Bad Dress Sense: Single Sleeve Artwork
December 20th, 2006 by Ed
Bad Dress Sense released a 4 song 7″ on Vinyl Solution in 1987 called Cynical Smile. It was a budget job intended to give away to zines and to sell at gigs (for a princely £1 a pop!). As a result it came in a white bag with no information on it and a blank, but bright orange label. The record itself was pressed in green see-through vinyl.
Because I fancied one myself and because people kept asking me, I knocked up a sleeve for family and friends in various different colour combos at the punk rock copy shop that Rob Tennant and I used back then to make our flyers.
That was all a very long time ago.
Last month Sean Forbes asked if he could get a copy of the sleeve for his absurdly definitive punk rock vinyl collection. I didn’t have any spare sleeves, but did offer to scan mine for him so he could print his own. There’s probably one in 3 million chance that this info is of any use to anyone else, but because I went to the effort of scanning it for him, I thought I might as well post the images here. So, if anyone needs that BDS single sleeve cover follow these links:
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January 22nd, 2007 at 1:58 am
Wow, I’m so behind with the times that I didn’t even know BDS released a 7″. Any chance you could post the songs on here Ed ?.
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Paul, my pleasure. Will try and do that tonight. I think it came out in 1987 though so I can’t believe I didn’t tell you about it back then….I think ‘87 was before you went all indie on us and turned your back on the true faith of hardcore.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
wow, I have that green vinyl ep - but I was sure it came as a freebie with something else, like the white vinyl ep with Jesus meets the… - possibly with the 8 track mini LP (?) with the star trek cover? I had it and had no idea it was BDS until I got the miniLP later - it had no cover - but i remember those VS records always had bizarre and cryptic messages scratched into the outro groove. Ace.
May 4th, 2008 at 8:29 am
any chance of getting original the demo posted!… … …. ! Cheers… great site - great music - takes me back ….
May 4th, 2008 at 8:30 am
D’oh ‘the original demo’ that was supposed to say!
May 5th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
James….as requested I’ve posted the first demo. It’s at http://edwenn.com/archives/68
Enjoy!
November 25th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Thanks for posting the pic sleeve for the 7″. I picked it up in a used bin many years ago and never knew the names of the songs until now. Great!!!