The Pipsqueaks Rip It Up !

Thirty-three years ago today Orange Juice on the cover and featured in a two-page spread by Adrian Thrills in New Musical Express. Here's the cover with a lovely Kevin Cummins pic of Zeke & Edwyn.

"It takes the juice of four musicians to put the sparkle in the refreshing pop tango of Orange Juice. Adrian Thrills unpeels the skin to discover ten segments of success. Pop-pix by Kevin Cummins." 

New Musical Express 23rd April 1983


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The Jesus And Mary Chain - Family Tree

A rather interesting document from the New Musical Express, 15  September 1990. Pages 20-21 of that week's issue featured a Jesus ★ And ★ Mary ★ Chain family tree compiled by Paul Barber. Fascinating stuff where you'll find a complete rundown of all the Mary Chain line-ups (as well as those of Bobby Gillespie's Primal Scream) from the band's inception to the 'Automatic' tour of '89.

(Click right, view image for large version)

Source & Image ©Fremsley

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Aztec Camera : NME / Rough Trade C81 Owner’s Manual

Aztec Camera: We Could Send Letters
NME / Rough Trade C81 Owner’s Manual (page 9)
NME/Rough Trade Cassette, 1981.


This is the third and final of three posts featuring the Postcard Records illustrations to be found in NME / Rough Trade C81 Owner’s Manual. Previous posts feature Orange Juice and Josef K.

Photo : ©japanese forms

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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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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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NME Playing Cards

I thought that there might be an Orange Juice/Edwyn Collins playing card in this set of NME playing cards but unfortunately there isn't one. On the other hand there are two featuring Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) and Jim and William Reid (The Jesus and Mary Chain). The original photographs used on these cards are by Kevin Cummins -whom most folks know for his legendary shots of Joy Division.
You can have a look at the full set here. I've had them ever since the pack was given away free with the New Musical Express in 1991.

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