There's a saying in Germany what means you always meet twice in life what of course usualy is used in a different way and meaning but this time around I was able to do another gigposter for Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys and their gig at Synästesie Festival Berlin in November 2023. I had a couple ideas apart form the previous one I made and in the end it became a poster colored very warm using a sequence from one of their recent videos of "Heaving", the title track of their same titled album.
2023, September - DROPOUT
Any birthday is special somehow but some are different kinda league as it's with this one. Dresden favourite Drop Out records celebrates a quarter century at the end of September 2023. As usual it's not pretty polite to enter the stage empty handed and due to that I was thinking about a poster for the boys that might help the store to cashback for another 25 years. The design was kept quite simple but the challenge was to make 25 different pieces and due to that I finished all of them with different red brush strokes. Everybody liked them a lot and even another 5 pieces I made for my shop on grey carton are almost gone. All the bands playing in front of the store that day were great and it felt a bit like a school reunion thanks to so many guests. Thank you Drop Out records for the 25 years!
2023, May - LUCY KRUGER & THE LOST BOYS
As mentioned below I recently just wasn't able to do the tourposter for Tess Parks but the gigposter for her show at Ostpol Dresden as well and as that wasn't enough - oh happy days - Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys have been on tour same time around as well and I've been able to contribute a gigposter for her gig at Jazzclub Tonne Dresden too. Both amounts of posters went well those nights and a couple pieces more are available right here inside web shop from now on. Thank you everybody for the warm messages for both posters - that means the world to me - and if you want there's a couple more impressions of making it inside here.
2023, May - TESS PARKS
This is the new tour-toster for Tess Parks when she'll go on tour through Europe in May 2023. After watching her at Synästesie Festival in Berlin last year the idea about doing something immediatly was born and now that resulted in the tourposter first and foremost but in a gigposter for her upcoming Dresden gig at the Ostpol too. Details for the already designed but only soon to be printed gigposter will be released closer to that gig May 16th 2023, stay tuned.
2023, February - FLATSTOCK
When I was about to make my mind up preparing Hamburg Reeperbahnfestival Hamburg last year listening through all the bands I found out Kratzen from Cologne were definitely worth watching if fitting my time table and it did! Their recent record Zwei found a place in my shelf asap before Hamburg and after getting in touch with the band their 1st album Eins took (surprise surprise) the same way too. Having a chat afterwards a very propper and wet sweat packed gig at Molotov Karate Keller with Melanie that time soon the idea about playing Dresden sooner rather than later and having a poster as well was fixed. The rest is history some say and you now can obviously see the motiv makes some sense regarding the bands name and the current weather conditions for their gig at Ostpol Dresden early February 2023.
2023, January - SUIR
2022, November - NICHTSEATTLE
This years edition of The Sound Of Bronkow Festival came along with a couple changes. It wasn't only taking place later than September, it was framed by a silkscreen printing workshop where gigposters for couple festival bands and artists were made. Due to me being away that week I could'nt attend that one but still managed to be part of that idea by printing a new gigposter for Katharina Kollmanns Nichtseattle later on but still in time to make it to the festival. As long as they last you can find some copies of this poster (3 colors, 72 x 51.50cm, edition of 19, signed & numbered) inside the shop.
2022, September - FLATSTOCK & COLORED GIGS
It's this time around each year two events take place being somehow important for screenprinters. Flatstock Hamburg as part of the Reeperbahn Festival and Colored Gigs Dresden. Hundreds of gig posters from legends like Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, Iggy Pop and The National, memorable acts like Wet Leg and Wilco as well as some acts taking the stages of the Reeperbahn Festival themselves this year. Bad bootlegs, crumpled site fence posters, pixelated CD covers on paper? Never! At the gig poster shows, those who browse will find band-authorized posters, lush screen prints on sturdy cardboard, limited, signed in very small editions. Especially nice: All artists are on site themselves and are happy to tell you about the work they have brought with them - without any intermediaries. Take your time and come around either here or there or anywhere.
2022, May - LEA PORCELAIN
Finaly and in this case it realy means finaly - getting in touch with Markus and Julien aka Lea Porcelain from Berlin back in 2019 when they've been touring their debut we decided to get together again whenever another occation arrises and with some delays they've now been back to Groovestation Dresden. For them it had to be an Underground train as whenever you take one it's speed somehow gets you and if you're then listening to Lea Porcelain at the same time both kinds of speeds - the one you see and the one you're listening to - really don't fit each others rhythm and both collide and collapse in a very special way inside my head.
2022, April - THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH
Back in 2021, inbetween two lockdowns, I almost accidentally popped into a gig of The Underground Youth at Ostpol in Dresden and that really kicked ass. Couple friends the same night decided to do the fanboy and follow the band the day after for another gig in Halle and if you aren't the driver you got some time ideas can flood your head about how a gigposter could look like. We never lost touch and with their recent tour and especially one gig at UT Connewitz in Leipzig the poster was back on the agenda. The idea behind is due to some idiot thinking it's ok to invade his neighborhood and the final design mix from message and colours makes the statement quite bold and we of course decided to help the Ukraine form the proceeds.
