La Santa Cecilia & Pins Pals
by Sandrini Gonzalez, posted on 2009-07-10 15:46:59
Loosely inspired by the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) spirit of punk bands, La Santa Cecilia’s home-made pins have become an essential element to the band’s live shows and has brought creativity and originality to LSC’s merchandise, which to many are collectibles. La Santa Cecilia not only create original music and hand paint their cd covers, but they also make their own pins which one can buy at their performances for under $4, some are even as low as $1. Why so affordable? It’s a great way to generate additional income and financial support for the bands’ future while allowing anyone on a budget to take home something home-made and unique after seeing their memorable live shows.
Friends, family and band members get together and cut out shapes and figures out of felt, foam, and recycled fabrics and materials. The designs for the pins range from unicorns to donuts, cacti to sombreros and even smiley-faced condoms, for their more unabashed fans. They assemble the pins with a glue gun and a small army that’s willing to help out. The week before a big event is always really busy as they gather to come up with more pin ideas or to simply mass produce them. Somebody glues, someone else cuts more figures, while someone else is using puffy paint to write the band’s name on the various shapes and designs.
Sometimes the pins get googly, plastic eyes and/or are embellished with all kinds of arts & crafts supplies donated by friends or bought by the band themselves. The pins have really developed into another trademark for the rising band; people at their shows ask for them and some even collect them as different designs are made available. Whenever somebody buys one, they get their picture taken wearing the pin and they then become part of La Santa Cecilia’s Pin Pals on their Myspace page.
There are even people who have gotten them as a gift or who didn’t get their picture taken that e-mailed the band a picture of them wearing it so that they can add them to the Pin Pals page. Want to be a Pin Pal? Go see La Santa Cecilia live and buy pin.
www.myspace.com/lasantacecilia
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