Also visit deeplyvale.com and www.dandelionrecords.co.uk and www.stringdriventhing.com
+ new links on myspace.com:
www.myspace.com/tractorakathewaywelive
www.myspace.com/tractorpsychband
October 16, 2011
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Merseytrout Live 1980 - Vinyl 2LP set
A limited edition vinyl 2LP of the best-selling Captain Beefheart live album, which, until now, has only been available on CD. Recorded live at the Rotters Club, Liverpool, in October 1980. This was Captain Beefheart’s fifth gig of the tour after an absence from touring of almost two years. The general consensus is that the Captain and his Magic Band meet the high but avant-garde standards he usually sets for live shows.
Pre-release copies on sale 7th November.
Special pre-release copies contain producer's certificate.
£21.99 plus £7 P&P inside UK, £10.90 P&P rest of the world.
Click here for the Record Collector article
Order now as it is a limited run!
September 17, 2011
Martin Hannett - Maverick Producer, Genius and Musician
£12 + £1.50 post inside UK, £4 outside UK
OZIT CD 9010Order via this website
August 11, 2011
Various - (The Late John Peel & Chris Hewitt Present) Peterloo
£11.99 + £1 post inside UK, £3 outside UK
OZIT CD 118Order via this website
July 3, 2011
John Cooper Clarke - Zip Style DVD – Rough Treasure Chest
Classic Rock Magazine writes:
£11.99 + £2 post inside UK, £3.50 outside UK
OZIT DVD 13Order via this website
May 25, 2011
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - The Nan True's Hole Tapes Volume 2
£14 + £2 post inside UK, £3.50 outside UK
Ozit/Dandelion CD 9009Order via this website
February 20, 2011
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Translucent Fresnel - The Nan True’s Hole Tapes Vol.1
£21 plus £6.90 postage in the UK, £11.90 postage for the rest of the world
2LP set 180-gram vinyl gatefold sleeve
OZIT Dandelion Records LP 8008Order via this website
December 18, 2010
Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet)
January 15, 1941 - December 17, 2010
November 30, 2010
Grateful Dead Hollywood Festival T-Shirt
Sizes: M, L, XL, XXL
Price: £27 + £3.75 post inside UK, £4.75 outside UKOrder via this website
November 22, 2010
Bickershaw Festival 1972 Volume 2
Ozit DVD 12
Available to order now from Ozit website
Will be shipped 6th December and onwards
Price: £21.99 plus £3 postage inside UK/£4 postage rest of the world
Region 0
Over four hours of archive film and stills
Completely revamped version of the old Bickershaw DVD. There is now a lot of new archive film, stills and audio, making this new version over four hours long rather than one and a half. The original sections from the first DVD have been completely re - edited and appended - the only interview that stays from the first DVD is the Jerry Garcia one in the Grateful Dead section.
There is footage of artists on Volume 2 that wasn't included on the first one. There were only 2 great multi - day Greenfield Music Festivals with camping in North - West England in the '70s, Bickershaw and Deeply Vale.
The admission to Bickershaw, held on a fairly wet May weekend in 1972, was around £2.25 in advance for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Around 40,000 people attended and the festival inspired many audience members to pursue careers in the music industry.
Order via this website and receive a set of 10 limited edition postcards!
July 27, 2010
Kevin Lamb remasters (Kevin’s Personal Tapes)
Who Is The Hero
OZITCD116
Release Date: 23 August 2010Sailing Down The Years
OZITCD117
Release Date: 26 July 2010Order via this website
July 5, 2010
Various Artists - Punk Poets Beatniks And Counter Culture Heroes
Further details here
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Martin Hannett
(click above to view full size images)by Chris Hewitt
Coming soon - the definitive book and DVD. The true story of the man who created the Manchester Sound. The most innovative and influential producer in modern music.
Published by Ozit Morpheus in 2010.
