From the Bizarre to the Bizarrer

Promotional Posters in Italy – September 2011

I took this photo in Santa Vittoria in Matenano on 16th September 2011, posters advertising events almost a month gone by – nothing too unusual about that.

Petritoli (which is pronounced to sound like Petr-Italy) is a town about half an hour’s drive away from Santa Vittoria.

The band in the left poster is called I Cugini di Campagna which means Country Cousins. (!)

It’s not clear to me what Wellness Village has to do with it, as that is a health club just outside Rome.

And what do these men in wigs and rainbow trousers, one with a music-hall moustache and another looking like Colonel Ghaddafi, do? Well I looked it up on the web and they seem to be quite well-known. The lead singer uses a falsetto voice and they make a point of looking camp and dressing in outrageous clothes. That’s a relief.

By contrast, the other band, Danilo’s Band, are more classically Italian summer concerts, complete with accordionists and girls in slightly too-tight dresses. Quite why the typeface is crumbling rock is less clear, it appears to be their logo typeface.

Both these bands have websites and videos on YouTube, and it turns out that Danilo’s is in fact the more amusing:

Promo Video. I guess that this is not intended to be funny, which in a way makes it even more hilarious.

Danilo is playing an organetto in this video, which is a traditional instrument especially for the Marche region of Italy.