Matthew Cheney

We first came in contact with one another via email when one Mitch Cheney wrote to ask if we could trade posters. Mitch had begun designing rock posters and wanted one of the silk-screened Copper Press presents… jobbies we had Jay Ryan make for our two-nights of shows in Chicago a few years back. Neutrino, Special Goodness, Lenola, Hero of a Hundred Fights, The Purkinje Shift, Big’n, and Landspeedrecord! were the bands that played. In trade, he sent me the first rock poster he made for a show his band played of any significant consequence. His band, Rumah Sakit, was asked to play with The Swords and Don Caballero. Signed and framed, it hangs with others on the wall of my office. I don’t know or care what it is worth, because that is something I measure in terms of the person who made and sent it to me. And, ladies & gentlemen, that’s pure gold.