a local artist

FLYPOST FORTY

THE SPOKEN WORD

THE WRITTEN WORD

4th of September 2023

Fly posting came somewhat late to me.

I was probably 24 before I did my first fly posting. This would have been back in 1977 when I was the odd job man at Eric’s in Liverpool. And in between mending the toilet doors, or doing stage security, I would be required to pick up the latest batch of freshly screened posters from Rick Walker at his studio above the News From Nowhere bookshop, and then proceed around the streets of central Liverpool with a bucket of wallpaper paste and a paint brush and forty posters rolled up under my arm.

I loved this job. And I loved looking at the other posters that had been fly posted that I was fly posting on top of for boxing matches at the Liverpool Stadium...