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Been a bit busy over the past few weeks and haven't had much time to take care of business here at SoYS. Will have a couple of new posts up soon.
Promise!

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Postcard Records 1981 press release

Yet another Postcard Records artefact sees the light of day once more. This time it's a press release from 1981 for the release of Josef K's 'Chance Meeting' single.

Alos includes an 'Other Happenings' section which fills us in on all that is, ahem, happening on the Postcard front.

Highly amusing last paragraph.

All the above is true.


Source:
Akiko Hada who lived in London in the early 80's and was a friend of the late Annick Honoré (co-founder of Les Disques Du Crepuscule and Factory Benelux).

via:
Scottish Post-Punk
@Kiltr 



Image : ©Scottish Post-Punk

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Orange Juice say: "Please, buy Blueboy this very day."

A fabulous promotional poster for the release of the Orange Juice 'Blueboy / Love Sick' (Postcard Records 80-2) single way back in 1980.
Original artwork possibly by Edwyn Collins(?).

Orange Juice: Postcard Cowboy — Promotional Poster for Blue Boy :A1, black and fluorescent ink screen print, spray-paint, 1980.
(Additional info via lovesick / blueboy)

Source & ©SoundOfYoungScotland

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Orange Juice: Falling and Laughing, Promotional Poster

Orange Juice: Falling and Laughing, Promotional Poster, 1980.
Design by Robert Kelly (© 1980).
Via: SoYS @ Kiltr




Already posted a pic of this poster some time ago (see here) but this fabulous piece of memorabilia is well worth another look.

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Orange Juice : Out On The Floor Tonight

Orange Juice
'Out on the Floor Tonight' (poster)

Yet another wonderful, unseen(?) item from the Postcard Records' era. This time we have a very rare, I imagine, early days poster for the seven-inch 'Blue Boy / Lovesick' single
(Postcard 80-2) which was released in 1980.

“Out On The Floor Tonight”  - Promotional Poster A1, hand coloured, August 1980.

Design by Robbie Kelly, ©1980.

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This document comes courtesy of and is © of Erik Sandberg/Sound of Young Scotland @ Kiltr

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Post-Punk Postcards from Indie-pendent Scotland

From today's The National (Scotland) news on the upcoming feature-length documentary on the rise of Scotland’s post-punk/indie music scene 1977-1985 entitled 'Big Gold Dream.' Should premiere sometime early June.

A second documentary covering the 1986_1994 period will follow in the near future.

The Big Gold Dream - Scottish Post-Punk, DIY And Infiltrating The Mainstream (1977-1985)

Songs From Northern Britain - The Country That Invented Indie Music (1986 - 1994)

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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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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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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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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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Josef K, Valentino's, Edinburgh, 8th February 1981

Josef K, Valentino's, Edinburgh, 8th February 1981

Photo: Courtesy of & ©Keith Milne

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Orange Juice by Pigsty Art

Sound of Young Scotland : Orange Juice by Pigsty Art

Source & ©Pigsty Art

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Aztec Camera : August 16th, 1981

A very youthful Roddy Frame and bandmates play one of Aztec Camera's earliest dates at Valentino's in Edinburgh, August 16th, 1981. The band was support to headliners, Josef K.

image courtesy of and ©AH MacKay

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Aztec Camera - Snap Decisions

As anyone following the blog will have noticed, I've been trying to set up a new layout for Sound of Young Scotland. Not working out as I want it as I'm having trouble merging the header colour with my background colour. Both are the same colour but for some reason when I add my homemade header it appears either lighter or darker than the background. Anyhow, hope to get this fixed sooner or later.
As for the time being, I'll be continuing to import most of my posts from my Sound of Young Scotland @Tumblr as well as rearranging older posts that have been 'messed up' with the new layout.
So, for the first 'new' post back here @Blogger here's a rather nice pic of a youthful Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera). No idea where this comes from as it appears with a set of several shots of Roddy. Shots which have been clipped from some magazine or other which could be either Sounds or Melody Maker or both. The original photograph is by ©Janette Beckman, who worked for both the magazines I mention, in the late 70s early 80s.

Original photo ©Janette Beckman
Source : Clover Swine

Clover Swine has contacted me to confirm that the image above is from Smash Hits, found on Flickr Smash Hits archive.

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Paul Haig's coffee break

Paul Haig ponders over a cup of coffee.

Source & ©unknown
If anybody has any details on the © please contact me via Twitter
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Strawberry Switchblade (poster)

 

Strawberry Switchblade (album poster)
Courtesy of & ©Gold Mine Trash

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The Audience That Fell To Earth

The Audience That Fell To Earth:
Billy MacKenzie & Paul Haig, Live in Edinburgh, 1986

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