Ian Curtis/Joy Division and Martin Hannett Exhibition at Fac251 Manchester
(click above to view full size)Read Mick Middles' story here
The Factory, 112-118 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7EN
Sunday 16th May to Wednesday 19th May 2010
12 Noon to 6 pm daily
FREE ADMISSIONAn exhibition showcasing Joy Division memorabilia collated by Peter Hook and Chris Hewitt.
Over the years, a lot of musical and recording equipment and instruments associated with Joy Division have been collated by Chris and Hooky. As an avid collector, Hooky will also be showing many paper artefacts and other objects related to Joy Division publicly for the first time.
The Ian Curtis/Joy Division exhibition at The Factory’s top floor boardroom will contain at least six display cases full of Peter Hook’s collection of Joy Division artefacts. There will be a scene of the Joy Division rehearsal room with instruments and amplification that the band used at gigs and rehearsals, whilst the Joy Division recording session scene will recreate an Ian Curtis vocal take, including the actual studio screens he recorded his vocals behind, as well as a collection of producer Martin Hannett’s original equipment, including the microphone configuration that Martin Hannett used, Martin Hannett’s legendary collection of outboard delay equipment that defined the Joy Division Sound, Hannett’s own tape recorder and several of his early echo units.
This will be a unique insight into the artefacts, instruments, amplification and recording equipment of one of Manchester’s seminal bands.
Thanks to Salford Museum and Rochdale Arts and Heritage Service for loan of display cases.
April 25, 2010
Grateful Dead at The Hollywood Festival
North-West England, 1970
(click above to view full size images)DVD and CD set
Ozit DVD 10
Price: £19.99 plus £2.50 P&P inside UK, £4 postage for the rest of the worldIt’s some grainy bits of film (filmed in the main by an acid-spiked crew) of one of the most pivotal moments in the history of the English rock counterculture and festivals. The Grateful Dead come to England in 1970 for their first ever concert and it’s in the open air at a festival near Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, North West England. It’s one of the only times in England when Pigpen was on absolutely top form and he takes a lot of the vocal leads stood up behind his organ. There were plans to film and audio record everyone on the bill for the whole festival weekend, but someone travelling with the Grateful Dead’s entourage gave acid to most people working on the film and sound recordings. Fortunately, the whole of the Grateful Dead’s set was recorded on audio and around five song’s worth of band and crowd footage was filmed during their set by the acid-tripping film crew. Also filmed were short sections of Free, Family, Screaming Lord Sutch, John Peel and Radha Krishna Temple.
Period early 70s artwork, beautiful fold-out Hollywood Festival archive DVD booklet
Further details here
Read review here
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The Hacienda Peter Hook Limited Edition Bass Guitars
(click above to view full size images)With maple neck and fretboard (fretboard made from original pieces of Hacienda Canadian maple dance floor). A series of six long-scale EB2/335 shape bass guitars are to be custom built by Rochdale guitar builder Brian Eastwood with HAC numbers 51 to 56.
The design ideas have been put together by Peter Hook and Chris Hewitt and are being turned into reality by custom guitar builder Brian Eastwood. The initial idea came from Chris Hewitt, who was collecting together bits of original Hacienda dance floor for another project with Peter Hook. Chris noticed that pieces of the original Hacienda maple dance floor were about the right width to make a maple fretboard for guitar necks, and so the idea of a Hacienda Peter Hook bass guitar was born.
Chris Hewitt has been involved in suggesting unusual guitar ideas for Brian Eastwood to build in the past (Brian built a twelve-string guitar for Tractor and the body was a mini-tractor tyre; he also built a moon-shaped guitar for Showaddywaddy - for their Top of the Pops appearance). Brian has worked on servicing and modifying Joy Division and New Order guitars through the years through Hooky’s association with Chris Hewitt and Rochdale, where of course Hooky and Chris Hewitt owned Suite 16 recording studios.
A lot of the innovative features of the Hacienda internal design/architecture will be incorporated into various parts of the guitar. The first guitar will be ready in mid-April.
