There are copies in jewel cases and promotional copies in card sleeves. The third compilation, imaginatively titled We Love You … So Love Us Three, only available on CD, appeared in 2004. We Love You … So Love Us Too was released the following year on CD and there is also a four-track 12” that comes in a red generic cover with the same image as on the CD on the record label. There are two further We Love You compilations. In 2000, Wall of Sound Records launched a subsidiary label called We Love You and released a compilation album called We Love You … So Love Us, with Banksy’s famous Rage – Flower Thrower image on the cover. Clown Skateboards CD and Style by the Dozen 12″. And the logo appeared on the label of a split 12” EP Styles by the Dozen by The Dynamic Duo (who are Niall Daily and Bryan Jones) and Nasty P (Paul Rutherford) the same year. Banksy came up with his Insane Clown image and Clown Skateboards produced a promotional CDEP called Skateboards, with the Insane Clown image on the cover.
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In 2000 Banksy was approached by the newly formed Clown Skateboards to design a logo that would be applied to a limited edition series of skateboards. There seem to be three colour variations of the cassette, yellow, red and white. In the mid-to-late nineties Banksy was an amateur footballer, apparently goalkeeper for the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls and toured with the team to Chiapas, Mexico in 2001 where he painted a mural and provided images for a very limited cassette by a Mexican band called Revolucion X, titled Canciones electorales, that was probably pressed in the U.S. I would not advise serious collectors of Banksy’s record cover art to fall for these. An Israeli group is even producing picture disc singles with Banksy images that are being sold at exorbitant prices. I have a nasty feeling that more recent bootleg releases, such as the two Boys in Blue 12” singles and TV-Age’s 12”, seem to have been produced in limited editions, often beautifully made, exclusively to lure collectors to part with large sums. I won’t separate authorised from unauthorised covers in this list. Sometimes, as in the case of Benjamin Zephaniah’s Naked CD or Liberation by Talib Kweli and Madlib, it is not certain that the cover images were authorised by Banksy. There is no doubt that the covers for One Cut’s records on the Hombré label, and the covers produced by Wall of Sound Records and its offshoots Ultimate Dilemma and We Love You use Banksy’s images authorised by him, later releases on other labels or on bootlegs are almost certainly unauthorised. Printers proofs of Mother Samosa’s two cassettes. However, I have never seen the cassettes. Printer’s proofs of these cover designs have circulated and been suggested to be the earliest cover art by the artist known as Banksy.
The second, The Fairground of Fear (1994) doesn’t seem to have been released in any other format. The first, Oh My God It’s Cheeky Clown (1993) was also released on CDr. In 19 someone called Robin Gunningham – suggested by the Daily Mail to be Banksy’s real name – designed the covers for two cassettes by the Bristol band Mother Samosa. There is debate about when Banksy first designed a cover for a record. On the lorry’s underside was a stencilled message and Banksy realized that stencilling would allow him to work faster. The story goes that he was in the process of painting a mural when he was spotted and to avoid capture hid under a lorry. He started painting murals but soon found that stencilling was faster and meant he could better avoid discovery and possible arrest. This made frontpage news in several newspapers and started a hunt to try to unmask the artist, led primarily by the Daily Mail.īut Banksy’s career had started at least ten years earlier in his native Bristol, where he followed other street artists in decorating walls in the city. Banksy had reimagined the CD booklet, rendering Paris Hilton topless on the front, and DJ Danger Mouse had created a special album to replace Paris Hilton’s songs. Monkeys were another early Banksy motifs.Īlthough he had been active since the mid nineteen nineties, Banksy first came to fame in 2006 when he and associates succeeded in placing 500 spoof CDs satirizing Paris Hilton’s newly released Paris album on the shelves of 48 HMV stores across the United Kingdom. Perhaps he had also seen Blec le Rat’s art and borrowed his signature rat images. He was involved in the street art scene in Bristol from the late nineteen eighties and has admitted that 3D and the Wild Bunch were early influences. I know nothing about the artist known as Banksy’s art training.
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