Gig Posters: The Decemberists Exhibition at The Richard Goodall Gallery, Manchester

The Decemberists by EmekRegular readers of this blog, if there are any, will know that we are big, big fans of The Decemberists but might not know that we are also avid collectors of gig posters and have been since we stumbled across the brilliant Gig Posters website about three years ago having spent a good year trying to find some original and appropriate artwork to adorn the walls of the conjugal home. As luck would have it one of Europe’s only gig poster art galleries, The Richard Goodall Gallery, was on our doorstep and soon works by the likes of Patent Pending, Tara McPherson, Print Mafia, David Witt, Jay Ryan and Emek were filling up those empty spaces on our walls while simultaneously creating even bigger empty spaces in our bank account.

The Decemberists by EmekThe current exhibition at The Richard Goodall Gallery, on Thomas Street in the Northern Quarter, Manchester, is of posters from The Decemberists’ recent European Tour. The posters were commissioned by Richard Goodall himself and the artists include Jay Ryan, Emek (pictured, above), Guy Burwell, Justin Hampton, Small Stakes, Diana Sudyka, Leia Bell and Drew Millward. When JustHipper saw the exhibition she couldn’t help herself and, after a good few minutes of umming and aahing over the Jay Ryan and the Mike King (pictured, right) she plumped for the latter as it was for the Manchester gig we’d recently attended. I would urge you, if you haven’t already and if you live in the vicinity or are passing through, to visit the gallery and see the posters in the flesh as the pictures shown don’t do them justice at all. Then spend an hour or so rummaging around the thousands of other posters in the gallery basement and see if you can get out of there without being parted with a reasonably sized chunk of your hard-earned.

The exhibition runs until April 2007.

The Decemberists – Shanty For Arethusa

The Decemberists – Apology Song

9 Responses to “Gig Posters: The Decemberists Exhibition at The Richard Goodall Gallery, Manchester”

  • JustHipper Says:

    Don’t forget mulling over the Emek one — that Emek one at the top of your review is fantastic in a way the image does not convey. Sadly, it is also very expensive and probably sold out now.

  • bedshaped Says:

    Have you noticed The Decemberists aren’t touring in Manchester later in the year. What’s that all about?!

  • JustHipper Says:

    It happens. They’ve done Manchester the last 3 times. So we have to go to Liverpool and Leeds. Could be worse. They could do a Rufus Wainwright and stay down south!

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