SARAH 1 set the pattern for the first ten 7″ labels: on one side a photo of Bristol reduced to b/w by repeated re-photocopying (these days, you’d just use Photoshop’s “threshold” filter), on the other a 2-colour flower. Sadly, no one told us this would mean printing each side separately and using two Pantone spot colours, for which there was a £90 setting-up charge on each pressing; printing the labels often cost more than recording the songs. (The photo here is of Sea Mills.)
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Glass Arcade advert Letraset artwork
In the days before computers, if you wanted lettering that wasn’t hand done or typed, your only options were a type-setting bureau – who’d charge around £45 for a block like this – or Letraset. And if you wanted neat lines for your rub-down letters, your only options were a ruler and 9H pencil… and sellotape to peel off any letters that didn’t go down right or cracked. I remember sitting in the Upper Belgrave Road flat Letrasetting this wearing fingerless gloves; these were also the days before heating.