Thurston Moore

December 2007, almost exactly two years ago. Thurston Moore was touring his second third album and visited Dublin. "Trees Outside The Academy" is a good album (this poster is pretty much just the cover with some extra text) but at this gig when they went into the "Psychic Hearts" section it went to whole new level! I was totally blown away, love love love that album.

Reminded of this because Sonic Youth are playing here on Sunday night at Vicar Street, I blogged about that gig back in October.

I met Thurston once and had a chat, I even gave him a Large Mound CD. I read recently that he hates CDs doesn't listen to any he's given, ha! classic.

Aimee Mann (2)

Aimee Mann back in Dublin last year. Here is the colour billboard poster. This was a double bill with Irish musician Sharon Shannon. October 2008 and recession was kicking in, this and a few other gigs got moved around and this show ended up in Tripod.

Reminded of this because Aimee is going to be on The Best Show On WFMU tonight.

Messiah J & The Expert

A flyer from 2006 for Messiah J & The Expert. They're a hiphop duo from Dublin. Despite the fact that they've played quite a lot in Dublin and that I've even done work for a good number of they're gigs and that I've bought all their albums and liked them a lot, I have not seen them live since 2002 (before they released anything)... until last Friday night in Dublin's Twisted Pepper. What a brilliant gig! Excellent.

Jungle Brothers

Here's an old, from 2004. It's for The Jungle Brothers doing a live show in CrawDaddy shortly after it opened. Nice simple job, looks decent.

4 for 2009

I got my blog orders to make some sort of "Fav Albums of 2009" post. So here goes.

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix : Phoenix

I love this band and what they do. I'm a sucker for weedy vocals and big melodies. I still prefer their previous album but this'll do like.

Daniel Johnston : Is And Always Was

Really enjoyable album. This was produced by Jason Falkner and can sometimes sound like a Daniel covers album, but with Daniel singing. Still though, 'High Horse' and 'I Had Lost My Mind' are just amazing.

Weezer : Raditude

Damn the begrudgers, this is another fine weezer album. Everyone's talking about a change of direction but that's rubbish it's just change of producer. I would have preferred if the production was turned down a few notches but what can you do? Oh and all 5 songs on the bonus version are great.

They Might Be Giants : Here Comes Science

This just may be the best of the lot yet I haven't seen it on any other "best of" lists so far. There are songs on this album that are so good it hurts. Seriously, I almost keeled over when I heard 'Roy G Biv' for the first time.

There are a load of albums I didn't get around to this year (for example I've only heard the Baroness album once so far and thought it was absolutely amazing.) But then again this was my first full year of listening to The Best Show on WFMU so there wasn't much time for anything else!

Attack of the lists. Going to do a Decade post at some stage. More frivolous rock music.

Masters Of Groove

Masters Of Groove from 2004. I'm just drawn to post these posters using Dinn. Can't get enough of it. I also love that shade of blue, so this is a winner. Let down by the colour photo just stuck in there. What was I thinking?

Napalm Death

Another BIG LOGO poster. This time for Napalm Death playing Dublin in 2002. Notice Large Mound opened this gig. I think some people enjoyed us.

New Young Pony Club

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

Naughty By Nature & Glassjaw

I think sometimes when doing a poster it is completely appropiate to just stick a BIG LOGO on it. Here's a couple of 2 colour posters where it was right to do that. Both from 2008 it's Naughty By Nature and Glassjaw. I'll dedicate the next couple of posts to this theme.

Seasick Steve (2)

Seasick Steve's second visit to Ireland. Just four months after the CrawDaddy show. This time he's in the Spiegeltent which is a temporary venue set up every year for the Dublin Fringe Festival (hence the magenta section of the poster and the use of American Typewriter Bold).

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)

Gary Numan

Gary Numan playing Dublin tomorrow night. Here's the 2 colour billboard version of the poster. Enjoy this Numanoids!