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PSA: three nice screen printed posters from Boo-Hooray for sale in the UK - this used to be a bricks and mortar shop in London, but now online only. The posters are £120 each which is a lot, but not massively excessive imo - i was considering the Chrysler Art Museum one myself, but they're bigger than i thought, about 66 x47 cm

https://pleasuresofpasttimes.com/?s=boo+hooray

Is the shop you refer to the one that used to be in Cecil Court, off Charing Cross Road? I used to love going in there. Don't think I ever bought anything though!

these were around about 10-15 years ago thought the Memorial Hall one was in red and green not black. Little expensive but they were very high quality.

PSA: three nice screen printed posters from Boo-Hooray for sale in the UK - this used to be a bricks and mortar shop in London, but now online only. The posters are £120 each which is a lot, but not massively excessive imo - i was considering the Chrysler Art Museum one myself, but they're bigger than i thought, about 66 x47 cm

Are these repros of what had been contemporary posters, or new designs in a retro style?

Is the shop you refer to the one that used to be in Cecil Court, off Charing Cross Road? I used to love going in there. Don't think I ever bought anything though!

Well maybe if you did it'd still be open!

Sheila Klein wrote: ↑05 Feb 2026 03:55

PSA: three nice screen printed posters from Boo-Hooray for sale in the UK - this used to be a bricks and mortar shop in London, but now online only. The posters are £120 each which is a lot, but not massively excessive imo - i was considering the Chrysler Art Museum one myself, but they're bigger than i thought, about 66 x47 cm

Are these repros of what had been contemporary posters, or new designs in a retro style?

I hadn't seen the Provincetown one before, but i think they are all 1960s designs - have seen the first 2 reproduced elsewhere.

I am the table! wrote: ↑04 Feb 2026 21:41 Is the shop you refer to the one that used to be in Cecil Court, off Charing Cross Road? I used to love going in there. Don't think I ever bought anything though!

I know the one you mean, was near where I used to work, nice shop, closed in 2020 like a lot of others. It had a small record section in the back for a while that I got a few things from (Pretty Things, King Curtis, Blind Boys of Alabama...), but this was a bigger shop, i think on the edge of Spitalfields Market - a bit off the beaten track for me.

£120 seemed a lot until I realised that they are silkscreened and from an original limited Boo-Hoo run. I presume the originals were printed edge-to-edge, but I guess an added white border makes framing them easier. I had the idea that these posters were in Alfredo's first book, but I just got it out and his book what ads for gigs in there are all press-clippings I think. So I wonder whether these concert bill-board posters have ever appeared in a book?

I'd forgotten, but yes, they are in the Boo-Hooray c/o the Velvet Underground, New York City book.

simonm wrote: ↑05 Feb 2026 12:33 I'd forgotten, but yes, they are in the Boo-Hooray c/o the Velvet Underground, New York City book.

Ah. Ok, yes – thank-you. I have it.