Plastered – The art of Australian Popular Music.
December 31st, 2009 | 
Plastered – The art of Australian Popular Music.
This is an amazing book, Nick Vukovics Collection is impressive to say the least, and Murray Walding keyed the whole thing together writing a book that is informative about the formative years of Australian popluar music and the world of the posters that sold them to the people.
The book is broken down by eras, we feature pretty heavily in the last era… bringing it up to today.
One of the suprises was Murray Waldings listing of his top 5 posters
“Murray Walding is the author of Plastered – the poster art of Australian popular music. For the Deep End Five, Murray has whittled down his selections to just five favourite posters. The criterion he’s used to choose: would I hang this on my bedroom wall?
His number five choice on Monday was a poster from the early 1960s, for the Yarra Yarra New Orleans Jazz Dance.
At number four it was a poster dripping with the psychadelic style and imagery of 1968 – although it’s actually from 2004: Jet’s Australian tour poster.
The Rolling Stones Australian tour poster of 1973 came in at number three which is also featuring on the Australia Post stamps.
At number two was a limited-edition poster by Mr Frumpy from 2002, for Mercury Rev – it was printed on an extremely hot day, so all the inks went globby – as it turns out to great artistic effect – and making the poster a collector’s item.
For his number one, Murray’s gone back to the 1960s: a poster for a discotheque from 1965 – the Fat Black Pussy Cat.
