Jake Holmes, co-founder of Tooth and Nail Gallery, is seeking contributions for an exhibition of Adelaide gig flyers coming up at the gallery. Please Come To My Show will hoard and display the relics of our city’s local music history.
Holmes is hoping to hang the exhibition on April 13, but he needs donations of flyers to fill the walls. All flyers will be returned at the end of the exhibition period.
“It’s a bit of a last-minute thing,” Holmes tells Rip It Up, laughing a little. “We had an artist pull out of an exhibition, so we were scrambling, going ‘What can we do?!’, and I had this idea a little while ago about doing an exhibition of gig flyers, and I was like, ‘I guess we could do that?’
“I’m hoping it’s going to be really good; I’m hoping we get enough flyers to fill up the gallery. It’s a bit last-minute, but I think it should be pretty good if we get enough stuff.”
Guessing that he’ll need “quite a few” leaflets to take over the space, he’s enlisted a few friends and Lewis from Animal House to get the collection started.
“I’ve gone around saying to anyone who’s got them: I will come pick them [the flyers] up; give me a call, I will come and get them.”
The gallery is hoping to get an artistic snippet of the local Adelaide music scene.
“That’s the idea: local gigs, local bands – and if there’s an interstate band or something, that’s okay, but mostly local music,” says Holmes. “There might even be a little bit of artwork, t-shirts and stuff – and also if artists have original artwork that they did for flyers, stuff like that as well.
“But the focus is taking people’s actual collections of old flyers that they have. I have quite a few friends that have them stuck up in their bedrooms and stuff like that, and [we want to be] exhibiting those – rips, scrunches and all.”
Holmes is also looking forward to guests coming to the exhibition and remembering some of the gigs from the flyers.
If you have any materials you think would fit for Please Come To My Show, shoot Holmes a text on 0432 924 938.
Launch party with Backwater Records
On April 24, towards the end of the exhibition, Tooth and Nail will be holding their ‘launch’ event for the collection.
Unfortunately, due to their licence, they won’t be able to have a live band at the party. Instead, they’ve enlisted the dudes from Backwater, the new record shop above Mad Mouse Alley.
“That’s kind of our thing, because we were like, ‘Ah, it’d be awesome to get a band, but we’re not allowed to!’ and then those guys just opened, so we thought that’d be a really cool thing to get those guys to do that and promote what they’re doing as well, because it really ties in.”
Backwater has taken over the space formerly occupied by Co-West Word Studio. It’s a record shop – with a lot of local releases – and also a place where people can chat about gigs and distribute flyers.
On the night, they’ll be taking care of musical duties.
Doors for the launch open at 6pm on Friday, April 24. The exhibition can be viewed from Tuesday, April 14 (Monday, April 13 is bump-in) until Friday, May 1 during Tooth and Nail Gallery’s opening hours.
What
Please Come To My Show
Where
Tooth and Nail Gallery
22-28 Coromandel Place, Adelaide
When
Monday, April 13 to Friday, May 1
Gallery opening hours
Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 5pm
Launch party
Friday, April 24
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