Show Poster of the Week - The Dangits, The Me-Thinks, Drawer Devils at The Boiled Owl Tavern

Once a week FWN features a show poster from the Fort.

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This week's featured show poster promotes a nut-punching rock show goin' down this Friday at The Boiled Owl Tavern.

To be quite frank, The Dangits plus The Me-Thinks with a splash of Drawer Devils has me concerned and wondering if the little ol' Owl can handle this much rock. Here's hoping her walls hold up. 

Show starts at 9pm, full event details posted here.

Ray Liberio & Calvin Abucejo, proprietors of local design group Pussyhouse Propaganda, are the responsible parties for crafting this delectable eye candy.

Oh, and ICYMI, we recently interviewed Liberio and his bands The Me-Thinks and Stoogeaphilia -- click here to catch yourself up.

When we reached out about this show poster Liberio told FWN that him and Abucejo are big fans of classic poster designers Ray Pettibon, Derek Hess, Frank Kozik and Jermaine Rogers.

"We just rip them off...hahahaha," Liberio joked. 

Even if you knew nothing of their influences, you can tell Liberio and Abucejo are students of the game. 

So why do we love this show poster so much? For starters, I got two words for ya: seafoam green.

The texturized seafoam green backdrop serves as the foundation of the poster's imagery. Simply stated, seafoam green = fun. It makes you think of tropical waters, which makes you think of beaches, which makes you think of smoking Caribbean ganja while holding a tiny umbrella drink in your other hand......know what I'm sayin'? 

Now that I've successfully escaped the seafoam green wormhole, let's talk about the pirate version of Inigo Montoya cruisin' down the boardwalk with a keg in tow.  

Inigo Montoya keggers are always raging!

In simple terms, show posters encourage patrons to show up for the event in question. Given this context, who doesn't want to follow Pirate Inigo to The Boiled Owl?? If I could tie a rope to the back of his bike and skateboard hitchhike down Magnolia Ave, I'd do it in a blink.

And if you think the whole foam rock fingers / seafoam green conspiracy connection is lost on me, it most certainly is not!

Lastly, I heart the shit outta that Pump Triline font used to write out the band names. This font was hot af in the late '70s, early '80s, and the guys from PP managed to bring it back in a tasteful yet ass-kicking fashion. 

Example of the classic Pump Triline font used in late '70s advertising

I'm rather certain this won't be the last time these guys make Show Poster of the Week, but in the interim you can check out more of their work as Pussyhouse Propaganda will be exhibiting at The Collective Brewing Project throughout the month of April.

One final keg cup cheers to Liberio and Abucejo on a poster we thoroughly enjoyed.  

BUT WAIT! SUPER BONUS CONTENT: Here's a Dangits music vid to get you hype for Friday!

Music video for the song 'Wasted' by The Dangits - Shot by Justin Powers (canon 5D) - Edited by Abel Berry (final cut)

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about the word writer person:

Prewitt Scott-Jackson writes Dad poetry & short fiction when he's not hyping and typing for Fort Worth Noise. His writing can be found in Ghost City Press (New York), Five 2 One Magazine (Los Angeles), Prairie Schooner (University of Nebraska Press) and Sick Lit Magazine (Texas), among others. He prefers short walks on the beach because – and I quote – “It’s really hard to walk on sand.”

Show Poster of the Week - 1919 Hemphill Benefit ft. Bare Mountain, Gay Cum Daddies, Cereboso, & Jinzo at Snail Shack

Once a week FWN features a show poster from the Fort.

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This week's featured poster promotes a 1919 Hemphill benefit show taking place Sunday, Jan. 8th at Snail Shack w/ musical goodness provided by Bare Mountain, Gay Cum Daddies, Cereboso, and Jinzo. The show starts at 8:30pm, event details posted here.

Llandon Broadhead created this wonderfully imaginative mixed media design using found objects, a first in our Show Poster of the Week series. And I think that's what I like most about this show poster; it completely goes against convention, much like 1919 Hemphill, the DIY space that stands to receive the proceeds from Sunday night's event.      

Until I reached out to Llandon I had zero inkling as to what I was looking at. I thought, hmm, a hollowed out milk dud with spider legs? But like, how would one go about hollowing out the center of a milk dud? 

"No matter the method," I thought aloud, "I totally dig this gnar gnar looking beetle creepily crawling across my computer screen."

So what are your thoughts for how this design was constructed? Think on it a bit because I'm gonna hit ya with a ...

**SPOILER ALERT**

Llandon cleverly crafted this show poster "...in about 3 minutes with a sticky note, toilet paper roll, and a broken wine bottle." 

Wow! That's legitimately gotta be one of the most well-done spontaneaous MacGyver poster designs ever produced in the history of show poster design. Bravo Llandon, bravo indeed.

As mentioned above, this show will benefit 1919 Hemphill, a sacred temple of a DIY safe space that has found itself recently under attack by Neo Nazi fuck sticks on 4Chan. For more about that, please read these articles from actual real-life journalists over at Fort Worth Weekly and Central Track.

In short, after the Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse fire, Nazi trolls on 4Chan produced a list of DIY safe spaces across the country propagating a directive for their Nazi friends to call upon authorities to inspect said safe spaces in their local area. Fort Worth authorities shortly thereafter received several complaints from this army of pathetic Pepe memes, forcing their hand to move on 1919.

What these low life shits didn't count on was the strong support of the Fort Worth and greater D/FW music and arts communities coming out in full force against them, swiftly raising over $10k to help 1919 get the property on Hemphill up to code.

Sunday's event at Snail Shack furthers this fundraising effort making this poster all the more important and the unanimous pick for Show Poster of the Week. 

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about the word writer person:

Prewitt Scott-Jackson writes Dad poetry & short fiction when he's not hyping and typing for Fort Worth Noise. His writing can be found in Ghost City Press (New York), Five 2 One Magazine (Los Angeles), Prairie Schooner (University of Nebraska Press) and Sick Lit Magazine (Texas), among others. He prefers short walks on the beach because – and I quote – “It’s really hard to walk on sand.”