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Band Badges - Do You Still Wear Them?
Posted by Tony Donaghey on 26 May 2009 - 9:22am.
I know there was a previous thread about favourite badges but as I recall most were in drawers and cupboards so do you still wear badges?
Having just been given some badges by various bands - what's the accepted do's and don'ts - ie is one OK but more too much - can you have two bands side by side or is this disloyal? Is it OK to wear political badges next to ironic badges?
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I've been Known to wear the odd badge on a lapel
the odder the better ..
I think to be sartorially safe one should never have a badge which displays a band name and it's colour should match the stripes in your socks.
one of my faves is Martin Sharp's image of "His Bobness" from the cover of Oz#7 magazine.
Works well with a pinstripe
No
I'd say badges are out once you are over 15.
Badges
like piercings and cargo pants are not for the mature man over, say, 35. T shirts remain a moot point, but with band logos be especially careful. Old is better than new: by all means celebrate the Specials tour of 1980 but avoid the 2009 T shirt.
(Do I have to add an emoticon to show mere and mild provocation being shown?)
Makes sense to me.
Sadly I can't actually fit into my old tour shirts now :-(
Does Anyone Do Emoticon Badges...
...but you'd have to have a pocketful for when your mood changed.
There is a subtle difference
between starting to dress younger and merely wearing the same clothes as you did in your twenties.
Guilty
I've got three - Turncoat (a happening young band from Brighton), one of those pink breast cancer ribbons, and a Why The Long Face? button from Ipswich's finest late night chat radio show. And they're all on a denim jacket. I draw the line at patches, mind.
As Long
as it is suitable esoteric that only other like minded souls would get it I see no problem.Can become a talking point in the local pub and a throbbing gristle one led to a couple of decent bootlegs for me.
I have a shaved head and large glasses...
If I wear badges I look like Harry Hill
Explains the name, then
Badges?
We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!
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I gave my set away
many years ago to someone who wanted them, whereas I had them stashed in a drawer. They were green. However there were five. The first one read Ian Dury &.
I just thought I'd share them
couldn't find them last time! I got them 10 years ago in Brixton Oxfam don't mind the missing one so much I see them as more of a general popart statement this way :)
just replenished
my Hawkwind collection of badges that have went astray down the years, thanks to a friend who knows how this Ebbay thing works:
double headed hawk from winter 73-4 tour
Doremi cover
Hawkwind & Man 1999
50p Badges is brill
I'm touring a little show around and about and, as an experiment, I had 100 badges made to sell after gigs. I used a company in Glasgow, 50p badges - £22.00 for 100. They're great! After the show we sold loads to grown men and women. wear your badges with pride!
I can see a conversation with their accountant on the horizon.
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is it vat and P+P ?
inclusive....
so pragmatic
where's the rock? where's the roll?
Yep, on the guitar strap
Agreeably retro, methinks. I recently procured a Teenage Fanclub logo badge to go alongside the cartoony Eitha Tal Ffranco one visible on this Welsh TV appearance.
My Latest Badge - Variations On A Uke
Features band images superimposed on Uke playing celebs..
www.myspace.com/bigiamrash