Rare original in-store larger size card display for the band's long awaited (5½ years) second album.
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In true Factory style the company paid for Central Station Design to visit Los Angeles to collect the American candy etc packaging that was combined with British sweet wrappers to reflect the album's creation in America and the UK. Unfortunately, no one bothered to obtain permission and the recognisable brands soon had to be removed and the design reworked. This scarce poster features the original design.
Central Station's work was a big shift away from Peter Saville's style, reflecting the new era of rave and 'Madchester'.
The image is a detail from a 1981 work by Dutch sculptor Jan Van Munster - 'Energie-Piek ijs'. Note the typefaces (Garamond and Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet), reflecting what Peter Saville saw as the group's contrasting classical and modernist aspects. Card stock. Scarce and in excellent condition.
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The image is a detail from 'Plus en Min' by Jan Van Munster (1981).
The single was re-released in 1988 to partner the release of the compilation album 'Substance' (see above), reflected in Peter Saville's unifying design for both.
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The few at RCA in America who understood the potential of the band had a hard task: "we were flying by the seat of our pants..without hardly any direction from the band or management". Nevertheless, this scarce card promo poster is a gem.
£350.00 conservation framed.
The imagery for Technique and the single Round & Round were intense experiments in colour, with a distinct influence from Yves Klein and Andy Warhol's later period. Influenced by Acid House and the sounds of Ibiza (where it was partly recorded) the album went straight to the top of the UK charts.
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Very scarce poster, an example of the club's in-house style and format of the time.
The band's 1982 tour and individual gigs were based around the release of 'Sons and Fascination / Sister Feelings Call' in September the previous year, but by the time they came to play the Haçienda, songs that take final form on 'New Gold Dream' were entering the set list.
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Joy Division supported Buzzcocks on their October-November UK tour. 'Unknown Pleasures' had been released in June, the single 'Transmission' the following month.
Buzzcocks had released their third album 'A Different Kind of Tension' in September, and this poster takes elements from Malcolm Garrett's sleeve design.
The album 'Low-Life' had been released in May.
A U.S. 'boxing style' poster, printed on card stock for displaying outdoors (often pinned to posts).
The cover image (most probably of body builder and model George O'Mara) was by American photographer Jim French as featured in Margaret Walters' 1978 book 'The Nude Male'.
Johnny Marr sneaked into the back of Rough Trade's London office and handed boss Geoff Travis a cassette of the song's demo. Marr thought "it had magic in it"; Geoff Travis agreed.Please inquire. Linen backed and conservation framed.
New Order's international breakthrough release.
The inspiration for the image came one night when Peter Saville watched a leaf drift past the window of his parked car.
This design was the first use of Key and Saville's dichromat process.
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