Case File: 1011202001
Code Name: Are You Sure I Was There?
Comments: Everywhere I look (Moof and It’s Psychedelic Baby) I keep seeing and reading about the British Folk scene. Digging yesterday, my attention was arrested by a LP cover for the British band The Left Outsides. An investigation insued. (The Left Outsides are past members of Eighteenth Day of May). TLO are Mark Nicholas and Alison Cotton, a wife and husband duo based in London, England. I gave their latest recording a go. My cultural point of reference, hints of Pink Floyd (Others are saying Nico, Velvet Underground, or 1960’s Greewich Village coffee shop). If you are into what appears to be pure folk then let me pass this to you for hit. Now about that cover art credit. Luke Drozd is a well known gig poster artist. He was an A-lister in the 2009 book by Canadian Author/Curator Clay Hayes called “Gig Posters Volume I: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century”. I have always thought that first volume was the cream and volume two was the minor leagues. Luke Drozd has created three record covers this year for TLO and related projects (all included here). He gave some inside the other day on his IG page about the creation of “Are You Sure I Was There”. LD says, “The image is a collage made from a torn up and reconfigured children’s painting, with added elements by me. The overall feel of the design was meant to feel like an old Bloomsbury Group catalogue.” Final shot, LD has a very interesting book on hock, Can You Make The Band Name Bigger?. It is 15 years of his gig poster work. 210 full color pages (210 x 317 x 20mm translated American as roughly letter/copier size paper.) When funds are flowing, the intention over here is to purchase. Leave me one, ok, thanks.
Notes:
https://theleftoutsides.bandcamp.com
https://theleftoutsides.tumblr.com
Find TLO in all the usual places - Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube, etc.
Luke Drozd:
http://lukedrozd.com
https://lukedrozd.bigcartel.com
Instagram:
@theleftoutsides @lukedrozd
