A History Of The World In Personalised Record Sleeves; a collaboration with Animator James Alexander
"A History of The World in Personalised Record Sleeves"... The painted, collaged, defaced and homemade sleeves found in charity shops and donated throughout REx has been worked up in to a performance lecture...we had two shows lined up but.... So instead James Alexander and me we made these short docs, using James' clay Avatar in full-on Melvyn Bragg mode, airing my pontification about the home made sleeves ..and you get to watch/listen to the Jackson Five and Kathy Kirby too... https://drive.google.com/file/d/11I3KmbCNttjqy6L5iXf6kmmArFFnQzVC/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NHxinP4guwm18SDu3go7pGmFyeN1go_k/view?usp=sharing The lovely close-up images in the videos are by Bill Bartlett. Other sleeves include a fully painted-over F aust T apes sleeve, a collision between the Monkees and the Planet Of the Apes, the Clash in Spray paint and the M Barr collection of collages from the early 60's...a trip to Scarborough when...