03-05-2011, 01:32 AM
Thanks for that!
I went through loads of titles like:
N.O. Scene
This is La. not L.a.
Punks not dead
New Orleans Punk
N.O. Punk
But kept coming back to staple guns, and thumbtacks.
My idea, is that, even though it is all New Orleans shows, people from out of town, could relate to using staple guns to hang up flyers on poles, then thumbtacks on their bedromm walls.
Fingers crossed, I keep getting stellar reviews.
On a side note, I am thinking of sending a copy to the Ellen show. Her older brother was in a new wave band here in the early 80's. Worth a shot.
This is what I wrote to send with the book, does it sound ok?:
I am the Author of a new book on the New Orleans Punk and Hardcore scene called "From Staple Guns to Thumbtacks: Flyer art from the 1982-1995 New Orleans Punk & Hardcore Scene".
It contains 13 years of flyers from the local music scene here in New Orleans. It has hundreds of flyer images and about 29 pages of stories by people that grew up in the scene here.
It also contains a few shows with Ellen's brother Vance and his band, The Cold, who were at the forefront of the New Wave/Rock scene here in NOLA.
After Hurricane Katrina, I was helping gut my parents house, and came across a box in the attic with my name on it. it contained all of the flyers that used to hang on my walls of all the old Punk shows from when I was a kid.
A couple of years later, I decided to compile all of the flyers I had and some that other friends were able to save, into a book showcasing just the New Orleans scene.
The thing about the flyer is, it was a real "Grass roots" campaign to get the word out about the next shows coming up. We had no money to take out adds in local magazines and newspapers, so the only other way, was to spend all night in a Kinko's and make the flyers. the next week or so, we would hit every phone pole we could find to get the word out.
In all of the books about the punk scenes across the U.S., the south is just skimmed over and written about like we had no scene. This book was done to show, that albeit small, we had a scene just as rich and diverse as any of the larger cities.
This book is to set the record straight on New Orleans Punk, and to finally give a voice to all of the people that grew up here.
If there is anything I can answer for you please don't hesitate to ask.
Pat Roig
I went through loads of titles like:
N.O. Scene
This is La. not L.a.
Punks not dead
New Orleans Punk
N.O. Punk
But kept coming back to staple guns, and thumbtacks.
My idea, is that, even though it is all New Orleans shows, people from out of town, could relate to using staple guns to hang up flyers on poles, then thumbtacks on their bedromm walls.
Fingers crossed, I keep getting stellar reviews.
On a side note, I am thinking of sending a copy to the Ellen show. Her older brother was in a new wave band here in the early 80's. Worth a shot.
This is what I wrote to send with the book, does it sound ok?:
I am the Author of a new book on the New Orleans Punk and Hardcore scene called "From Staple Guns to Thumbtacks: Flyer art from the 1982-1995 New Orleans Punk & Hardcore Scene".
It contains 13 years of flyers from the local music scene here in New Orleans. It has hundreds of flyer images and about 29 pages of stories by people that grew up in the scene here.
It also contains a few shows with Ellen's brother Vance and his band, The Cold, who were at the forefront of the New Wave/Rock scene here in NOLA.
After Hurricane Katrina, I was helping gut my parents house, and came across a box in the attic with my name on it. it contained all of the flyers that used to hang on my walls of all the old Punk shows from when I was a kid.
A couple of years later, I decided to compile all of the flyers I had and some that other friends were able to save, into a book showcasing just the New Orleans scene.
The thing about the flyer is, it was a real "Grass roots" campaign to get the word out about the next shows coming up. We had no money to take out adds in local magazines and newspapers, so the only other way, was to spend all night in a Kinko's and make the flyers. the next week or so, we would hit every phone pole we could find to get the word out.
In all of the books about the punk scenes across the U.S., the south is just skimmed over and written about like we had no scene. This book was done to show, that albeit small, we had a scene just as rich and diverse as any of the larger cities.
This book is to set the record straight on New Orleans Punk, and to finally give a voice to all of the people that grew up here.
If there is anything I can answer for you please don't hesitate to ask.
Pat Roig