Wandervoegel

Did the logoartwork for the upcoming booking project WANDERVOEGEL from Hamburg. I guess this would be a design, my teachers would love. I like how it came out different than anything else i did over the last months!

Taped Souls

Today something not HC/PUNK related...a flyer for the nice guys from TAPED SOULS. Awesome people and one of the rare partys you should go to in Trier!

hrzblt.shws

A quick black and white poster with some upcoming shows from hrzblt.shws in Aachen!

Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments have some shirts left from the tour which you can buy here! There are also buttons and a tape i've designed for the tour!

The Tidal Sleep

Unfortunatly the Bastions + Crocus + The Tidal Sleep show in Trier had to be cancelled. Nevertheless I did some artwork for them, getting printed on totebags for their show with Defeater in Stuttgart. Go here and listen to their demos, they are so good. They allready have anounced a bunch of shows for next year, but their is more to come. I promise!

The Shanes Flyer

I did an Flyer and logodesign for the folkrock band The Shanes and the songwriter Tom Mess - here it is:

Sea Kings

Buttons and Patches with a logodesign I did for my friend Jerry from Sea Kings

GODS AND QUEENS NEED YOUR HELP!

IMPORTANT/ SERIOUS !!! The US band GODS&QUEENS are in the big need. They had a serious van accident and need to pay over 3000$ of hospital fees. Please help them out sending money thru paypal at jamiegetz (at) gmail.com or buying their records on bandcamp : http://godsandqueens.bandcamp.com/ .

Those guys are the nicest people and were supposed to play in Trier tomorrow! Everyone who can afford to spend a buck or two would help them alot.

Here is their explanation :

"I´m going to try and make this as short as I can. After all these years of touring in unsafe vans, and doing stupid things, I guess I was over due for this... We had a serious van accident in route from our show in Graz, Austria to Dresden, Germany, somewhere along the highway in the Czech.

I was asleep in the back of the van, so I'm unsure of what exactly happened. All I know is I felt the van skidding out and we started to slide and roll over. Not sure exactly how many times the van flipped but it was more than enough. I started screaming for everyone to tell me they were OK. Gertjan check, Ben check, Sara check, and I didnt hear Jeff.

Ben pulled me out through the windshield and I took off running, screaming for help with blood pouring down my face. I honestly though Jeff was dead. A car stopped and a slew of women started screaming at me and I was screaming at them. We were in the middle of no where and as I was running two things came to mind, I think Jeff is dead, and I hope I don´t get shot like Artimus Pyle. A woman pulled me into her house and her husband and son ran to the van crash site. I found Gertjan, and he said everyone is OK. The family started talking to me via Google Translation telling me everyone is safe and that an amublance is on the way.

The ambulance comes takes us to a hospital, we get taken care of...sort of. The police arrive on the scene and inform us that we aren´t leaving until the medical bills are paid in full. The were so kind enough to escort Sara and myself to an ATM machine to pay the entire lump of the bills in full on the spot. Even after we signed some strange papers saying we have 30 day with proof of citizenship, etc. What the fuck ever right? We asked where Gertjan was, and their respone was...prison. 300 phone calls and around €3,000 later we are out of the damned Czech and safe in Germany.

Long short, we are all somewhat OK. Jeff broke his collarbone, Ben got his hand jacked up, I am pretty alright, Gertjan is OK, as well as Sara. The van is destroyed. Booking these tours ourself really made me realize that we are 100% on our own. We had no one to call, no one to "rescue" us. I made 3 phone calles and the entire German punk scene came to our rescue. God damn thank you. Our new friends from Dresden Germany came to get us at the drop of a hat, no questions asked. Thank you.

So here it is, we are 3 grown adult males in our 30´s who play in a punk band. We are all stage hands at R5 Productions in Philly. That´s what we do to enable us to be here in Europe doing this. Never in our lives have we needed help like we do now. If you want to help us, please go to www.godsandqueens.bandcamp.com and purchas a record for $1.99. If you ever laughed at one of my awful jokes, or spend hours talking with us after a show, and you would like to help, please do. I always though our band would have too much pride to ask for help, but I am pretty sure we all agree that this time we need it. If you would like to help in any form please do jamiegetz(at)gmail.com is the paypal address if you are inclined to do so. We will also accept first class upgrades on US Air, Delta or Virgin."

