Good Energy II - Music Posters

Good Energy II celebrates the energy, freedom and connection that make live music unlike anything else.

Created as part of Teenage Cancer Trust's Good Energy series, the print brings together the live photography of Andy Ford and handmade fluorescent typography by Ben Beach. Ford's black-and-white photograph captures VLURE in the thick of the crowd, a moment that gets right to the heart of what the series is about: the relationship between artists and the people who come to see them.

Known for their intense, immersive live shows, Glasgow's VLURE make a particularly fitting subject. Blending electronic music with post-punk and industrial influences, the band have built much of their reputation on performances that thrive on the exchange of energy between stage and audience. Here, Ford captures that relationship in a single frame without losing the sense of movement and spontaneity that made the moment worth photographing in the first place.

The image is given a completely different dimension by Ben Beach's fluorescent pink GOOD ENERGY lettering. Beach's handmade typography sits boldly against the monochrome photography, turning the photograph into something that feels part gig poster, part photographic print. The contrast is immediate, but it also gives Good Energy II a visual identity of its own within the wider series.

That combination of photography and typography carries through to the way the artwork has been made. Produced by White Duck Editions in Bath, the photograph is recreated as a five-layer silk screen print on heavyweight 350gsm stock, with Beach's fluorescent lettering produced using traditional letterpress techniques. It's a deliberately physical approach to an artwork inspired by something equally physical: the experience of being in a room when a live show really connects.

At A2 size, the finished print has plenty of presence, with the vivid pink type cutting through the black-and-white image and the layered printing adding a quality that goes beyond a conventional photographic reproduction.

Ultimately, Good Energy II isn't intended simply as a record of one performance. It's about the feeling behind it: the movement, noise and shared experience that happens when the distinction between performer and audience starts to disappear.

Product details

• Good Energy series artwork
• Photography by Andy Ford
• Handmade fluorescent pink letterpress typography by Ben Beach
• Five-layer silk screen print
• Printed on heavyweight 350gsm stock
• A2 print measuring 420 × 594mm
• Conceived and published by Teenage Cancer Trust
• Produced by White Duck Editions in Bath, UK
• Unframed

With kind thanks to VLURE.

Every purchase supports Teenage Cancer Trust, helping provide specialist care and support to young people with cancer.

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