Working alongside Virgin Music, the rollout spanned cities including London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Liverpool, Sheffield and Manchester. A multi-format approach — from 4-sheets, to 48 sheets and large-scale takeovers — ensured consistent presence across the UK.

Reflecting the tone of the album itself, the campaign carried a sense of quiet intensity — blending themes of love, existential dread and subtle socio-political commentary into a visual identity that felt as layered and far-reaching as the music.

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Promoting the launch across key sites, the campaign spanned our 48-sheet and takeover formats. The artwork appeared across a variety of prints, from expressive self-portrait shots of Mitski to the album cover, painted by Marc Burckhardt, which features an anxious scene of a perched white cat, representing both blissful ignorance and impending pounce — a powerful nod to her track ‘Cats’.

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Visually, the campaign stayed true to the band’s unmistakable world. Pulling from the album’s artworks by Jamie Hewlett – created in his Normandy studio and inspired by years of travel – the visuals captured the mood of a record exploring death, grief and the afterlife, alongside collaborators including IDLES, Anoushka Shankar, Bobby Womack and David Jolicoeur.

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The whole activation leaned into pink pop culture – from shrimps and candy-coloured 90’s Apple iMacs, to the neon energy of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Baby-G, a nod to the art, music, fashion and culture that feeds directly into Nothing’s wider design language and inspiration. And it didn’t stop there. The activation spilled out onto the streets with a 48-sheet on Kingsland Bridge, graffitied with singer P!nk’s famous song-title ‘So What?’ on site to match.

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The campaign leaned into symbolic artwork by long-time collaborator Hugh Syme, packed with nods that loyal Rush fans know well. It also marks a significant moment for the band – being the first tour since the passing of legendary drummer Neil Peart, embodied by Syme in the campaign artwork; with one of the songbirds flying away, whilst two sit on the wire.

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The artwork, pulled from Kaytranada’s 2025 album Ain’t No Damn Way!, cut sharply against the texture of the walls behind it, bringing the producer’s unmistakable visual world into the street. The message was simple: Manchester and London tour dates are locked in for the 2026 European run – with special guest Uncle Waffles joining along the ride.

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To drop the news with an announcement as big as the tour promises to be, DIABOLICAL joined forces with Live Nation UK to light up the capital with iconic projections across London landmarks, marking a moment that fans wouldn’t miss.

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Working with Live Nation to deliver the news, DIABOLICAL unveiled a larger-than-life creative billboard just a stone’s throw away from where the gig will be taking place this summer. Featuring the North London band mid-performance, and lead singer Ellie Rowsell towering over the street, the artwork extends beyond the frame, personifying the electrifying energy of their live shows.

To build up excitement, the band posted a photo of the billboard on their socials, inviting fans to head down to take a selfie with the band, and step into the performance this July.

The homecoming show will be joined by a curated lineup that includes some of the most exciting names in the alternative scene, such as The Last Dinner Party, Lykke Li, Rachel Chnouriri, Keo and Florence Road.

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To mark their arrival to the morning airwaves, presenting duo Ewen Cameron and Cat Harvey were tasked with spreading the word across Scotland – which included pasting themselves onto one of our 10 in-a-row sites in Glasgow’s Southside, alongside commandeering a supermarket loudspeaker, and scaling a hillside with giant letters.

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Accompanied by two 48-sheet posters, fans were notified that the band’s 50th anniversary collection was now available to buy. With an execution so uncannily realistic, passersby couldn’t help but stop for a double take – the build looking less like a billboard and more like a real fire burning against the city streets. 

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Born from the collaboration between The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands and Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora, Tom-ora fuses their names – and their musical genius – into a brand-new electronic outlet. With a website that doesn’t give much away about the duo, we’re tuned in and ready for what’s next.  

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To meet the hype, Spotify took things further than ever with a bold 96-sheet spillboard and a full digital screen takeover, bringing Spotify Wrapped to life. Partnering with St Mark’s Studio, DIABOLICAL created a billboard inspired by Central Cee’s breakout success with his debut album Can’t Rush Greatness. Complete with a supersized diamanté chain draped over the board, the medallion celebrated GBP reaching him an impressive 150 million streams.

To capture the launch, Spotify were on-site – snapping the build to share on their socials, cultivating a viral OOH moment. Not ones to miss a beat, the streaming platform supported their spillboard with a wider poster campaign around the capital, featuring cult-British favourites Olivia Dean and Lola Young. What was born as quick wrap-up a decade ago, turned into iconic salute to our favourite musicians – proof that you truly can’t rush greatness.

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Spanning across two different artworks and two different formats, the poster’s transformed the streets into a feverish dream, with the album cover’s mesmerising tableau offering a glimpse into the collection of stories and conceptual new-era romanticism the album holds. In Brixton, a creative billboard hosting a replica of the neon sign – From The Pyre – lit up at night, casting a glow over the street below. Built with a concealed lightbox, the sign evoked the look of a roadside motel – a whip-smart counterpoint to the band’s trademark baroque aesthetic. 

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Taking the celebration beyond the four walls, a citywide poster campaign was also rolled out across London, from Hackney to New Cross, bringing the Louder, Please world to the streets and cutting through the noise of London’s traffic. 

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Marking his first major return since We’re All Alone in This Together, The Boy Who Played the Harp showcases collaborations with James Blake, Jim Legxacy, Kano, and Tems – with its striking album artwork fuelling fan excitement by featuring portraits of the stars.

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In collaboration with Mediabridge, DIABOLICAL took it to the streets – rolling out a bold, billboard-led creative across East London that made noise without making a sound. Part collectible, part street culture crossover, this collab fused art, audio and attitude – a love letter to design heads and music fans alike.

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The weekend’s live music was headlined by Bryan Adams on Saturday and Def Leppard on Sunday – both delivering powerhouse sets full of classic anthems. The line-up also featured standout performances from Jessie J, Stereophonics, Anastacia, Suede, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and more, blending pop, rock, and soul across generations. We’re so pleased to be along for the ride, papering and pasting walls in technicolour to bring the event’s branding to life and to provide the backdrops to memories that’ll be around for years to come. With the sun setting behind the main stage and thousands singing along to songs they’ve loved for years, Radio 2 in the Park 2025 proved once again why it’s one of the UK’s most beloved music events.

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The installation brought Nothing’s mission to life – making tech more human, transparent and connected. Blurring the line between product and experience, it cut a futuristic silhouette against the grit of Shoreditch, sparking moments of pause and curiosity on the street.

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Taking over The Platform, adjoined to our coveted 1 Quaker Street event space, the 96-sheet walls were decked out with a showgirl-style spill-board spotlighting Sabrina herself and ‘Man’s Best Friend’. Commanding attention on Clapham High Street, the campaign continued with a tri-board creative build, featuring her iconic album artwork spilling onto the wall – a bold reflection of Sabrina’s current prestige: bigger and better than ever.

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As the festival season began to wind down, the energy did not. With a riot of a headliners including Chappell Roan, Amyl and the Sniffers, Travis Scott, Hozier and Bring Me the Horizon, heads were banging, and feet were stomping. And with an unrivalled atmosphere, BUILDHOLLYWOOD couldn’t resist returning to sacred festival ground, showing up in full force, with paper and paste in hand.

Decorating the festival walls, DIABOLICAL partnered with CMS Music Media to shout some noise about Wolf Alice and The Kooks’ upcoming tours, keeping the dance going strong. JACK brought the spook factor to the fields with Dentsu, promoting Netflix’s second instalment of hit series, ‘Wednesday’, with a selection of witty posters that contrasted her macabre personality with the screaming crowds before her.

JACK ARTS flew the flag for home turf with a series of Northern-centric activations plastered across the Leeds event with artwork for Leeds City College and The Warehouse Project’s upcoming set lists.

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Amid the energy of floats, dancers, and live performances, BUILDHOLLYWOOD was on the ground, amplifying the spirit of Carnival. JACK brought a standout collaboration with Kinetic Worldwide placing MAGNUM at the heart of the celebration, a drink perfectly aligned with the bold energy of Carnival. JACK also brought Adidas Superstars into the spotlight with a star-studded cast, capturing attention on every corner.

JACK ARTS, in partnership with Altair Media, added a new dimension by bringing The Royal Academy into the mix. Their presentation of Kerry James Marshall: The Histories introduced fine art into the Carnival conversation, bridging contemporary creativity with Caribbean influence.

Meanwhile, DIABOLICAL and Spotify took Carnival beyond the streets for the second year running. Their curated playlist to help fans relive the weekend’s vibe, while a collaboration with CMS Music Media Ltd brought the global sounds of Major Lazer into the fold.

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And as the city begins to bid farewell to summer, we delivered one final hit. To entrance revellers into the dance, DIABOLICAL took over our coveted Broadway Market spot with a bold 96 sheet – with All Points East’s trippy, psychedelic artwork slicing through the noise of East London.

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Set against a charming woodland, tucked away in Suffolk’s green pastures, thousands gathered to revel in a wild fusion of music, comedy, performance and creativity. The joy peaked as the Lionesses sealed victory in the Women’s World Cup final, capping off an unforgettable weekend for all.

With its diverse and family-friendly crowd, the event set the perfect stage for a variety of high-impact campaigns. BUILDHOLLYWOOD partnered with Live Nation to bring household names Boots, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, Johnnie Walker, Klarna and Notion to booths across the field, providing pops of colour bright enough to rival Latitude’s infamous pink sheep.

JACK opted for a spookier route with posters for Netflix’s hit show Wednesday and their tongue-in-cheek ‘live, laugh, loathe’ artwork. JACK ARTS rode the cultural wave with the RA’s summery hues, while DIABOLICAL rolled out bold takeovers for HAIM’s ‘I Quit’ tour, set to hit the UK later this year.

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To spotlight the event, JACK partnered with Talon for a bold poster takeover across Selfridges’ home cities – London, Manchester, and Birmingham. Inspired by ‘90s rave flyers, they gave their iconic typography a nostalgic twist, paired with a cheeky Selfridges-yellow caution sign reading “Dance Floor Warning.” To unlock the music, the public can scan the QR code, sign up, and dive into the beat. 

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Joining him was Party Next Door, Burna Boy, Vybz Kartel, Summer Walker, BBK and Izzy Bossy, whose blistering sets cemented Wireless as a global powerhouse in live rap and hip-hop. 

As ever, BUILDHOLLYWOOD was there to help paint the town in campaign colour, collaborating with iconic clients to create high-impact backdrops before a single note was even played. DIABOLICAL rolled out show-stopping takeovers for Drake and 4-sheets for rising star Coco Jones. JACK flexed on the film and fashion front with 4, 16 and 48-sheet posters for Bad Guys 2 and Swatch and JACK ARTS brought cultural weight with Royal Academy artworks across large-scale 48-sheets and intimate 4- and 16-sheet formats. Here’s to 20 years of game-changing music – and the many more to come. 

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Born out of collaboration with iconic British brand KEF, Nothing has blended cutting-edge sound with a sense of nostalgia. With a design that refuses to conform, our posters turned heads; with their transparent panels and sculpted aluminium frames striking a chord between retro-tech aesthetic and London’s fast-paced tempo. 

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Inside, the space was furnished with the same sofa as seen in their family portrait (worm included), stuffed toys and trippy trinkets. Fans were also invited to have their photo taken with ‘Goblin Steve’, capturing their own memento, and access to exclusive merch sold on the day. Streetside, our billboards proved hard to miss, with front-woman Rhian Teasdale’s snarling alter-ego and the band’s rasterised logo commanding attention in the sunshine. To wrap up the event, fans could relax with a warm beer before the band played an unannounced DJ set – treating revellers to one final surprise.

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We partnered once again with DF Concerts and Events to gain exclusive access to the festival site. Throughout the three days, we promoted their stellar line-up and broader music programming across our poster sites in the park. Alongside this, DIABOLICAL rolled out high-impact campaigns for BBC Radio and worked with Live Nation to bring Hot Dub Time Machine to the park.

BUILDHOLLYWOOD SCOTLAND showcased local culture by partnering with Big Think Agency and The Media Shop to highlight Glasgow Green and the University of the West of Scotland. Working with ATG Entertainment Limited, they also brought the iconic Kings Theatre Glasgow into the spotlight, further tying the city’s rich creative scene to the festival experience.

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Kicking off this year’s headline shows, Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C arrived at Finsbury Park in London. Joined by an explosive lineup including Australian rockers Amyl and the Sniffers, Belfast hip hop trio Kneecap, along with Blondshell, Been Stellar, and Cardinals.

This year, DIABOLICAL took over the field by filling the festival walls. Teaming up with Live Nation, they brought the headliners Fontaines D.C, as well as Slayer to the scene. From punk-fuelled chaos and anarchic energy to euphoric dance beats and devoted pop fans, the atmosphere at Finsbury Park was nothing but electric. And we couldn’t be more thrilled to be part of the journey.

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Hot pink, paint-splattered visuals took over our formats across the city – from drum sides to 8sheet and 10 in-a-row takeovers – ensuring a full dancefloor for their unforgettable evening.

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We flooded key locations with striking black-and-white visuals that were impossible to ignore. The creative cut through the noise, amplifying YUNGBLUD’s presence at scale and capturing the spirit of “Idols” in a way that resonated with fans and passersby alike.

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BUILDHOLLYWOOD had exclusive on-site access to Parklife and made its mark by postering the festival perimeter. JACK, in partnership with Pinpoint brought the spotlight to Bed Head in a bold and creative campaign. Manchester’s iconic event space, The Warehouse Project, featured prominently across our 48-sheet formats at the festival, thanks to JACK ARTS who also showcased Factory International’s Manchester International Festival (MIF) throughout the weekend. At the same time, DIABOLICAL teamed up with Live Nation and SJM to bring some of the freshest and most beloved artists to the Parklife.

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JACK ARTS Scotland teamed up with Big Think Agency to bring a duo of bold poster designs to the streets of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee, promoting the line up for the two-day event – including globally renowned Australian DJ FISHER on the Saturday and a day-to-night session from the legendary Boiler Room on the Sunday.

