Art on your sleeve - Episode 4 - Rob O'Connor

09/02/17 • 44 min

In this episode, I speak with Rob O'Connor whose design work will be familiar to fans of Blur, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Howard Jones, Prefab Sprout, Squeeze, Voice of the Beehive and hundreds more pop bands stretching back to the late 1970s. I spent an afternoon with Rob at Stylorouge looking back over his career and getting the stories behind many iconic records sleeves. The interview coincides with the POP ART feature in Classic Pop magazine - Issue 32.

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Art on your sleeve - Episode 3 - Huw Feather

In this episode, I speak with Huw Feather whose design work will be familiar to fans of Soft Cell and Marc Almond. I spent a couple hours chatting with Huw, face-to-face at a slightly noisy cocktail bar in his hometown of Southport. The interview coincides with the POP ART feature in Classic Pop magazine - Issue 17.

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Art on your sleeve - Episode 5 - The Innocents by Erasure

In this episode I speak with Brian and Sarah Linnen from The Permanent Record Podcast about Erasure's 1988 album entitled 'The Innocents'. This 75 minute episode is edited from three x 90 minute podcasts which are also available to download from iTunes. Find out more about The Permanent Record Podcast at: www.permanentrecordpodcast.com and follow them on Facebook and Twitter. This episode of Art on your sleeve isn't specifically about record sleeve design but I did interview Paul Khera, one of the designers of 'The Innocents' and he provided some interesting background information on the design work, all of this and more is in this edit.