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Originally Posted by Thee Alex
In Dundee the posters are pasted to Council owned boards - they don't get nicked cos they tear if you try to peel them off. Personally I think describing the band on the poster is ugly - people should be intrigued by the poster design and the selection of bands by the event organiser.
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Lucky Dundee! You're in cloud cuckoo land if you think people will be intrigued by poster design and do the work themselves in Glasgow, though - there's easily half a dozen different 'rock' gigs every single night of the week, people don't
need to make that sort of effort, and if you don't give them a reason to think they might like you gig better than their other options (ie, these bands sound like
this) then unless they know you as a promoter or the bands involved you're just another random gig.
And KJ, it's a nice idea that the poster design tells you what the gig's like, but absolutely no way in practice, not beyond the very top level - that is, you might be able to tell the difference between an electro or rave night and a rock night, or even a hip hop night, but beyond that, no way. And like I say, when you've got so many gigs going on there's no way that's sufficiently nuanced.