to double and triple check the fadas. 'For Liam', what am I like? It's not I've met him or anything. Saw the Hothouse Flowers in concert once, he always seemed like a good dude.

Yusuf

I'm not making any design claims on this one as it adheres very strictly to the agent's template. Anyway the gig happened last night and was pretty controversial... if you're an idiot hole.

Gemma Hayes

4.45 pm on a Friday: "Shit, we need a Gemma Hayes poster right away! Sorry". A quick rummage through the photos on her myspace site and a look at a load of old Blue Note album covers for inspiration and job done. I think it looks good considering, although I fully expect there to be changes. Snuck my second favourite font in there, Clarendon. I'm really going for Univers Condensed a lot at moment too. The tracking on this poster could do with tweaking pretty much everywhere. But it was a quick one.

Omelette

A deep cut! This is from 2001. Omelette is/was (who knows?) Ian Lawton's band. At the time I was playing drums. I think this was the only headline gig we did. Check out the guests, Ross from Joan of Arse doing a solo set and Richie Egan before he started using the name Jape. The photo is from Ian's street set he took back in 2000.

I stopped playing drums in Omo shortly after this and the lads recorded an album called Off By Heart. Pretty obscure but worth tracking down. Try Road Records, if they don't have it in stock just email Ian. I'm sure he'll send you a copy!

Monotonix (revised)

I posted this yesterday as Monotonix twofer. Well there was a slight communication breakdown and a new brief meant that a redesign was in order. Luckily Monotonix made stuff like this pretty easy.

Mr. Thing

This is from 2006. DJ Mr. Thing doing a gig in Rí-Rá in Dublin. I heard that at this gig Mr. Thing commented on how much he liked the poster. Sure it's simple and it looks good but I can hardly take the credit for that seeing as how I got the cool photo from his own website. I used my number one favourite font in this one, Dinn. I try not to use it very often.

Monotonix twofer

Nutters from Isreal, Monotonix, played Dublin in July 2009 and are back for the second time this year later this month. The first poster is ultra simple. I love that Levi looks like Heaven & Hell era Sabbath. Not one member but all four of them in one. Their album has been released since then and so November's poster is a pretty standard album based one. No complaints, I think it's a cool cover.