You can also buy a shirt here to support them:

It's based on a design i did for them just for fun. I didn't thought they were going to use it.

Lizards Have Personalites/Adaje Split 7"

Ok there were some misscommunications. This one will stay the final Artwork for the 7". If you live in Europe and want one, hit me up for preorders. People from the US will get it soon at the Sea of Tranquility store.

Fuchsjunge

I did a Logo for one of the kindest people I know and I am really glad how this turned out. Besides being an awesome dude he just started this little blog about alot more then just music!

TRAINWRECK + SAILING ON

I am doing this killer show in december! BE THERE! Here's the Flyer i did!

HIRSE VIOLENCE FEST 2012

I.Corrupt.Records is doing another round of the HIRSE VIOLENCE FEST in early 2012.
TRAINWRECK, ALPINIST, SAILING ON & SNAKES AND LIONS...This is allready the coolest line up ever! Be there!

-> here's the flyer I did for this Night of Love & Mayhem

Bastions + Crocus + The Tidal Sleep

In January I am doing this awesome show. BASTIONS & CROCUS are both from the UK and just great. I am happy that my friends from THE TIDAL SLEEP will complete this line up!

Gods and Queens + Silent Front + Nitkowski

From time to time I do small hc/punk shows in Trier. This is a flyer for my next one! The bands are not only great but also good friends. So make sure to come! if i have enough time i will screenprint a limited amount of posters. Gods and Queens are from Philadelphia. Silent Front & Nitkowski are from London. I am stoked!

Andrew took a picture from the Split CD - you can get it here. Limited to 100! He handglued it and printed it on cardboard!

Lizards Have Personalites/Adaje Split Tape

Andrew from SEA OF TRANQUILITY & LIZARDS HAVE PERSONALITES asked me to do the second SOT Release. A Split Tape between Lizards have Personalities and ADAJE.

There will be a 7" version of that split too. I keep you updated

Not sure which colour the tape will have in the end, this is just a mock up...

Onde Sphérique

Postrockers ONDE SPHÉRIQUE asked me to do a biochemistry & poppy themed shirtdesign. It's a really small edition, you can get them here

(Logodesign is done by somebody else!)

Shirt/Distro Blow Out

Finally I got a new printing studio! Now i need some cash for supplies!

Head over to the STORE: Both shirts are on sale for 10€
Also here's a list of my vinyl distro, if you're interested, hit me up benedikt.demmer(at)web(dot)com

7"
From this Day on - Wounds 3€
FPCKK - Fluchtpunkt Individuum 3€
Fuck, Wolves! -und zwischen all unseren Trümmern und Traumgebilden 3€
New Wave Blasphemy 2€
Only for the sake of aching/Kias Fansuri SPLIT 4€
Suckinim Baenaim/Batalj Split 4€
The Rätz - uniformed youth 3€


12"
Actress - Glacier (discography) 8€
A Fine Boat that coffin 8€
Arktika - Heartwrencher 8€
Amtrak - Bleipony 5€
Burial Year - Pestilence 10€
Crowskin/Black Freighter 10€
Cobra Noir - Barricades 8€
Captain, your ship is sinking - cross your fingers for the epiloque 10€
East of the Wall - Ressentiment 2LP 15€
Fake Problems 8€
Ghostlimb - Bearing & Distance 10€
Hero Dishonest - When the Shit hits the man 8€
Isaiah - Ils consomment: tuent et prient mais ne pensent pas 10€
Kokomo - If Wolves 10€
Radare - Infinite Regress 9€
Rambo - wall of death the system 10€
Titan/June Paik split 8€
Mount Logan 8€
year of no light feat Nadja/ machu picchu mother future split 6€
VA.: Connections: Hiro, Dodewaard, Amalthena, Arse Moreira, Eucalypt, Orbit Cinta Benjamin

Tapes (all 4€):
Black Freighter discography
Fruitpunch/Colonia
Freiburg - High Five Zukunft
Henry Fonda - play fast drive slow
Mnmnts - The Good life
Steve Austin
Texas Instruments
The Gentle art of chokin
VA: This is Hirse
VA: Marcellos Mixtape

Texas Instruments Shirts

I just finished the artwork for this evil shirt for the nice guys from TEXAS INSTRUMENTS from Kansas City.

