What are the options for getting posters up for a gig? The only place I've been able to find online is http://profileplus.co.nz/ - do they have a monopoly on Auck/Wgtn/Chch? What about other places? And where are you allowed to put up posters - are the usual sites free-for-alls, or are they privately owned? Any other general advice? Thanks 8)
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I don't know about the rest of the New ...
I don't know about the rest of the New Zealand but where I live on the North Shore of Auckland it is illegal to stick up posters. Everyone still does it and no one says anything until someone goes crazy. Zed stuck posters on public seats, rubbish bins, power boxes, public walls, public toilets, traffic lights and everywhere in each suburb. It was impossible to miss them.
I believe they were fined.
great topic. i always thought sticky ...
great topic. i always thought sticky fingers were the only central wellington poster crew. that profileplus seem to say wellington also? or do they just have different billboard types?
posters are an artform. it's a dam shame you can't legally put them up in NShore area angsty! is that because the official areas are 'owned' by a single company?
I've heard the name Sticky Fingers ...
I've heard the name Sticky Fingers before, but no details... where are they? Do they have a web site? Anyone here used them?
0800 phantom (0800 742 686) ...
0800 phantom (0800 742 686)
Christchurch:
Phone: 0-3-377 3065
Fax: 0-3-377 3063
Email: jamey.h@0800phantom.co.nz
Mobile: 0-21-333-012
Wellington:
Phone: 0-4-382 9199
Fax: 0-4-382 9197
Email: sticky_fingers@xtra.co.nz
phantom billstickers and profile plus ...
phantom billstickers and profile plus both do the whole country - i think phantom have now bought sticky fingers in wgtn too.
so, the way you go about getting a national poster campaign is contracting phantom (or whoever). you negotiate a price for the whole country and deliever all the posters to them.
then the poster company subcontracts all their poster people thru out the country on your behalf. they take care of sending the posters around the country for you and will normally provide you with a 'site report' for each town - a list of all the places that your posters have been pasted up.
most of the bigger poster companies actually own the leases on the walls that they stick posters on - so they can maintain your profile thru until the end of your campaign ... ie. they wont paste over them until after your gig.
on another tip - i reckon we should encourage more people to sell posters at gigs - bands do that at heaps of shows i've been to in australia. pay $5 on the way out and have a shiny poster for your kitchen wall. if the artworks cool, bands will sell posters and make more money... afterall, the only real effort is getting an extra hundred posters printed ...
Anyone have advice on removing posters? ...
Anyone have advice on removing posters? As a memoir for the gig/concert? When I try I always end up ripping them. & all over the city, you see 1/2 ripped posters from other ppls attempts.
i reckon ask for them at gigs. they ...
i reckon ask for them at gigs. they should always be there. buy em if you have to. it's the only way to get em nice and crispy..
the secret is to take them down after ...
the secret is to take them down after they have been wet, ie. just after it finishes raining they should peel off quite nicely. Yeah asking at gigs is cool, but there is a definate satisfaction felt when grabbing one down off the wall.
if they have been glued onto ...
if they have been glued onto something, then definatly wait till they are wet from the rain before you attempt to pull it off.
If they are stapled onto something, just bring along a nail file and slip it under the staple, and the staple should come out quite easily.
If its stuck up with blue tak, just slowly peel the poster away from the wall, trying not to rip it.
Always easiest to ask the bands for a poster tho.
Also, keep a rubber band around your wrist at all times, so you can roll the poster up after pulling it down, and quickly slip a rubber band around it.
When I put up posters without permission, I always try to put them where other older ones have been stuck up.
I also use sellotape so that they can be pulled down easily, and the council wont get mad.
I dont put them on any shop windows without permission, or on anything that would make the council angry. And i try to go back after gigs and remove the ones that are still there - just to be a tidy kiwi.
If you pin them to your walls with drawing pins, put a bit of sellotape over the corners of the poster and then pin it thru the tape, this will stop it ripping.
:-)
Wow, some people are very experienced ...
Wow, some people are very experienced aren't they... The raining tip sounds good, most posters seem to be glued. Rubber band = hair tie, all good for that.
Thanks :)
I always have the most fun sticking up ...
I always have the most fun sticking up posters before a gig. It's all part of the pre-hype! And it's always fun to go past after the gig to see your posters still there. What's even funnier, is seeing Sommerset posters from 1998.
But people should be aware of the unofficial rules. Never stick your posters over other local gigs or events unless its already been long before the gig. Under highway bridges especially next to the road, I have spent valuable time sticking up posters and the next day, some magazine comes along and paste up the front cover of next months magazine 3 or 4 times as big as your A3s covering 4 of your posters in one go.
I have no respect for them. Or dance parties.. that's just as bad. Never had a band paste over our posters though.
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what do people use to stick posters ...
what do people use to stick posters with? i've used flour and water and found that sticks well, but it gets all over your clothing trying to do it.
Flour and water I have found is very ...
Flour and water I have found is very very very good if you have little money. However, wallpaper glue is better.
I always have a problem getting the flour and water over my clothes but its all part of the fun of it!
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what mix of flour and water? the last i ...
what mix of flour and water? the last i used was basically liquid, we ended up squirting it onto the wall.
any advice for making them stand out? is white on black best?
Just do something you would like! I ...
Just do something you would like! I usually make my flour and water very floury and thick.
Most people who support us know what our posters look like, so they stand out to them which is half of what we want. Other people are bound to see them too.
Usually if you have a really crazy picture on it that you can't see exactly what it is on first glance makes people look twice.
yeah i remember doing a 3-day before ...
yeah i remember doing a 3-day before the gig poster run.
we put them everywhere and even got up to a bit of graffitti with all the floury-glue stuff!. on power boxes, rubbishbins everywhere down the main st of new Plymouth, which is the straightest main st in the southern hemisphere or some shit.
Wall paper paste would be my preferred.
want a poster run done in new plymouth?
2 options:
e-mail brian wafer: waferb@ihug.co.nz he susally does the "more commercial" stuff.
or check out Digidibastudios www.geocities.com/digidibastudios
ravers dont bother.
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For some local gigs round my area, ...
For some local gigs round my area, people sit at our school gates and shove like flier/poster things into your hand as you walk out. It works, cos you cant help but read them, and they go out to about 2000 students.
Maybe you and I could organise ...
Maybe you and I could organise something for the fashion show then? Maybe Wednesday next week? Seriously.. we'll talk about it in OUR forum :D
While the dudes from "sticky fingers" ...
While the dudes from "sticky fingers" are putting up the posters just go and ask for some, they have always let me take what I want, even the big gig posters (e.g. at the town hall).