looking out? Nice to sit and chat with people about The Art Of The Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve at the Huddersfield Literary Festival tent on the 26th, and to meet vinyl fans after. Next time I will bring a torch as it was difficult at times to see my notes inside the tent despite the sunny day! Steve is now getting ready for a display of the sleeves at the Bearded Theory festival at Catton Hall, Derbyshire, 23 – 26 May 2024 [beardedtheory.co.uk] so we’re busy updating the flyers to get them ready in time, then back to work on the next book.
While we were over at the Williamson Gallery giving an illustrated talk on the Art Of The Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve last month, Andrew Dineley who issues the excellent Art On Your Sleeve podcast episodes, collared Steve and Simon to chat about the exhibition and the book. The podcast last around half an hour, so put it on your listening list!
The page about the episode (22) with the audio link at the bottom is here.
Or you can steam in to Soundcloud direct to get the audio here.
One of Canadas most respected music sites / quarterly magazines asked The Art Of The Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve co-author Simon Robinson to do a Q & A session for them recently, which can be read on their site now. It’s a very good site to subscribe to in any case, check them out!
Just to let people know we have sent newsletter 4 about the Bizarre Vinyl Sleeves book out this week. If you subscribe and it hasn’t hit your in-tray, do check the junk folder! Lots of snippets about the book, more reviews, next exhibition, happenings etc.
Maybe Stranger Things is a running feature in the Yorkshire Post newspaper’s Saturday 16th Magazine? Not sure how else to explain the heading! It was my Mum’s favourite paper, so a shame she is no longer around to see this and it is a well written article about The Art Of The Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve book (see below) and Steve’s collection. Just a shame they showed the back of the book not the front…! As for the author photo… Anyway we have put up the full article on this site.
Happy to announce that THE ART OF THE BIZARRE VINYL SLEEVE book is shipping NOW; indeed it will be landing this week for many people who placed a pre-order. Lots of folk picked up on it after a great discussion on Radio 4‘s arts programme Front Row this week – which you can listen to (or read the subtitles) on Steve Goldman’s Instagram feed https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0OrAKitAul/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
There is plenty of stock but If you are wanting to order in time for Christmas then the sooner the better so we can process your order in good time. Don’t forget there is a discount if you use our dedicated shop – the links are on the right. Thanks to everyone for their interest in this title.
We will be doing an update on our other upcoming books in the next couple of weeks.
Another great review of the Art Of The Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve appearing in the Christmas issue of the always excellent Shindig music magazine. Very pleasing when people get exactly what a book is all about! You can read the review in full on our site while the magazine is on the news stands December 7th. Meanwhile here are folk enjoying themselves at the opening of Steve’s new exhibition at The Williamson Gallery on The Wirral.
Just a heads up over a great review for The Art Of The Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve in the brand new issue of Record Collector magazine (Dec 2023 issue 551). We all think it’s a great book obviously but if you want to get an unbiased opinion, you can check it out on our site. As I think we already pointed out, pre-orders for this upcoming title (due later this month) can now be placed at our shop with an early-bird discount.
The Art Of The Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve is starting to get noticed ahead of publication (the book can be pre-ordered now via our shop). Part of this has been due to the news of Stewart Lee doing a foreword for the book. We asked Stewart as he is [a] our favourite comedian, [b] a clever writer and [c] a vinyl collector, so we were very chuffed when he agreed (we did also try and contact Dolly Parton but has no luck there!). You will have to read his piece in the book; suffice it to say we had tears rolling down our faces.
The Williamson Museum and Gallery are throwing themselves into the spirit with an exhibition of Steve’s sleeves starting on November 17th (check their site for opening times), and on Friday 15th December they are throwing a Worst Records Christmas Party! 6-8pm, Entrance is free but only by ticket, available through Linktree. Steve has put together a party mix of some of the strangest music from his collection.
Steve has also been on BBC Radio Leeds chatting with the breakfast presenter there Rima Ahmed. It is available on BBC Sounds in full (24th oct), but Steve’s piece is on his Instagram page. https://www.instagram.com/p/CyxuVQ1Rnxv/
If you haven’t yet seen it, we thought you would like to know about our new video which aims to promote the latest title The Art Of The Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve. Hit the Video link on our home page and go to our YouTube channel. The video gives an overview of the content along with images and previews and some mad music chosen by Steve Goldman from two of his albums. Our designer spent a couple of days putting this together and assures us he will never be able to get the cheesy tunes out of his head! Maybe we can persuade a CD label to put together a compilation for us?
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