2012
Spoken word performance live from The Vinyl Factory exhibition recorded direct to disc
Pressed on a double 12" gatefold
Two heavyweight 180-gram records, one white, one black
Limited edition of 150
Hand signed and numbered
Sleeve photography by Dennis Morris (Sex Pistols, PiL, Bob Marley)
Tim Noble and Sue Webster have collaborated with The Vinyl Factory and acclaimed punk photographer Dennis Morris to create a gatefold 12" edition of a spoken word piece to accompany their major new show, Nihilistic Optimistic. NO is made up of 11 iconic portrait photographs of the artists taken by Dennis Morris.
As well as his celebrated work with the Sex Pistols and Bob Marley, Morris was instrumental in creating the seminal sleeves, logo and metal box for John Lydon’s band PiL.
“Two of my all-time favourite album covers, Iggy Pop's The Idiot and David Bowie's Heroes, were both inspired by the same painting, Roquairol by the German artist Erich Heckel. And so when we approached iconic photographer Dennis Morris to create an image for the cover artwork of our own record, I immediately wanted to capture the essence of the leather-clad Bowie from 1977, and to mix this with the portrait of John Lydon that adorns the cover of Public Image Limited's seminal album First Issue, taken by Morris back in the day.” - Sue Webster