For more info, email Chris Hewitt ozitrecords@which.net or ring 01565 734066
April 18, 2010
Billy Fury 70th Birthday Special Editions - Rarities Volumes 11 & 12
(click above to view full size images)To celebrate what would have been Billy Fury's 70th birthday, we continue with our popular rarities series - with the Special Birthday Editions, Volumes 11 and 12.
18 great tracks on Volume 11; 21 great tracks on Volume 12. Fold-out birthday CD booklet.
Price each: £19.90 plus £2.50 postage inside UK, add extra postage outside UK.
Not available in shops - very limited supply - the rarities series has become much sought-after and a couple of complete sets went for a very high price at a recent music memorabilia auction!
Order from 17th April 2010 for delivery in about 14 days.
February 21, 2010
Billy Fury 25th Anniversary DVD
Only a few numbered, signed, certificated copies left now - the signed certificated version was always going to be rare with it containing the eight extra postcards and the certificate, but no one expected it to virtually sell out so quickly and for it to be resold second hand at over £70 in some places! Snap a new one up now whilst some are still left - remember, only Ozit-Morpheus website and www.billyfuryofficial.com sell the signed, certificated version with the special extra set of postcards!
(click above to view full size images)January 28, 2008 was the 25th anniversary of Billy Fury's passing.
To commemorate this date, Ozit-Morpheus Records, Billy Fury Ltd. and The Wycherley Family, in conjunction with Odeon Entertainment, released a special version of the 25th Anniversary DVD, "His Wondrous Story".
The special numbered certified Limited Edition CD/DVD box set contains a numbered certificate signed by Billy's mum and brother. It also includes an extra set of eight Billy Fury colour postcards. This special limited run set with the signed certificate and the colour postcards set is only available via mail-order from Ozit-Morpheus Records/Billy Fury Ltd.
The special set contains:
His Wondrous Story DVD
Additional Music CD - 16 tracks of Billy Fury
Extended DVD booklet
Eight black and white postcards
Eight colour postcards
Hand-signed certificate from Billy's family
Special silver anniversary slip over sleeve for the case
Price is £49 + £3.50 post inside UK, £5.50 outside UK
Tel.: 01565 734066 or email ozitrecords@which.net to order your set now.
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February 20, 2010
New from Ozit-Morpheus
String Driven Thing - Keep Yer 'And On It & Please Mind Your Head
(click above to view full size images)From Grahame Smiths Personal Tapes
OZITCD125 & OZITCD124Order via this website
Billy Fury - Maybe Tomorrow DVD
(click above to view full size images)£26 + £2.50 postage inside UK, add extra for postage outside UK
Features some very rare, previously unseen film footage of Billy Fury with a soundtrack of some interesting songs from Billy's career
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US Blues Tour 1963
Format: DVD, NTSC Region 0 / All Region DVD
Catalogue Number: OZIT DVD 009
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Ozit Records
Release Date: 14 December 2009
PRICE: £11.99Further details here
Read review here
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John Peel's Dandelion Records DVD
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Featuring: John Peel, Kevin Coyne and Siren, Medicine Head/John Fiddler, Gene Vincent, Stack Waddy, Bridget St. John, Tractor/The Way We Live, Principal Edwards, Bill Oddie.
A 6-hour long DVD hosting an exhausting collection of words and images all united under the banner of John Peel's Dandelion Records, the label he set up with business partner Clive Selwood. The label's story is told via 'talking head' interviews with Sheila Ravenscroft and an assortment of artists who released their output through the label, including Bridget St. John, Medicine Head, Stack Waddy and Siren & Kevin Coyne.
There's also a number of concert recordings taken over a number of years - you can watch the likes of Medicine Head's John Fiddler aging in a heroically undignified fashion over the course of several solo acoustic performances filmed since his heyday (his band had the only hit record in Dandelion's history!) Those with an aversion to rather old, hairy men might want to steer well clear of this DVD, but otherwise it's an interesting watch, and there's something rather endearing about just how lo-fi and unedited it all is.
