Tiss Vampiric Artwork, 2023
Asside from designing, I am the drummer for Gothic-Cabaret band, Tiss Vampiric. I design and hand-make the band’s merchandise and stage banners, and create multi-platform promotional materials ahead of upcoming gigs and tours. I also collaborate with other artists on the band’s styling, set design and project management.
The last batch of merchandise made was for the Tiss Vampiric ‘Take it, Eat it, My Body’ UK tour. This included T-shirts, tote bags, patches and screen prints which sold out after only three shows. Other promotional materials I make include videos, album artwork, social media posts and posters.
Album artwork
Live shows
Photos from ‘Love’s Suicide’, a single-release show at Moth Club, 08.08.23.
Posters
Posters for ‘Love’s Suicide’ at Moth Club, 08.08.23, and ‘Travesty of Song’ at New Cross Inn, 25.05.23.
Merchanidse
Take it, Eat it, My body tour merchandise, 2023.
Stage banners
Hand-painted banner for the ‘Take It, Eat It, My Body’ UK tour, 2023.
Moth Club review
Aidan Dunne, 08.08.23
100 Club review
Pete Woods, 20.10.23
“There is an excellent level freshness and texture within the bands music and visual elements. It seems that there is a certain push again towards the Edwardian-esq arcana and vampiric forces in underground music scenes. First noted with Walt Disco a few years ago around Windmill and Shacklewell stages and now currently with Wednesday’s Child too dropping Seven Sisters only in recent weeks it would be a pleasure to have a full on push towards these bands taking over venues much more often. The cinematic experience transports you away from the 277 bus or the thought of the last Overground and fully immerses you into what is happening around you both on stage and from what Tiss stupendously demonstrated, by dividing the crowd like the Red Sea, using his charm and stage presence to force brutal mosh pits and have the dedication from fans to have the finest of crowd surfs - This is exactly what you would call a top notch live performance.”
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“New single ‘Love’s Suicide’ was a carnival caper complete with avant-manic punky energy and ‘The Ripper’ comes across like a long-lost Cramps number. By now there’s not a limb in the joint that’s not twitching.
With the vocalist acting like a complete header throughout and stripping down for final a bare-chested act of bravado this was a very welcome introduction. Hopefully it won’t be the last either as this was a highly-charged and very entertaining set.”
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“Local legend, Tiss, formerly of the project Genie Genie introduced Tiss Vampiric to the people of their musical hometown, Leeds, as a part of their Take it, Eat it My body tour. The band has a seven-member line up including two stylish backing singers and a prowling saxophonist who brought the heavier moments of the songs to life. Their show was a dazzling spectacle, more akin to the West End than the middle floor of Headrow House.
Employing controlled, cabaret-style movements and interacting with the crowd through mime artist facial expressions, Rocky Horror Show truly met rock ‘n’ roll. The usually tentative Headrow audience gave in to the theatrics and danced the most fervently to the bopping, hip-shaking track Jack The Ripper. A song that even the evil Count Dracula himself would dance to.”
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With the vocalist acting like a complete header throughout and stripping down for final a bare-chested act of bravado this was a very welcome introduction. Hopefully it won’t be the last either as this was a highly-charged and very entertaining set.”
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Headrow House review
Basement Leeds, 18.02.23
“Local legend, Tiss, formerly of the project Genie Genie introduced Tiss Vampiric to the people of their musical hometown, Leeds, as a part of their Take it, Eat it My body tour. The band has a seven-member line up including two stylish backing singers and a prowling saxophonist who brought the heavier moments of the songs to life. Their show was a dazzling spectacle, more akin to the West End than the middle floor of Headrow House.
Employing controlled, cabaret-style movements and interacting with the crowd through mime artist facial expressions, Rocky Horror Show truly met rock ‘n’ roll. The usually tentative Headrow audience gave in to the theatrics and danced the most fervently to the bopping, hip-shaking track Jack The Ripper. A song that even the evil Count Dracula himself would dance to.”