Primus Poster Series
The heavies at Primus management asked me to curate a poster series for the band's first major outing in more than 11 years. The project would entail a numbered run of unique, hand made silkscreen posters, designed by a new artist and printed by a custom silkscreen house for each and every venue on the tour. 20 artists for 21 shows in 30 days...
I agreed, but naturally decided to heavily procrastinate until the last possible moment, before drinking 3 red bulls and reaching out to a group of friends, all highly creative and partially insane like myself. I asked them, one by one, if they were interested in doing a Primus poster and it was surprisingly unanimous, other than one anonymous party who told me to "Go eat a bag of dicks.."
Next step was lining up 9 different silkscreen print houses, all spread out from Oakland to Minnesota, and one 19th century hand press, to handle crafting our art into a poster series.
Here's a list of the blokes I somehow convinced to take part in this mayhem...
Individual posters will be announced the day of each show via Primus' Facebook page. and a small number of the edition will be available from the artist's sites, linked below, following each show.
Brooklyn, NY by David Welker
Boston, MA. by Bellyache
Silver Spring, MD. by Hydro74.
Richmond, VA. by GIGART
Albany, NY. by Zombie Yeti
New York, NY. by Todd Slater
Philadelphia, PA. by Mars-1
Portland, ME. by Adam White
Montreal, Canada by Ron Donovan
Toronto, Canada by Alan Forbes
Pittsburgh PA by Alan Hynes
Rochester, NY by Munk One
Louisville KY by Skinner
Madison, WI by Marq Spusta
Ann Arbor, MI by Dave Hunter
Chicago, IL by Pollock
Des Moines, IA by Chris Shaw
Denver, CO (2 nights) by Zoltron.
Mesa, AZ by Jeremyville
Santa Barbara, CA by Chuck Sperry
Los Angeles, CA by Travis Millard
Greek Theatre, Berkeley Ca - Oddity Faire by Dave Hunter and Zoltron
On sale at Zoltron.com Weds 11.2
New Years Posters #P30 & P31 by Mr Bellyache.
some will be available at his site, following the gig.
Update: Huge thanks to Bloom Press, Monolith Press, Burlesque of North America, D&L Printing, Firehouse Kustom Rockart Co, Gammalyte Press, Jim Pollock, Editions Penibles en France, Reuben Rude & Ron Donovan for their epic artisanship & superior printing.