Further details here
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November 17, 2009
Route M62 Rochdale Music Blue Plaque Day Event T-Shirt
(click above to view full size images)A unique print run of T-Shirts done for the Route M62 Rochdale Music Blue Plaque Day event
£16 each + £3 postage inside UK (add extra postage outside UK)
Sizes L XL or XXL
This is a great T-Shirt for Peter Hook, Joy Division, New Order fans or just fans of the Rochdale sceneOrder via this website
October 12, 2009
Deeply Vale "Jester" T-Shirt
(click above to view full size images)£22 + £3 post inside UK, £4.50 outside UK
Further details here
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ROCKIN ROCHDALE
Blue Plaque Celebration
Wednesday 23rd September, 2009 was the day when two blue plaques were unveiled in the Borough of Rochdale to commemorate and recognise two uniquely important recording venues/music buildings that influenced rock and pop music locally, nationally and internationally.
For pictures from the event, visit the ROCKIN ROCHDALE site, proceed to the LATEST NEWS links
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ROCKIN ROCHDALE
Blue Plaque Celebration - Wednesday 23rd September
The following events are totally free and are open to the public, except the Music Event as tickets cost £15.
11:30 AM - A blue plaque is going to be unveiled at 58 Market St, Heywood, OL10 1UK. This is the former site of Tractor Sound Studios. Attending will be media, local dignitaries and music celebrities. There will be a big screen video on Market St showing film related to Heywood and Rochdale.
12:00 Midday - Official opening of the Music Exhibition at Heywood Library foyer, OL10 1SJ.
01:15 PM - A blue plaque is going to be unveiled at Kenion St, Rochdale, OL16 1SJ. Attending will be media, local dignitaries and music celebrities. There will be a big screen video on Baron St showing film related to Heywood and Rochdale.
08:00 PM - Music event with bands, celebrity musicians and celebrity DJs (the line-up is listed in the poster above) at the Back Door Music Project, Broadwater Centre, Smith St, Rochdale, OL16 1HE. Tickets £15.
New reviews from www.terrascope.co.uk:
STEVE HILLAGE – DEEPLY VALE (double LP set)
DEEPLY VALE FESTIVALS DVD
BICKERSHAW FESTIVAL DVD
GLASTONBURY FAYRE DVDRead them here!
July 25, 2008
Announcing A New Release
Grahame Smith "Kalinka"
(click above to view full size images)Details here
Order via this website.
July 3, 2009
CD Rarities Volume 10
OZIT CD 90
(click above to view full size images)This CD, Volume 10 in the rarities collection, is not available in the shops and possibly never will be. Only available from Ozit-Morpeus records via mailorder.
18 tracks - two-thirds are rare live recording, one-third - rare live studio material.Price: £16 + £1.75 P&P inside UK; £3.50 P&P outside UK
Order via this website
Mailorder Address:
Ozit Morpheus Records
Billy Fury Ltd
P.O.Box 116
Northwich
Cheshire
CW9 5UG
Tel: 01565 734066 or 07970 219701
Please make cheques payable to: Ozit-Morpheus Records
May 24, 2009
Steve Hillage
Live At Deeply Vale 1978 - 180g Vinyl
Format: 180 gram Heavy Vinyl LP
Catalogue Number: OZITLP8007
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 22 June 2009
Price: £20 + £4.50 p&p inside UK / £7.90 p&p outside UKFurther details here
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The Fall - Northern Cream, The Fall DVD That Fights Back
Format: DVD
Catalogue Number: OZITDVD008
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Ozit Records
Release Date: 13 April 2009
Price: £13.99Further details here
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The Last Mad Surge of Youth
(click above to view full size images)Times writer and former stalwart of the Rochdale music scene, Mark Hodkinson, has published his debut novel, The Last Mad Surge of Youth.
