We start Roads in 2016 – four friends with Bristol connections – looking to create something regular in south-east London. It’s a free daytime music event on a Saturday. For us, it’s about making a commitment once a month to meet, invite someone along that we haven’t seen for a while to come and play, have a pint and a catch up. We want it to feel easy and open, with the potential for a community to develop around it. We run it until 2020, totalling 30 events. Our guests – usually a friend of ours and a friend of theirs – choose the direction each month, and we simply join them for the ride. They’re free to take it wherever they want, with the extended session allowing them to play things they don’t normally get to play out. It takes place in Rye Wax in Peckham. During the day it’s a cafe and record store, transforming as evening approaches into a bar and club. We kind of fit into things as an afternoon warm up, starting at 2pm with some digi-dub heaters or ambient cuts and taking up the tempo and the bass before it’s time to leave some time around 10pm. We enjoy the different ways in which our guests curate the day. Some events are rowdy extended crew line-ups, while others feel like earwigging on a conversation between two old friends. Guests play unplayed records they’ve just bought, and experiment with new bits of kit. Punters swing by solo, or (occasionally) by coachload from Swansea(!), never failing to overwhelm the small bar with espresso martini orders. There’s a gradual transition from rugs and tables to dancefloor, when the time feels right. I create a typographic-led, perspective-driven, black and white poster. The main typeface is ‘Transport’, specifically designed for road signs. It is distorted as though viewed through a wide angle lens, while referencing the imperfect look of thermoplastic paint road markings. I use After Effects in order to manipulate the type in 3D space and the Trapcode Form plugin to create the look and feel, rendering a single frame from the timeline. I print limited runs of risograph posters with 16 Tonne Press; the rough aesthetic of the print technique enhancing the final artwork. For a free event, London is too big to start postering, so more time is invested in content for social media. The visual approach aims to capture the vibe, placing each event’s poster on an imagined wall, contextualised by other (sometimes oblique, sometimes humorous) posters and visual detritus. Past event posters often feature in the background of these and key event information is repeated in an almost subliminal way.