#screenadelica

Bestival was great and so are these prints designed by some shit-hot UK artists for a selection of the biggest acts at this years festival including, Elton John, Crystal Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, Johnny Marr and Belle & Sebastian. 

Limited prints and only twenty quid. Get going!

The Gigwise and Screenadelica stage proved to be a huge success at Soundcity 2013 with an art exhibition in the day hosting some of the best gig posters from around the world from a bunch of talented artists and designers! By night, Gigwise took the controls with an eclectic selection of the finest up & coming acts. Here's Jazzhands bringing the roof down!...

Gigwise will be staging a series of shows in association with Liverpool Soundcity and Screenadelica from the 2nd - 4th May 2013.

Screenadelica is a hugely successful gig poster exhibition that in the past year has toured and exhibited across England, Europe and beyond. It's essentially a 'pop up' gallery celebrating the art of the screen printed gig poster. Exhibiting the work of leading Irish, UK and international artists from the gig-poster 'scene', we host a wide variety of styles promoting the bands that the artists love, inspired by the music they hear.  This year features: Anonymous Ink(US), Luke Drozd, Telegramme, WeThreeClub, Pobiak, Horse, L'il Tuffy(US), Michael Cowell, Billy Perkins(US), Hnadcooked posters, New Analog, Craig Robson, Justin Santora(US), Petting Zoo Prints & Collectables, Jacknife, plus more... The Gigwise Stage line-up includes: May 2nd 2013 Co-curated with Bloody Shells Hawk Eyes Blacklisters Black Moth Iron Witch Stereo Virgins Super Luxury Aeroplane Flies High May 3rd 2013 Co-curated with You Do The Math Future Of The Left Arcane Roots Marmozets These Monsters Mutiny On The Bounty Alpha Male Tea Party May 4th 2013 Bo Ningen Wet Nuns Palm Reader Bad Guys Jazzhands FREE ENTRY 3PM TIL 8.30PM (Once in, you're free to stay to watch all the bands)  WRISTBAND ENTRY ONLY AFTER 8.30PM

Friday May 3rd These Monsters play at Sceenadelica as part of Liverpool Sound City - http://www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk/ "SCREENADELICA IS A POP UP GIG POSTER EXHIBITION WHICH TOURS FESTIVALS ALL OVER THE WORLD, COMMISSIONING NEW WORKS, OFFERING ARTISTS A PLATFORM FOR EXPOSURE AND EDUCATING THE MASSES ON THE MEDIUM OF SCREEN PRINTING" - http://www.screenadelica.com/

Whats your name and where do you come from?

My names L'il Tuffy from San Francisco and I have been making posters for 10 years and just recently completed my 500th poster.

So you've been touring round quite a bit on this trip, Liverpool and London the other week and now Barcelona, is it back home after this?

After this festival I fly straight to Tenessee for Bonaroo festival, I do that every year, then I have about a month off before I go to Chicaigo for Flatstock, I come back where I have a solo art show, then its Outside Lands in San Francisco

What started your interest in Screen printing?

I screen printed while i was in university, but i never took a class. I was an art student and we used to break into the screen print studio late at night and we'd print tshirts. Then I did internet design for a long time then about 2002 I made a gig poster for my birthday party, I was putting on shows at the time. I met the Firehouse and started doing work with them. I had always collected gig posters so I guess thats why I started doing it and I didn't have a job at the time, I just thought it would be something fun and then it slowly became a full time job.

Can you go through the process of your work, you print at home too right?

I work pretty fast, when I get a job I listen to the band for like an hour or two while looking at different images, go on their website, listen to song lyrics and look and listen for something that stands out and base all my imagery off that. I do most of my work on the computer, I do a little bit of sketching and I'll just scan that in, I work in mainly Illustrator and Photoshop then I made my films and get ready to start printing.

You recently did 60 prints for St Vincent for their tour, what was that like?

Doing that many prints is kinda intense, especially if they're all kinda the same style, I'll use the same typography, all of them are based off song lyrics and it was pretty hectic. But because I chose a simple format and they are all 2 colours, it ended up going fairly quickly but still when it came to the end of it I was mentally and physically exhausted

What new posters have you got lined up?