Set in both the present day and the early 1980s, when Maggie Thatcher ruled the world (or thought she did) and new wave kids were dreaming up insurrection, The Last Mad Surge of Youth is a novel about bands, growing up, moving away and getting famous, suicide, staying at home and getting bored, fanzines, the bomb, love, alcoholism, egotism and self-doubt.
The narrative begins with the DIY ethos of punk, steering through major label hype, to tired aftermath. While the protagonist, John Barrett, holds centre stage, his boyhood pal, Dave Carey, who opted out of the band for fear of playing live, is left at home, to brood. The pair meet up years later in controversial circumstances and ponder how now became then, and what they do next.
One of the scenes in the book sees Carey visit 'Digger' Music (clearly an alter ego Tractor Music) where he asks the owner (probably Chris Hewitt!) whether he'd stock a fanzine produced by the band.
It reads:
Carey took copies of the fanzine to Digger for them to sell. He passed the wall teeming with notes advertising instruments for sale and appeals for musicians to join bands. He couldn’t understand why anyone would advertise for members, it devalued the art form. Groups, the ones that really mattered, were formed out of fellowship and shared values, not on how well they could play or whether they had a Marshall amp or Gibson guitar. It was a kind of love, best left to serendipity.
He counted the exclamation marks after phrases like, ‘Must be able to play fast!!!’ and ‘Let’s get it on!!!!’ Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple-influenced bassists and guitarists were much sought after, and everywhere was the warning: no time wasters. A good name for a band, he thought: The Time Wasters. He had a notebook containing ideas for names; it was going in there. His favourite was The Pin Ups but he also liked Bread Roll Christ, Poppers, and Fountain Ear. If he left Group Hex he could see himself in The Pin Ups. They’d be wilfully enigmatic, a bit like Devo or Pere Ubu, each member in a cagoule with the hood pulled up tight by the drawstring, posing for photos on rocks out at sea, scary in the sea spray.
Three longhaired lads were perched on speakers, rolling cigarettes and nodding their heads to a song playing on the shop’s hi-fi about a willow tree. Carey asked where the dogs were.
“What dogs?”
“The dogs that are always here.”
“Dunno. Dead, maybe.”
A tall bloke with wispy hair who seemed to be in charge took a handful of fanzines and placed them on the counter.
“Of course we’ll try and sell these for you.”
Carey was suspicious.
“There’s nothing about heavy rock in them,” he volunteered.
“Fair enough. You lot are the future now, aren’t you? Punk, new wave and all that. We’ve had our day.”
He seemed sincere.
Carey looked back as he left the shop. The owner-bloke was motioning with his head towards the door. He might have been letting one of the longhairs know that a delivery had arrived or that the stand containing guitar strings needed restocking. Or, thought Carey, he might have been indicating that the kid just leaving wearing an Italian combat jacket and hand-painted Doc Martens (blue) was a dick.
The book is published by Pomona Books on 6 July, 2009 but is available now via Pomona's website.
It is priced at £7.99 and has already received widespread acclaim:
"This is by far the best book I've read dealing with that rich world of boys growing up, their obsessions, their loves, their music and how this inevitably informs the people they become and the lives they end up leading. I can't recommend it highly enough." - Kevin Sampson.
"A note-perfect rendition of the early-80s northern English indie scene, it contains all the affection missing from John Niven’s similarly biz-themed Kill Your Friends." - Andrew Collins.
"It’s a masterpiece, not a wrong note. Enjoyable to the last line." Alan Sillitoe.