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To spotlight the breadth of what they offer, Bird On The Wire partnered with DIABOLICAL to deliver a bold campaign in East London. Taking over the prominent 96-sheet billboard on Broadway Market, BOTW showcased a vibrant yellow artwork that cut through the urban landscape. The design was eye-catching, playful, and unmistakably BOTW. Drawing the attention of passersby and capturing the curiosity of the creative community. More than just a poster, it was a visual statement of intent: a celebration of independent spirit and a reminder that live music culture is thriving in the hands of those who care deeply about it.

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Download is more than just a festival, it’s a gathering of true music devotees. A pilgrimage where rock and metal fans unite in a way that sets it apart from any other event on the calendar. DIABOLICAL tapped into that energy to spotlight both iconic names and rising stars from across the heavy music scene. Partnering with Live Nation, we helped bring a diverse lineup of artists to the stage, including Metallica, Architects, and Neck Deep. We also collaborated with Sony Music to showcase headliners Sleep Token, while Red Bull Media House took over with new releases from House of Protection, amplified by our signature 48-sheet formats.

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As part of this summer’s programme, the House of R&B and the Caribbean Music House at SXSW London 2025 will take over Shoreditch Town Hall and Strongroom Bar from June 2–7. These two flagship events will spotlight rising talent from the UK and around the world, featuring live performances, curated showcases from influential tastemakers and collectives, and a vibrant lineup of artists redefining their genres. It’s a week-long celebration of music, culture, and creative innovation at the heart of East London.

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BUILDHOLLYWOOD dominated the festival fencing with a unique balance of bold, eye-catching posters. DIABOLICAL worked with CMS Media on an impressive site takeover spotlighting Wolf Alice, Tom Grennan and Wet Leg‘s latest albums, alongside a standout campaign for BOXPARK.

JACK ARTS brought cultural depth into the mix working with National Museums Liverpool, the Liverpool Biennial, and Factory International‘s MIF.

JACK worked with One Agency Media on a Footasylum campaign spotlighting Monterrain and BUILDHOLLYWOOD Scotland collaborated with Think ALT to bring the World Boxing Championship front and centre, using our signature 48 and 96-sheet formats.

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 The artwork created for this milestone captured the essence of the festival, portraying people in their element, immersed in music, and highlighting the deep bonds and joy that define GALA. DIABOLICAL brought this vision to life across London, ensuring every aspect of the festival scene was represented. From vibrant crowds dancing across our 96-sheet in Broadway Market, to site takeovers featuring couples caught in loved-up moments, the campaign brought the spirit of GALA to the streets. 

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Adding to the excitement, a special interactive billboard was the backdrop for this event. Fans could pick a real rose from the display, each one attached to a tear-away card featuring a QR code that allowed them to stream the new album instantly. On the back of the card, there was also a personal message from lead singer Luke Pritchard, adding a heartfelt touch, for fans to remember this special day.

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JACK ARTS Scotland took their bold ‘HOUSE HEADS’ campaign across Edinburgh and Glasgow, showcasing it on a range of formats from 4sheet and 8sheet panels to quads and full side takeovers of our drums – making their orange and black brutalist design a standout addition to our city streets.

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Brought to life through stunning film photography and postered across cities throughout the UK thanks to DIABOLICAL, the campaign is a visual love letter to fandoms and communities worldwide.

Launched in two phases – with the first wave of billboards going live in April and a second in October – the campaign proved the power and passion of fandom. From the matching mod haircuts of the Oasis faithful to the pink cowboy hats of Chappell Roan’s fans, or the bedazzled embodiment of Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour era, each poster celebrates the vibrant communities brought together through Spotify.

Returning for a second time, the hit Spotify Fan campaign took us on a global tour of fandoms: from a touching dance party with a Bad Bunny fan and his abuela, to a late-night (or very early morning) bike ride for Charli XCX fans, to Pitbull devotees donning the iconic bald caps and suits.

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Their vibrant celebratory campaign fills the city streets ahead of the anticipated ticket release, launching their exciting anniversary programme across Manchesters top music venues, from grassroots spaces Matt and Phreds and The Carlton Club to big hitters RNCM and Aviva Studios as well as pinnacle spaces including Forsyths Music Shop – a venue list as diverse as the talent the festival champions. JACK ARTS bring their colourful celebration to the streets to spotlight the festival’s lasting impact on the past, present and future of jazz music.

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JACK ARTS Scotland worked with SNJO to platform their poster campaign for the show on some of our 4-sheet and drum sites across each of the cities, with its beautiful, earth-toned illustration depicting the movement and rhythm of the tablas drums – an instrument which Gurtu has been playing since aged 5, and now fuses with Western drums in his unique performances.

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Alongside news of her third studio album So Close To What, in November she announced UK dates as part of her Miss Possessive Tour. DIABOLICAL and Live Nation gave her the mural treatment in Bethnal Green for this announcement, featuring the fitting lyric from her track Sports Car; “I think you know what this is”.

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We showcased its artwork across various formats, both digital and print. The campaign took a creative turn with interactive elements, including mirrors that allowed passersby to step into the album cover and snap a photo. The highlight of the campaign, was the striking installation in their hometown of Manchester, an infinity mirror that mesmerised onlookers, capturing their attention with its illusion. All locations featured a QR code, directing consumers to the new album to take a listen.

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DIABOLICAL and the label behind the release, Ninja Tune, teamed up to welcome Hallucinating Love to the streets of our cities in more ways than one. Posters were seen throughout Brighton, Bristol, Manchester and London, including a poignant and evocative takeover across our 1 Quaker Street. Complementary to the posters, visuals from the film were projected across buildings and walls under the London night, welcoming the album to the streets.

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The creative billboards featured a large red button that fans could press, lighting up a star – a key visual element of the band’s album campaign. This interactive experience encouraged engagement from passersby and helped create buzz on social media as fans shared their excitement. The campaign effectively connected the band’s brand with their audience while offering a unique and memorable experience that heightened anticipation for their new music.

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Taking over one of most popular East London sites, Broadway Market, our music experts DIABOLICAL and XL Recordings collaborated to welcome the launch of Eusexua. The campaign dominated our 96 sheet in the most impactful way possible and featured a hypnotic portrait of FKA Twigs gazing straight down London Fields. The campaign, much like the album, is sure to stop people in their tracks.

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2025’s Breakthrough Artists from the UK and Ireland include UK’s next pop girlie Alessi Rose, Irish folk trio Amble, alt-rock visionary Aziya, West London rapper KiLLOWEN, former The Voice UK and alt-pop artist LYVIA, R&B smooth operator Myles Smith, Irish pop-punk singer Orla Gartland, global garage phenomenon Sammy Virji, London jazz powerhouse Sienna Spiro, and Scottish indie band swim school.

Our music specialists and fosterers of the scene, DIABOLICAL, were pleased to work with Ticketmaster yet again to celebrate these artists across some of our favourite 48 sheets within the streets of London.

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Heading into their 10^th year, their Play it Forward Christmas appeal aims to raise enough money to fund a further 25 children’s musical futures. JACK ARTS partnered to take their message to the streets of Manchester in the lead up to Christmas to give their vital message the platform it deserves and help a musical child dream big.

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To bring the Christmas spirit to Shoreditch, our carolling experts DIABOLICAL worked with Universal Music Group on an immersive installation set to bring cheers across the lands. Taking over our beloved Platform site at Quaker Street, the build featured a larger-than-life pair of Elton’s specs, modified with mirrored lenses, and glittery-gold monograms, all framed by some tinsel and baubles. Passersby were encouraged to step into the build, where they were gifted with an audio snippet of the song.

So hop aboard the turntable platform, and step into Christmas with Elton, courtesy of DIABOLICAL.

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DIABOLICAL and Kilimanjaro Live welcomed back the monumental tour with six different creative billboards across London, Manchester, Sheffield, Cardiff, Liverpool and Birmingham. Portraying the gravity of the Martian invasion (as well as the dates of each show), the builds featured several Fighting Machines – as if they had been teleported from 1898 – towering over the streets, leaving a wake of destruction across each site. The billboards, just like the show, are not to be missed.

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Leveraging the power of projections, DIABOLICAL lit up the skyline with a minimalist and impactful creative, transforming the city into a canvas for nighttime culture. This innovative use of space sparked intrigue and created a super shareable social media moment. By blending creativity with cultural relevance, the campaign celebrated London’s nightlife scene and spread awareness of a major moment to come.

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To mark the film’s release to cinema screens, and the official soundtracks release across digital and physical formats, DIABOLICAL and Universal Music Group delivered a creative billboard in the heart of London, that truly defied gravity. The build featured the film’s protagonists, Glinda (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) magically animated – seemingly floating up and down on opposite ends of the 96 sheet. Drawing on the album creative, the protagonists are reaching towards the centre, leaving the title ‘WICKED’ glowing in their signature emerald and pink, long into the London night.

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Bristol Beacon is the city’s largest concert hall, welcoming a season of big hitters from Jules Holland and Adam Ant, to movers and shakers Confidence Man and Arooj Aftab; a storming Autumn line up that we took to the streets for the Bristol Music Trust. From large format billboards that invite passerby into the club setting to streetside events listings featuring a host of acclaimed names and already sold-out shows, the citywide takeover connects us to one of the city’s most inclusive venues that makes ‘space for music every day, with everyone.’

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To celebrate the momentous occasion, DIABOLICAL and Warner Records unveiled a creative billboard that came to life under the moonlight. The build superimposes the title perpendicular to the billboard and, under the fall of night, casts a shadow on top of the crescent-shaped prism that reads ‘MOON MUSIC’.

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DIABOLICAL teamed up with DICE for an eight week takeover in the heart of East London that featured fan-submitted artwork, revolving across our bespoke 96 sheet. From the Achilles’ heel of the dancefloor, so to speak, blurry silhouettes and portraits to energetic moshpits, the series spelt out “LIFE MOVES PRETTY FAST”. Rounding off the campaign was a collage of all the photos that got sent in, as a homage for our love of live events.

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Their From Zero World Tour is already in full swing, with stops in major cities, including London, where fans delighted in innovative projections produced in collaboration with DIABOLICAL and Live Nation. Key to announcement, the band teased the launch by encouraging fans to gather at Shoreditch High Street Station, where projections unveiled a livestream announcing the tour. The moment was synchronized with a global online launch, giving fans a chance to be an IRL part of a landmark occasion for the band.  

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To countdown to the occasion, DIABOLICAL and YouTube went worldwide with a series of projections. Throughout London, New York and Paris we set the streets on fire with a creative that featured a cloaked figure with arms open, silhouetted by a glowing ball, unleashing fiery excitement for what is to come.

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Between the floats, performers and dancers, BUILDHOLLYWOOD were onsite adding to the vibrancy of Carnival. JACK and StockX, the online resell marketplace, embraced the nuances and palette of the festival with a collage-esque creative, while JACK ARTS and AKA introduced deep shades of blue and violet, promoting Shifters on the West End. DIABOLICAL and Spotify took the seminal sounds of Carnival out of the streets and into a playlist for you to remember the weekend by.

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Download is a festival for the heads. It is a place where fans pilgrimage to worship together, in such a way that you won’t see at any other festival. DIABOLICAL tapped into this energy to promote some of the biggest and on-the-rise artists from within the sphere; including Pearl Jam, Patera, Myles Kennedy, and others.

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To welcome Jade’s grandiose moment to the nation, DIABOLICAL worked with RCA Records on a fitting tribute for the local popstar. Just hours after Angel Of My Dreams had its first stream on Radio 1, the aptly named Angel of the North statue came to life through the use of projections, with fans, friends and family present to remember the moment of Jade’s ascension.

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Set within the city’s oldest park, Glasgow Green, located on the banks of the River Clyde, the festival delivered a dreamy pop/rock line up including Calvin Harris, Sugababes, Liam Gallagher and Rick Astley – alongside a surprise appearance by hometown icons Travis, before the band hosted their own pop-up gig in front of our Barrowlands billboard promoting their tenth album.

We teamed up with powerhouses DF Concerts and Events who gave us exclusive access to the festival walls during the 3-day music festival – we promoted their line-up and wider music programming on our poster sites across the park, alongside eye-catching campaigns from the likes of Specsavers and headline supporters Rockstar energy drinks, providing the backdrop to the good times.

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We’re thrilled to be back in the park year-on-year, pasting walls in technicolour and creating the backdrop for the rapheads’ days and memories thereafter. For DIABOLICAL and JACK, this meant showcasing campaigns for Adidas, Amazon Music, Art Not Evidence, Live Nation, Sony Music, Specsavers and many, many more. See you back in the park for 2025, Wireless.

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Targeting the beating heart of London and Birmingham, our takeover with St Mark’s Studios stretches into the streets and shouts about individuality, as well as the coming-together of musical tastes. The campaign features testimonials of users – some famous, some not – alongside the year they joined Spotify. Shaquille, 2011, says “My Spotify would say, wow, that’s a man of taste” while Lionesses’ player Lauren James, 2013, says “My Spotify moves with me”. How well does your Spotify know you?

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Ahead of releasing their tenth album and embarking on a UK tour, JACK ARTS Scotland and Big Think Agency brought the Scottish quartet home with a bespoke creative billboard, transporting LA’s famous skyline to Garscube Road, Glasgow.

Captured by celebrated photographer and long-term collaborator, Stefan Ruiz, the artwork from the cover of their upcoming album ‘L.A. Times’ was brought to life with the skyscrapers stretching past the confines of the billboard to create a high-impact, eye-catching campaign.

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BUILDHOLLYWOOD has exclusive on-site access to Parklife, and got to work postering the perimeter. JACK, alongside Talon, embraced the beauty of a one-day festival-fling with Specsavers and their contact lens range. Manchester’s most talked about sandwich shops, Fat Pat’s, made a subtle appearance at the festival thanks to JACK ARTS and (alongside the bass) definitely caused some stomachs to rumble. DIABOLICAL collaborated with RCA Records on Kaytranada’s Timeless album, as well as a campaign for Boiler Room Manchester, cementing the city’s status as an enclave to rave.

