The Murder Capital Aesthetic

artwork, design and style

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February 2020.  Photo :  Molly Keane.

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Sensational live performance from the 3voor12 Song of the Year awards show.  In terms of fashion notes, look out for a new look from James in the shirt department.  The main thing here though is that this is the first broadcast-quality footage of the band in front of an audience. Simply stunning.     

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RTE 2fm broadcast of Green & Blue, 25th November 2019 

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The Murder Capital North America Tour 2020 poster.  Brings together the Grayce Leonard photo with the colour palate used on the Don’t Cling To Life artwork.  

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Official video for More is Less by The Murder Capital

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The tour poster for The Murder Capital January / February 2020 European tour features a detail from The Fallen Angel (1868) by Alexandre Cabanel 

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Settled Lines.  Official Murder Capital live video.  Features Green & Blue, Don’t Cling to Life, Feeling Fades and Love Love Love. 

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Photo by David Poulain

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Don’t Cling To Life video

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Artwork for Don’t Cling to Life (digital release) 

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Green and Blue and Feeling Fades live at 3voor12, Netherlands

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When I Have Fears album and merchandise - t shirt, badge, journal, t shirt 

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When I have Fears

The Murder Capital album takes its title from a poem by John Keats entitled When I have Fears That I May Cease To Be.  The band have said the poem was key to their setting of direction for the album.

When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be by John Keats

When I have fears that I may cease to be   Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-pilèd books, in charactery,   Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starred face,   Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace   Their shadows with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,   That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power   Of unreflecting love—then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

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When I have Fears album artwork.  Photograph of refugees by Chris Steele Perkins, Jordan 1990

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Pretty sure this poster must have been done by the promoter rather than the wider TMC team.  But its great, so its included here.  

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Official video for Green and Blue.