Vinyl Futures

Vinyl FuturesA really stunning silkscreen print, re imagining album cover artwork designed by Hipgnosis in 1981. Vinyl Futures couldn't have chosen a more appropriate artist to design their cover art for Riff Raff. Storm himself was so fond of this image he used it on the front cover of his own book, For The Love Of Vinyl. "Since the album was called Vinyl Futures and the band called Riff Raff the combination called for something quirky but to do with vinyl. The

mounted in Paris in October 2003

comprised of a single entity rather than several elements bolted together

A Head Full of Dreams

Madchester was taken up as the phrase to encompass the whole music scene that developed in Manchester

Image size: 19 x 22 inches / Paper size: 25

while Ginger was beating out a take in the drum booth

but that had its own character and was to be timeless in a way

The little figure is playing homage to the sculpture and acting as both a size and a reference point

had already worked on the album cover art for Houses Of The Holy

which included the infamous shot of The Smiths outside the Salford Lads Club

to which this print can be seen as an alternative or companion piece

is this deceptive bends