Poster Origins Pt. 1

Jamie — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:32:05 +0000

POSTER ORIGINS: THE BIRTH OF AWESOMENESS - PART 1

How goes it interweb peoples? I’d thought I’d start a blog discussing how I came up with ideas for our show posters that you see scattered around town when we have shows in your area. Taking the cheap way to promote and doing them in-house I pretty much did one and impressed the other bandmates and have been doing them pretty much ever since. I thought I’d start with the first poster that I did and which is still my favorite.

The show was on New Years Eve 2007. We were set to play our first (and still only) cover set at New Brookland Tavern in Columbia for their New Years extravaganza. There were three bands on the bill. One band was covering Saves The Day, and the other Elvis. For us it was a pretty easy decision considering how much we all admire their work. Our choice was Radiohead. So the idea for the poster came pretty quick.

The video for the song “Paranoid Android” is my favorite Radiohead video and thus it heavily influenced my idea for the poster. I first went on youtube and watched the video again (probably for the 50th time) and first thought to take four characters from the video and put our faces on them. Stephen was the to be the guy that ends up chopping he own legs and arms off. Collin was to be the main character. Nate (our bassist at the time) was going to be the main characters friend and I was going to be one of the mermaids (haha just kidding, I couldn’t decide who to be). Thinking further about it how long it would take and how putting our faces on a cartoon wouldn’t look right, I scratched the idea. Then I thought to put our heads each on copies of the main character. But I thought that still wasn’t good enough so I then got the idea to use the main character drawing as a starting point and then morph his face and body into us, creating animated versions of us. I searched the web and found an image of the main character which I used as the background. After adding the album art to the shirts bandmate approval was granted, I did my victory dance, and then went to bed.

The Fire INSIDE!!

Stephen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:17:12 +0000

You can’t win ‘em all.

Tour Pic Action

Collin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:05:41 +0000

There are some things that are better communicated through photos really.

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Story Pics

Collin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:58:28 +0000

For those of you only interested in the visual history of The Fire Tonight - here you go.

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WXRY

Stephen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:45:23 +0000

You may be wondering why Collin isn’t in this picture, and the truth is I don’t remember why. But it is still an awesome picture of what the band will look like when Collin becomes the next American Idol and we replace him with WXRY DJ Ben Reynolds.

Show pictures!

Stephen — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:20:23 +0000

At both radio appearances and several other places we were asked if we were going to dress in our future costumes for the show. Here’s your answer:

Wonder if anyone will ever ask us that again?