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'Half price poster sale!'
Posted by Mr Fade on 13 February 2009 - 5:29pm.
...just walked past the local University to see that banner outside the SU. Made me cast my mind back to my student days when a ludicrously large Smiths poster (ye olde Salford Lads one) adorned my student wall. What about the rest of you? Which pretty faces did you have hiding your damp spots?
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various Roger Dean
Yes, Genesis (Gabriel era only), Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Mott the Hoople, Curved Air (Sonja, phwoooaar!), Skids (large Days in Europa), The Clash and Pearl Harbour - The Future is Unwritten tour (large billboard type on fluorescent yellow paper), Pope John Paul II
Ian Dury
Amongst other punk and new wave ones. It was a Stiff Records' poster with the illustrated lyrics to 'Reasons To Be Cheerful'.
"Some of Buddy Holly, the working folly, good golly miss molly and boats"...etc.
Aaaaarrrgh!
1978. A simply huge Judy Tzuke on the ceiling. She still occasionally comes to me in my dreams. Which isn't as nice as it might sound.
oh come on
Stay with me till dawn is a ravishing track deserving of a poster. And she was a looker.
Oh yes...
...agree wholeheartedly.
However, if, as I've been led to believe "a dream unifies the body, mind, and spirit, providing us with insight into ourselves and a means for self-exploration" ...well, I'd just assumed, that in middle age, my slumbering self would have tackled something rather more cerebral than a fit blonde. Hey ho.
And unbelievably Spotify
doesn't contain Stay With Me Till Dawn.
Rather tragically
I had lots of Mötley Crüe.
Smiths This Charming Man poster nicked from The Hacienda
and going to the NME tour last week I was pleased to see student types taking posters off the wall AT THE START OF THE GIG without any thought of how they were going to get down the front without getting their new poster of the Killers creased to betsy
I had a 8 X 4 George best poster
almost life size! courtesy of the weddoes, a Joy divison poster (of course), the bangles, a woody allen poster, maddona, a huge feintly homoerotic poster of James Dean in a suede fringed jacket, new order technique, a signed lush one that I won in a pub quiz.
Over the fire we had a "signed" "brother beyond" poster from smash hits which was rather embarrasing when one of the bands mum came round for tea (it's along story).
Oh and Basil brush driving alittle yellow car.
Long maybe, but worth
telling.
*sigh*
I had one of those black and fluorescent ink gig type posters for a show The Smiths did in N Ireland, University of Ulster in Coleraine, if you're keen, signed by all four of the buggers - still keen to know where that went....
An enormous red and black billboard poster
"liberated" from the street. It was 77, so I must have taken some pride in whomsoever, but I cannot for the life of me remember who it was for. Or where they were playing. I decorated the whole room around it, with, big mistake, black and red gloss paint. The room sweated disgustingly whenever the heat inside was greater than out.
Shite......it's just come back to me. I have a horrible freeling it was for Sham 69, whom I didn't even like then......The shame, the shame. With the Vibrators (who I do/did like)? Did they ever play together? At the Roundhouse, which is ringing another distant bell?
On the other wall were all my ticket stubs and a passport photo of me, to which I had added a beard and long hair. Quite convincingly, I think, as it fooled a few people. I still have that knocking around somewhere.
I was at University in 1970/71...
...so it was the stereotypical Hendrix/Che/CND posters along with a small Led Zep gig poster.
There was also a ripped Hapshash And The Colured Coat fluorescent one which, today, would probably be worth more than my house - I threw it away when I left University.
When i was living
with my parents I had a rather large poster of dusseldorf and another one of some scenery in Germany (I had a thing about Germany at the time). Later i used to nick posters from the Sheffield Leadmill. didn't particularly matter who, as they were very well designed posters, I particularly remember a Shriekback and Microdisney one
mostly robert smith
and The Cure, with a hefty dose Next Generation Star Trek (especially Mr Worf) And ok, the odd Nephs thing...
Now I just have a framed print from the New York Dolls reunion show. And a postcard of Mr Worf on the fridge.
Changing times, changing faces
As a callow youth in the '70s, amongst pictures of very ugly footballers, my bedroom door was blessed with the heavenly hair'n'teeth combination that was the goddess Farrah Fawcett- Majors.
My studenty 80's witnessed the ethereal loveliness of Nastassja Kinski and 'Hounds of Love'-era Kate Bush.
My really-should-have-grown-out-of-this-by-now 90's were staked (ha!) by the perfect-in-every-way Buffy Summers/SMG.
Nowadays, I'd love to have Angelina on my wall, but my dearly beloved is against the idea for some unfathomable reason... (girls eh? Tsk!)
Way Back In The 1970s
I had a section from a billboard advert for Sovereign fags (el cheapo maximo gaspero) that just had the gold coin on it. It was about 6 foot by eight. Class. Looked bloody fab against the lemon yellow walls in my basement knocking den.
Later on in the eighties,
I had the Jimmy Cauty poster called 'Avebury', with a wizard, a couple of UFOs and so on. Avebury is only up the road from here, and I like having a poster drawn by a member of the KLF before there was a KLF. These days it's on the garage wall, behind the hooks that hold the stepladders.
Had that
and his Lord of the Rings poster. Also a Lord Kitchener 'your country needs you' for some strange reason.
Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver...
... and Keith Richards with his "who the fuck is Mick Jagger?" t-shirt.
Also John Lennon with his New York t-shirt.
I maintain those were cool pictures...
Repo Man
Poster from the greatest film ever made.
*ducks behind sofa awaiting avalanche of "corrections"*
Large Jimi Hendrix...