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In collaboration with DIABOLICAL, our in-house creative studio team got to work on a pair of creative builds. The first features the album artwork to Fine Art; suitably decorated in a 3m x 3m gold frame, with a “STOLEN FROM IRELAND BY THE BRITISH MUSEUM” sticker top right. While the second paid tribute to a mural the group had unveiled some two years ago, with a police Land Rover ablaze, spilling out above the billboard and smoking in the streets. The trio even stopped by to check it out and get a couple snaps for socials.

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Amidst the festival season, we took to the streets to drum up some noise and excitement. The venues iconic “For twelve weeks the city is ours” slogan, which has reimagined and reinterpreted for over a decade now, was postered up in London and Manchester across our bespoke 96 sheets. Accompanied by a run within the walls of Parklife, the campaign is sure to resonate with those within the scene.

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To launch the album into London, we worked with XL Recordings for a takeover on our 1 Quaker Street site. Supersizing the album creative, featuring Gou in a bespoke mirrored headpiece designed by Olafur Eliasson, the build also promoted her Gunnersbury Park headline show and was supported by a wall-to-wall fly campaign throughout London and Manchester. Peggy even made an ecstatic trip down to the billboard herself and shared it to her 4 plus million followers.

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BUILDHOLLYWOOD, fittingly, had a big weekend of our own, postering 382 meters worth of fencing at the festival. DIABOLICAL worked with Polydor Records, for an impressive takeover of the festival site featuring artists such as Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, Becky Hill and Mabel, and The Orchard to highlight headliner RAYE’s new album, via our 48 and 96 sheets. Meanwhile, JACK ARTS bought some culture into the mix, with Sacha Lord’s memoir, the Tate’s Yoko Ono exhibition, and the Moulin Rouge Musical. Bring on the next, we say.

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Seeking to target young, tech-savvy creators and generate preference for the platform in the context of an ever growing market, YouTube enlisted the help of DIABOLICAL and Wonderhood Studios. Together, they crafted a campaign to encourage content creators to make the most of Youtube’s long and short form capabilities, postering snappy creative in the heart of their neighborhoods.  

In the end, the message is clear: Make what you love, and YouTube will take care of the rest.  

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SoundOn – TikTok’s all-in-one platform for music creators – worked with DIABOLICAL on a creative billboard that brought the album artwork to life. Elements of the creative, including the purple-haze typography, spill out from the frame and into the streets of London, giving passersby a glimpse into the recording process.

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Veteran Parklife illustrator Guy Field brings a visual shakeup to the brand for his 8^th year designing, in the form of pop-art inspired cartoon shapes and a restricted primary colour pallet that pops on the street.  Parklife kickstarts a summer of festival fun, and it couldn’t come sooner.

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DIABOLICAL and Pals Agency collaborated on a campaign that captured the beauty of SXSW, influenced by the sights, smells and streetlife of East London, the new home to SXSW London. The campaign embraces the many disciplines that the festivals pulls and the languages spoken across Europe, in an eclectically-visual, typeface-clashy, fluorescent campaign across billboard sites in Hackney and Tower Hamlets.

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Working with Kinetic, we plastered a ‘poorly-parked’ car with parking infringements – from hood to tyre. Each ticket wallet, including the one stuck to our billboard behind, read “LAUGH THROUGH IT” – promoting light-hearted moments of escapism, thanks to Audible. Our in-house creative studio had a lot of fun pulling this one off, although we probably can’t say the same for the owner…  

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The mind-bending lenticular billboard, which oscillated between dreamy shots as viewers passed by at street level, mirrored the singer’s disco-tinged sound. The campaign created a splash on social media, with fans eager to know where the billboards could be found in person. The result? A campaign that cut through the noise and created a lasting impression, long after fans had passed by.  

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To welcome in the festival’s 2024 lineup which celebrated the originators and innovators of club culture, GALA went big. Working with our music festival experts, DIABOLICAL, the festival took over some of London’s sunniest sites, included our Broadway Market 96 sheet. GALA prides itself on its visuals and 2024 was no different, with vibrant artwork reminiscent of London’s wildflowers. Bring on another summer of sound.

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Team Love joined up with JACK ARTS to bring a ‘f***ing good party’ to the streets with an attention-grabbing poster campaign in Bristol. Revealing 2024’s heavy-hitting headliners Camelphat, Rudim3ntal, Sub Focus and The Streets across key billboard sites in a splash of spring colour, the campaign was sure to kick off another special festival season in style. 

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Teaming up with Island Records, we welcomed Silence Is Loud to the birthplaces of Jungle; London and Bristol, as well as Manchester and Brighton. The campaign was rolled out with two different creatives. The first showcased Nia dabbling in Brit-pop iconography while the second reflected the album artwork; allowing for passersby to get up-close-and-personal with an artist living passionately in the moment while rushing into the future at breakbeat speed.

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Fitting then, that DIABOLICAL partnered with The Orchard, to return the latest release from the Grammy award winning electronic musician, Memory Morning, to the streets. Taking over our site at 1 Quaker Street, we launched a creative campaign that reimagined a bright and blue sky, no matter the weather. Just as the record reimagines horizons, this creative billboard blended boundaries between art and the real world. Located in a key cultural hub within buzzing Shoreditch, our site at 1 Quaker Street was transformed into a space of reflection, a step away from the sounds of the city. 

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We worked with RCA Records to launch Cowboy Carter into the streets of London, Bristol, Birmingham and Glasgow with a creative that featured a side-saddling Beyoncé in a traditional pose and costume. The campaign rounded up a plethora of our formats, including; projections that took over the night sky, paper-and-paste across walls and billboards, a creative build of the ‘goddess of America’ on our new Platform site, a cameo on the Outernet digital screen and even a feature in underground. Yee-haw.

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DIABOLICAL and Talon took to the streets of London with a campaign welcoming the pair back. Pastel-hued posters coloured the hearts of Hackney, Islington, Camden, Shepherd’s Bush and Peckham, in iconic fashion for an equally iconic duo. 

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To celebrate the launch of this year’s programme – Rituals That Unite Us – we joined forces with EIF and Bright Signals to paint the town yellow, creating a giant pop-up brochure installation and a series of free performances to surprise and delight passers-by. Travelling to some of Edinburgh’s most iconic locations, our ‘Big Brochure’ opened to reveal world-class performers; contemporary folk band Breabach at the festival hub on Castle Hill, Scottish Ballet Youth Exchange at St Andrew’s Square, soprano Emma Morwood at St James Quarter, and festival director Nicola Benedetti at Usher Hall, who played a short excerpt of The Lark Ascending on her violin and later answered questions on her top picks from the 2024 programme.  

Festival staff were also on hand to give out real brochures, some of which included a coveted ‘yellow ticket’ that gave lucky winners a chance for an all-expenses-paid opening weekend package to the festival. 

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DIABOLICAL and Sony Music worked harmoniously to manifest the Latin-Queen’s concept of alchemy into the streets of London. The campaign featured two larger-than-life renditions of the album artwork – a hand-painted mural in Bethnal Green, and a creative build in New Cross Gate – where her diamond-tears shone out over the city.

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It’s high time his story was told, and Tales from the Dancefloor, co-authored with bestseller Luke Bainbridge, reveals stories from the scene that explore the people, parties and politics that make Manchester thrive. We worked with Harper Collins to bring the story to life on the street of the city he lives and breathes; the book cover design reimagined on poster sites, takeovers and billboards across the city including hand-picked sites near the venues the book revisits, with bold neon green lettering and archival after-hours imagery. 

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DIABOLICAL worked with Rapport to channel some of that cosmic energy into the streets of London with a series of mirrored takeovers across our poster sites. Passersby, of the curious kind, could stop and have a moment of reflection before getting an answer to some of those big questions posed with a recommended song.

“Is my outfit cute?”
“Yeah Yeah Yeah” (BLACKPINK)

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With a creative that kept it ultra-localised, Epidemic took over poster-sites in Hackney, Camden, Islington and beyond with Rapport. The eye-catching takeovers championed a highly-expressive collage, featuring an eclectic clash of vintage 1800s illustrations, modern 3D renders and everything in between. An image best used to describe the boundless creativity that is possible with Epidemic Sound. 

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Transforming our venue spaces at 1 Quaker Street, Shoreditch, Pirate championed their mantra of ‘showcasing the sound of tomorrow,’ by inviting guest DJs, plus residents and headliners for a one-off event that was free to those who registered.

Over the course of three days, The Sandbox hosted over 100 DJs to the event, each playing a 15-minute slot in the custom booth, covered by multi-angle cameras to capture promotional content for the participating artists. Emerging DJs from Pirate’s burgeoning music community were encouraged to apply for a slot – shining a light on the brand’s grassroots ethos. Headliners included frontrunners from the underground electronic scene, including re:ni, Scratchclart and Angel D’Lite, who offered up extended sets.

Friday saw The CarWash transformed into an intimate gig venue, as Harleighblu, Good Health Good Wealth, Shaun Sky, BINA and, winner of the BBC’s UK Rap Game, LR Loose performed to a receptive east London crowd who were treated to more-than-music, with access to a bar and bespoke merchandise from the event.

Taking the Pirate experience outside of studio walls, the activation was completed by colouring the surrounding streets red and white with a bespoke postering campaign – driving client brand awareness in this key creative hub of the capital.

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Taking inspiration from her floral bed featured on the album artwork, DIABOLICAL crowned the billboards with a floral arrangement, created by flower and garden designer The Terrace London, bringing some much needed green into the streets.

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Now in its sophomore year, Rally is set to unfold admist the majestic trees of Southwark Park in August, featuring a headline performance from Mount Kimbie, as well as sets from the likes of Call Super, Actress, Nilüfer Yanya, DJ Marcelle and more.

In preparation, DIABOLICAL worked with the festival on an unmissable takeover throughout London, celebrating its dedication to music discovery with posters reading; ‘BEAT THE ALGORITHM’, ‘RESIST MONOCULTURE’ and ‘EMBRACE DISCOVERY’. 

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We teamed up with Nothing for a teaser campaign in the Shoreditch tunnel. With the rear cameras of the Phone (2a) resembling eyes, a graffiti artist was invited to add a wink of anthropomorphism to the mega-monochromatic-site.

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Is there any better way to celebrate a 21st than with a birthday party at The O2 over the course of two nights? We think not. Working with The O2, we hit up and lit up the entrance to the iconic arena, projecting the 21st birthday invitation in true DIABOLICAL style.

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The Breakthrough Artists from the UK and Ireland for this year include R&B boyband No Guidance, dance-pop singer-songwriter Jazzy, soul-jazz singer Olivia Dean, indie-pop riser Nieve Ella, emotive indie-rock band Newdad, explosive indie band The Last Dinner Party, songwriter and instrumentalist Elmiene, rapper and social commentator Jeshi, pop singer-songwriter Bellah Mae, and rising indie-guitar-rock outfit Only The Poets.

DIABOLICAL worked directly with Ticketmaster to celebrate the artists (some who we are proud to have worked with already) throughout the streets of London with a series of takeovers, 48 sheets, and our show-stopping bespoke 96 sheet in the heart of Broadway Market. 

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With Kinetic, we created a larger-than-life creative billboard for a larger-than-life musical icon on our Quaker Street site, with an accompanying takeover of our posters below. Championing the Rastafarian colours of red, gold and green the billboard sings out over the heart of Shoreditch and truly shines at nighttime. 

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The band celebrated the release with an interactive takeover of our Broadway Market 96 sheet. Fans, friends and passersby of East London were invited have a listen to the record and leave a comment on the poster, letting the band in on their thoughts.

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The electronic music promoters and livestream platform have made the well awaited announcement that the Boiler Room World Tour is back for its second edition. Expanding on the first, the tour will make stops in 25 cities across the globe, some new, some old, but all-in-all a guaranteed good time.  

Alongside the dates and locations, Boiler Room has also announced the first wave of talent who will feature on the bill, including rapper Giggs, dubstep veterans Skream and Benga, drum and bass icons Chase & Status, and others. 

You always know what you’re in for with Boiler Room who, since 2010, have been connecting club culture to communities worldwide. To drum up some noise for the local leg, DIABOLICAL worked alongside Boiler Room on an ambient projection campaign, lighting up the skies of iconic London locations, as well as a wall-to-wall fly campaign. 

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Taking inspiration from some of the most famous (or infamous) bank robberies, DIABOLICAL collaborated with Kinetic and Fold7 to create a true-crime-esque billboard. The billboard appears to have been ‘broken into’ through a large hole, with the cut-out left lying on the pavement. The inside reveals a bank vault with a few less gold bars than intended, artfully painted by a 3D perspective artist. With evidence lining the crime scene, the poster reads, “This is the story of that lunch break when you found out someone had stolen your crisp banknotes and gold bars in the biggest heist in British history.” 

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Now hailed as the true home of electronic dance music in south-central London, DIABOLICAL teamed up with Ministry of Sound to take their new mantra, ‘YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A DANCE FLOOR,’ to the streets. 

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In a tantalising teaser for the release, we teamed up with Universal Music Group to unveil a series of projections in the band’s home-city of Liverpool, featuring a mysterious cassette tape. Appearing at iconic locations all over the city; John Lennon’s childhood home in Woolton, the legendary Penny Lane, the gates of Strawberry Fields, and Mathew Street – home of the famous Cavern Club, the projections were featured across the band’s social media, and teased by the music press, leaving fans eagerly awaiting more. 

To mark the song’s official release a week later, larger projections graced the world-famous Liver Building and the Albert Dock announcing the song’s title, and a striking poster campaign hit the streets of Liverpool and London.  

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We worked with EMI to bring ‘Messy’ to the streets of London, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Manchester in celebration of its release and critical acclaim. Courtesy of DIABOLICAL – these purple posters coloured cities nationwide. 

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To spread news of this release, DIABOLICAL worked alongside Kinetic for a takeover on our Quaker Street site in true Autumnal style, with fallen leaves foiling the title of the album across our 48-sheet. In true Ed spirit, the multi-award-winning artist even swung by to give the team a helping hand. Cheers, Ed. 

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To help 21 bring news of his debut appearance to his London-fans, DIABOLICAL teamed up with Live Nation for a projection campaign that heated up some of the city’s most iconic landmarks; such as the London Eye, Hammersmith Bridge and the London Planetarium. A tribute to 21 and his success thus far. 

