Plan B magazine

Hello

I design gig posters. Occasionally I get my arse in gear and reprint them all on nice matte heavyweight stock paper in just-bigger-than-A3 size and make them available to buy to YOU the lucky person with blank wallspace to fill.

Have a look at them here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sumlin/set ... 212951999/

and

http://www.gigposters.com/designers.php?designer=41189

There's about 100 to choose from.

They are £4 each or any 3 for £10 plus postage.
Postage in a sturdy tube is £2 per tube in the UK and £3 elsewhere.
I can probably fit about 5 in one tube maybe 6. we'll see.

If you would like to buy one or some then email me (don't reply to this as I don't get chance to check this board that often!)
honeyisfunny(AT)fastmail(DOT)fm

If you're in Nottingham, email me as I have 2 exhibitions coming up where I'll be selling them too.

ta-ta!
thanks for reading...
x
chris

so i paid twenty five pounds for a Jeff Tweedy limited edition print thingy the other week and thirty five for it framing and HERE'S LOTS OF CHEAP NICE STUFF...

and also

I like the Awesome Color one! We should get some for the Plan B office.

they are rather fantastic. I don't think I could have a gig poster up for a gig I didn't go to though. that would just be depressing.

My Wilco one comes Tweedy-approved too! Apparently a copy of it hangs in their practise room but thats unsubstantiated by me!

Good stuff! Those posters are really great.

Wasn't aware either that there was so much going on in Nottingham.

Post the details of your exhibition when it happens

... unless they look as good as this:



Fucking SOLD!

how many copies do you have of each, please, honey?

i might have to get me skates on.

Count me in for some of those as soon as I get paid!

I love my Part Chimp one, still not put the fucker up yet though. My Deerhoof one's sadly a bit dog-eared now.

I bought some of these after seeing them in the merch room at ATP and they look awesome on the wall. Get the Deerhoof one on nice silver paper if it's still going...

These posters are indeed the height of awesome - I don't know if there's anyone on either side of the Atlantic who does as good a job of keeping the legacy of really-fucking-cool concert posters alive.

Framed Magik Markers and Weird War ones currently adorn my new attic bedroom - I've got a real purple theme going on.

And a random suggestion to Chris if he happens to be reading: we've just moved into a new place which has some really big, cool picture frames in the living room & kitchen... unfortunately all with rather lame or forgettable art prints in them. And tracking down good, affordable stuff to replace them is proving tricky. So on the off-chance that it might be remotely feasible to produce a couple of one-off really BIG reproductions of your posters, get in touch.

lots and lots and lots and lots going on all over the country....

aye - these posters are cool. there is a few people doing some fine work at the moment with flyers. my friend who designs for our gigs has done some great things. regard:

hmm, well i already stole a flyer of your Boris design, but maybe it needs an older sibling to keep it out of trouble

Wow, thanks for the kind words folks!

Those posters for Les George Leningrad etc are fucking MINT as well (though someone should tell Selah on the poster about the old band Selah). Much respect to the brain behind them.

What's good about those (and hopefully mine too without being presumptious) is that they are actual gig posters. They are used to advertise the gig so the band names are huge, all the info has to be on it etc. A lot of the gig posters from the USA - though shit-the-bed amazing - are more souvenirs of the event and so can be all arty and hard to read.
Example:
http://www.gigposters.com/posters.php?poster=43667
is a complete work of art, totally amazing and if you check the 'comments' section people love this poster.
However, if it went up on a wall of a shop to actually 'advertise' the gig then it'd last about 30 seconds before someone postered over it thinking it was a blank sheet of paper!

Anyway, semi-rant over...

I have plenty of each of these in stock apart from a few that are slightly limited because of their nature: Le Tigre is sold out and will remain so until I find the CD with the design on it so I can re-print it. Arcwelder s sold out too because of something of a rush. Deerhoof on silver is down to about the last 5 or 6 because the silver paper was a 'steal' and I can't afford to really pay the full price on it.
Just email or PM if there's something you want and if it's gone I can try and re-print it for you too.

as for BIG BIG BIG prints - anything is possible but I only do A3 at the moment. Drop me an email about sizes and I can see what I can do. I am getting a couple of A0 ones done for a Xmas exhibition in Nottm so I'll have to work it out for that.

