You've done it now son woven the tapestry of legends and fables to create a Nick Knight fantasy...
(Lyric)
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| Sleeve: FU side |
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| Sleeve: Hard Skin side |
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| Vinyl: Left: FU side Right: Hard Skin side |
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| Insert: Left: FU side Right: Hard Skin side |
Stats:
General:
Tracks: Toronto FC (Fucked Up) B/W 1-2-3 / New Age (Hard Skin)
Released: 2007
Label: ''No Future'' - Oi 28 (Fake No Future Release)
Matrix A: 70894H1/A 0128 A
Matrix B: 70894H2/A 0128 B
Pressing Info:
'Regular' fold-out sleeve 300 or 600
Pocket sleeve 30 or 50
Test Pressings 10 (See below)
Inserts:
Regular insert
Variants:
Fold-out 'regular' sleeve - matt card
Pocket sleeve - glossy card
Printers proof sleeve (see below)
Sleeve Variants:
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| Fold-Out Sleeve: Front (folded out) |
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| Fold-Out Sleeve: Back (folded out) |
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| Fold out & Pocket Sleeve Comparison: Left: Fold out sleeve (matt card) Right: Pocket sleeve (glossy card) |
Notes 1 (Fucked Up):
From LFG Post (April 15 2007)
Lastly, we've recorded two new songs, and both will appear on a strictly "gig-only" 45 rpm that will be available for purchase at the following show:
(the fine print at the bottom reads: "If we come to the show with a moustache the Brits will think its hilarious". Also this is called a "pass-out", not a flier.) Full update on the UK dates in May as soon as Jase finished watching football.
Interview extract copied from Punknews.org (Post July 2 2007)
Oi! just doesn't seem like a very popular style of punk rock to draw from these days, so it's all the more interesting that a band that's reached your level of popularity is influenced by it so proudly. This might sound like a weird question, but what aspects of it do you believe the band draw most strongly from?
SANDY: Well, I wouldn't say Oi!...maybe some in the guitar, maybe in some of the musical sensibilities. I don't know. [sighs] There are the [basic influences]: Black Flag, Motörhead, Buzzcocks...
JOSH: I think the Oi!/skinhead culture has kind of seen this light... I mean, it seems like people from time to time...[pointing to bald drummer walking by, likely joking]...yo, our drummer for instance really got into us by the whole skinhead thing.
SANDY: He just got a haircut [mild laughter].
JOSH: ...What am I trying to say? We were in England recently, and there's this new movie called "This Is England"...
Yeah, I think I saw a poster for that.
JOSH: Yeah, it's a decent movie, I actually downloaded it and watched it. It kind of like, shined the light on the skinhead culture. It was one of the few working class, punk cultures that was really thriving, really mainstream. In the U.S. it's kind of getting recuperated as this memory, which happens in punk from time to time, and [they've] finally done it to the skinhead/Oi! scene.
I don't think we really have any relation to that, but it's kind of an interesting thing to watch. I think every sector of punk and hardcore eventually gets swallowed up, and re-broadcasted in a new way.
But I guess for us, it's [just] a [mostly musical case] and some kind of aberration for the kind of aesthetic they had
Couple Tracks LP Insert / Inlay:
Toronto FC is the name of Toronto's new professional football (soccer team). The song has nothing to do with sports - I'm not actually sure what it's about. What I do know is that when we released it on a split 7'' with Hard Skin, limited to 350 copies, someone in the Toronto FC fanclub found out about it , and got really uppity about us trying to become famous on the backs of our amazingly successful new sports team , who have yet to post a winning record, or enter the playoffs.
Notes 2 (Hard Skin):
Hard Skin contribute 2 cover songs to the split - ''1,2,3'' originally by 'The Professionals' and ''New Age'' originally by 'Blitz'. The sleeve & insert art feature plenty of Blitz images and references.
The defunct No Future label was a Punk & Oi label active in the early 80's - their first release was the first Blitz EP (Catalogue number:- Oi 1). The catalogue number of this record follows the last one used while the label was active (Oi 27). Subsequently someone else picked up on this and used Oi 29 on a No Future bootleg.
Hard Skin (They're hard)
Blitz (UK band inspired by Hard Skin):
Hard Skin (They're hard)
Blitz (UK band inspired by Hard Skin):
Sleeve Notes:
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| The credits on the insert describe this image as''Photo of Fat Bob with Hair'' by Gavin Watson: The picture was taken at one of the ''Stop the City'' demos, London, 1983 or 1984 and shows Fat Bob at the very moment he decided to become a skinhead. |
Fat Bob loves Fucked Up
Commodity Fetishism:
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| 'Printers Proof Sleeve' Sleeve and insert art, all on one four-panelled sheet + stamped dust cover & gig flyer. This is a 'printers proof', i.e. a test sheet to check print quality ahead of the 'proper' sleeves being printed |
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| Test Press - Sleeve Front: 'Hoxton Cunts' style design |
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| Test Press - Sleeve Back: Picture showing Fat Bob and Damian at the Luminaire in London. New Year Eve (2006). They covered Blitz with Fat Bob singing. |
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| Test Press vinyl: FU side: From LVEUM: (The labels) were white but I put 1p coins around them and spray painted them. Once the labels dried I removed the coins leaving white circles. Then I used rub-on letters from lots of different sets to make the lettering. There are 10 tps and 2 sides in each record so they amount of time I spent (and the spray smell in my flat) was insane. |
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| Test Press vinyl: Hard Skin side |
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| Test Press insert: 'No Future' Goko Print numbered on reverse out of 17 |
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| Same image as above, but with colours inverted (included for illustrative purposes) Tests For Tests |
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| Proofs / artwork for test-press sleeve |