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To bring the news to the streets, we worked on an ambient projection campaign with Live Nation that hit up (and lit up) some of London’s most iconic landmarks in a lavender glow; including the London Bridge, the Tate Modern and the London Eye. 

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Taking over one of our West London sites with Atlantic Records, we celebrated the occasion with a hand-graffitied Big 7 billboard. As the artists created a bespoke mural on the site across the day, it marked a high point of a very Burna Boy summer in the city. 

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We brought the announcement of Drumsheds’ arrival to both the street and the city, through the use of projections and posters. With projections inside Printworks as well as around East London, the campaign creatives featured a caterpillar – a befitting symbol of growth and transformation. Accompanied by tease-and-reveal posters unveiling Drumsheds’ inaugural season line-up, it ignited a cacophony of excitement for what’s bound to become a firm favourite of London’s electronic music and nightlife scene. 

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Working with the team at Capsule, we brought this year’s eclectic line up – featuring homegrown heroes Godflesh, Zambian-Canadian rapper Backxwash, Irish folk quartet Lankum, the legendary Deerhoof and many more – to the streets of Birmingham. Supersonic’s bold, black-and-white, multi-format poster campaign (with splashes of red and graphic nods to David Lynch’s Black Lodge) took over sites across the creative hubs of Digbeth and King’s Heath, inspiring curiosity for audiences old and new.

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To celebrate the publication, Elliot Page headed out on a UK tour with talks centred around Pageboy. Coinciding with Elliot’s trip, we worked with Penguin on a bespoke mural in Waterloo, a stone’s throw away from his appearance at the Southbank Centre. Working with the wonderful artist Fox Fisher, who understood Elliot’s words and experiences perfectly himself, the huge, 10-metre mural was loved both offline and online – appearing on Elliot Page’s Instagram. 

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Teaming up with Mahalia to give the campaign a DIY feel, IRL took over one of our billboards in London on its release day. We graffitied ‘LONG LIVE R’N’B’ onto the site and had the artist sign off the message herself (check that can control) – centralising the personal touches that Mahalia is so well-known and loved for – while creating a big, and very shareable moment on a hugely important day in her artist career. 

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To bring Chop Life, Vol. 1: Mzansi Chronicles to London, we worked with Mr Eazi on a huge mural of the album’s artwork in Tottenham. Transporting its colour and vibrance onto the streets of the city, the mural appeared on both Mr Eazi and DJ Edu’s Instagram accounts, receiving tens of thousands of likes in the process.

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Promoting their WHP23 season, we took the club out of the warehouse and into the grounds of Parklife with a poster takeover in all the right places to all the right people. 

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We teamed up with Peggy Gou’s team to promote the track in Peckham and Hackney, including full-size billboards with shots of Peggy wearing a red dress teamed with show-stopping orange hair. Now certified Platinum, the track shows no sign of losing traction. 

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We teamed up with artist Daisy King on an interactive billboard to celebrate the record’s release in Brighton: the ‘Hex Your Ex’ crystal. Outside Maisie’s listening party was a billboard reading ‘touch to give your ex nightmares’ with a giant crystal perched on a base in front, which passers-by and fans could touch and play with. The piece was enjoyed and shared by tons of fans and Maisie herself across Instagram and TikTok. 

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To drum up excitement ahead of the festival, we worked with FLY on a street poster campaign across Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee. With posters showcasing some of the highlights from a truly stacked line-up, it was the perfect way to take the final festival countdown to social media.

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2023’s line-up saw Arlo Parks, Maisie Peters and Unknown T topping the bill alongside 500 artists from across the globe – including the likes of Caity Baser, Hak Baker, I. JORDAN, Nell Mescal, Sad Night Dynamite, System Olympia, Dream Wife, Taylah Elaine, The Murder Capital and Yuné Pinku.

DIABOLICAL partnered with The Great Escape to bring ‘The Festival For New Music’ to the streets in the north, south, east and west of London, spreading news of 2023’s edition far and wide.

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Team Love worked with us to bring their homegrown festival’s most eclectic line-up to date – including Years & Years, Fatboy Slim, Four Tet, Dr Banana, Jyoty, Sugababes, Kelis, Andy C, Romy and Groove Armada – to the streets of Bristol. Taking over our billboards at Old Market Roundabout and West Street, the campaign kicked off Bristol’s festival season in style. 

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Calling on the city to ‘make some noise’, the orchestra’s latest street poster campaign uses bold typography and live imagery to launch new branding and an epic season, 2023-24: CBSO Remastered. From ‘classics to crowd pleasers, symphonies to soundtracks, heavy metal to smash hits’, the unmissable series of concerts is bound to bring inspiration to Birmingham and beyond. 

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To celebrate the release in the most heart-warming way, DIABOLICAL worked alongside RCA Records for an interactive takeover across one of our sites near Hackney. Talia Mar fans (dubbed Martians) were invited on down to take a moment of introspection and draw a self-portrait of themselves alongside the album artwork and share in some selfies with the artist herself. 

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To bring the line-up to the streets of the city, we worked with Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival on a colourful street poster campaign that took over our sites in Selly Oak, Solihull, Digbeth and Aston. Spotlighting the festival’s huge programme, it was a great way to get the city excited for the summer. 

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Targeting East London owing to the pop-up’s Shoreditch location, our street poster campaign combined illustration work by Eliza Williams with the youth and energy of the playlist and its artists. With the pop-up featuring appearances from BRIT Award-winner Holly Humberstone as well as Lava La Rue, Jim Legxacy, Lovejoy, Thomas Headon and Loud LDN, Spotify provided the means for up-and-comers to go the extra mile for their fans – including intimate performances, first-listens to new music, DJ takeovers, and exclusive parties. 

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To bring the record to life in London, we took over our pop-up space in the heart of Shoreditch with a 72 Seasons limited-edition merchandise store, and a complete remaking of the album artwork for fans to immerse themselves in. We filled the fully decorated space with handmade props and a bespoke set-up to support a jam-packed day. With surprise signed LPs from the band and photo opportunities aplenty, it was the perfect way to engage fans in the release of the brand-new record.  

Attracting hundreds of visitors and appearing on Metallica’s social media accounts, the pop-up shop was accompanied by a nationwide poster campaign – seeing 72 Seasons’ vibrant black and yellow artwork dominate street-sides from Glasgow to London, while they headed straight for the top of the UK Albums Chart for the first time in nearly 15 years. 

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Ahead of 2000 dropping, we worked with Sony Music to help Manuel Turizo take over the UK capital’s streets. In one of east-central London’s busiest spots right in the heart of Shoreditch, we created a huge graffiti mural of the artist himself and the album’s noughties imagery. Vibrant and colourful, the artwork made the most of the extended format – dominating the street-side with Turizo’s spirit and creativity.

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Over the course of the weekend, the station’s forward-thinking output is reflected through the programme: with Loyle Carner, Wu-Lu, Christine and the Queens, Lava La Rue, Arlo Parks, and The Big Moon featuring alongside an eclectic DJ line-up including Don Letts, Daniel Avery, Tarzsa, Erol Alkan, and Jamz Supernova. Billed at the O2 Victoria Warehouse, Band on the Wall and RAMONA, the announcement stacks up more credentials for Manchester to add to its already-impressive reputation for live music culture.

Ahead of the festival kicking off, we worked with the BBC to take its line-up across Manchester. With a street poster campaign covering the Northern Quarter, Deansgate, Shudehill, Oxford Road, and Piccadilly Station, it put the festival’s ‘music beyond the mainstream’ policy front and centre in the city.

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We brought the big, creative reveal of 2023’s Field Day line-up to London’s streets, with ceramic nans and figurines as mascots. With posters maximising the opportunities provided by our takeover formats and billboard options, the campaign took over London, from Hackney and Tower Hamlets to Lambeth, Southwark, and Wandsworth, covering areas packed with the festival’s target audience.

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To celebrate the album release, we worked with Island Records on a show-stopping London mural, and a monochromatic street poster campaign that covered the English capital, as well as Birmingham, Glasgow, and Manchester. Sharing the band’s familiar faces on the street, the portrait shots reflect the warmth and closeness of the new-found sound.

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To celebrate news of Wizkid’s mega forthcoming summer, we teamed up with Live Nation to take it to the show’s Tottenham location. Painting a huge, photo-realistic graffiti mural of the artist and show details, the campaign was a hit on the streets and on socials – with Wizkid sharing it himself, as well as Live Nation.

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Working with EMI Records to drum up excitement for its release, we took over our mural site by The Black Cap with a love-note-ready creative, and had brand ambassadors on hand across the day to help fill it with wise words inspired by Caity’s music. 

Caity Baser made a much-anticipated appearance in the evening after dropping hints across her social media channels, surprising fans with an impromptu gig using the graffitied mural as the backdrop. Handing out red roses to the crowd that were delighted to see her, it was the perfect way to punctuate her release week.

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Its new five-part podcast series, At the Barbs, aimed to distil all of this into listenable conversations and analysis. Exploring fresh creativity and culture with DJ and presenter Robert Bruce on hosting duties, each episode saw him joined by ‘some of the freshest names from the world of film, music and art.’  

To launch At the Barbs in London, we worked with Havas Entertainment to bring Elephant Room’s campaign to the streets. Taking over sites with vibrant and dynamic illustrations in attention-grabbing colour, through our creative billboards and multi-format street posters, it conveyed the freshness and energy of the podcast series across the city. 

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To celebrate the news of the band’s latest UK tour dates, we teamed up with Robomagic Live: covering an open-top bus with a full custom vinyl wrap emblazoned with the iconic musicians, and the forthcoming city and venue stop-offs. Bringing an all-star cast of KISS members along for the ride, we toured the bus all around London turning heads wherever we went. Through some of the city’s most famous spots – Big Ben, Westminster, Camden Town, Shoreditch, and Piccadilly Circus – passers-by paused to capture the spectacle, making the experiential stunt the perfect way to wow and engage. 

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To help Simz take over her home city of London, as well as Birmingham, Bristol, and Manchester with news of the release, we teamed up with AWAL. Surprising the streets with projections of the album artwork and street posters spotlighting her words of wisdom, the campaign creatives were simple but effective – allowing Simz’ concepts to sing. 

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To drum up excitement for this year’s festival announcement, we worked with FLY on a campaign that this time took its enigmatic teaser messaging to Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, and Manchester. Both mirroring and developing the nature-inspired artworks from our 2022 work with them, the campaign hinted at out-of-this-world things to come from the festival ahead of its line-up announcements later in the year. 

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To bring word of the tour to the streets, we worked with Robomagic Live on an ambient projections campaign that hit up some of London’s most famous landmarks. Beaming the band (in green and red inspired by Future Past’s cover artwork) onto the likes of Marble Arch, the Tate Modern, and in the heart of London Bridge, it was the perfect way to make maximum impact with the news. 

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To celebrate Hugo dropping, we worked with EMI Records on a release campaign in London. Our creative billboards brought together a huge, 3D model of the album’s name, and clings with memorable lyrics for passers-by to take away, each in understated, co-ordinating colour palettes. In the north and south of the city, it brought the essence of Hugo right to the street-side.

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To celebrate Fossora’s release in London, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Manchester, we worked with One Little Independent Records on a street poster campaign across each city. Evoking the creative depth of the album, the poster displays brought the art and artist together on the streets.

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To bring It’s Only Me to London, we teamed up with EMI Records to create a mural in the heart of East London. Showing Lil Baby at different stages of his life in an allusion to Mount Rushmore, the graffiti mural artfully recreated the tongue-in-cheek piece from the album’s cover, right in the mix in the city. 

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To celebrate the EP’s release, we collaborated with entertainment company FAE grp to install Cisse’s first ever billboard in West London’s Wood Lane, featuring the singer swinging from a clothesline in school uniform high above the world. Dressed in the same outfit, Cisse visited the billboard herself for a fan meet-up, inviting them to “vandalise” it with fun messages. 

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 We teamed up with Factory International to launch the new venue and its forthcoming programme right across the city. As one of Manchester’s most exciting and ambitious openings in recent years, the street poster campaign showcased the length and breadth of what the Factory is set to offer – theatre, concerts, dance, art, and experiences from major national and international names, including Yayoi Kusama, who’ll set the bar in the summer – with her ‘largest-ever immersive environment… conceived especially for the soaring spaces of Factory International.’ 

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To bring Being Funny in a Foreign Language to life on the streets, we worked alongside Dirty Hit on a striking nationwide street poster campaign in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Sheffield. Making use of the varied spaces our street poster formats provide, it showcased The 1975’s latest triumph across each city.  

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To celebrate the album’s release in London, we worked with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ label Secretly Canadian on a mega takeover with a creative billboard in the heart of Shoreditch. Supersizing the dream-like image from Cool It Down’s cover with monochrome print and text to accompany it, the campaign proves that sometimes, less really is more. Secretly Canadian also shared the billboard across their Instagram and Twitter profiles. 

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To introduce Lap 5 on the streets of D-Block Europe’s native borough, we worked with SoundCloud on a mural starring Young Adz and Dirtbike LB. It got the full seal of approval – appearing in DBE’s new music video for album single 4 The Win, celebrating global success by taking things back to their local roots.

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In the heart of one of London’s most-loved alternative areas, we got people to make their mark on our billboard in green, yellow, and black paint. After layering and layering the personally printed palms, we peeled away taped-over letters to reveal Will of the People in its album cover font. Encouraging everyone to ‘Join the movement’, the billboard’s accompanying film earned thousands of likes across Muse’s Instagram, Twitter and Facebook pages.

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To welcome the festival to its East London digs, we worked alongside AEG Presents to project the All Points East headliners onto the area’s most iconic spots. In Shoreditch, Hoxton, and Bethnal Green, the multicoloured illuminations spread word of the festival on the streets and made perfect countdown content for the festival’s Instagram.

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Combining a mega street poster campaign with projections that took over the night across the the city, the creative was centred by the glorious, triumphant, silver-embellished image of Beyoncé from the Renaissance album cover. Embodying the heady and euphoric world of house music with a mirrored disco horse and a hint of hedonism, the campaign preceded Beyoncé’s album heading straight to the top spot on the UK Albums Chart.

