Out On The Street: An exhibition of Music Posters from New Zealand and beyond
Steve Cochrane has been collecting music posters since the late 1970s. By the mid eighties he was importing posters from Europe and selling them mail order through Rip It Up magazine, which evolved into both wholesale and retail.
In 1985, Steve joined post punk luminaries Skank Attack and began pasting posters on Wellingtons streets. Eventually realising you could get paid for it, casual work for bars and clubs kept the gas tank full and led to his first poster distribution company The Stick Up!
After a much needed hiatus, Steve returned to the music industry a few years ago, via record and poster retail. Steve now runs Wellington poster company Pasted!, and remains an active musician and promoter.
After decades of sporadic trading, Steve has an extensive poster collection acquired from a vast array of sources. There’s Flying Nun gems like Skeptics, The Chills, The Bats and Bailter Space, there’s other Aotearoa taonga including posters of Shihad, Split Enz, and Space Waltz, along with NZ tour posters of REM, Elvis Costello, U2, Mick Jagger, Billy Bragg and many more.
With a very small house and a huge collection, it’s time to start letting this stuff go for others to enjoy. Consequently all works are for sale in the gallery or on our Trade Me store: Out On The Street.
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Out On The Street – Dates and times
Thistle Hall Gallery
293 Cuba Street
Wellington
Tuesday 18th November, 5 – 9pm
Wednesday 19th to Saturday 22nd November, 11am – 7pm
Sunday 23rd November, 11am – 5pm
Facebook event page
Saturday November 22nd, from 7pm: Out On The Street – Live!
Tickets for the live show on Saturday from Under the Radar