...smaller Jimmy Page playing the double neck SG. A Floyd one with elements of the wall, and a large map of Swildons's Hole, a cave near Priddy.
A lovely poster
of Sherilyn Fenn from Twin Peaks.....the ubiquitous Trainspotting Poster and I think a Pixies Trompe Le Monde poster.
Oddly
I had 2 huge ones of Gillan (the band) and UFO. Odd because I wasn't really a fan of either. I think I just liked the look of them.
My favourite though, which I wish I'd kept, was a technical cut away of a Supermarine Spitfire surrounded by photo's of real ones in action. 12 year old heaven.
As a teenager...
I used to cut out full page record adverts from the NME and stick them up. I would also ask the local record shops for any old posters they didn't need any more - I remember acquiring one for "Swoon" by Prefab Sprout, which accompanied me to university in 1985, where it was soon accompanied by the inevitable Betty Blue poster. Beatrice Dalle, where are you now?
This is where Beatrice is...
Auditioning for the Smashing Pumpkins.
Good god!
If ever the word 'refund' meant anything...
i had this image on a poster at the age of 18 or so...
Thank you Gered Mankowitz.
O,M,G,
You could have given us some warning!!
With that on your wall
how did you ever leave the house? I mean, why would you bother?
I'm trying to remember Phill Jupitus' excellent line about KB but can't seem to...concen...trate right now...
With great difficulty...
Most 18 year olds struggle to get out of bed, let alone the house. Posters of Kate Bush do not help.
just nip
along here...
Is it just me or does Kate bush not look delia smith
in the picture with headscarf in last edition. This would explain alot, KB long absences match up exactly with DS telly series. the millions from books means KB doesn't need to rush back to the recording studio. And the titles of her last lp song are anagram for a cheats recipe for sauce hollandaise (probably)
all together now "come on we need a 12 man here, come on let's be aving you...!"
I never want to think of Delia Smith and Kate Bush...
as looking alike again. Never!
What are you drinking?
Must try it.
this poster signed by the lady herself
"may all the stars shine bright for you - kate bush xxx"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11539972@N05/3204695788/
I have
a treasured signed copy of HoL
Nastassia Kinski
wearing just a snake! By Richard Avedon, I think.
Steve Mcqueen
On his Great Escape motorbike.
Oh Shit
Anyone remember that from the early eighties. A collapsed bridge with a Steam train still smoking at the bottom of a gully, Victorian gentlemen overlooking the scene and the simple caption as above. Made me smile every time I looked at it.
Mind you I think I prefer Patrick's...
8 foot by 4 foot
poster of London Calling, liberated (very carefully as the glue was still 'tacky') from a street in Islington, where it had been 'flyposted' on a shop window, near the Hope 'n' Anchor.
Heeey!
My student room, among the album sleeves liberated (often with permission) from the local record shop was adorned by a huge poster of The Fonz and another of Yvonne Elliman.
I adore Yvonne Elliman
wonder if there's still posters of her available?
I may have one!
I think I may have one folded up in my "Stuff I had at university" box. It may have been disposed of in my last move though!
Robert Smith
looking pale and interesting with the words Let's Go to Bed in large letters. I probably thought it would send subliminal messages to any passing women. It didn't.
La Dolce Vita
At Uni I had a giant b/w still of Anita Ekberg in the fontana Trevi di Roma. Bellisimo !
I prefer Anna Magnani...
and her filthy laugh (see Pasolini's 'Mamma Roma'!)
Lots of saturday morning action, this week?
Those eggs (for the missus' breakfast in bed) taking a long time to cook, roses taking a long time to prune etc etc? (Or is that just my excuse?)
Pixies
Surfer Rosa poster *coughs*
'The Bogie Man'
A HUGE poster for this comic that came out in four parts some time in the late 1980s. AKA Books and Comics in Glasgow's Victoria Galleries sold them. Above a picture of a Bogeyesque figure in a trenchcoat standing under a Glaswegian street was the legend: 'All the cities in all the world and he chose Glasgow.' Though it's in poor condition, I still have it rolled up somewhere until the day I move into a house big enough to accomodate it.
Tae huv an' tae huv nae
Best comic title anywhere (for those that don't recall, the Bogie Man was an escaped lunatic who thought he was Bogart)
well it was the mid 90's
so I had Trainspotting, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and then the usual Tazi Driver, Prisoner n Simpsons ones
I had Reservoir Dogs as well
another mid 90s student.
own up
tennis girl scratching her bum, go on there must be a few...
I am as pure as the driven snow, natch
since you ask all mine and more are here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11539972@N05/
The Peter Gabriel poster is a classic!
It's really well done... an unusually subtle work from Hipgnosis.
What a great collection.
Can't understand what Bod Dylan ‘Vytas for Mean and Filthy” 1968 means mind.
Dylan 'vytas for mean and filthy'
those words are printed on the poster - Vytas was the photographer - i'm guessing M&F was a distributor or possibly a store
it's one of my fave posters
thanks for looking!
Debbie Harry
Didn't everybody have a Debbie Harry poster on thier student bedroom wall in the mid seevnties? I know I did.
Late 80s
and the unlikely pairing of a huge Darling Buds poster and a slightly smaller lime green and black one of Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction.
Lenin
Well it was around the time of Perestroika...
Also
The Smiths (Rank)
The Waterboys (This is the Sea)
Love and Rockets (Comic)
Bob Dylan (Times They are a Changin)
Image Blown Out
I used a website called block poster where you can take any image and make it a poster and did up one of the album cover for PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love.