John Hawthorn

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It just is…..

Front cover of CD: A monotone illustration of The Krays play fighting in front of what looks like a giant speaker.
Blue and white vertical striped Argentinian colour sleeve. An image of 4 youths raising a BOY’S OWN flag. BOCCA JUNIORS RAISE in black text.
Front cover: a fairly abstract painting of sea and mountains with a building on top. the mosques of tanger in black lower case text top right. recorded by justin bennett in black lower case text bottom right.
Black j-card with 4 different electrical sockets arranged in a grid: Text reads: VINTAGE VOLTAGE (PLUGGED-IN-PROG & CONCRETE POP) GLOBAL ROBOTIC ROCK MIXED BY ANDY VOTEL IN 2010 THANKS TO MATTTTTRIGGGGS.
Front cover of CD Winter Landscape - Lower Dove An oil painting by Walt Shaw
Front cover of CD. Top of a brick building with tiled roof and a window lit in green. A tower block with different coloured windows lurks behind it. The words SEE IT. SAY IT.SORTED are highlighted in a blue speech bubble. Absurd Cosmos Late Nite in white cursive lettering on right hand side
A shadowy figure bathed in orange spotlight playing cornet.
Black cover with white upper case text in top right corner that reads: BARRY ADAMSON SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE PELVIS
Front cover of CD package: a colour photo of a Ministry of Defence warning sign on the edge of some shrubland.
Front of cassette case. Burnt orange cover, Text in black at top reads: Keys To The Music Grave. In the middle are a feather, 3 rubber suckered arrows, a pair of star shaped sunglasses, a sheriff’s badge illustrated in black, white banner below with black text reads: Mixes By Andy Votel - 2002/2005/2007
Yellow background, 3 black and white photos of Horace in profile down the right hand side, 1 photo of a smiling Horace in red in the centre. HORACE ANDY in red capital letters. GOOD VIBES in white capital letters.
Aqua blue background, Photo of Erykah with her hair tied high in a wrap, wearing a large silver ankh ring and silver bracelets on her left hand/arm, she is touching her face with her left hand and looking skyward. Erykah Badu in yellow lettering, Next Lifetime in blue/green.
Green and blue background, palm trees, islands. Top left has an orange oblong with black lettering that reads OpaqueMusic and a yellow oval with KB Zed in black letters. A turntable with a tonearm on a record with a yellow label. Red lettering reads: THE EXOTIC TRILOGY VOL.II Quiet Village Tabu Caravan
Grey cassette cover with white upper case text that reads: CARLOS GIFFONI THURSTON MOORE IGU ANA
Front cover of LP. Colour photo of a bespectacled Ian Carr, dressed in a red shirt and black jacket, playing a trumpet. Ian Carr, dressed in grey jacket and black shirt, holding a saxophone, watches on. In the foreground are a cymbal and assorted microphones.
Deep blue cover with black shadowed trees on either side of a distorted face with sunglasses on and a moon behind it.
Blue background with thin green border., HBZ 200 in blue text in a small orange square middle top. The Exotic Trilogy in yellow text below. In the background to the right is a man in wraparound shades, a burnt orange polo neck and slacks holding an LP in his right hand and the LP sleeve in his left. A vintage stereo with hexagonal speakers and assorted exotica LPs at his feet. In the foreground, standing on a oriental rug, is a woman with auburn bobbed hair and an orange catsuit with a snake draped round her neck. Assorted ‘exotic’ props on the rug including a cocktail, another snake and a pair of doumbek drums.
A poster for the Subcurrent 2006 festival brown/yellow poster with the classic photo of a young Heather Leigh dressed as Madonna in bottom right corner. The text reads: Dates: Thu 20th - Sat 22nd April Time: 8pm Tickets: Day Pass - £14 / £10 Weekend Pass - £35 / £25 Bookings: 0141 352 4900 More Information: www.cca-glasgow.com Thursday April 20th: Skaters/Axolotl/Inca Ore/Astral Social Club Friday April 21st: Burning Star Core/Prurient/Jessica Rylan Saturday April 22nd: Smegma/Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano Duo Mouthus/Aaron Dilloway/Hive Mind 2 pm: Exclusive screening of a new documentary, My Name is Albert Ayler including an introduction by director Kasper Collin and a Q & A session after led by Tony Herrington (editor-in-chief for The Wire). 5pm: Screening of a new avant/punk/DIY USA documentary, Northwest Passage History of Portland Alternative Music hosted by Mike Lastra from Smegma For line-up details and information on all the players visit www.cca-glasgow.com/ www.volcanictongue.com
Camouflage card cassette cover on the right, cassette with silver sticker on the left, black text reads Spectre-Ruff Kutz. Camouflage is South Korean woodland pattern, 1970’s.
A silvery black and white LP cover with a red obi-strip on the left hand side.
Front cover of CD Blurred Colour photograph of a gamelan band playing round a fire.
Front cover of CD: white text on orange reads: An image of children chasing after an ice-cream van from an Orange™ TV commercial advertising Text Messaging.
Mr Tayto smiling and waving… a triangulated folded crisp packet inside another crisp packet..
