Show Flyers

Starting a collection here of show flyers from the 90's, covering the bands featured on the site. Please send more! Click any thumbnail to open the full size scan!

Flyer given to me by Franklin Bruno, December 2023:

Nothing Painted Blue, Beck, & 9-Iron

at the haven, 296 w 2nd, pomona
623-0538, all ages, free
(donations encouraged)

sat jan 22
9pm

Based on January 22nd being a Saturday, we can place this show in 1994.

Flyers mailed to me by Joel Huschle, summer 2023:

Bernies Oct. 29

Nothing Painted Blue

WCKR Moviola
SPGT

We don't have a day of the week to place this one with, but Moviola's inclusion allows some speculation. Moviola are Columbus-based. Consulting the Wckr Spgt site's history page for Other Shows in the section for Wintour '95 gives us the following:

Nothing Painted Blue, being a touring band in addition to their involvement with Wckr Spgt, arranged a Wckr Spgt / Nothing Painted Blue tour of the East Coast. The tour started in Madison, Wisconsin on October 28th, 1995 and took off with shows in Chicago (with Mad Scene and Space Needle), Ohio (with Moviola), Philadelphia (with SF Seals), New York (with Eyeball 9000 and Papas Fritas), and Massachusetts (with Tipoli and Tizzy). The fans were wooed at Vasser and Swarthmore and wowed at Brownie's.

We can reasonably place this show as occurring in Columbus on October 29th, 1995.

Middle East Upstairs! They're in Cambridge. That marks November 2nd, 1995 as the Massachusetts Wintour '95 show.

November 3rd was a Friday in 1995. Internet searches for the above colleges, 1995, music, and "the cafe" turn up Miscellany News, Volume CXXV, Number 7, 3 November 1995 in the Vassar Newspaper Archives, last accessed 1/7/2024 2:29am at this url. Now click here for a screengrab from the downloaded pdf. The following text is present:

November 3: There's no better music than free music. ViCE presents a free concert by Nothing Painted Blue and WIKR SPGT. 9 p.m. in the Cafe. Free.

That puts this show at Vassar during Wintour '95.

ALL OF the following scans (full month/individual shows) were sent in by Leonardo Flores, of ICBMs and Monorails, on January 6th 2024. Massive thanks are due to Leo for his contribution. Leo is also an expert in Japanese city pop and contributes a great deal to that scene, working as DJ Showapop with Tune In Tokyo (Tune In Tokyo's Instagram page here). Leo is a great resource, and I hope to cite him as a contributor on many more pages going forward. Leo's work in ICBMs and Monorails will hopefully get more coverage here; he was also the singer in Refrigerator cover band Lonesome Surprise, and a frequent presence at Nothing Painted Blue shows. Thanks, Leo!

I've done my best to orient these flyers in time using available clues. If any estimated years are wrong (mostly gleaned from web searching "march 1994", "march 1995", etc until I can visually match where the day of the week and the day of the month line up on images of calendars) please let me know. (And I haven't resized them --- if you're here on a phone, mind your cellular data!)

Full month calendars:

Thumbnail	Venue	Year	Month
	Cup of J	1993	March
	The Haven	1993	May
	The Haven	1993	December
	Cup of J	1994	January
	Cup of J	1994	June
	The Haven	1994	July
	Cup of J	1994	August
	Cup of J	1994	November
	The Haven	1995	March
	The Haven	1995	June
	Cup of J	1995	July

Individual show flyers:

Thumbnail	Year	Month	Day	Venue	Bands	Notes
	1993	Nov.	17	Cup of J (Pomona)	Truman's Water Nothing Painted Blue	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1993	Nov.	12	Coop Ballroom, Pomona College	Nothing Painted Blue Further Diskothi-Q Emission	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	Jan.	29	Pitzer College Pit	Kicking Giant Evergreen Tattle Tale the Mountain Goats	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	Jan.	20	Toe's Tavern (Pasadena)	Shoeface Cockfight Sensefield	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	Feb	5	Eagles Coffee Pub (North Hollywood)	The Fells Mondoguano Doo Rag Anus The Menace Shoeface Pay The Man	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	Feb	25	The Haven (Pomona)	Good Horsey Buzzsaw Refrigerator	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	March	4	Eagles Coffee Pub (North Hollywood)	Nothing Painted Blue 9-Iron Bazooka	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	March	11	The Haven (Pomona)	Shoeface The Kosher Kowboys The Toughskins	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	March	5	The Da Gallery (Pomona)	Nothing Painted Blue the Mountain Goats	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	July	2	The Haven (Pomona)	Shoeface Bladder	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	Aug	15	Cup of J (Pomona)	Nothing Painted Blue Diskothi-Q	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	Aug	5	Cup of J (Pomona)	Nothing Painted Blue Sasabe Giants	Year provided.
	1994	Sept	17	Java the Hut	ICBM's	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	Oct	7	The Troubadour	Sebadoh the Mountain Goats John Davis	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	Oct	29	The Haven (Pomona)	The Kosher Kowboys	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	Nov	17	Rhino Records (Claremont)	Ashtray Boy Refrigerator Franklin Bruno	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1994	Dec	4	The Motley, Scripps College	Nothing Painted Blue Big Breakfast	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	Jan	12	Hell's Gate (Hollywood)	Nothing Painted Blue Refrigerator 9-Iron El Picon	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	Jan	21	The Haven (Pomona)	Diskothi-Q Dave Gabe & Gary	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	Jan	28		The Promise, ICBM's	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	Jan	28	Cup of J (Pomona)	The Promise, ICBM's	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	Jan	28	Cup of J (Pomona)	The Promise, ICBM's	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	Feb	8	Eagle's Coffee House & Newsstand (North Hollywood)	Low, Nothing Painted Blue	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	March	Full	The Haven (Pomona)	Nothing Painted Blue ICBM's Goosewind (others)	Year provided.
	1995	March	18	The Haven (Pomona)	Nothing Painted Blue The Mommyheads	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	March	25	The Haven (Pomona)	The ICMBs Goosewind	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	April	30	Hell's Gate (Hollywood)	Shoeface Nothing Painted Blue Overpass	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	April	13	The Alligator Lounge (Santa Monica)	Idaho Nothing Painted Blue Peoplemover	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	April	12	Cup of J (Pomona)	The Irving Klaw Trio New Bad Things Shoeface Franklin Bruno	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	May	26	The Haven (Pomona)	Moonwash	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	June	16	The Haven (Pomona)	Refrigerator Bubby Girl	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	July	1	Cup of J (Pomona)	ICBM's Bubby Girl Refrigerator	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	July	8	The Haven (Pomona)	ICBM's Big Breakfast	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	July	29	The Haven (Pomona)	The Kosher Cowboys Lemon Wheel	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1995	Sept	15	The Haven (Pomona)	ICBM's	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1996	Jan	25	The Green Door (Montclair)	Camera Truth, Voo Doo Doll, Nothing Painted Blue, Vicious Fiction	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1996	Feb	16	The Haven (Pomona)	The Promise ICBM's	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1996	March	10	Impala	F*ck Nothing Painted Blue	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1996	March	8	The E-Bar (Pasadena)	Los Mex-Wings The G-Men The Foxations	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1996	April	27	The Haven (Pomona)	G-Men Los Mex Wings	Year estimated by day of week provided.
	1996	June	1	The Turtle Rock Vista Party Palace (Irvine)	Shoeface + ''special guests''	Year estimated by day of week provided.
		June	13	No Future Cafe	TheMonorails The Burks	Confirming date.
		August		Cup of J (Pomona)	Refrigerator Buster ICBM's	Confirming date.
		Nov	30	Espresso Yourself (Upland)	ICBM's	Confirming date.
		Nov	12	The Haven (Pomona)	ICBM's Mulch	Confirming date.
		Dec	30	'at Chris's'' (Claremont)	ICBM's	Confirming date.
		Dec	14	Big Sal's Pizza	Out of Focus Shaman Sky	Confirming date.
		Feb.	1	The Haven (Pomona)	The Promise The Monorails	Confirming date.
		Oct.	14	The GlassHouse	The Monorails The Andersons The Sparklejets U.K.	Confirming date.

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