Fading painted signs

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Painted walls in Mexico advertising music events — Bardas de Baile (‘Mexican Wall Painting’) is a fascinating documentation of the ubiquitous painted walls found in Mexico. At first glance the images appear to be graffiti but closer inspection reveals that they are actually advertisements produced to promote local music events. The origin of […]

Bardas de Baile: Mexican Wall Painting

This entry was posted in Sign Collections Signs in Media and tagged Bardas de Baile Buzz Poole Central America Ghost & Company Handpainted Mexico Music Patricia Cué Sign Painters on October 6, 2013 by Sam Roberts

Hand-painted sign advertising a Jamaican dancehall event — Gabriel Heatwave sent me a treat of a link to this article about a new book and exhibition celebrating the hand-painted signs used to advertise dancehall events in Jamaica. A copy of the book is on order and will be reviewed at a later date. […]

Jamaican Dancehall Signs by Maxine Walters

This entry was posted in Interviews Painted Lettering Related Work and tagged Books Event Heatwave Jamaica Jamaican Dancehall Signs Maxine Walters Miss Lily's Music on October 6, 2012 by Sam Roberts

My web crawlers sometimes throw up completely unexpected references to ghostsigns, this one being a song by gothic rockers, The Swear. I contacted singer/songwriter Elizabeth Elkins to ask if there was any connection to Ghostsigns of the painted form and sure enough there was

The Swear: ‘Ghost Signs’

This entry was posted in Off Piste and tagged Ghostsigns Music The Swear on March 5, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Hand painted advertising on a building for various motoring brands — Since handing over day-to-day responsibility for the archive to the History of Advertising Trust there has been a steady influx of new material. 49 new signs have been uploaded to the online galleries and this means that c.750 are now documented through the collective efforts […]

49 New Signs

This entry was posted in Sign Collections and tagged AA Alcohol Archive Beer Bookbinder Bovril Coca-Cola Coke Darvill's Drink Furniture Gramophones HAT Household Jewellery Little Miss Barber Motoring Music Pianos Printers Puck Matches RAC Soft Drink Stationery Tea Transport Twinings Vaux on August 5, 2011 by Sam Roberts

Former Gramophones Records Music Roll Exchange Ghostsign Clapham — Following the recent painting over of the Clapham North ‘Music Rolls‘ sign, Ocky got in touch with Kate Hoey, MP for Vauxhall to ask her what Lambeth Council are doing to preserve this signs. The response from Michael Copeman, via Councillor Peck, was as follows: […]

Lambeth Council

This entry was posted in Sign Preservation Signs of Note and tagged English Heritage Kate Hoey Lambeth London Michael Copeman Music Music Roll Exchange Political Lobbying Property Development Protection UK on October 4, 2007 by Sam Roberts

Blooms Pianos Shoreditch — I photographed this fantastic sign today after going past it so many times on the bus. It’s just by the Geoffrey Museum in Shoreditch and is covered at this time of year by a big tree. I had to do a bit of monkey-style climbing […]

Blooms Pianos

This entry was posted in Individual Signs and tagged Blooms Pianos Event Hackney Kingsland Road London Music People Shoreditch UK on June 19, 2007 by Sam Roberts

Vortex Jazz Bar Stoke Newington — This sign and former Stoke Newington landmark were both destroyed in favour of a new development on Church Street. The Jazz bar moved to Dalston in 2005, but 2007 saw an ongoing squat protest to stop the developers moving in. Despite some shocking luminous grafitti […]

Vortex (RIP)

This entry was posted in Individual Signs and tagged Hackney Jazz London Music RIP Stoke Newington Stoke Newington Church Street UK Vortex on June 18, 2007 by Sam Roberts