Orange Juice : L.O.V.E...Love

Orange Juice
L.O.V.E...Love (label details)
Postcard Records (1981)
Polydor POSPX 357

Label details for Orange Juice's first venture on Polydor. It's a pity the Postcard/Polydor collaboration was so short. I really like the fact that Postcard's drumming cat logo has a place of choice on the label.

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Orange Juice : Collage by Edwyn Collins

 

Orange Juice : Collage by Edwyn Collins (circa 1981)

Photo by Francesca Mollina

Source :  Lovesick/Blue Boy

I'm currently re-posting all of the very earliest posts at Sound of Young Scotland -most date back to 2007. Been removing some of the images as well as updating them or adding new (and better) ones. The layout in some those older posts isn't that good either so it'll take me a wee while to get them all sorted out. I'm half way through June 2007, so far, but I still have the rest of that year to do as well as all of 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

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Josef K implode!

There's a Paul Haig and Josef K article in Mojo 249 / August 2014. All about how, after their unfortunately too short career (1979-1982), the band fell apart.
I don't have this issue yet as it's not available at my local stores at the moment but I'll post more on this later when I do get my hands on a copy.

Image courtesy of & ©Paul Haig

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Josef K : NME / Rough Trade C81 Owner’s Manual

Josef K: Endless Soul
NME / Rough Trade C81 Owner’s Manual (page 9)
NME/Rough Trade Cassette, 1981.

First release by NME / Rough Trade Tapes 1981. To get this you had to order it through the New Musical Express. 30,000 copies were sent out. As well as the tape, I still have the original 32-page Owner's Manual; which you had to put together by cutting out various pages over a number of weeks from the NME and then folding and assembling them. You had to be patient in those days. Home computers and internet weren't around then. Looking at these pages one can see how much the Velvet Underground was important to Alan Horne and the whole conception of what he wanted Postcard to be.
This is the second of three posts featuring the Postcard Records illustrations to be found in NME / Rough Trade C81 Owner’s Manual. Next one will feature Aztec Camera.

Photo : ©japanese forms

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Primal Scream 'If They Move, Kill 'Em' EP & Matching Condom

Primal Scream 'If They Move, Kill 'Em' EP & Matching Condom

On the right is the packaging for a condom that I picked up, a while back, in a nearby agnes b store. On the left is the CD single artwork for the Primal Scream 'If They Move, Kill 'Em' EP. The cover for the Primal Scream disc is credited to Julian House @ Intro. There is no credit on the condom packaging. Possible copyright infringement, maybe?
Bottom left there's a 'Stuka' button badge and the original still sealed condom that came with the agnès b pack.

Image ©japanese forms

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The Sound of Orange Juice (poster)

The Sound of Orange Juice (poster)
Poster sleeve with the double 7" 'Rip It Up" pack.
Polydor POSP 547 (1983)
Artwork/Design : Edwyn Collins & Pete Watson
Photography : Eric Watson

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Europe's Only Avant Garde Recording Company

Orange Juice
Ostrich Churchyard (inner sleeve)
Postcard Records (1992)
DUBH 922 CD
Sleeve designed by Alan Horne & Edwyn Collins

Tracks 1-11 Recorded 17th of May 1981, at the Hellfire Club, Glasgow
Tracks 12-15 Recorded 23rd of October 1980, at the BBC Maida Vale, London
for a John Peel Session

When Alan Horne revived Postcard Records around 1990 I wasn't very interested in what the label had to offer. As I said in my previous post, I'd moved on to other things but when I learnt that they were releasing some Orange Juice recordings I couldn't resist getting my grubby hands on them. This was one of them -the others being the 'The Heather's On Fire' singles compilation and the reissues of 'Love Sick / Blue Boy" on vinyl and CD single formats. 

More images here

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Expressly Edwyn Collins : A Girl Like You

Expressly Edwyn Collins
A Girl Like You / Out of This World (St. Etienne remix)
Setanta (1994)
Sleeve by Rob Crane Design

I picked up this Edwyn Collins CD single while visiting a car-boot sale the other week. As it was on top of the pile I noticed it right away and immediately acquired it for a mere 0.50€. If it had been underneath I wouldn't even have looked at the pile of CDs. I must admit that I'm not too keen at all on 'A Girl Like You.' Collins' most known as well as his biggest selling hit is the song I like least in all of the Collins/Orange Juice discs I have. Like the Eagles' utterly dreadful 'Hotel California' it seems to be on the car radio every time I turn it on. Must admit though that I will listen to it whereas The Eagles... No way!
My preference goes to his 'Coffee Table Song' and '50 Shades of Blue' EPs to this any day. At the same time, I have to confess that by the time it did come out I'd moved onto other things like Autechre, Aphex Twin, and a lot of new electronic music. Collins' career was a thing of the past to me. Still is today though I know that I should check out at least his latest releases. I'll get round to it one day. Promise.

