Colour - The Signature Series Collection

15th Jan 2010

Not too many moons ago, the humble club flyer was an object of purpose and meaning.
It represented such promise. It gave you a goal to work towards, it was proudly blu-tacked up on your wall like a battle scar. A memento of that eight or so hours of sweaty hedonism, or a constant reminder of what was to come.

It also (of course) served a more practical purpose. Prior to the advent of Facebook, Myspace, and forums dominating the lives and intentions of the nocturnal hordes, the only way to spread the word was outside a club in the early hours, frantically handing out these precious slips of information and guidance to everyone who walked through the door and onto the street.

The digital age keeps us in touch with each other in a much more efficient way, allowing us to track down previously unknown like-minded people with consummate ease. The way we can share experiences and knowledge has moved well beyond the physical hand-to-hand transfer of paper.
With this opinion in mind, we want our flyers to be the ones you decline to tear apart as roach material but instead tack on your wall as a lasting memento of an unforgettable night. We want to make everything we do something you want to keep.

So for our January gig we have decided to run with an idea that is a little off the beaten track.

Date: Friday 22nd January 2010
Event: Colour: Robert Hood, Frank Lorber, James Ruskin at Sankeys
Venue: Sankeys

3 artists, 3 Colours, 3 flyers. Each represented in their own right in separate prints, each paying homage to one particular headliner of our January shindig. We have placed them in different places, distributed certain colours at certain events, we’ve mixed and matched in order make it a little less straight forward.

Ultimately our intention is thus…Anybody that collects and hands over all three different Colour flyers to us will be in with a chance of having all three signed by the artists themselves, framed, then given back to you.
Stemming from a thought that crossed our mind and was met with such resounding positivity that we decided to press on with it, we feel it gives the familiar build up between now and Colour’s return to Sankeys a fresh dimension. An extracurricular little something to those who have come from where we’ve come from and those who value and believe in what a flyer stands for, just as we do.