If you are an old git like me you cut your musical teeth in the UK in the glorious decade that was the 1970s – more specifically towards middle/end of the decade as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal took off. Once bitten, always in the blood, right? Of course things were much different back then technologically with perhaps the most cutting edge thing being the good old portable cassette player which was about the size of a stack of bricks and about as heavy. Still prefer vinyl myself but that’s another story…..
Anyhoo, back then although it was technologically bleak, going to a gig was relatively cheap with a venue on almost every street corner. All those new exciting bands to check out which sprung up aplenty overnight. Ah, great times. Def Leppard at Crooks Working Mens’ Club, Geddes Axe at the Wapentake and Quartz at some iffy nightclub the name of which I cannot recall are just three which come to mind.
As well as the musical adventure, a feature of gig-going one looked forward to was the clutch of flyers for other bands which would be handed out willy-nilly outside venues both before and after the gig. Often of, er, “questionable” quality, garish design and cheap paper. They did their job however and I discovered many other new bands thanks to those grubby flyers. Wish I’d kept a few as they’ve probably have some collectability these days.
Now, although band flyers three or four decades ago were generally a bit iffy, the band cannot be blamed for that given that production wasn’t that cheap and printing meant going to a commercial printer to run off a few hundred or, for those who could afford it, some sort of stencil type hand cranked machine in the garage. With funds often tight for the emerging talent they had to do what they could with the “promotional” budget.
Fast forward (get the tape analogy folks…….) to the present days. Bands still use flyers handed out at gigs for publicity and that’s great especially as modern technology and this internet thingy make it so much easier, faster and cheaper for a band to have flyers made up, printed online on demand and delivered to them often free of charge.
If you want to the online printing house may even throw in a design service. Even better, right. There are many such service providers to choose from for example you can print your cheap flyers with onlineprinters.co.uk – they offer all sorts of options for band flyers in different sizes, different quantities, different paper stock, double or single sided and at nice prices too.
If your band is using, or plans to use, flyers for publicity then why not check out http://www.onlineprinters.co.uk for your needs.