Belfast City Council takes further steps to cover flypostering

April 6th, 2009

I spotted this today in Belfast:

belfast city council flypostering painting maliciousness

[cameraphone photos]

I have few words to say about this. Most of them expletives.
To me this is just plain maliciousness. Rather than tear them down, like normally happens a few times a week, they have decided to paint over them. If they want to ‘Keep Belfast Clean’ they should really think about doing something that creates the opposite effect.

This has been talked about many times before online (including local music forum Fastfude). The official stance is that the act of Flypostering is illegal within the city, yet the Council rarely attempts to suggest alternatives.

Yes, these posters all pasted on top of each other can look dirty and unsightly, yet those within the local arts and music communities, local promoters and the general public often rely on these areas as a source of information of upcoming gigs and events. Where are the alternatives (excluding online for now)?

Tagged: Belfast, council, Flypostering | 6 comments »

6 Comments

wtf. though careful to point the finger at the council. there are a lot of weirdos in south belfast who make it their business to go around taking down the posters.

Posted by keith on 06 Apr 2009 at 11:05 pm Reply to this comment

hey

great great photos, whats the location [annoyingly fanilar]

alos im gonna kill two cunts with one stonenhere, seen your post about the dublin meetup, i would love to do that….but im working :/

but next time you do something like that,, post it, post it, post it, ill come, great blog keep it up.

Posted by Mark McCann on 08 Apr 2009 at 1:43 am Reply to this comment

@Mark McCann – Thanks Mark – Next time.

Posted by Phil on 08 Apr 2009 at 6:53 am Reply to this comment

laverys have taken to using chalk on the green paint to advertise some gig or other…made me chuckle….

Posted by manuel on 08 Apr 2009 at 10:32 pm Reply to this comment

@manuel – I spotted this today and was annoyed at the fact that my phone had died so i couldnt take a pic of it. fair play to them.

Posted by Phil on 08 Apr 2009 at 10:33 pm Reply to this comment

aye, clever low-tech solution: http://fastfude.org/topic.php?id=33658&start=84

I don’t think there’s a quick fix to an arms race, other than to recognise the demand and supply a legitimate and useful method that promoters can use.

Posted by Roger on 09 Apr 2009 at 8:46 am Reply to this comment