Wayne Beauchamp

Design & artwork for print in Norfolk

The Holloway Echoes “Stack ‘Em Up” CD

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WSRC157 Holloway Echoes stack em up cd

You spend ages waiting for the next Holloway Echoes release and then two turn up at once! This one is a full length CD album. I defy anybody not to enjoy this CD release!

Tracks….

  1. Snap Crackle & Pop
  2. Answers On The Back Of A Postcard
  3. Johnny Watts
  4. Doin’ My Own Thing
  5. Who’d Have Thought
  6. Dinner Lady Rock n Roll
  7. Donkey Jacket
  8. Lost In London
  9. The Phantom Flan-Flinger
  10. The Dark Horse
  11. Bridego
  12. Sari With The Fringe On Top
  13. Calling Buddy

Pat Winn
All lead vocals, plus acoustic guitar
and backing vocals on track 13.

Alan Wilson
Piano on tracks 1 & 4, guitars, backing
vocals, keyboards & Hammond organ.

Nick McNulty
All bass guitars plus guitars &
keyboards on tracks 5 & 10.

Ben Turner
Drums.

Cliff Hall
Piano on tracks 2, 7 &12.

The Pat Winn Combo

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WSRC151 - Pat Winn Combo CD

Yet more rock ‘n’ roll goodness on it’s way. I have just had the artwork for this new album from The Pat Winn Combo signed off for the pressing plant on the Western Star label in Somerset. Interestingly though Pat is based in Norfolk and tells me he once worked at “The Duke” in Bacton when our band used to play there regularly! A bit of cartoon work on this one.

New artwork for The Sharks Infamy CD (expanded)

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WSRC152 The Sharks Infamy CD (expanded)

Just signed this beauty off ready for the pressing plant. A re-issue of the “Infamy” album by “The Sharks”. This great album has just been made even better by the addition of extra tracks and remixes. Anybody who knows anything about psychobilly knows this band were there at the birth of psychobilly (if not before) and, I think it’s fair to say, cast the die for what is considered the British psychobilly style both in terms of sound and fashion. Songs like “Take a razor to your head” on Nervous Records epitomised everything generally associated with the genre probably more so than the bass guitar, punky sound of bands like The Meteors, The Cramps and King Kurt who are often cited as the origins of the style from around the same time.

Remembering Joe Meek CD cover

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WSRC 150 - Remembering Joe Meek CD compilation album

This will be the third Joe Meek themed compilation album I have produced artwork for on the Western Star label. Includes new recordings by a mix of original stars who recorded with the genius that was Joe Meek, along with modern bands on the rock ‘n’ roll scene today covering songs which Joe Meek added his magic to back in the day. Western Star recording studio, just outside Bath in the UK, has a long history of affiliation with Joe Meek artists and sound equipment. Another great project to be involved in if you’re a rock ‘n’ roll freak like me. The design remit was to make the packaging look like a design from the early sixties in the UK. Hopefully the shapes and colours do just that. I love the fact that in the sixties most of the print was produced using spot colours of solid ink rather than the CMYK process used nowadays so designs were limited to 2 or 3 (sometimes 4) solid colours. The inks were nowhere near as bright in those days so rock ‘n’ roll albums would try and be as vivid and wild as possible but by today’s standard definitely have a look of their time.
The dots within the name “Joe Meek” are there to represent the sound suppressing tiles found on the walls of many recording studios