So a few posts below I was writing about the split don't getting released and some days later I get an email from my friend Andrew who is going to release it on CD. Except some more cool releases on his new label SEA OF TRANQUILITY. It will be limited to only 100 so stay tuned for more infos!

Back from the Tour with the MNMNTS

I just came back from the most amazing ten days ever with the lovely MNMNTS. Not only was I able to catch up with so many old friends - I met a bunch of amazing people, which I allready miss! First of all Jonas, the most humble guy in the world, who jumped in for Seb, who couldn't join the tour. Without him, there wouldn't have been any tour. Also our tourmates TORPEDO HOLIDAY - keep them in mind, they are brilliant and real cuties! Not to forget the youngbloods from ASLOV KINSKI. They made me feel and look really old, but it was so much fun to hang with these kids. Last but not least: TRAINWRECK. If you ever have the chance to see them play a show - Do it!!! One of the most incredible livebands around and real sweethearts!

I updated the MNMNTS WEBSTORE with tourleftovers: new shirts, finally some patches and even reprinted bags!

Moin Moin

MOIN MOIN from Kiel asked me to do a shirt with a puffin! i just finished this little gentleman.
They are going to print the shirts on their own so if you want to score one, head over to their facebookpage and preorder it. As far as i know, they will only print the amount of preorders so make sure to tell them your size! - Oi!

Mnmnts Reviews

Also there were plenty of good reviews for the Mnmnts record over the last months, so my work was now in almost every "important" german music zine (except the mighty METAL HAMMER...)

Review taken from TRUST ZINE

Review taken from VISIONS (they have only written about the artwork, I am not even sure if they have listened to record, but thanks a lot for the great review of the artwork!)

Review taken from OX FANZINE

Schreng Schreng & La La

A few weeks back I did the artwork for SCHRENG SCHRENG & LA LA. It was a last minute job and i totally forgot to post it here! The artwork is based on a shirt design i allready posted some time ago. Now there is a really nice review of the record in germans music zine INTRO.

Lizards Have Personalities/Orion Pax/Viceversa/Caitlyn Bailey-4 Way Split LP

I was working on the artwork for a 4way Split record between awesome bands like Lizards Have Personalities, Orion Pax, Viceversa & Caitlyn Bailey. Unfortunately it seems that there won't be any physical copy soon, but you can download it anyway for free here! All the bands are really amazing and i truly hope that there will be a label putting the record out someday!

Mnmnts shirts

The last piece of merch for the upcoming tour. We also ordered light blueish girlies and dark grey shirts. Pictures will follow and I will update the online shop soon. Until then, come to the dates below and say hi!

30.09 Darmstadt
01.10 Weimar
02.10 Leisnig
03.10 Berlin **
04.10 Hamburg * **
05.10 Kiel **
06.10 HELP!!!
07.10 Braunschweig*
08.10 Recklinghausen*

* w/ torpedo holiday
** w/ trainwreck

Mnmnts Patches + Bags

The Mnmnts reprinted the tote bags with the bird/skull design.

I also just finished this Artwork for some patches for the upcoming tour.

You can get both at the shows, i am gonna be at most of them, so swing by and say hello.
After the tour they will be sold through the mnmnts online store.

Bis aufs Messer + Adagio830

The busy guys from the BIS AUFS MESSER recordstore in Berlin asked me to do another flyer. This time with news from the label ADAGIO830 on the backside.

TRAINWRECK + MNMNTS

My Kieler friends from BRONZE TIGER CONCERTS asked me again to do a poster. This time for a show with a really nice line-up. TRAINWRECK & MNMNTS - which means i am gonna be there!

Raumpatroullie Regenbogen + Taped Souls

I did a b/w poster for the upcoming "RAUMPATROULLIE REGENBOGEN + TAPED SOULS" party. It was fun doing sth typographic again!

Texas Instruments

A while ago i did some shirt designs for my friends from kansas. Go check out their stuff! They are amazing! -> HERE or buy their Tape

UNTITLED #2

Second pack of shirts arrived!!

Both, the Princess of Alderaan and the Vulcan sciene officer have guns, so beware! This Sci-Fi genderbending goodie makes finally peace between trekkies and jedis!

UNTITLED #2 is printed with black ink on grey Gildan Heavy Cotton Shirts and limited to 50!

Fascinating! You can get it HERE