Each week, we’ll be posting a brand new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Regular guitarist is visually documenting folks, locations and occasions from his band’s 42-year run, with textual content by vocalist Jean Smith.
With Sitting On Snaps being launched 30 years in the past, it appears becoming to take a take a look at that period by way of Mecca Regular’s eyes. A swap to Matador Data resulted in three new albums, excursions included Europe and New Zealand, with press curiosity associated to DIY, riot grrrl and grunge, however nearly all press was generated by touring. DVDs had been invented in 1995, however the frequent use of the web was nonetheless years away. Excursions had been booked by landline telephones and fax machines. Passports weren’t required to journey between the U.S. and Canada till 2009. Scenes had been the spine of all the pieces, from placing up posters to discovering a spot to remain after reveals, though I don’t suppose we referred to them as scenes—it was simply regular life. Overlapping communities sharing info with touring bands connecting based mostly on who was in your invoice and who got here to the present.
“Pamela Makes Waves” from Sitting On Snaps (Matador, 1995) (obtain):