Front cover of cassette. An apple(?) with a face painted in red, black and white on it
Front cover of CD: Collage cover. White box with red text top left reads: REEDITION/REISSUE sans livret/without booklet. Sordide Sentimentale logo on top right. Green/brown background recurring grid of what looks like a picture of a Jewish concentration camp string band. A picture (still from a video?) of water with a temple cross floating on it. Revolving skulls with temple cross, Asian female heads, bold spurts.. PSYCHIC TV DESCENDING in yellow upper case text.
2 x 7” picture sleeve records with some Groovie Records stickers and beer mats.
White cassette cover with black Indian script.
Front cover of CD. A colour photo of the Oto blackboard advertising the sold out show. Chalk writing on board reads: OTOMO YOSHIHIDE SPECIAL BIG BAND 3 DAY RESIDENCY DAY TWO SOLD OUT WORKSHOP 4-6PM EVENING SHOW DOORS 7.30pm
CD cover. Colour photograph of exotic trees and a street sign. The Bliss - Of Bliss Pat Thomas in white lettering on the front.
10” record in a white sleeve with a small photocopied square photo in the middle
Front cover of CD Red/yellow/white screened head shot of Phil Pratt. Text on right reads: PHIL PRATT THING Featuring: Big Youth Al Campbell Dennis Brown Bobby Kalphat Pat Kelly The Heptones Ken Boothe Dillinger
Front cover of CD. A woman’s painted face, it looks like she has scales, a red butterfly shape sticker on the outer CD jewel case obscuring her eyes with the words “AN ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL MORRICONOGRAPHY” Mike Patton in white letters on it. ENNIO MORRICONE - CRIME AND DISSONANCE IN WHITE UPPER CASE LETTERS.
Live In New York LP in front of a pile of records. The cover has 2 colour photos on the front. Abdul Wadud bowing a cello. Julius Hemphill blowing a saxophone.
Sonic Youth - Sister LP.
Pink cassette cover. Top half of woman’s face with long hair, it has been styled to look like she has devil horns. A balloon/light bulb shape above with a seated female figure dressed in black looking at the camera. Text in white, red and black reads: ANDY VOTEL TO THE DAVUL A DAUGHTER. FEMME FUNK / PSYCH SOUL 100% TURKISH PLAK
2 Pickled onion Monster Munch packets folded into triangles and rearranged on a red table top.
2 copies of Barry Adamson’s The Man With The Golden Arm 12” in front of a pile of records.
Black and white cover. Lambsbread crudely drawn in marker pen. Collage of fists/hands/arms raised to the air from a cropped crowd picture.
A novel by Stu Hennigan on a table in Tottenham.
A 7” single called QPR Shuffle by Mal-One Picture sleeve is a collage of QPR photos and ephemera.
James Brandon Lewis trio ‘Say What’ LP on We Jazz Records. The cover is orange.
Front cover of CD A blue shipping container aka BJs Breakfast near Huddersfield. COLD SNACKS HOT SNACKS BJS BREAKFAST painted in lighter blue on the outside.
A cassette case with a blurred photocopied image of jungle vegetation, a clear cassette with a white label 90/10O written in black ink on the bottom right of the label, a black and white maze patterned cassette insert with black type reading vodka soap- shadow watcher meditations covering calls of shadow watchers the unnamable
Front cover of CD. Colour photograph of ‘Dougal’ a white haired Highland Terrier seated on grass with his tongue sticking out. Artist and album title names in white text.
Front cover. Hand coloured abstract patterned sleeve in red,blue, green, black and purple. Acetate Insert reads: Hototogisu Ghosts from the Sun
A sticker in the toilets at Cafe Oto. Red capitalised text on white reads: DOMINATE THE CARCASS
White cassette cover with 2 abstract (ie I have no idea what they are) line drawings.
Front cover of CD. Textured white/vanilla card cover. Black and white collage. A woman with long black hair holding and looking into a small hand mirror with a skull on the back. Her eyes are whited out and she has black stripes on her face. There are fragments of text around her and a patterned shape coming from/entering her forehead. BEAST IN is written in black capitalised text Iin the top right corner.
Front cover of CD. Purple/reddish background. Profile drawing of a female head with an ankh earring and neck rings. Album title written in pink letters on a black face. Jooklo Duo Feat. Tero Kemppainen - Natural
Grainy grey photocopied cover, A Buddhist statue collage.
Front cover of CD. Cardboard packaging background with 2 orange arrows pointing upwards. white, purple, black and orange text that reads: Dubwise & otherwise - A Blood and Fire Audio Catalogue
Front cover of Alice Coltrane Sextet - Berkeley Community Theatre 1972 LP. Galaxy of stars in background. Alice in patterned outfit, glancing sideways.
Black and white headshot of Ugne.
Top left: Organic Pulse Ensemble- Zither Suite Top right: Pascal & Baya Rays - Sonic Joy Bottom left: Paanin Kuoro - Goats In A Hypnotic State Bottom right: Oiro Pena - Live
Cover is a 1968 artwork called Conceptual Tree by Mati Klarwein. Multi coloured geometric patterns with an eye in the middle.