The Hangover Lounge EP3

This is really late, I know but I'm trying to get this blog updated with the good stuff. So, we made the third Hangover Lounge EP. It's a doozy (musical details here, and posts thereabouts). As ever, the front cover was done beautifully by Pam Berry: 

My bot was the back cover as usual, and I thought it was the best of my three efforts: even this relatively limited quantity of text leaves y press, or me, or both of us, struggling a bit: 

For good measure, here are some pics of the sleeves being assembled on our rug: 

Some more Hangover Lounge Beermats

I know I've been a bad blogger. I've no excuses. A couple of updates to follow, the first of which is a bunch of beermats I've made from time to time to give away at my Sunday afternoon hangout The Hangover Lounge. They're in roughly chronological order, starting with the oldest.  Hope you like 'em. I'll see whether there are a few more to dig out at some stage, but you get the idea.

I recycled the idea for this one in the Chickfactor coasters you've already seen, if you've been paying attention:

We were pleased and proud to welcome Bob and Pete from St Etienne to the Hangover Lounge not long ago, for a playback of their excellent new LP. I made this next one rather swiftly and a little bit last minute - I was a bit embarrassed to have to tell people to watch out because the green star wasn't quite dry yet. They didn't seem to mind too much. 

The back print in yellow is my little tribute to our friend, inspiration and collaborator Pam Berry. We gave this one away on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the Hangover Lounge.

Beermats for Chickfactor

Chickfactor, one of the world's great fanzines, has been going for twenty years! They are celebrating with a series of shows this summer, and we were pleased to make a small series of beermats to commemorate the NYC and DC shows. We'll be hanging out at the New York events, and we can't wait.

Let's Dance (at the Carousel)

A new card design in advance of the Carousel craft fair tomorrow (April 2nd), noon-5pm at the Duke of Wellington. See you there!

I was delighted to be part of the project to make a deluxe edition of the recent World Of Fox CD, even if my part was the least exciting bit!

Here's how the package looks, with the CD accompanied by two beermats, beautifully screenprinted by the wonderful Ruth Green:

My part was to do the texty bits on the reverse, like so:

They're available for £10 - a bargain for an original Ruth Green screenprint, let alone the excellent record - from Where It's At Is Where You Are, or from me at the Carousel Art Fair (more of which shortly).

HLEP2

This was a real struggle - it seems that this amount of text, spread across the paper this much, pushed my little press (or my abilities) past the point of decent impression. So, it's two-colour because I had to split the design across two printings. At an edition size of 500, that's a pain in the arm.

Just you wait until you see the great work Craft Ho has done with the front cover...

Variations on a theme, number 2

A special christmas beermat for the Hangover Lounge: I'm not in love with the starry side of this (it was the first in a series of experiments in a kind of overprinting which you'll likely see again should you keep reading) but I'm delighted with the left-aligned texty side. A few weeks ago our friend Sue saw something I'd left aligned and said "ooh! Controversial!" - obviously I was going to do it again.

I reckon the Hangover Lounge wil be delightful on the 19th, by the way.