Exhibitions: "Lo-finesse/Lo-fi-ness" - DIY gig and music culture at The Lurking Hole, a weird little shack in Nottingham. Starts Nov 3. www.thelurkinghole.com

Thanks!

These posters are indeed the height of awesome - I don't know if there's anyone on either side of the Atlantic who does as good a job of keeping the legacy of really-fucking-cool concert posters alive.

These posters are nice, but I think that's pretty unfair. People like Seripop, Dan Grzeca, Little Jacket, Mount Pleasant in Manchester, and many many more are doing fucking amazing work - capturing the shaking panting jangle of the music they're depicting.

And an utterly illegible poster isn't very useful, but there's nothing wrong with ones that require you to peer a little closer. I say this as someone who's walked around Montreal and many times seen the at-first baffling tangle of a Seripop poster, and then given it a hungry second look only to find out his favourite bands are playing

There's some truly excellent stuff in those links of yours.

Agreed - the seripop stuff is insanely good. I think though that they have their style so sorted out and so recognisably unique that people will always peer closer like you said because they know it's worth doing so, or they recognise the artist first and want to know what they're advertising. Mount Pleasant stuff too is absolutely killer as well.

Thanks!

Tiny Showcase has a cool limited edition Seripop letterpress print for sale right now, for about £20.

chris's posters are the height of aceness, and he sends them out double quick too (thanks fella)

I used to put on gigs in Cardiff and a few kindly people did us some seriously great posters. This one, done by JimBob of the band Taint (who have an album out on Rise Above) might just be my favourite

Bump. You've all probably been paid again by now, so you should probably buy a couple more.

I believe I deserve much kudos due to saving your posters from scavengers in Backlash once, they were about to pinch the lot.

Nottingham has loads of ace poster designererer people, it really does. We've had a couple of regular poster people for us DSFAR, but my fellow co-promoter's boyfriend has revealed he used to be a graphic designer and wheeled off this nifty piece of drawing for us. I'm going to make him do all our work now.

I fucking love Chris' posters. My housemate owns a pathetic THREE albums in the whole world* but came to see Oneida because he thought the poster was so mint. (And he had a great time).

It was my sole aim in life for a very long time to get my band on one of Chris' posters. A band I used to play occasional keyboards for once made it on, but I really wanted my main band to make it. And then we did! My life was complete! Except, erm, there was a fuck up at the printing company or somehting and no copies of the poster were ever made, save some photocopied black and white ones.

*since you asked so nicely: Chef Aid (The South Park compilation), Goldie Lookin' Chain's first album and T.Rex's Greatest Hits.

If you mean the Talibam! posters, they arrived the day after the gig. I have a stack of them so have as many as you like!

Ooh, that'd be amazing Matt. Cheers very much.

Hey up! Are you at the Stuckometer show tonight? If so, I will furnish you with plenty o' posters.

WHAT LOVELY XMAS PRESENTS THESE WOULD MAKE EH?? EH???

(new Arab Strap, 6 Organs, Bardo Pond posters in and ready to go to your house for your wall)

Woo-hoo I get paid on Wednesday so I'll be putting in an order asap!

(must remember to pay bills first)

honeyisfunny, are you still selling these?

I am! Email me: honeyisfunny(AT)fastmail(DOT)fm

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Hey - those are great posters.

I would love the Bonnie Prince Billy one - in fact, I'd love two copies. One for me, one for my bro.

I will assess my funds and let you know.

Btw, how did you get into doing this? Connections? Or did you contact the bands yourself?

they are beautiful.

i'm buying this one today

http://www.mkaku.org/posters/index.html

but i'd love some of yours next month

Btw, honeyisfunny, have you ever though of submitting designs to Threadless.com?

You're very good, and could maybe make some money there. Would be great to see some of your designs on a t-shirt.

I promote DIY gigs in Nottingham so most of my posters are done for my own gigs. from there, local big venues asked me to do one offs for them. I write it into the deal that I am allowed to keep the copyright and sell copies in small quantities in order that my costs for designing the poster are low and so the band doesn't shoulder them and they get paid more. everyone's a winner.
thinking about getting out of it though because of the sick american screen printing snobbery. I like cheap disposable posters that are colourful - since when did an advert for a gig cost $50?