baboon

all smiles

Here's a thing. Outside the block I live in are four disused, crumbling garages. On Saturday I joined forces with some people from another flat and decided to take a look inside a few of them. Some of the doors opened fine. Others needed us to - ahem - knock the padlocks off.

I found an old London Evening Standard in one, dated September 15th, 1971. Here's a story from its 'Overseas News' page that I thought I'd share - about the now-ubiquitous 'smiley face' image:

orange amps

More record sleeves....

My ears are still whining from the Boris gig in London last night. Lots of feedback and fuzz guitar, lots of thrashing about, ridiculously over-the-top drumming. It was great fun but - oy - my ears.

Bizarrely, the t-shirts at the merchandise stall were plum awful. I say 'bizarrely', because their record sleeves have a strong sense of design and high-production values: take the cover to their last album, Pink, for example. Or Akuma No Uta which rips off Nick Drake's Bryter Layter.

Anyway - for this post, here's the inner sleeve to their single Statement, with Wata from the band in front of a load of (every metaller's favourite) 'Orange' amps. The photo's by Miki Matsushima.

crayon lion

bjork album covers

Homogenic

Vespertine

Medullla

Volta

snap!

smoke

Hey look - it's another smoking woman. From a year or two ago, this. It wasn't for anything; I just wanted to try out the colours.

i concur

Here's i concur's debut single, which I drew the cover for, and my hand - and my photos make it look as though the bloody thing's growing.

three great albums. three great covers.

The Cramps - Big Beat from Badsville
(Cover by Nick Rubenstein & The Cramps)

Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club

(Cover by James Rizzi)

Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
(Photo by Jean-Paul Goude)

chris' 40th

Okay, so it's not a 'card' as such...

This was for my friend Chris' 40th birthday celebrations, held last Saturday in Macclesfield.