Alone this Valentine's? Check out your vinyl, or use this as a cool excuse to check out someone else's. I asked the guys at British retro-celebration art site, Sleeveface, if they had something suitable for The Underwire on this special day, and hey - this Easy Listening sleeve is now giving a warm glow to their website, too. You can also email them heartwarming tales of love kindled over a stack of 70s collectables.
John Rostron, 35, and Carl Morris, 26, colleagues at indie music company, PlugTwo, (where the roster includes Cerys Matthews and Marissa Nadler) began working the sleeves while DJ'ing at Bar Europa, in Cardiff, Wales. They went online and attracted thousands of photos of peopled sleeves to their Facebook and Flickr sites. (The pair aren't stuck in retro - they also have a label, My Kung Fu, with a US cult following for Soft Hearted Scientists, Richard James - ex-Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - The Voices, and Truckers of Husk).
Sleeveface aim to make a movie. I think it would made a great ad, too. Meanwhile, a neat video shows how to get your face on an album cover. Or, at least, how to pose perfectly behind it.
Image: courtesy Sleeveface.com, photographer Ben Trow, models Owen and Gemma Rochester.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVt4jOasujc