May 10, 2009
Pink Floyd Knebworth 1975
(click above to view full size images)Crew Sweatshirt
£48 + £6 P&P UK, £9.50 P&P outside UK
T-Shirt
£27 + £4 P&P UK, extra postage outside UK
Please email ozitrecords@which.net if outside the UK for P&P costs
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March 19, 2009
Billy Fury Rarities 1-5
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- Over 20 tracks of Billy Fury rarities on each CD
- Full litho printed booklet and inlay
- Very rare short-run CDR albums - part of the Rarities series which now run from 1 to 9
- Volumes 1 to 5 are the rare ones and are available at £16.75 including P&P per volume
Please email ozitrecords@which.net if outside the UK for P&P costs
Mailorder Address:
Ozit Morpheus Records
Billy Fury Ltd
P.O.Box 116
Northwich
Cheshire
CW9 5UG
Tel: 01565 734066 or 07970 219701
Please make cheques payable to: Ozit-Morpheus Records
October 31, 2008
The North-West Region section of the politics show on BBC1: Peterloo
Tractor were fortunate enough to have John Peel indulge them to write and record a suite of songs about Manchester's Peterloo Massacre. Peel helped pay recording studio bills and even bought them equipment to launch several locations of recording studios around Rochdale where they continued to record themselves and other bands which have played a major part in Manchester's musical history.
They recorded a 21-minute suite of songs about Peterloo in 1973 and because of the campaign for a decent memorial to the victims of Peterloo, Tractor have written new songs in the last few years to add to the suite of music which now runs as a whole album at around 41 minutes. The album will be released a few weeks before the 190th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre which is on 16th August 2009.
This Sunday on BBC1 Tractor play an extract from one of the songs and members of the band and their producer Chris Hewitt talk about the politics of Peterloo and the parallels with Thatcherism and today and their idea of a Peterloo concert in the open air in Manchester somewhere near St. Peters Fields.
If you are outside the North-West region of BBC1, you can get the North-West edition of the politics show by selecting other regions on your Sky or digibox.
October 5, 2008
Steve Hardstaff has designed many covers for the Ozit-Morpheus label. Some Ozit covers, including the Tractor one, are featured in this book:
Steve Hardstaff "Cover Versions"
Reviews
"Time will certainly reveal the relevance and importance of what Steve Hardstaff has delivered over the years, with black singing ink, good old cut and paste and those ever present crackling discs that possess his soul and fire his imagination." Mike Badger (founder The La's, Co-owner Viper Label)
"Steve Hardstaff's visual trademark are musical collages packed with exciting, stimulating images and, above all, humour." Jimmy Carl Black (The Mothers Of Invention, The Magic Band, The Muffin Men)
DescriptionSteve Hardstaff's work has always been about Liverpool: from ferrying images around for Peter Blake and Jan Haworth for the cover of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to producing the award-winning sleeve for Half Man Half Biscuit's This Leaden Pall. Hardstaff's artwork, often signed under his nom-de-guerre 'Jacuzzi,' has been used by every record label to have graced the city in the last 40 years: posters for 'The Magical Mystery Tour', artist in residence at the legendary Eric's club, commissions from contemporary labels. Hardstaff established in Liverpool the first music industry focused design studio outside London and decades later his work continues to attract local, national and international interest. This volume pulls together for the first time a unique collection of work from one of the pioneers of modern graphic design: from the world's first triple gatefold sleeve (The Strawbs' "Grave New World") to work for Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac and Liverpool favourites Deaf School, The Icicle Works, Half Man Half Biscuit, Dead or Alive, China Crisis and others, from work that provoked cries of 'treason' from the tabloid press during the Falklands war to collaborations with infamous Sex Pistols designer Jamie Reid. Complementing a striking collection of images are comments and quotes from musicians and artists who have worked with Hardstaff, including Jimmy Carl Black (Mothers of Invention), Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Suggs (Madness), Ian McNabb (Icicle Works) and others, elucidating the creative processes that have positioned him as one of the great innovators of the graphic arts and a leading figure in music industry design.
