CATALOG RECORDApr 7, 1985
Cherry’s
Trouble Funk · Ayre Rayde · Petworth · Physical Wundors
21 Atlantic Street SW, Washington, D.C.Visual archive • shows • promotion
POSTERS IN
TIME ORDER.
The archive is organized by the show date whenever that date is verified. If a piece has no year, song titles, album references and other clues can place it in a likely window—but an estimate stays labeled as an estimate. Dated show records can be built before a matching poster is found.
Fast dating rule
Read it. Place it. Verify only when needed.
1. Printed dateExact month/day/year wins.
2. Song or album clueSets a not-before date or likely range.
3. Cross-checkBand, venue, promoter, bill, tape or newspaper.
4. Label confidenceConfirmed, year-only, estimated or conflict.
Poster timeline
Verified promotional artifacts are added in date order.
Archive rule: a show can appear in the dated trail before its poster scan is located. Generated mockups are never substituted for historical artifacts.
Historical artifacts located
Eight poster records already in the working catalog.
The historical image exists in the research trail. Version 1 shows the catalog record first rather than substituting a generated recreation for the original artifact.
CATALOG RECORDDec 31, likely 1983
Roosevelt Senior High School
Kurtis Blow · E.U. · Redds and The Boys · Peacemakers · Petworth
Washington, D.C.CATALOG RECORDSep 24, likely 1983
Roosevelt Senior High School
Trouble Funk · Redds and The Boys · Petworth
Washington, D.C.CATALOG RECORDFeb 10, 1984
Paragon Too
Trouble Funk · Government Issue · Grand Mal
2233 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.CATALOG RECORDAug 2, likely 1987
Triple Night Club
Rare Essence · DJ Tricky Rick
3714 Branch Avenue, Marlow Heights, MarylandCATALOG RECORDJan 20, likely 1986
Crystal Skate
Rare Essence
MarylandCATALOG RECORDAug 29, 1987
RFK Stadium
Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers · E.U. · Rare Essence · Little Benny & The Masters · Hot, Cold Sweat
Washington, D.C.CATALOG RECORDNov 11, likely 1979
Washington Coliseum
Rare Essence · Trouble Funk · Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers
3rd and M Streets NE, Washington, D.C.Display rule: when the original scan is cleared and loaded into the site, it can replace the catalog-record face. Until then, the public page tells visitors that an image has been located without pretending a mockup is the historical poster.
Working Show Trail
Dated performance evidence can be connected now, even when the matching poster has not surfaced yet.
1979Year only
Year-only show leadPoster not yet located
Ayre Rayde
The surviving catalog places Ayre Rayde here in 1979. Month and day remain open.
1983Year only
Year-only collector leadPoster not yet located
Shady Groove + Mass Extinction
Reston, Virginia • venue unresolved
The working collector catalog lists “Shady Groove & Mass Extinction @ Reston VA 1983.” The year is preserved, but the exact room and month/day remain open.
Nov 231985
Catalog exact datePoster not yet located
Hot, Cold Sweat
Exact date appears on the working live-tape catalog; artifact-level corroboration remains a later check.
Aug 291986
Catalog exact datePoster not yet located
AM/FM
A strong exact-date live-catalog lead ready to match against a flyer, poster, newspaper ad or tape label.
Dec 171989
Catalog exact datePoster not yet located
Northeast Groovers
This record helps anchor the band’s late-1980s live trail while the promotional artifact is still missing.
Sep 31993
Catalog exact datePoster not yet located
Northeast Groovers
College-performance lead that can later connect the poster archive to the university timeline.
Oct 281993
Catalog exact datePoster not yet located
Proper Utensils
One of the exact-date Proper Utensils leads already preserved in the working PA catalog.
Mar 202003
Catalog exact datePoster not yet located
Northeast Groovers
A 2000s anchor showing how the same archive system continues beyond the classic PA-tape decades.
Important: these are show-evidence records, not claims that a poster for each event has been found. When a real promotional piece surfaces, it attaches to this existing record rather than creating a duplicate event.
How an undated poster gets placed
The song-title shortcut you suggested is built directly into the catalog logic.
Confirmed
Printed date or independently locked exact show date.
Year only
The year is supported but month/day remain unknown.
Estimated
Placed in a range using song/album release clues plus contextual evidence.
Date conflict
One show record stays intact while competing dates are investigated.
Example of the shortcut: if an undated flyer advertises a song that did not exist before 1986, the flyer cannot be from 1984. That does not automatically make it a 1986 flyer; it simply gives us a fast lower boundary to combine with the venue, lineup and other evidence.
Archive record fields
Every real poster can feed the rest of I AM GO-GO instead of becoming an isolated image.
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Date
Exact, year-only, estimated range or conflict.
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Song clues
Titles, albums and “new hit” language used for fast dating.
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Band
Links to the canonical artist page and verified aliases.
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Venue
Place, city/state and later venue-history connection.
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Promoter / printer
Promoter, Globe or other printing evidence when documented.
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Audio match
Connect a surviving PA tape or recording to the same show when supported.
Public archive rule: generated storyboard flyers and website mockups are not treated as historical posters. Only real promotional artifacts or clearly identified reproductions enter the archive.
Keep exploring
Follow another trail without leaving the I AM GO-GO archive.
Place trail
Venues & Places
Follow a show from its flyer or date into the place where it happened.
Sound trailPhysical Audio
Check whether a documented live-recording trail connects to the show.
Artist trailBands & Artists
Open the band pages connected to the archive evidence.
ContextGo-Go History
Place the show inside the larger development of Go-Go.