Ed Banger (Edweena Banger) RIP

stevemcgarry said:
Having learned the news about Edweena's death and heard about the awful circumstances, over the next few days I found myself thinking a lot about my times with Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds. The friends I made, the compatriots we've lost along the way. I've written a piece that talks about designing the sleeve, being present at the recording session and all those colorful characters involved in that purple period at the start of punk in Manchester. As always, it's free to read on my Substack: https://bit.ly/3Cyn8luView attachment 145311
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wonderful
 
stevemcgarry said:
Having learned the news about Edweena's death and heard about the awful circumstances, over the next few days I found myself thinking a lot about my times with Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds. The friends I made, the compatriots we've lost along the way. I've written a piece that talks about designing the sleeve, being present at the recording session and all those colorful characters involved in that purple period at the start of punk in Manchester. As always, it's free to read on my Substack: https://bit.ly/3Cyn8luView attachment 145311
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I just bookmarked this for later.
I still have my copy and my copy of cranked up really high.
Any other sleeves that you designed that I may have?
 
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Barcon said:
I just bookmarked this for later.
I still have my copy and my copy of cranked up really high.
Any other sleeves that you designed that I may have?
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Yes, you may have a few if you collected all that early punk stuff.

I think I did 18 or 19 sleeves over a pretty intense two-year period. A lot of the Rabid Records output, including a John Cooper Clarke album ... The Panik, The Tunes ... quite a few things for Absurd. Looking back, some of the stuff is very clumsy and corny but some of it stands up quite well.

I did Slaughter's "Do It Dog Style" sleeve and the illustration and lettering is still the band's signature look 40-odd years later. The Joy Division sleeve I did for the "An Ideal For Living" 12" later went on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which I always find astonishing. A design done on my Gran's kitchen table in Benchill on display with Matisse, Magritte, Warhol, Basquiat, etc at one of the world's most prestigious art museums? I still find that hard to comprehend. (Although I remember one guy on this forum a few years ago saying it was the equivalent of the employee of the month certificate he got for being a PE teacher or whatever it was he did for a living, which was perhaps the most surreal insult I've ever received.) The Guardian said that the badges I designed for Joy Division were "the punk badges that defined the 1970s music scene." So yes, a lot of the stuff makes me cringe when I see it now but I'm quite proud of a few bits and pieces.

If you are interested, I wrote an in-depth piece about the three record sleeves I designed for Jilted John: two singles sleeves and the EMI album cover. Here's the link: https://shorturl.at/cnilp ... and on my Substack there's also a lengthy article about how Rob Gretton got me into the music business.

Here's an image of most of the sleeves I designed:
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Cheers!
 
stevemcgarry said:
Yes, you may have a few if you collected all that early punk stuff.

I think I did 18 or 19 sleeves over a pretty intense two-year period. A lot of the Rabid Records output, including a John Cooper Clarke album ... The Panik, The Tunes ... quite a few things for Absurd. Looking back, some of the stuff is very clumsy and corny but some of it stands up quite well.

I did Slaughter's "Do It Dog Style" sleeve and the illustration and lettering is still the band's signature look 40-odd years later. The Joy Division sleeve I did for the "An Ideal For Living" 12" later went on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which I always find astonishing. A design done on my Gran's kitchen table in Benchill on display with Matisse, Magritte, Warhol, Basquiat, etc at one of the world's most prestigious art museums? I still find that hard to comprehend. (Although I remember one guy on this forum a few years ago saying it was the equivalent of the employee of the month certificate he got for being a PE teacher or whatever it was he did for a living, which was perhaps the most surreal insult I've ever received.) The Guardian said that the badges I designed for Joy Division were "the punk badges that defined the 1970s music scene." So yes, a lot of the stuff makes me cringe when I see it now but I'm quite proud of a few bits and pieces.

If you are interested, I wrote an in-depth piece about the three record sleeves I designed for Jilted John: two singles sleeves and the EMI album cover. Here's the link: https://shorturl.at/cnilp ... and on my Substack there's also a lengthy article about how Rob Gretton got me into the music business.

Here's an image of most of the sleeves I designed:
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Cheers!
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Excellent stuff mate. Bookmarked. I still have the Jilted John one in my collection as well. The only things I was allowed to bring with me to Canada as a 14 year old was my records.
Cheers.
 
stevemcgarry said:
Yes, you may have a few if you collected all that early punk stuff.

I think I did 18 or 19 sleeves over a pretty intense two-year period. A lot of the Rabid Records output, including a John Cooper Clarke album ... The Panik, The Tunes ... quite a few things for Absurd. Looking back, some of the stuff is very clumsy and corny but some of it stands up quite well.

I did Slaughter's "Do It Dog Style" sleeve and the illustration and lettering is still the band's signature look 40-odd years later. The Joy Division sleeve I did for the "An Ideal For Living" 12" later went on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which I always find astonishing. A design done on my Gran's kitchen table in Benchill on display with Matisse, Magritte, Warhol, Basquiat, etc at one of the world's most prestigious art museums? I still find that hard to comprehend. (Although I remember one guy on this forum a few years ago saying it was the equivalent of the employee of the month certificate he got for being a PE teacher or whatever it was he did for a living, which was perhaps the most surreal insult I've ever received.) The Guardian said that the badges I designed for Joy Division were "the punk badges that defined the 1970s music scene." So yes, a lot of the stuff makes me cringe when I see it now but I'm quite proud of a few bits and pieces.

If you are interested, I wrote an in-depth piece about the three record sleeves I designed for Jilted John: two singles sleeves and the EMI album cover. Here's the link: https://shorturl.at/cnilp ... and on my Substack there's also a lengthy article about how Rob Gretton got me into the music business.

Here's an image of most of the sleeves I designed:
View attachment 145322

Cheers!
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This post deserves way more than a like. Thank you.
 
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