SynopsisSteve Hardstaff's work has always been about Liverpool: from ferrying images around for Peter Blake and Jan Haworth for the cover of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to producing the award-winning sleeve for Half Man Half Biscuit's "This Leaden Pall". Hardstaff's artwork, often signed under his nom-de-guerre 'Jacuzzi', has been used by every record label to have graced the city in the last 40 years: posters for 'The Magical Mystery Tour', artist in residence at the legendary Eric's club, commissions from contemporary labels. Hardstaff established in Liverpool the first music-industry-focused design studio outside London and decades later his work continues to attract local, national and international interest. This volume pulls together for the first time a unique collection of work from one of the pioneers of modern graphic design: from the world's first triple gatefold sleeve (The Strawbs "Grave New World") to work for Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac and Liverpool favourites Deaf School, The Icicle Works, Half Man Half Biscuit, Dead or Alive, China Crisis and others, from work that provoked cries of 'treason' from the tabloid press during the Falklands war to collaborations with infamous Sex Pistols designer Jamie Reid.
Complementing a striking collection of images are comments and quotes from musicians and artists who have worked with Hardstaff - including Jimmy Carl Black (Mothers of Invention), Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Suggs (Madness), Ian McNabb (Icicle Works) and others - elucidating the creative processes that have positioned him as one of the great innovators of the graphic arts and a leading figure in music industry design.
About the AuthorSteve Hardstaff is a graphic designer, proprietor of Pigmeat Records and Principal Lecturer in Graphic Arts at Liverpool John Moores University. He was the house designer for the legendary Eric's club in Liverpool and has also produced artwork for bands and artists such as Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac and Lee Scratch Perry.
September 13, 2008
CHRIS HEWITT IN ASSOCIATION WITH TOUCHSTONES PRESENTS A MINI INDOOR MUSIC FESTIVAL
(click above to view full size images)Building a bridge between the 70s and the 80s Rochdale culture and today
Saturday 20th September, 12-4 pm FREE ADMISSION
Featuring:
The Alligator Brothers
Sam and the Plants
Phil Barrett and his friends
Tractor featuring Jim Milne and Steve Clayton
Walter Kershaw and his Paints
and from the Backdoor Project: Ellie and Yosh
Debate: What’s the future for culture?
On Film: Deeply Vale/70s Music/ Walter Kershaw
Steve Clayton reads from his new novel "The Art of Being Dead"
www.link4life.org/touchstones01706 924492
August 23, 2008
Announcing A New Release
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band in Great Britain 2CD
OZIT CD 9008
(click above for details)Order via this website.
July 20, 2008
Two new Joy Division at the Electric Circus T-Shirts
(click above to view full size images)They have beautiful multi-colour back and front prints.
There are two different Electric Circus fronts, both have the same back print with a ghosted image of Johnny Rotten at the Electric Circus on the back.
£18 plus £3.50 P&P inside the UK / £4.90 P&P for the rest of the world
Order via this website.
June 27, 2008
Stephen Clayton's new novel
The Art Of Being Dead
Can you become a murderer by doing nothing?It is the late 1960s and in a bleak Northern English town, Jonathan, 24 attempts to live his life without love, pain or commitment, unaware that in his desire to avoid action he will eventually be drawn into a world of chaos, degradation and death. Visceral and edgy, The Art Of Being Dead is like Rhinehart’s Dice Man transferred to the Northwest of England.
The author, Stephen Clayton, is a founder member of the band Tractor, who signed with John Peel’s Dandelion label. They still record and tour. Stephen has also exhibited paintings at The Royal Academy. This is his debut novel.Get it at www.bluemoosebooks.com
May 4, 2008
Ozit-Morpheus Profiled in Record Collector!
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April 4, 2008
Announcing A New Release
Grahame Smith "Arrival Of Spring"
(click above to view full size images)Details here
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March 27, 2008
Fundraiser - In Memory of Andy Burgoyne, Dave Edwards
10 years ago this year, my Dad, Andy Burgoyne, died of stomach cancer in Spring Hill Hospice, Rochdale. This painful time was made a whole lot easier by the support and care given to my Dad, myself, my family and friends by the staff at the Hospice. The Hospice also provided 2 weeks of respite care during the months leading up to his death. As an 18-year old who was living at home alone with my Dad at the time, I cannot express how important respite care is, not only for the patient but also the people around them. The Hospice have also cared for a number of other loved ones in my life. So to show my appreciation to them and the work they do I have arranged for myself and 9 others to do a sponsored walk up Snowdon on the 4th of May, 2008. This would have been my Dad's 56th birthday.
