"Late Arrivals Get The Tambourine" Heavyweight Unisex Crewneck T-shirt

Small round rivets run along the tambourine hoop, each one a dark dot with a pinpoint of light, and between them sit paired silver-white jingles shaded with fine black hatching, the way an old engraving would render metal. The hoop itself is mustard yellow and tilts on a diagonal, looping around the middle line so that it passes in front of some letters and slips behind others. Short curved strokes on either side show it mid-shake. Around it, three lines of tall, condensed capitals with wedge-shaped ends read Late Arrivals Get The Tambourine, and on this heavyweight crewneck tee the lettering fills almost the whole print.

The words trade colours as they go. Late and The are black with a thin mustard line traced just inside their edges, while Arrivals, Get and Tambourine are brick red backed by a black shadow that gives them a blocky, extruded depth. Nothing is quite level: the baselines lean and swell, and the bottom word bows gently. Scratchy wear marks cut through every fill, so the whole thing reads like a gig poster that has spent a few years on a rehearsal room wall. Anyone who has turned up after the good instruments were taken will know the rule. It suits band members, choir regulars and karaoke organisers, and makes an easy gift for the friend who is always ten minutes behind.