10 Bands, 10 Minutes, 10 One Hit Wonders

Back in September we hosted another 10 Bands gig at the Kazimier, and managed to once again get more people than ever to come, and to somehow perform whilst being 100% leathered.

It was amazing, and the poster was suitably loud and stupid.

I'm all out of bubblegum II: One last Thing...

It's finally here! Pterodactyl squad have released their excellent John Carpenter tribute album featuring artwork from me - it's a great compilation of chiptune reworkings of John Carpenter themes, and the level of care and imagination that has gone into them is insane. I don't know which is my favourite, but you can download it for free here and decide for yourself.

To celebrate the release, I've put together this advert - feel free to re-post it and spread the word!

Where did you go?

On Saturday we'll be setting off on tour with the Bluetones for a few weeks, so I've been working on a poster for them to flog each night. Its a work in progress, and a nod to an early album cover of theirs (as well as the illustrator Charley Harper).

Tour poster via indecision

I ran out of time and laptop battery when I was doing this poster, and I couldn't work out whether or not aspects of it should stay or go, or if it was even any good - too late now anyway, they're at the printers because we set off on THURSDAY.
Can't wait.

Entschuldigen sie bitte!

Guten Tag!In October 2008, we toured Germany for a fortnight and it was amazing... and now we're finally heading back! I've been prepping some artwork for the jaunt, here's what I've got so far:

First is a flyer for our single launch with En Transit in Frankfurt, followed by a standard poster to be sent to all the venues with a gap for any venue specific details. I should be making a special tour poster with all the dates on too, once they're all confirmed.
HOORAY!

Strap your hands across my engines

This is the finished print for the Springsteen tribute gig we did, encorporating the stars & stripes and some massive muscles. The gig was brill, and this years plan is to do 10 bands gigs a lot more frequently - there's possible ones in the pipeline for Pavement, Pixies and maybe Talking Heads, and I'll be doing limited prints for all of them.
If you want to buy this print or any of the previous ones, pitch an email my way!

Field Music in Liverpool

Liverpool Music Week is fast approaching and I'm doing the poster for our show with Field Music, Hot Club de Paris, House That Jack Built and Meow Meow.
I'm not sure whether this idea is finished, it doesn't feel quite done yet but unless I crack it soon - well, this might be the finished jobby...

Hello Digger E.P Launch

Following on from a previous post concerning artwork for my bands ep, I can now happily announce that we're launching it next week. It'll be a free show with our friends Puzzle who are also releasing a cd, and we'll have support from House That Jack Built and Cavalier. I've rustled up this poster on Illustrator and did the thing that I often do when I've got all the text and no idea for an image - make the text the image and act like that was the plan all along.

(Incidentally, I created this font to be used for a band logo and I might develop it for use so keep your eyes peeled if you like it.)

Hello Digger

My band recorded an e.p a month or so ago and we've just got the cd's back from the printers, complete with artwork by yours truly. You'll soon be able to buy it on our website, and on itunes... but then you'd lose out on the packaging.

Why would you want to do that?

10 Bands, 10 minutes ago...

Its about time we had another 10 bands 10 minutes night, so we've been discussing what the theme should be this time around. The last two were tributes to Dookie and Weezer Blue respectively, and I designed the posters for each one - its proving harder to decide on a band/album this time around though.
Some of those put forward have been Springsteen, Pixies, Pavement and the first Rage against the Machine album, but we're open to any suggestions...