Please visit my fundraising page and sponsor us!
Gemstar Burgoyne
March 15, 2008
Andy Sharrocks, frontman of Rochdale late 70s-early 80s band Accident On The East Lancs, organiser of the Deeply Vale Free Festivals and DJ, now has a successful career as an Americana musician - check out his myspace site.
March 13, 2008
It Started In Rochdale - Step Into The 70s And Beyond
Rochdale, Heywood and Whitworth Music and Arts Scene
Ozit CD 247
(click above to view full size images)This CD explores the cultural diversity of the music and art scene of Rochdale that started in the 1970s, based around Tractor Music, Cargo Recording Studios, Deeply Vale Festivals and beyond. It covers 70s Rochdale bands as well as the next generation of bands such as the Pranksters, Potential Victims and Untermensch.
Details here
Order here
February 16, 2008
International radio station Big L 1395AM / Sky Digital 0190 will be featuring Billy Fury on its hugely popular programme, This Sunday At Nine, this coming weekend.
Hosted by former Radio 1 DJ, Mike Read, the hour-long programme will feature classic Fury tracks, forgotten gems, as well as the songs that helped shape him.
The show airs this Sunday (17th February) at 21.00. It repeats next Wednesday (20th February), also at 21.00.
Two exhibitions at Touchstones Esplanade, Rochdale
The admission is free
Step Into The 70s
Heritage Gallery
28 February - 29 September 2008
A nostalgic look at the 1970s, a vibrant decade packed with cultural innovation and social change. With family-friendly activities and objects from the museum and local studies collections, take a step back to a funkier time!
Exhibits included in “Step Into The 70s” will be some Deeply Vale Festival items and general info about the extremely creative era of the 1970s that spawned The Rochdale Sculptors, Tractor, Tractor Music, Cargo Studios, Brian Eastwood Guitars, Tony Crabtree, Deeply Vale and would make Rochdale a creative force in Arts and Music right through the late 80s.
Rochdale Sculptors
As part of Touchstones Rochdale’s ‘I Love 70s’ season, key members of the Rochdale Sculptors return with an exhibition of work from their 70s heydays shown alongside recent contemporary work.
The eight artists are: Tony Smart, Brian Woods, Peter Wolstenholme, Danny Milne, Barry Hobson, Walter Kershaw, Christine Pearson and the late Peter Dent.
The Rochdale Sculptors were formed in 1968 by Peter Wolstenholme and Tony Smart who at the time were lecturers at Rochdale College of Art. More tutors at the college soon became involved and the group grew to include other artists, some of whom had no direct connection with the college or Rochdale.
This exhibition focuses on the work of eight key artists from the group. It features surviving original works created when the group was active (as the majority of the large-scale work created in the 1970s was made for temporary exhibitions, much has since been sold, destroyed or lost) alongside contemporary pieces the artists have created more recently showing developments in their practice and links between the old and new works.
From the late 60s until they split in 1974, the Rochdale Sculptors often took their work outdoors to bring it directly to members of the public, targeting viewers with little or no experience of art. Their sculptures regularly appeared along the Esplanade and in other parts of the Borough as well as other locations in the region. They also exhibited indoors at Rochdale Art Gallery and other galleries and venues including the Houses of Parliament. The Rochdale Sculptors became firmly embedded in the cultural life of the town and it is fitting that their work is re-examined as part of a Touchstones Rochdale’s 70s season.
February 2, 2008
CD Rarities Volume 9
(click above to view full size images)Special 25th Anniversary Limited Edition CD Rarities Volume 9 is now available!
Each one is hand-numbered on the back.
If ordered from this website, it comes with a set of 8 Limited Edition colour postcards of Billy Fury to celebrate his 25th Anniversary.
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