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As The Guardian hailed Life Is Yours as FOALS’ “best album of their career”, we worked with Warner Music to give it its flowers in their beloved Peckham. Inspired by the rosy bouquet centring the cover artwork, we used bunches upon bunches of pink blooms to frame a creative billboard ahead of the album’s release – reshared on Twitter by the band themselves, as the record headed straight for the top 3 of the UK Albums Chart.

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For an artist that knows how to convey a message as well as he does, Jeshi’s record deserved a statement-making street campaign. Taking the DWP cheque from Universal Credit’s album cover and supersizing it onto a billboard, we constructed a giant, 3D model of Jeshi himself holding it up to accompany it on the street-side. Encapsulating both the album’s pertinence and Jeshi’s tongue-in-cheek approach to his output, the campaign proved a success on social media – while the record itself had a glowing reception in the press, from The Guardian and Pitchfork.

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For us, we started out with a trip to the roving BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend, then hoofed it to London’s wild, free and pop-filled celebration of LGBTQ+ identities at Mighty Hoopla. We got our metal fix at Download and matched it with a dose of electronic-driven energy from Manchester’s Parklife – each event as invigorating as the last, but with a wholly incomparable vibe.

From the punk and anarchic, to the pop devotees and dance music heads, the joy and euphoria has been palpable in every park and field we’ve set foot (and poster) in. We’re so pleased to be along for the ride, papering and pasting walls in technicolour to provide the backdrops to memories that’ll be around for years more. So – here’s to a hope for more fun in the sun, and all the rest that’s left to come.

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This edition of the project brings together the work of Charles Stepney and David Axelrod, who’ve both released their own material and worked with acts like Earth, Wind & Fire; Gene Ammons; The Electric Prunes; Ramsey Lewis and The Dells. The commemoration will culminate in a trio of hour-long concerts, one each in London, Birmingham, and Manchester, comprehensively interpreting their music with performances from a 17-piece ensemble – including “genre-liberated strings, horns and percussions, with live visuals and experimental film.”

We worked with Music of the Unseen as its media partner to take the project’s concert announcements to the streets of London, Birmingham, and Manchester – ahead of the shows visiting each city in the autumn. We’re delighted to be helping throw the spotlight onto musical talent from the past that deserves to be paid its dues.

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Decca Records approached us to give Turn Up The Sunshine a London launch. With it taken from the Minions: The Rise of Gru soundtrack, it had to be both on-brand and on-trend. We created a bespoke creative billboard for our Dalston Junction site, maximising the space with brilliant colour, retro typography, and 3D elements to give it a little extra something. Using the album artwork as inspiration, it translated the sunshine vibe of the record directly onto the street.

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Leading the way in our campaign with Capitol Records were mirrored creatives, with the single’s title in attention-grabbing bright pink, translating Sam’s story in north, south, east and west London. Alongside the creative installs, billboards and posters with heartfelt lyrics from the release showed the depth of feeling behind it, which deserved to be heard far and wide.

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With a creative that kept it ultra-localised, Klarna x Record Store Day took over sites in Camden, Shoreditch, Hoxton, Peckham and beyond with Kinetic, paying heed to legendary independents in the vicinity. Celebrating those stalwarts of the music scene alongside up-and-coming bands and artists, the day saw vinyl records fixed and replenished onto sites for lucky passers-by to take away for free. It provided the perfect way to engage people and celebrate, and also gave the day another life online – being shared across Klarna and RSD’s social accounts.

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We teamed up with EMI Records to spotlight What Came Before in London’s Camden Town. While Chase & Status have won awards, topped dance charts and much more, they’ve retained their love for the raw energy and transcendence of a sweaty dance floor. Having distilled this into the new record, it’s been paired with album artwork taken from an experimental rave they held in London where phone cameras were covered, giving attendees a sample of the immersion of tech-free days gone by. With this supersized right on the street-side, the campaign perfectly showcased the forthcoming record in all its glory.

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To announce the record in Sports Team-style, we worked alongside Island Records. Crafting a huge, 3D dynamite model, with an illuminated fuse that grabbed attention on the street, it teased then revealed the brand-new album details on our Shepherd’s Bush mega-site. Providing fantastic content for the band’s social media, the creative billboard also set the scene for a week-long mystery that kept fans hooked. 

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Inspired by the retro, churchy imagery that flows throughout CMAT’s world, we co-ordinated a pop-up confession session for her fans to immerse themselves in. Encouraging them to reveal their deepest, darkest (and hopefully, funniest) secrets to CMAT herself, it provided the perfect accompaniment to the later live show. Alongside the stunt, a trio of street posters spread the CMAT gospel in Hackney – showcasing her brand-new album in all its dramatic, pastel-tinged glory.

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Creating a fully customised photo stand-in to tour around London landmarks, we executed an experiential stunt that brought together Wet Leg’s Isle of Wight upbringings and their tongue-in-cheek approach to the sometimes-maligned modern days of indie. Creating a buzz wherever it went, the photo stand-in landed outside Rough Trade East just in time for Wet Leg’s in-store and a photo op that earned over 16k likes on Instagram – right before the album rocketed to the top of the UK Albums Chart.

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Paying tribute to the city’s thriving music scene (that was paused at length through the pandemic), it signalled a new day for Cardiff’s live industry. Venues like St David’s Hall, The Great Hall, Y Plas and the Tramshed welcomed global names, up-and-comers and Welsh heroes representative of 6 Music’s broad and innovative sonics of choice – including Khruangbin, Father John Misty, Little Simz, IDLES, Johnny Marr, Overmono and Gruff Rhys.

To bring news of the festival’s arrival to the streets of Cardiff, we worked with the BBC to take over the city – using our drums and street-side sites all through its centre, from CUSU and the Tramshed right down to the Bay. Spotlighting the festival in both Welsh and English, it showcased the incredible line-up set to hit the city – all in bright, eye-catching colours, spreading the upcoming jubilance for all to see.

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Mirroring the atmospheric, sky-like gradient that fronts the album artwork, we crafted a creative billboard embedded with a smattering of lights to shine like stars, illuminating a 3D cut-out of Sigrid herself for all on the street to see. With vibrant colours and aesthetic imagery aplenty, the campaign went down a storm on her social media accounts – racking up tens of thousands of likes across platforms.

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For the April 2022 6 Music Festival in Cardiff, Minty teamed up with them to spotlight the event programming in the city by producing an interactive map with beautiful illustrations of the venues by Alex Waeland. In a collaboration with FOR Cardiff, they took over the full spread of our Custom House Street sites, brightening up the streets and showing everyone what Cardiff has to offer.

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To ring in this year’s forthcoming spectacle, we worked with Posterscope to take over Edinburgh and Glasgow’s streets with the festival’s celebratory vibrancy. Noting its ability to bring cultures together, the campaign washed the city with colour to officially signal the launch of this year’s festival activities. From Haymarket and North Bridge to Southside, it hinted at the great things to come during the approaching summer.

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To bring their much-anticipated debut album, Better With You, to life on the street in London, we teamed up with EMI Records. With a creative as colourful as the record it celebrated, the mega-takeover of our Kentish Town site allowed the band to drop their sound right in the heart of their hometown. They also swung by the site for a visit – earning thousands of likes on Instagram.

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For his seventh studio album, Fragments, the “series of 12 sonic affirmations” came from fractured ideas through the pandemic years, woven together to create “a wondrous nirvana” and “a restful ambient dream”, as noted by The Guardian. With BUILDHOLLYWOOD family favourite Neil Krug once again providing the album artwork, the release was assured as a success – reaching the top 5 of the UK Albums Chart.

To bring Fragments to the streets of London, we worked with leading independent label Ninja Tune and Amazon Music UK. Combining a vibrant street poster campaign with a series of projections across some of London’s biggest landmarks, it was the perfect way to launch the album in the city.

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To bring the essence of Laurel Hell to life on the streets of London, we worked with Secretly Distribution – crafting a creative billboard in the heart of Shoreditch filled with foliage and an elegant 3D figure of Mitski herself. Alongside it, we executed a street poster campaign, maximising on the opportunities for creativity our different formats provide, tied together with swirls of the album’s lyrics and its theatrical imagery.

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We teamed up with Field Day to bring the festival’s 2022 edition to the streets of London. With gargantuan headliners in the form of The Chemical Brothers, Kraftwerk and Peggy Gou alongside FJAAK, HAAi, Folamour and Floating Points, the street poster campaign’s artwork showcased the impressive roster of names alongside some genius, giant side-eye placements – dominating streets in vibrant yellow and black, turning heads right across the city.

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To raise the profile of the new festival on Scottish streets, we worked with FLY to take over our sites right across Glasgow and Edinburgh with Otherlands’ dreamy artwork. Showcasing the impressive names on the weekend’s roster and the magical, mottled, summer-tinged imagery that underpins its creative concepts, we showcased Otherlands’ ability to provide an escape to another world.

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To bring Brightside to life in the heart of London, we worked with Decca Records to spread its beautifully serene artwork across the city, with a street poster campaign that took in all four corners of the capital. And the clincher? A creative billboard in the heart of Shoreditch that illuminated the record’s cover on the street-side, bringing its essence to light for all to see.

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We worked with Metropolis to take over London with a colourful Summer Series launch as the colder days drew in – spreading excitement across the capital of the promised summer to come. Showcasing the impressive line-up on the streets, the campaign stretched across the north, south, east and west of the city.

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With the SS22 season of Printworks set to be one of the biggest and best yet, we worked with Broadwick Live on a monochrome campaign for its launch to take over London. Paying tribute to the venue’s futurism and labyrinthine interiors, it spotlighted the impressive roster of nights set to take to the Press Halls in the coming months – including AVA London, Flying Lotus, Kurupt FM and Krankbrother’s Re-Textured.

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Use Hearing Protection charts the formative years of one of the city’s most seminal labels, looking at its innovations with design, technology and music, that all helped to formulate Manchester’s cultural identity as we know it today. Evolving past the city’s post-industrial days through to its place as a cultural hotspot, Factory Records gave rise to the likes of Joy Division, New Order, and The Hacienda.

To spotlight Use Hearing Protection on Manchester’s streets, we worked with Kinetic – taking over sites throughout the city with incredible yellow and black artwork that echoed one of Factory Records’ most iconic and recognisable designs.

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An album that special is deserving of big celebrations as it reaches an important milestone since its release – so for Nevermind’s 30^th anniversary, we teamed up with Universal Music Catalogue to bring the record’s spirit to the streets of London. In the heart of Camden we crafted a mural, filled with flowers and specially printed Nirvana seed papers for fans to take away and plant, making sure the English capital was very much In Bloom for the momentous occasion.

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We teamed up with TikTok to take #thisisBlack nationwide, taking over sites in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester and Sheffield. Showcasing the campaign’s stars in monochrome tones alongside TikTok’s iconic bright pink and turquoise, the run also included a trio of creative billboards in London, illuminating the creators for all the city to see.

It proved to make great social content too – appearing on TikTok UK’s Instagram and Twitter accounts, as well as a number of the creators’ profiles (including Nifè and Ehiz) – earning well over one-hundred thousand likes in the process.

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Motivated by an urgent need to instigate widespread action amongst young people right across the globe – believing that to change everything, we need everyone – their concerts will be taking place everywhere, from Sweden and Brazil to London.

For one of their London launches, we worked with Climate Live on a surprise open-top bus tour of the city, with performances from Second Thoughts, Nova Twins and Girli alongside speeches from incredible activists. Giving the bus a fully customised vinyl wrap, arranging its journey around the city, and creating a buzz on the streets as we went, we shared Climate Live’s important mission with the world in the most creative and exciting way we knew how.

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With plenty of history to recount as a result, Liam and Noel Gallagher have released Supersonic into the world. Named after Oasis’ debut single, the book compiles complete, authorised, and uncut interviews into a chronicle of an incredible career that led them to become cultural icons of the nation – with years’ worth of feuds, iconic festival gigs and outrageous stories to pack pages with.

We teamed up with Hachette to give the book a special Manchester launch, taking over sites right across the city with a street poster campaign showcasing candid quotes and the Gallagher brothers’ trademark candour. With Oasis’ Manchester roots firmly fixed, it was the perfect way to celebrate the book release – right on their own turf.

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A big release requires a corresponding celebration, so we worked with !K7 on street activity to support the album. Crafting a living billboard in North London made from real-life plants and greenery, it was complemented by 3D text of Disclosure’s name and the iconic DJ-Kicks logo. That wasn’t all – paper QR codes tucked into the foliage also linked fans to an exclusive competition to win tickets to their upcoming tour. The street-side display featured on Disclosure’s Instagram, receiving thousands of likes and praise from fans and contemporaries.

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Projecting a mysterious 30 across iconic locations in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Birmingham, we teased Adele’s album news around the nation, alongside digital screen displays taking over city streets. Coinciding with the release of Easy On Me, her first single in five years, it promised a forthcoming full-length album set to delight fans and break records once again.

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For the city’s freshers’ season, we took over Cardiff with student-targeted campaigns featuring festivals, club nights, bars, the Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival, and much, much more, on our billboard, street poster and temporary tower displays. Capitalising on sites right by student accommodation, student unions, key transport hubs, and in the heart of the city, it provided the perfect way to showcase the city’s exceptional student life to new and returning residents.

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Her third full-length album, And Then Life Was Beautiful, finally landed in September 2021 – so we teamed up with RCA Records to celebrate its release on the street. With a creative billboard planted full of sunflowers for passers-by to take away, and poster creatives that mirrored her beautiful album artwork, the release campaign brought the music to London street-sides. NAO even visited the sites herself – with her photos receiving over 10k likes on Instagram.

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We worked with Rapport and Amazon Music to bring Growth (Live from a Dream) to London in celebration of its release. Taking over the street with a creative billboard filled with florals, foliage, and a 3D model of Olivia herself, it also incorporated pretty pink and orange tearaways for passers-by to take away. Olivia went down to visit the site herself – with her Instagram post receiving over 10k likes.

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Coupled with a performance that took the Brits by storm, she also became one of the youngest artists ever to win the Brit Award for Rising Star. Adding yet another accolade to her name, Griff was also designated a YouTube Music Artist on the Rise this year – so we teamed up with Warner Records to celebrate.

