Beirut print… 9:30 club, DC

Beirut is coming in town for 2 nights and I was able to work with them to create a print for their show at the 930 Club. They are a band I got into early on and actually one of my early posters I worked on was for them back in 2006 at the Great American Hall in San Francisco. I was a big fan of their 1st album that had just come out so I was excited for the show. I think they were all 18 at the time or even younger and the show as a bit brutal. Kinda sloppy and they were all very “young” and experiencing being on stage for the 1st time in front of huge crowds it seemed. Kinda left me bummed. A number of albums and time have passed and they are definitely on top of their game.

I noticed alot of the imagery used for this band (posters, shirts, whatever..) tended to be the same kind of vibe and I wanted to bring something drawing from their New Mexico background and mix in a bit of a trippy Hopi Indian-kachina doll look to it. The colors on the final print came out looking great.