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The Jesus And Mary Chain in Slow Dazzle

The Jesus And Mary Chain feature as cover stars on the stapled-together fanzine
Slow Dazzle. A magazine named after a John Cale song and which you could acquire all for the princely sum of 30pence! An excellent fanzine put together by Chris Davidson. This is the 6th and final issue of the Greenock based fanzine which appeared in late 1984. Features an interview with Creation Records
 -Alan McGee, Dick Green and Joe Foster- and an interview with the Jesus And Mary Chain at their Venue show (Oct, 84), when Bobby Gillespie joined the band. 

You can see the ‘Original cover artwork for the sixth and final issue of the superb Greenock-based fanzine Slow Dazzle, the brainchild of Chris Davidson, a mover and shaker in the area’ in Sam Knee's recent and excellent, 'A Scene In Between' book. The artwork was created by Greenock musician George Miller.

Image courtesy of & ©K-me

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Orange Juice : NME / Rough Trade C81 Owner’s Manual

Orange Juice: Blue Boy
NME / Rough Trade C81 Owner’s Manual (page 29)
NME/Rough Trade Cassette, 1981.

First release by NME / Rough Trade Tapes 1981. To get this you had to order it through the New Musical Express. 30,000 copies were sent out. As well as the tape, I still have the original 32-page Owner's Manual; which you had to put together by cutting out various pages over a number of weeks from the NME and then folding and assembling them. You had to be patient in those days. Home computers and internet weren't around then. Looking at these pages one can see how much the Velvet Underground was important to Alan Horne and the whole conception of what he wanted Postcard to be.
This is the first of three posts featuring the Postcard Records illustrations to be found in NME / Rough Trade C81 Owner’s Manual. Next two will feature Aztec Camera and Josef K.

Photo : ©japanese forms

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Roddy Frame/Aztec Camera : 'Love' period promo shot

Roddy Frame/Aztec Camera : 'Love' promo shot.
©Sire Records
Image credit : Tom Sheehan
Source : Lansure's Music Paraphenalia

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Sainsbury's Basics : Orange Juice

"I think I might need to find something a bit more productive to do when I’m not in school…
You can see how I make the most out of my time off.
It was suprisingly awkward to write on so yes, that is supposedly a doodle of Edwyn Collins.
And yes, I’m sorry."

A lovely bit of Orange Juice "art" that I found while browsing through Tumblr.
I'm not exactly sure who did this but I've credited it to Rosalyn, who lives in Manchester and posts @Tumblr under the moniker of Pure-X. Nice work.
(japanese forms)

Source & ©Pure-X

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Douglas, Jim, William, and Murray

Douglas, Jim, William, and Murray.
The Jesus And Mary Chain
Upside Down / Vegetable Man (back cover)
Creation Records CRE012 (1984)

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Postcard Records - Mojo 6-page spread, 2012

Postcard Records 6-page spread in Mojo Special Edition: The Smiths, The Stone Roses & The 100 Greatest British Indie Records Of All Time, January 2012

Words: Keith Cameron - Photos: Paul Slattery & Harry Papadoupoulos

        Source : BarneySumner
        Click right & 'view image' to read.

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Orange Juice : The Spaghetti Factory, 1980

Another excellent Peter McArthur shot of early of Orange Juice live at The Spaghetti Factory, Glasgow, September 1980.
Photo : ©Peter McArthur
Source : Automatic

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Orange Juice : ZigZag Interview, 1982

Interview by Sonia Ducie with 22yr old Edwyn Collins, Orange Juice in ZigZag magazine February, 1982.
(Click right and choose 'View image' to read).

Source: Cactus Mouth Informer
Photos: uncredited, ©unknown

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Postcard Records : Brochure (p.10)

From the original Postcard Records brochure from 1981. I'd really love to have an original copy of this but I can't imagine that there are many of them about. If there are any available, I imagine that they must be selling for quite a lot of money nowadays. This is page 10; which is a sort of collage that so many fanzines favoured back then. The whole thing consists of 39 fun-filled pages of information as well as lots of photographs by Robert Sharp of the label's finest.

I sourced this image from kraizeekatt but there are PDF copies of the magazine to be found on the web. 

Update : Robert S. has kindly provided us with a link to a PDF copy of the whole brochure. Check it out here.

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Altered Images : 3 singles

Three singles by Altered Images from the early 80s. Never really one of my favourite bands -I thought they were not that good compared to the bands on Postcard Records. Interesting to find out in Simon Goddard's book, 'Simply Thrilled: The Preposterous of Postcard Records,'  that (Wee)Clare Grogan, band singer and, later, tv personality, was a big Orange Juice follower in the band's early days and that Alan Horne (Postcard supremo) wanted to sign them to Postcard Records.
Will have to post a photo of the band's 'Dead Pop Stars' cassette-single that I also have in my tape collection.

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Aztec Camera : Mattress of Wire (label detail)

Aztec Camera : Mattress of Wire - Postcard 81-8 (label detail)

I'm currently working on a review of Simon Goddard's 'The Preposterous Story of Postcard Records'. About ½way finished so I expect to post it towards the end of this week.

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