Projecting the news onto London landmarks across the city made the perfect way to congratulate Griff on the streets, and she paid us a personal visit for the occasion – with the resulting pictures and videos receiving over 15k likes on her Instagram.

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This year, we took to All Points East, Field Day, TRNSMT, Latitude, Download, Parklife, Reading & Leeds and Wireless to provide the all-important vibrant, colourful and creative backdrops to festivalgoers’ days and memories thereafter, transforming the structures of each site into bespoke poster installations. For us, this meant showcasing mega-campaigns for Netflix’s Sex Education, TikTok, The Warehouse Project, Little Simz, Sky TV’s Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Wolf Alice and many, many more.

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We worked with Kallaway to bring the Design Museum’s exhibition to life on the streets of London, with a creative identity by Studio Moross. Painting a graffiti mural in the heart of Camden – one of London’s musical heartlands – it was a beautiful, artistic tribute to Amy Winehouse a decade after her death. It also provided the perfect way to announce the news of the exhibition, appearing in both The Guardian and NME.

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To tease the tour date drop, we worked with CMS Media on a series of projections on some of the UK’s biggest landmarks, stopping by the Angel of the North, Cardiff Castle, Battersea Power Station, Marble Arch, Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art and the Riverside Museum. Showcasing a red-lit audience in the album artwork’s trademark colours, and a series of mysterious mathematical symbols, the activity gave fans a glimpse of the exciting news to come – and also made it into The Guardian.

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Wanting to give something back to her fans, girl in red decided to put on a secret, surprise show in London – so we teamed up with Kobalt Music to announce it in a monumental way. With a specially wrapped and branded open-top bus, limited-edition merch (for the all-important t-shirt cannons), and an in-person announcement from girl in red herself, the experiential event brought hundreds of delighted and excited fans down to a buzzing Boxpark, and made it into NME. girl in red also shared the huge success of the day right across her social media channels.

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To celebrate Gorillaz’ August 2021 release, the Meanwhile EP – created in homage to Black British culture and a cancelled Notting Hill Carnival – we teamed up with Parlophone. Projecting the band and their album artwork onto iconic locations in West London including the Trellick Tower and Ladbroke Grove, it brought the EP’s animated music videos to life in real-time on the streets.

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We worked with TikTok to showcase the app’s musical side on city streets nationwide. With its music feature being responsible for creating hits, launching new artists to stardom, and bringing back forgotten tracks, the creatives centred around the app’s ability to let users “discover the hits of summer back in spring” and “be the person who knew them before they were big”.

The mega Discover Music campaign took over our sites in Bristol, Sheffield, Birmingham, Cardiff, London, Brighton, Manchester and Glasgow, pulling together creative billboards with 3D constructions, light-up elements, moving parts and flower installations, alongside street posters with sharp slogans in the app’s trademark colours and fonts. Our site by The Black Cap in Camden also provided a perfect backdrop for some of TikTok’s music creators to come and film viral content tying in with the campaign.

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To give Loving In Stereo the release day it deserved, we worked with Kobalt Music on an experiential launch. Recreating the Truth music video at a buzzy Shoreditch Box Park, we rebuilt the set for fans to use as a backdrop to pictures they’d share on social media, offering the chance to win tickets to see the band live – with dancers performing to bring an extra injection of energy. Alongside a nationwide street poster campaign, it preceded the band rocketing to the number three spot on the UK Albums Chart – their highest chart position yet.

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To announce the release of his first single in 2021, Better Days, we teamed up with Island Records. Projecting the single’s message, release dates and Dermot Kennedy’s name onto iconic London landmarks was the perfect way to announce its arrival, and also created great content for his Twitter and Instagram accounts – racking up almost 40k likes.

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To celebrate the new record, we teamed up with EMI to announce it on the streets, taking over our Shepherd’s Bush site with a mega digital and billboard display, alongside digital displays in Manchester. For the album’s release, we supersized its monochrome artwork on sites in central London and Manchester – ahead of it debuting at the top of the UK Albums Chart, making it the seventh time the band have hit number one with a full-length release.

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To land the release on the streets of London, we teamed up with Atlantic Records to create a hand-graffitied mural on our site by The Black Cap in Camden. In the musical heart of the city, it proved a hit with many of the musicians’ fans, receiving hundreds of retweets and likes on Twitter and becoming a backdrop for Instagram photos, while the single climbed up to the third spot on in the UK Singles Chart.

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For a special summer programme, B:Music is bringing some of the foremost names in the jazz scene to the city for B:Jazz Fest, celebrating new and legendary talent in the incredible performance settings that Birmingham has to offer.

We worked with B:Music to bring the festival to Birmingham’s streets, with a bold, bright pink creative spotlighting artists’ names and images in the city. With live music finally back on the menu, it was a welcome sight for people to see.

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Throwing a spotlight onto the UK’s underground dance music scene, the street poster campaign’s creatives took inspiration from thirty years of club night flyers, pairing contemporary fonts with re-stylised acid house smileys and wildly vibrant blue skies. We worked with Rapport to launch the documentary across London, utilising our sites by many of the city’s most beloved nightlife spots.

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Sports Banger is a true from-below phenomenon, punching up and talking back to authority. Born from the tradition of anti-establishment DIY culture, the acclaimed clothing brand is making an art form of conspicuous, unapologetic bootlegging. Founded in 2013 by Jonny Banger – an artist working across fashion, activism, culture and curation, music, publishing and so much more – Sports Banger channels the frustrations, passions, dreads, and hopes of a generation. Always focused on community, Jonny explains, “Sports Banger is a celebration of people, our relationships with each other, and the outside world. We know lots of people from all different worlds and we like to bring everyone together. Everyone we work with, there’s a personal relationship there somewhere. The most important thing is art and fun.”

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After a well-earned hiatus, he’s finally back with new music, so we teamed up with Atlantic Records to give it a huge launch on the streets. Bad Habits is the first single off Ed’s upcoming fifth album, with an other-worldly music video full of vampires, peculiar creatures and a hot pink suit to inspire its street-side creatives.

Alongside street poster displays in Glasgow, we projected Ed’s album art and single launch date onto iconic London landmarks and took over our Shepherd’s Bush megasite, with a digital screen display and a huge, UV-illuminated creative billboard, ahead of the release topping the UK Singles Chart – as Ed so often does.

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We worked with Virgin Music to bring His & Hers to London with a creative billboard that made maximum impact. In the heart of Camden, we built planters onto a billboard to hold bunches upon bunches of sunflowers, each one pinned to a scannable Spotify code that would allow people to pop-up the song right there and then. It brought the single drop to life right on the street.

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We worked with EMI Records to launch Olympia on the streets of London, crafting something special to bring the album into the world. Recreating the golden statue from its cover artwork for an experiential activity, we toured it around iconic London landmarks and dance music hotspots to raise the album’s profile.

Stopping off in Camden, Tower Bridge, Shoreditch, Southbank Skatepark, The Shard and – of course – fabric, the activity created a buzz on the streets, and also racked up over 20k likes across the duo’s multiple Instagram posts. Olympia also saw Gorgon City top the UK Dance Albums Chart for their third release in a row.

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Their 1991 release, The Black Album, is one of their most influential and famous records to date – not to mention one of the biggest selling albums of all time – so its 30^th Anniversary is cause for celebration, with a remastered release and cover album in the works.

We teamed up with EMI Records to bring The Black Album announcements to life on the streets, projecting the band’s famous logo around London alongside digital screen takeovers mirrored in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham. The band loved the projections, sharing a selection of images on their Instagram – receiving over 225k likes.

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To drum up (even more) excitement for MIF’s 2021 edition, we brought its street poster campaign to the heart of Manchester. With events spanning music, food, contemporary art and everything in between, the creative spotlighted events with Arlo Parks and Damon Albarn alongside a collaboration with Lagos-based Homecoming, a queer gardening simulation by Robert Yang, and much more.

This year, we’ll also be working with MIF to bring to life a city-wide art project called Captioning the City – keep an eye on the streets of Manchester to find out more.

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To launch Blue Weekend, we worked with Dirty Hit on a campaign featuring street posters, projections, and digital displays. The artwork spotlighted the album’s hazy, atmospheric artwork, alongside the band’s logo in a co-ordinating bright blue – it looked bold on sites in Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London and Sheffield, plus as a head-turning vinyl mural on our site by The Black Cap in the heart of Camden.

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In celebration of the release of By Your Side, we teamed up with Columbia Records to project a kaleidoscopic artwork (inspired by the single’s cover) onto landmarks across London. As cool and colourful as the song itself, the projections proved to be popular on both Calvin and Tom’s Instagram accounts, racking up tens of thousands of likes.

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To launch her eagerly awaited full-length debut, Man Made, we teamed up with EMI Records. With the album recorded at 432hZ – quite literally on a different frequency from the rest of the industry – it’s a sound that’s “more in your heart space, and less in your headspace” – so we gave it the experiential treatment it deserved, alongside a billboard in the centre of Peckham.

We brought Man Made to the streets by co-ordinating an open-top bus tour around London. Arranging performances in five locations over the course of a perfectly sunny Saturday, we gave the bus a full custom vinyl wrap to spotlight the release’s psychedelic artwork, mirroring Greentea Peng’s blissed-out sounds. Stopping off in Angel, London Fields, Soho, Notting Hill and Brixton, we created a huge buzz wherever we went. Fans crowded the streets, capturing content for social media, singing along to the sweet sounds of their first dose of live music in a long time.

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To bring Butter to London, we worked with The Orchard on something special – a 3D, heart-shaped model designed to look like butter melting off a billboard. The special build in central London mirrored the release’s artwork, taking on its sunshine yellow tone, and all the viral energy of the song itself.

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To coincide with Record Store Day on June 12^th, BUILDHOLLYWOOD will unveil its one-of-a-kind street gallery with billboard images from legendary photographers Mick Rock and Pogus Caesar displayed alongside those from up-and-coming photographers Denisha Anderson and Steven M. Wiggins in London, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff and Edinburgh.

The project will see iconic photographs of renowned musicians including Jay-Z, Madonna, Grace Jones, Dizzie Rascal, Debbie Harry and Stevie Wonder appear alongside emerging talents like Wu-Lu, Scrufizzer, Sketch and Oscar Jerome. Displayed in cities throughout the UK, the striking images bring bold music photography into the heart of the community – and onto the very streets which inspired many of the musicians who are featured.

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For her sophomore full-length, Better Mistakes, we worked with Parlophone on a Spotify campaign for the release that would make people stop and take notice on the streets. Placing reflective 4 sheets around London, each one featured the feel-good message that “Every BODY is beautiful”. Holding a mirror up to the world, the campaign was designed to put a smile on people’s faces.

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To celebrate the release of his new single, Still Here, we worked with Virgin to craft a neon special build that would make its space-inspired album artwork stand out on the streets. The two-track record featuring Trippie Redd has an interplanetary feel, so we mounted neon lighting onto a billboard in the centre of Shoreditch – lighting up Iann’s image to help his other-worldly visuals glow on the streets.

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To celebrate the release of Daddy’s Home, we teamed up with Virgin to bring the album to London’s streets, with 4 sheets and a spectacular 3D special build on our Kentish Town 96 that dominated the street space. The giant cut-out of St. Vincent herself was accompanied by retro typography, perfectly echoing the album’s undeniable presence and velvety seventies vibe.

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The announcement of Happier Than Ever saw us take its serene album artwork to the streets of London, Glasgow, Birmingham and Cardiff. With a takeover of our Kentish Town 96 and projections on London’s best-known landmarks, the campaign created a huge buzz, with Billie even posting it on her own Instagram – receiving a cool 5.9 million likes.

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To bring Sour to London, Birmingham, Bristol and Glasgow, we teamed up with Polydor, using billboards and 4 sheets across each city. Taking its aesthetic to the streets involved a pared-back purple artwork that let Olivia steal the show, with her face covered in stickers that are repeatedly woven through the album’s imagery. Alongside her trademark OR logo, they also formed the basis for a huge mural on Shoreditch’s Great Eastern Street – rightfully embodying the passionate teen spirit of Sour.

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For Flu Game’s release, we worked with Supernature to give it the viral treatment. The album’s name comes from a storied 1997 NBA Finals game where basketball legend Michael Jordan is said to have overcome sickness to see the Chicago Bulls to victory, and provides a metaphorical, conceptual side to the release that feeds into its creative. Utilising billboard sites, digital screens and a head-turning van stunt to play a basketball-style press conference, we spread the album artwork around London for all of the city to see.

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We help bring a welcome splash of colour to the streets of Glasgow with a vivid 4 sheet campaign ahead of the free festival, to mark their move to digital and the announcement of their vibrant virtual programme.

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We worked with 0207 Def Jam to create the perfect artwork that would capture DMX’s spirit – and so he graced Great Eastern Street in emotive monochrome, alongside his iconic logo. Looking over Shoreditch, one of London’s creative hubs and a spot where his records have been played loudly and proudly in the area’s nightlife institutions over the years, we don’t doubt that he’ll continue to have influence for many years to come. RIP DMX.

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Blues Kitchen Manchester will bring their Blues & Barbecue offering to MCR, in the heart of Spinningfields and have secured a dreamy line-up of artists, from festival favourites to mighty local talent.  We announce their storming line up for the year ahead live on the streets of Manchester in a series of summer inspired listings: A welcome splash of colour and hope for a gig-filled future.

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Reid considered quitting the music industry altogether in the years following their 2017 sophomore album, Truth Is a Beautiful Thing, so Californian Soil is assured and ambitious, with critics praising it as “hypnotically compelling”. This release sees the band produce some of their most buoyant sounds yet alongside lyrics exploring that difficult midpoint between albums, anchored by their characteristic ethereal melodies, for an end result that’s equal parts soothing and uplifting.

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A collaborative effort with The National’s Aaron Dessner (who co-wrote Taylor Swift’s gargantuan albums folklore and evermore if you need an idea of his pedigree), Collections From The Whiteout also features jazz drummer Yussef Dayes and Big Thief’s James Krivchenia, whose talents pair beautifully with Howard’s trademark atmospheric sound. The album’s lyrical themes touch on experiences of the pandemic year and weave in historical storytelling, making it a certified success – it debuted at number one in the UK Album Charts.

