PUBLIC COLLECTORS

A flyer, probably from 1989, for a show with Token Entry, Voice of Reason, Food For Thought, Batman’s Brother Ed, “and a D.C. band” at Unisound Recording Studio in Reading, Pennsylvania. You can see some more flyers from Unisound at this link. I did not attend this show but did see at least one gig at Unisound. I believe it was Judge and Integrity playing on the same bill if memory serves. This was, in my view, a horribly macho period of east coast hardcore, and shows at this time were filled with all of the jocks I wanted nothing to do with in high school. Unisound was a curious place otherwise, as they had a big indoor half-pipe for skating, which was used during shows.

A flyer for Outburst, Upperhand, Beyond Control, and Throne of Corruption at G-Willikers in Pennsauken, New Jersey. I believe this show would have happened in 1989. From an old mailing of material from my friend Eric Weiss (who I haven’t heard from in about as many years).

I continue to unearth bits of music ephemera in old letters from friends and other various stockpiles of my crap. Here’s a photocopied flyer for a Fugazi show, organized by WKDU at Drexel University in Philadelphia that took place in 1989. Also playing were Scram and 200 Stitches. It’s worth noting as well that the show was a benefit for ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power). I had already moved from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh at this point but my friend Eric Weiss saved this for me. In these early Fugazi shows, people were still trying to bill them as “x Minor Threat”, though that went away eventually.

A color photocopied flyer for Alta, Bike Tuff, Acidic Tree and Scowler at Alderaan in Chicago, March 23, 2013. I really love how the color copy captures the color of the obsessive ballpoint pen drawing. Also great is the unusual bird’s eye view perspective (note the torso, legs and feet of the person cutting off their finger in the lower right corner). I did not attend this show and avoid taking down flyers for shows that haven’t happened yet, but since I spotted this on a message board at the school where I teach just two hours before the show was to start, I don’t think I caused a reduction in attendance.

I picked up this flyer in downtown Chicago yesterday, promoting an event paying tribute to the jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931). I feel I have seen flyers like this in Chicago in the past - possibly even dating back about 15 years or more - and they are always designed in this chaotic, very hard to follow style that resembles photocopied kook literature. If anyone has actually been to one of these events, please do report back!

I’ll be continuing to post from Denmark this week. Here’s a street poster for the upcoming K-Town Hardcore Fest in Copenhagen. Wish I could still be here for this - Terveet Kädet!

A flyer for a garage sale, posted in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. Please buy their thrash and death metal CDs so that their baby has room to grow.

An undated flyer for Black Flag, Red Kross and Flipper at the On Broadway in San Francisco from the collection of Stephen Perkins in De Pere, Wisconsin. Stephen lived in San Francisco between 1980 and 1990 and he collected tons of flyers off the street during his time in the Bay Area. You can see some of Stephen’s other collections on Public Collectors here.

Public Collectors: now helping you find a job. A flyer with dress tips for women (trim those long, talon-like nails).

Public Collectors: now helping you find a job. A flyer with dress tips for men (leave the mud flap girls tie at home).

Public Collectors goes to college! A flyer for the “psychadelic indie blues” band Magic Child, plucked from a local Chicago university bulletin board.

Public Collectors goes to college! A flyer for the indie rock post grunge band She Always Lies, plucked from a local Chicago university bulletin board.

A 1985 flyer for a show with Faith No More and Housecoat Project at Graffiti in San Francisco, from the collection of Stephen Perkins in De Pere, Wisconsin. Stephen lived in San Francisco between 1980 and 1990 and he collected tons of flyers off the street during his time in the Bay Area. You can see some of Stephen’s other collections on Public Collectors here.

A flyer for a 1984 show at the Wil-Mar Center in San Francisco by the Crucifucks, Imminent Attack, Other Christs, and Ganja Goodness from the collection of Stephen Perkins in De Pere, Wisconsin. Stephen lived in San Francisco between 1980 and 1990 and he collected tons of flyers off the street during his time in the Bay Area. You can see some of Stephen’s other collections on Public Collectors here.