Queen’s Campus
Queen’s University is, on paper, a place of learning. Ideas are exchanged, minds are sharpened, futures are built. But every campus also contains it’s shadow government: the pubs, the gyms, the halls, the rooms where official business gives way to the far more urgent business of live music.
You can almost picture the meeting where this was approved.
“So this is the campus pub.”
“Yes.”
“And tonight we’re putting a punk band in it.”
“Yes.”
“Excellent.”
“And this is the gymnasium?”
“Yes.”
“The one intended for wholesome physical activity?”
“Yes.”
“And instead tonight it will contain a bassline powerful enough to rearrange internal organs.”
“Yes.”
“Excellent.”
These posters mark the nights when the campus briefly stopped being a university and became something far more important: a place where noise echoed through hallways, spilled out of pubs, rattled gym rafters, and no one was thinking about midterms.
By morning, the floors would be swept and the buildings would return to their respectable university lives, as though none of it had happened. But the posters know better.
Venues represented in this collection include: Alfie’s Pub, Clark Hall Pub, Grant Hall, Queen’s Pub, Queen’s ARC Main Gym, Robert Sutherland Courtland, Louise D Acton Gym, and Jock Harty Arena.
Artists appearing in this poster collection: 2 for Flinching, Amon Tobin, Atlantis, Arcade Fire, A Tribe Called Red, Bob McBride, Boogie, B.Y.O.W, The Caspers, Coldwater, The Crucible, Cub, DJ Food, Downchild Blues Band, Dynamic Syncopation, Evaporators, Fink, Greaseball Boogie Band, Inspector Fuzz, Ken Tobias, Leather Uppers, Lighthouse, Mike Quatro, The Notorious Wig, The Ride Theory, Ronnie Hawkins, The Smugglers, Stand GT, Strictly Kev, Veda Hille and Her Skilled and Devoted Band.
If you’d like to keep roaming the campus after dark, the tags at the bottom of the page will lead you deeper into a few of the bands tucked into this collection. For some bonus Queen’s campus posters, take a peek at our Sarah Harmer and The Mahones collections.
Naturally, the Grad Club has been granted it’s own page elsewhere in the archive, having produced enough posters (and enough nights of minor legend) to justify it’s own small republic. Also, our Isabel Bader/Tett Centre collection can be found here.