We worked with Island Records to launch the album, bringing its artwork to the streets both digitally and on billboards, in Shepherd’s Bush, Hackney and beyond covering many corners of London. The imagery echoes the DIY spirit of the past year (note the organic blue pencil marks and tape), which is teamed with on-trend sans and serif fonts from the cover to tie together this understated yet impactful campaign.

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Wild West has been praised by critics, with NME calling it “a tantalising look at drill’s future” and “a swashbuckling epic”. To launch this career-making effort, we worked with CMS Music Media to take over Manchester, Birmingham and London, including our site in Central Cee’s home of Shepherd’s Bush. With a mega-size mural, digital screen and billboards, it was an eye-stopping display in vibrant orange. In fact, Central Cee even showed up in a matching car – and featured our Shepherd’s Bush site in his latest music video and promo.

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We’ve worked with Printworks in the past on an augmented reality poster campaign, so we were excited to team up with them once again for their grand reopening. Their latest campaign stays true to their humble beginnings, with simple black and white blocks of colour and text with the dates of upcoming events in September. While they’re a way off yet, the posters are going to get people excited for the days they can lose themselves in Printworks again.

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The album’s cover is adorned with a monochrome, old-fashioned photo featuring Lana and her friends sitting around a table, presumably at the eponymous country club. It evokes feelings of not just pre-pandemic life (friends?) but decades past, with gingham and swooping lettering.

We partnered with Polydor Records for the release of Chemtrails, putting that sweet and evocative album cover all over London on billboards and digital screens. The campaign brings just a little California escapism to the streets of Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Southwark, Hackney and more.

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Such a heavy, beautiful album needed something similarly meaningful to accompany its release. We partnered with September Records on something special for For Those I Love, a textured concrete billboard that captures the depth of Balfe’s record and the weight of his grief. The project, reading, “I have a love and it never fades”. The billboard, on show in Dalston, features deeply impressed, tactile lettering that’s likely to make anyone stop and think in the street.

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To mark this impressive turning point in Bieber’s career, we collaborated with Virgin EMI on a campaign across major London landmarks. We projected imagery from the album and its videos across the capital, including footage of Bieber on a motorbike on buildings on Oxford Street and a striking film on Marble Arch to promote new single “Hold On”. Featuring shots from the music video and close-ups of Bieber’s face, it was the ideal way to re-introduce the star to the world.

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To mark the release of Collapsed in Sunbeams and to celebrate its glowing reception, we partnered with CMS Music Media for a billboard campaign across London accompanied with our digital site in Shepherd’s Bush. The images, featuring Parks reclining next to the name of the record and praise from BBC Radio 1 calling her, “a voice of our generation”, is memorable yet subdued – just like Parks herself.

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To celebrate its release, we teamed up with Live Nation on a series of projections across Fredo’s native London. The images, featuring his face and the album’s art, are the perfect accompaniment for an album critics are already calling “cinematic”. With one writer praising its luxurious synths and vulnerable themes, many think it might even top lists as the best rap album of the year.

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Drawing on a unique and stylish lexicon of cinematic references, his distinctive photographs often evoke the high-key colour of a Californian dreamscape. With its irresistible golden light, and that uncanny experience of boulevards and vistas you’ve encountered a thousand times before, as if in a dream or immortalised on the silver screen, California seems like the perfect home for Krug’s saturated, otherworldly images.

While influenced by the enduring aesthetic of the 1960s exploitation movies which he devoured as a youth, Krug’s vision seems to depict a world disorientingly dislocated from time. Like so many others prepared to make their home on a fault-line for the promise of eternal summer, the Kansas-born photographer was drawn to the Pacific Coast by the elusive, shimmering mirage of bygone California. “It’s something that doesn’t exist anymore,” he explains. “But it’s a place in our minds, and it’s present in the works I’ve made over the years.”

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We then teamed up with record label Ninja Tune to project the images of themselves using the filter onto buildings across London, creating a collaborative, community energy at a time when electronic music fans can’t get together.

At the same time, we put up billboards across London to advertise the livestream, featuring glowing reviews from outlets for Isles. According to The Guardian, the duo created the soundtrack for the “ultimate living room rave”.

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The record has been glowingly reviewed by several outlets, so to spread the word further, we partnered with CMS Music Media to takeover billboard sites in London and Glasgow. The billboards feature black posters with the striking album art, a playful, bright painting featuring red desert hills, a camel, a blacked-out figure and a skull, that’s hard to miss.

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Recorded over the course of three weeks during lockdown, their latest album casts a gaze over the state of a nation. Its messages about classism and society in general are delivered through the angry yet charming voice of Jason Williamson and the hypnotising electronic beats of Andrew Fearn.

On the first week of its release it landed at number 2 in the UK Official Albums Chart – which is also their highest ever chart position. We’ve been helping the duo hit the streets to promote their latest drop with a series of punchy posters and billboards across London town.

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WMC headed to YES for their first live gig in 6 months, to mark the anticipated event we transformed the exterior of the venue with a with a vibrant building wrap and custom-made front door sign, influenced by the famous Salford Lads Club sign.⁠

We created a bespoke building dressing that transformed the Manchester red brick façade.  Using paper and paste the building was transformed with album artwork designs in neon and black – and removed with ease after their three sold out, socially distanced shows were complete.

The simple act of transforming the venue exterior created a huge buzz and elevated the anticipated gig to new heights – The sky really is the limit with posters.

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The build consisted of a billboard designed to look like an old school recording light that you might find in a recording studio, glowing red when a recording is in progress, warning people not to enter. When people stood close to the build, a motion sensor activated light box lit up. The interactive billboard did two jobs: brightening up a London winter street and drawing people’s attention towards the services Spitfire offer.

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To spread the word about the project and to get fans to sign up for early access, we teamed up with Dua Lipa Live for massive-scale projections in London, bringing a taste of nightlife to the streets. With the project name, a website, the moon and Dua’s face, it’s a mysterious call to action for fans who’ve been missing out on seeing their fave.

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‘Kid A’s panoramas of power were fuelled in part by 1990s news reports of war in former Yugoslavia; visuals for ‘OK Computer’ derived from imagining a nuclear winter, the aftermath of human devastation; abstract imagery for a ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ evoke the unpredictability and power of the elements.

Likewise, the stark, graphic rendition of London deluged by floods for Thom Yorke’s solo album ‘The Eraser’ pictures man made doom. And there’s work like Ness (pub. 2018) – a collaboration with nature writer Robert Macfarlane – inspired by and portraying a very strange landscape, the shingle spit of longshore drift known as Orford Ness in Suffolk. Donwood started making imagery with materials found on the coast: sea coal, mud and clay. But as is often the case with this artist – who is so flexibly and sensitively attuned to making work that elicits feelings, experience and senses beyond words – the chosen media morphed to fine penmanship, detailed drawings that capture both the ephemeral atmospheres and architectural archaeology of a strip of land that’s been used for decades as a military test site. Bad Island published earlier this year on the cusp of UK’s COVID-19 pandemic is a stunning and stark wordless graphic saga. Eighty monochromatic lino prints made over a period of two years chronicle both the discovery of a rich and magical world and, with a sense of inevitability, its destruction.

So what’s with the work showcased in this latest Your Space Or Mine outing for BUILDHOLLYWOOD? Are we seeing Donwood’s sunnier side? “I’m trying to make pictures that elicit some kind of happiness. It’s a novel concept for me,” said the artist. Looking at the vertically formatted Sol, its giant refulgent sun almost seems able to warm viewers’ faces. It is a beautifully pared down design with rich flora in the foreground and skeins of woven luminosity emanating from the star at the centre of our solar system. The source of light and life.

A larger work called Set will appear on 48 sheet billboards and other sites across the country. A detail from a fundraiser released through Donwood’s new imprint The Lost Domain, Set shows a squall of birds silhouetted against a raging sky. It is sublime, and uplifting but still, there’s clearly unnerving depths to Donwood’s foray into cheering the nation.

That said, in an effort to chime with the artist’s newfound shift towards brighter subject matter, we embarked on a light-hearted chat with Donwood, proposing a baker’s dozen of questions covering fashion, beauty, celeb and lifestyle news… All in a further bid to temper the mood of gloom that stalks the land. Here we go:

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Untitled (Rise) is an album full of funk and dance sounds, it’s their fourth album in 18 months, and their second double album in a little over 12 weeks, after Untitled (Black Is) was written in response to the murder of George Floyd earlier this year.

To promote Rise, we partnered with Forever Living Originals for a campaign as mysterious as the artist. Choosing to let the music and message speak for itself, we put up billboards across key sites in London featuring a variation on the album cover, with a black fist against a black background. The result is an evocative, strong billboard that’s likely to make anyone stop and think.

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Working with label Parlophone Records, we came up with something a little bit special: a show-stopping installation in key London locations that felt right for the vibe of the track. The installation, a huge red cup reading, “the whole country needs a break”, is unmissable in locations including Oxford Street, a valuable reminder for Brits going about their day to cut themselves loose every once in a while.

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Shortly after, the band also announced their 17th (!) studio album, PWR UP. With a career spanning half a century, Angus Young and co show zero signs of giving it up. While AC/DC don’t have to work too hard to get noticed, we gave them a boost, with projections of the band in black and white at Tate and Marble Arch announcing the huge new record.

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With the help of some friends, among them CINTHIE and Honey Dijon, Disclosure curated the playlist for 12 days in three instalments that each centred around a different genre and time close to their hearts. To get the word out about their collab, we teamed up with Rapport to take over sites across the country with billboards featuring images of the artists in blue and pink watercolours with their eyes and faces outlined in white, a fittingly cool visual representation of the playlist.

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Partnering with Virgin EMI, we brought an exclusive score by Paul to life in mural form on the streets of McCartney’s beloved London and Liverpool. Showcasing an excerpt from the opening song, “Long Tailed Winter Bird”, the bright, eye-catching mural features pops of red and green on its simple black and white sheet music background, bringing music to passers-by in Shoreditch.

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To spread the word about Portals, an album that’s been called, “a journey of new ideas, a flow of master-level production quality of surround-sound qualities in the tone of synths used, and a range of melodic dreamy tunes,” we dropped a trippy poster and digital screen campaign across London’s streets featuring the album cover, a stunning desert scene.

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Keen not to miss an opportunity to properly celebrate, Headie One and his label Relentless Records teamed up with us to get the word out across his city. First, a statue of Headie One, larger than life, was toured across London, stopping by at locations like Oxford Street and Piccadilly Circus, bringing a smile to people passing through. After that, we put up projections, posters and billboards – going all out to celebrate an icon.

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None of these more established names could claim to have had a better spring lockdown than No Signal, though. You couldn’t move for timeline debate around the station’s flagship show #NS10v10 which pitted artists like Skepta and Giggs and Missy Elliot and Busta Rhymes against each other, with over 200,000 listening in and voting on Twitter as Wizkid took his clash with Vybz Kartel 10-0.

The team is over 40 volunteers deep, spanning producers and DJs to designers and social media managers all focused on the importance of keeping things fun and community-focused, not surprising given the Sonubi brothers’ history as promoters with their Recess parties. Education, information and entertainment are the three key pillars for the station who’ve labelled themselves as #blackradio, not shying away from supporting social causes like BLM and The Black Curriculum.

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To get the word out about Alicia, we teamed up with Sony Music to take over our sites across London. With 4 and 48 sheet posters in eight boroughs from Kensington & Chelsea to Hackney, we brought Alicia to London. On the poster, Keys stands naked and barefaced against a washed-out red backdrop with simple lettering reading Alicia, brightening up the streets of London in colours similar to those on the bold album cover.

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We partnered with Scott’s label to get the video out onto the streets of London at locations like Marble Arch and Shoreditch. Projections of the video were shone onto buildings in huge, larger-than-life detail, forcing passers-by to stop and take a look. Many did more than that, however, even stopping to have a dance, bringing light and fun to the streets of London.

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To launch So Annoying, Muller used our poster space in Camden for a huge photo of her face close-up, her name, and the words “love is so annoying” in scrawled type, making a bold impression on the streets of London as well as on the ears of her fans.

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A formidable pair like The Weeknd and Calvin Harris don’t need to do much to get an audience, but even so, what better way to get people’s attention than with massive, larger-than-life projections? To celebrate the release of their track, we partnered with Sony Music to project neon, futuristic art echoing the aesthetics of their video onto iconic London locations Marble Arch, St Paul’s and Tate Modern.

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To spread the message of their new, remixed Black Lives Matter anthem, and to announce their new album with Def Jam Records entitled What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?, the Public Enemy logo was projected onto Parliament, Marble Arch and Tate Modern, making a huge and necessary statement.

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To accompany the album and announcement, we teamed up with Island Records to take over London with billboards featuring the album cover, a bright yellow number plate-style poster reading E3 AF. The billboards will appear across Dizzee’s city, in Hackney, Southwark, Hammersmith & Fulham, Camden, Newham, Lambeth and Wandsworth.

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S&M2 is already a well-loved addition to Metallica’s extensive discography, and we’re proud to have helped them get the reception they deserve. To accompany their huge sound, we partnered with Virgin EMI for an ambitious build of an exploding violin against a black background at our site in Shoreditch, digital outdoor across London and a towering banner in Manchester.

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To promote the release of the record, we worked with Warner Records to put up a billboard in our spaces across eight boroughs in London. Featuring La Havas’ smiling face partially covered by her hair, it’s a strong, black and white image that evokes the strength she’s worked hard to regather. Adorned with her name and several of the glowing reviews of her album, it’s a sign: Lianne La Havas is well and truly back.

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As part of a campaign to launch their latest album, Dreamland, which is out on August 7th, we worked with Polydor Records and Glass Animals to put together a giant billboard featuring the album cover: an imposing illustration of lead singer Dave Bayley with the name of the album in big, turquoise lettering on a black background. The show, a stripped-back performance, drew crowds in Hackney, offering locals and fans a musical boost.

