Poster Of The Week: Woven Hand, True Widow, Shiny Around The Edges At Club Dada

I'm going to have bad dreams tonight. This poster is so memorably creepy that I can overlook the apparent failed attempt at a literal interpretation of the headliner's band name. But knitted-vs.-woven nitpicking aside, that horrible skeletal figure and those button eyes--so nightmarishly wide-open, yet blank--make this one of the...

By Jesse Hughey

March 5, 2009

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I'm going to have bad dreams tonight. This poster is so memorably creepy that I can overlook the apparent failed attempt at a literal interpretation of the headliner's band name. But knitted-vs.-woven nitpicking aside, that horrible skeletal figure and those button eyes--so nightmarishly wide-open, yet blank--make this one of the coolest posters I've seen in a long time.

With True Widow and Shiny Around The Edges as support acts, it's another great lineup from Parade of Flesh. This time, the artist is Sam Heimer, brother of longtime Parade of Flesh poster designer ~~Ben~~ James Heimer.

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