Orange Juice - Postcard Records promo pic

As promised another wonderful item sent to me by Scottish Post-Punk. This time we have a Postcard Records promo shot for Orange Juice. Not at all sure who took the photograph so maybe someone out there could advise me. Item acquired by Scottish Post-Punk from Akiko Hada who appears to have been a keen collector of Postcard Records artifacts.

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Orange Juice : Ostrich Churchyard ad

Well, first post of this new year is yet another excellent Postcard Records ad for Orange Juice's 'Ostrich Churchyard' album. The recordings featured on this album are what should have been Orange Juice's debut LP, had it been released during the original Postcard Records set up.
Instead, it was issued in 1992 during the revival of "Europe's Only Avant Garde Recording Company." Ad contains a lot of the images featured in the adjoing booklet that came with the album.

More images and information on this album at Sound of Young Scotland here and here

Source & ©pchille
via: lovesick/blueboy

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Postcard Records Hope To Update The Whole Velvet Underground

Postcard Records Hope To Update The Whole Velvet Underground

Now this is really an interesting document. Have never seen this before. Apparently it's a press release dating from around mid-1980 with Postcard (Alan Horne) presenting the label's three latest and what they hoped would be their forthcoming releases for January 1981. Unfortunately, the Josef K album never saw the light of day; the first vinyl issue of their debut album was finally released in November 2012 on LTM Recordings. Neither did the "new discoveries" Altered Images or Fire Engines singles ever appear on the label but that's another story. A story you can read about in Simon Goddard's recent 'Simply Thrilled:The Preposterous Story of Postcard Records' book.

Once again I'd like to thank Paul Haig (Josef K) for providing me with copies of such great documents.

Image: Courtesy of & ©ROL UK/PaulHaig

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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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Postcard Records Postcards

The Postcard Records postcards which came with Orange Juice's 'Poor Old Soul' - Aztec Camera's 'We Could Send Letters' - and Josef K's 'Chance Meeting.'
All still in mint condition. Like the discs.

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Two Super Singles...

Two Super Singles One Lovely Label 2 Glorious Groups (Promo poster)

via & ©Paul Burridge - Postcard Records of Scotland Fan Page

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Drumming Kitten - Postcard Records logo

Original Louis Wain drawing from which Postcard Records got their ‘drumming kitten’ logo.

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