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Juice WRLD’s influence extended beyond music, and in the wake of his death, his mother has raised awareness for drug addiction, raising money to support young people with mental health and drug-related issues. We collaborated with his label Polydor Records to put up a mural of Juice WRLD in Camden based on his album cover, a bright image of the artist against a backdrop of purple mountains and a sunset. In the bottom corner is a quote that will hopefully further his positive influence: “if anybody’s going through anything, I hope and pray that you get through it”.

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Two songs, “Must I Evolve?” and “Sometimes I Am Pharoah” were recorded during a performance in a “show cave”, Peak Cavern in Derbyshire, in 2018. At the suggestion of composer and producer Geoff Barrow, the band decided to use the recordings of live performances to form a live album, Beyond the Pale, which was released in July after delays. To accompany the highly anticipated album launch, we worked with Rough Trade Records to put up billboards at our sites across London. A photograph of a mountain in a simple, muted green palette accompanied by the name of the band and album, it’s the perfect introduction to a project critics have called Cocker’s “best since Pulp”.

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To get people really talking, we teamed up with Parlophone Records to tease out the old school album artwork, minus the album name, rolling out intriguing stunts across the UK. We headed to the wilds of Surrey to unexpectedly install a billboard in a field for fans to spot. We covered Birmingham with a series of show stopping projections and then took the campaign underground by putting up posters in a bunker in Clapham South – a photo of the site was posted on Coldplay’s Instagram page racking up 256K likes. To support these stunts we also ran a nationwide poster campaign. It’s safe to say that we have been successfully creating hype in the lead up to the release of ‘Everyday Life’.

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While the dreaded ‘rona might have made wooden soldiers of some, Cornershop’s superb ‘England is a Garden’ – released 6th March 2020 on the eve of UK’s first lockdown – has afforded rockin’ solace aplenty this year.

The first studio album in eight years Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres said they knew they were onto something special when Rolling Stone writer David Fricke – having already supplied the sleeve notes – asked for more time, “to do the album justice.” The hunch proved right as the disc later went on to feature in 2020’s album of the year recommendations in Mojo, BBC Radio 6 Music, Uncut, Record Collector, Shindig! and more.

BUILDHOLLYWOOD were, of course, on board for the original poster campaign back in March. Singh explains that the artwork – featuring an androgynous warrior/saint-like character – was designed by long-time Cornershop friend and collaborator Nick Edwards. “…It’s certainly part of the charm of the album, we thought it was different and striking enough to make a great street poster. The image provokes questions, like the album title itself.”

Singh went on to observe, “One positive thing about the enforced isolation so many endured was that more and more people got to listen to the record and the albums upbeat nature helped people stay positive.” It is a brilliant, multi-layered listen. Full of thoughtful lyric provocations and their characteristic synthesis of instruments and broad musical influences while at the same time it’s unabashedly dancey and fun with earworms to spare.

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To tease the track and to show that it’s not all serious for Bieber and Blanco, we dropped billboards in London featuring Blanco photoshopped onto Bieber’s Calvin Klein ad. The ad reads, “Justin Bieber?” and left fans questioning what the pair were up to – they didn’t have long to wait, and Lonely, the Bieb’s most vulnerable track yet, dropped in mid-October.

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To help build hype around Spotify’s 2019 A Decade Wrapped campaign we created two head-turning special builds that each incorporated an interactive element. The first one we produced was for Ariana Grande, it took inspiration from her recent song 7 rings to include some zingy neon lighting as featured in the music video, but also from thank u, next, which spurred on the idea of creating a giant light switch, which passers-by could press to change the colour of the frame around the billboard.

We dedicated the second special build to festive diva, Mariah Carey, focusing on the streams of All I Want For Christmas. It featured Christmas trees on top of the billboard, and a giant Mariah in December to showcase the huge number of streams that month. It was our goal to make it as Christmassy as possible and what better way to do this than to create a winter wonderland using snowfall at the push of a button.

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The first stop for the large installation was an exclusive boat trip down the Thames, coinciding with the day of the record release. With a shout out to fans on social media to join the golden installation on board, the party boat cruised down the river against the backdrop of some London’s most iconic structures including Tower Bridge and The Shard. The voyage caught the attention of everyone along the river, including MTV who tweeted about the unfamiliar sight.

But the tour didn’t stop there. Allowing fans to get up close and personal and pose for pictures with the installation, we arranged for it to make another appearance the following week at Shoreditch Boxpark. The popular area was packed with  fans during commuter rush-hour, and gave them the opportunity to create their own twist on the album cover before work. It’s safe to say it certainly turned heads.

The installation was last seen heading from London to Paris – who knows where he will pop up next!

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The van highlighted all of their upcoming UK tour dates as it drove from Reading Station along the crowded route to the entrance, dishing out free ice creams to festival-goers. The band themselves promoted the #KingOfTheCones giveaway on their Facebook page, and the stunt was picked up by excited fans and promoters on Twitter. All in all, a refreshing way to promote the band ahead of their storming performance!

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We were excited to bring this colourful maritime party to the London streets, working with Talon on a huge multi-channel campaign across the capital city. The creative and colourful campaign included 4 sheet and 48 sheet poster takeovers, shutter banners and digital creative.

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Avalanche Records are an independent music shop specialising in supporting new music and championing Scottish artists, Billy is known for his art pieces and illustration series based on the contemporary pop art movement – in collaboration they are taking the streets of Edinburgh by storm with punchy, cartoon inspired illustrations paired with stylish black graphics.  We posted these across the city to mark the reopening of their Waverley Mall shop, brightening our drums and creating intrigue across our boards.

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In response to the brief, we came up with a big idea that had not been done before – we decided to paint the town yellow, red and blue. The abstract album cover was just like a work of art, so much so that we decided to use this as the backbone for the campaign. The big idea was to turn five billboards around London into individual pieces of art – we’re talking large scale, live art. We searched high and low for five up and coming, local artists to create their unique and inspiring interpretations of the original artwork. The installations were filmed from start to finish, providing Virgin EMI with what essentially was a ‘Short Movie’.

The campaign generated buzz on London streets, and major music titles such as NME got wind of the campaign, creating a bit of a PR frenzy. The video footage captured, was used as content for the Laura Marling twitter feed to encourage interaction with her followers.Check out our video below.

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Further to the album name and familiar, one-word song titling, the creative bridge between 2014’s platinum-certified debut, The Balcony and its gold follow up, The Ride, was reinforced by Catfish returning to San Francisco-based, graphic artist, Tim Lahan to provide cover artwork for a third time. The playful, monochromatic line drawing of a drinking toucan provides observers with no shortage of mystery to unravel as to the artwork’s inspirations and significance. To add to this mystery and to promote the album launch, we worked with Island records to create a minimal yet striking mural, to bring the band’s monochrome vibes to Shoreditch.

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To promote the new release we teamed up with Parlophone Records on a very special mural in the heart of Shoreditch, recreating the artwork on a large scale. The hybrid gold paint and vinyl design dominated east London, with fans flocking to check it out in person. It was also featured by both the artist and band on their social media – receiving 7k+ likes on Coldplay’s Twitter and over 200k combined likes and 360k+ video views on their Instagram.

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K/DA is composed of the champions Kai’Sa, Akali, Evelynn, and Ahri (voiced by real American and K-Pop singers), and we were excited to be briefed directly by Riot Games to promote the release of their first big hit. We spread the word everywhere in London, with 48 sheet billboards, a huge 96 sheet billboard, digital screens and clings appearing all over town in the build up to the release date – a virtual takeover for the biggest group in the AR world.

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Securing space in the heart of creative hub Shoreditch, we created an unforgettable experience for fans, complete with unmissable Yellow Days branded exterior, pop-up gallery and shop. Yellow Days himself promoted the event on his Twitter, receiving hundreds of likes from excited fans. And then to round the evening off in style, the singer performed a live set to a packed venue – the perfect end to an evening promoting an undoubted future superstar.

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The band promoted the one-off “You Me At Shish” event on their Twitter, even recording a special promo video. The pop-up was soon picked up by music press including NME and Kerrang! and event publications like London On The Inside and London Pop-Ups as the word spread across social.

On the day of the launch, fans queued up outside to see the band perform, collect their merch and enjoy the themed food. For those not lucky enough to make it down, the band also live-streamed their performance on Facebook, receiving 16k views.

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The film, The Longest Summer in America, screened around the world on September 20th – and we were on hand to make sure that the London debut went with a bang. Taking over Rich Mix Cinema in the heart of Shoreditch, we threw a private screening party for fans who had won tickets to attend. We arranged and installed wall vinyls and provided rainbow themed ice cream, candy floss and pick ‘n’ mix sweets, which were inspired by the album cover. To create extra buzz on the day of the screening, BROCKHAMPTON stencils also appeared around Shoreditch – and in particular on the road to the venue. The album was then also promoted on 48 sheet billboards in key locations around London, everywhere from Tower Hamlets to Lewisham.

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Then, as the band took to the stage at Reading Festival, we organised a special flyover stunt complete with The Kooks branding. The band shared the plane and banner on their social media once again and, with over 6k likes on the day of their festival performance, the album promo was certainly elevated to new heights!

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The band went on to promote the special build on their Twitter (receiving over 8k likes and 1k retweets) and their Instagram (which received over 122k likes).

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To truly maximise the new release, we then created an vibrant mural in the heart of Shoreditch. Using our in-house team of talented artists we brought the artwork to life, with the man himself even posting the mural onto his Instagram account.  The Instagram post received over 22K likes, as Popcaan encouraged fans to take a picture and upload it with a unique hashtag. The mural was frequently reposted and snapped by die hard fans on the busy street. Check out the video below to see how it all came together.

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Mr Eazi stopped by for a photo, and both stars promoted the mural on Instagram, receiving over 32k likes and 77k video views. The artist then encouraged fans to stop by for their own snap with the epic mural. Those that posted their picture to social media with the hashtag #EaziLondonTown were in with the chance of winning tickets to his exclusive launch party in London and were also promoted by Mr Eazi on his own Instagram – receiving over 26k likes for their efforts. The result – a huge launch and social buzz for a new Afrobeat anthem and rising star.

See how the incredible mural came together in the video below.

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Passers-by stopped to take in the printed submissions on our sites, maintaining an intimacy despite the grand scale. Here is just one of our favourites from the print:”I feel like a tiny bird in a really huge sky, all these things keep happening to me and I keep on flying, but I don’t know where I’m headed, or where I’ll land, I just keep beating my wings”.

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Such a hotly anticipated release needed an outdoor campaign to match. We worked with Virgin EMI on a very special build to light up London in homage to the new album. Recreating their artwork with real spotlights over Shoreditch, the billboard was certainly hard to miss and high impact on a busy east London street.

In addition to the special build, we also ran a large billboard campaign in Hammersmith – a poster that certainly got the band excited as they visited the site to pose for a photo in front.

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We worked with Polydor on a high impact, multi-format campaign to get the word out on the street. In the lead up to the album release, we executed a 48 sheet poster campaign throughout London. The vibrant typographically led artwork from art director Brian Roettinger is a deliberately minimalistic design to force the consumer to focus on the message of the album without distraction – and it certainly looked powerful on the streets.

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We also ran a high impact poster campaign across the cities hosting the tour (London, Manchester, Cardiff and Glasgow) with 4 sheet poster takeovers and large format billboards. You could also spot Jay and Bey looking fierce on digital screens around London.

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On the day of the gig, we set up shop in Chalk Farm opposite The Roundhouse, arranging, installing and dressing the venue from head to toe. H.E.R. promoted the pop-up shop on social media, encouraging fans and passers-by to stop in and listen to music on Beats by Dre, pick up new merchandise – and even catch a glimpse of the singer herself as she stopped by the shop ahead of the gig.

The promotion received over 23k likes on her Instagram in a matter of hours. In addition, to create some buzz, we also arranged a special silhouette photo-booth, recreating the artwork from H.E.R.’s new album and giving fans the opportunity to upload their own cover to their social media.

In the evening, the shop provided an ideal setting for a party as RCA Label Group and Beats by Dre took over, arranging an invite-only event.

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The album cover in itself became iconic, making a star of the rather large teenager on the front and his t-shirt, which brandished the slogan “I’m #1 so why try harder”. At the time of release there was even a search to find the man in question, but despite a series of enquiries he was sadly never identified.

To celebrate the special 20-year anniversary reissue of the album, delivered complete with pizza box, we teamed up with BMG to renew the hunt for the unknown star of the record. On the day of Fatboy’s huge gig at Ally Pally in February, a series of cryptic “missing” posters popped up around the venue with the tear off #20WhyTryHarder. A special cut-out standee also made its way around London, journeying from Soho to Brick Lane, onwards to Camden, and finally finding its place at Ally Pally for the fans to enjoy and get snapped ahead of the gig.

Those that stumbled across the posters or standee were encouraged to upload pictures to Twitter, Facebook or Instagram to be in with a chance to win a limited edition Fatboy Slim Box Set – with often hilarious results. Even Norman Cook himself added to the hunt, posting a “missing” poster on his Instagram account. The picture posed the question #HaveYouSeenFatboy? and received over 5k likes ahead of his north London show.

To further add to the hunt on the day of the album reissue, the teenage Fatboy mysteriously popped up in locations around London and Brighton. If fans were lucky enough to catch a glimpse of him, they were encouraged to tweet Norman with #20WhyTryHarder for an opportunity to win a special prize. The competition garnered over 15k likes on Fatboy Slim’s Instagram in just one day.

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To help launch the new album we worked with Domino Recording on a special billboard in east London. The band truly reached new heights, as the members ascended skywards out of the artwork. Lead singer Alex Kapranos even posted a picture of himself in front of the billboard – which received over 4,000 likes from excited fans in a matter of hours.

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We were excited to work with Virgin EMI on a special outdoor teaser for the campaign, creating attention-grabbing street art on a billboard in central London. The artwork for “Get Out”, featuring a black heart with a bright blue cross strikethrough, was gradually painted on to the poster over the course of the week, mirroring the bands own online teasers. Finally on 1^st February a stencil revealed more information, coinciding with the single release date. The campaign created a buzz on social with fans excitedly guessing what the poster could mean – it had to be the arrival of #CHV3.

See how the graffiti came to life in our time-lapse video below.

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