2022, March - I'M YOUR STALKER
What already was planned for November 2021 now finaly could happen: the record release party of I'm Your Stalkers EP "Hollow" at Ostpol Dresden. In the end it became a night framed by a lot of art. The record cover shows paintings of Dresden artist Claudia Kleiner, the design for t-shirts and hoodies was made by Michael "Spacke" Kremer (RIP) and if this wasn't enough I was able to do 2 versions of a gigposter - one red and one blue.
2022, February - DESPERATE JOURNALIST
Due to making a gigposter for Desperate Journalist when they played Scheune Dresden back in 2018 contact with the band never broke off and now finaly I was able to do another one for their gig February, 19th 2022 at the Lafayette in London. The idea behind with a typewriter and the pool of blood is as simple as self-explanatory but there is enough space for any viewer's interpretation. A limited amount of the posters went sold out at the gig and a couple more are now available inside my shop. I'm honoured and humbled and of course greatful to the band for this opportunity. Pics below will get you an impression of the making of.
2021, November - WORKSHOP
As 2021 is about coming to an end Lars P. Krause was calling for another silkscreen printing workshop at Douze Studios Dresden and I didn't want to miss this opportunity after last years workshop didn't happen due to obvious reasons. Very special thing this year is the news there's another edition of Golored Gigs (this time Redux) just around the corner starting December 3rd 2021. Special because of becoming a digital version of it's own and so you'll be able to enter the exhibition online from home or wherever you are, watch panels with different artists giving lectures on different topics etc. anyway there'll be a time window you'll be able to pop by and pic your poster yourself at Medienkulturzentrum - Kraftwerk Mitte Dresden.
2021, May - COMBO
Due to various pandemic lock downs it's not only bands not being able to go on tour but clubs, bars, museums and galleries being closed as well and gigposter-art might get forgotten. Due to that Dresden Bar Combo uses their windows as a street gallery for quite some time now and invited Lars P. Krause and me almost 3 weeks ago to show the people who we are, what we do and here we are: our 1st ever combined Fenstershow.
Big hugs and thank you to Guram and Combo for having us!
2020, September - SAVE THE GROOVE
Big big thank you to everybody out there who made Save The Groovestation the success it was. Another 5 pieces of my posters gone for a very good reason. Almost 16k € in total were raised and will help a lot. Posters and any other stuff will be handed out on Groovy-Startnext-Dankeschön-Verteilungs-Happening or posted straight afterwards. Thank you!
2020, March - KLUBNETZ
I'm very happy that I've been able to contribute a couple of my posters to become involved in helping ''Shutdown? Rise up! - Rettet die Dresdner Klubs''. Anyway this was only one of many this event of Klubnetz Dresden e.V. over several weeks raised 62.245€ to help 13 Dresden Klubs to cover losses due to Covid 19 shutdown.
I very much like to thank everybody for contributing in any way!
2020, February - POSTCARDS
I'm over the moon to be able to do another gigposter for POSTCARDS from Beirut and their gig in Societaetstheather Dresden. The idea behind the poster is as simple as the scetches were ready in mind right at the time this opportunity arose. What else fitting better than a postcard from Beirut and due to these two very famous stamps from Mauritius released in 1847 I made a red and a blue version of it. The band unfortunately had to stop the tour almost right after it started due to covid but liked the poster a lot and I hope you do too.
2020, January - THYBEAUX
new gigposter for THYBEAUX in the making. anyway the venue had to be switched to Chemiefabrik Dresden the record relase show of the dresden band will still be framed by LUCIDREAMING and GREY SKIES AHAED and a couple of my posters.
2019, December - WORKSHOP
I was able to be part of another workshop for silkscreen printing and anything around with Lars P. Krause at Douze studios in Dresden. Having a good time with good people is always a good idea, I was able to design and handprint a limited edition poster for MONKEY BUNCH SCOOTER CLUB - the 1st ever scooter club in town since 2013.
2018, December - WORKSHOP
Another year has gone by since silkscreen printing workshop number one and here comes another one with Raphael Naeser and Lars P. Krause at Douze Studios in Dresden around x-mas. Having a good time with good people is a good idea everytime anyway it's no gigposter this time but a homage to a certain actor.
September 2018 - COLORED GIGS 2018
pretty happy and very proud of course to become involved into Colored Gigs Vol. X in 2018 - a gigposter show in Dresden from September 29th to 30th - giving a helping hand and having my posters displayed for the very 1st time
April 2018 - DESPERATE JOURNALIST
I've been able to design and print a gigposter for Desperate Journalist and Pete At The Starclub at the Scheune Dresden. Anyway the support had to cancle that show it was a great one!
January 2018 - BELGRAD
So so happy I could make a gigposter for Belgrad, Tacho and Dikloud at the Scheune Dresden. First ever gigposter I made myself aynway a torn screen seems to be part of the game as well.
December 2017 - WORKSHOP
First ever time to silk screen myself, woohoo! Had a huge lot of fun for 3 days at a workshop at Douze studios in Dresden with Lars P. Krause and Torsten Jahnke from Spiegelsaal Hamburg. With a couple bands already asking for posters this might just be the beginning of something, let's see.