After
hearing about the gig in Brighton 2003 were to be
recorded, I made a few sleeve suggestions, which I forwarded
their manager. They featured a combined photo on the front
- one blurry photo of the stage. Another image of the crowd
during a gig in London, in either black or white.
I didn't hear anything for a while, and seeing some of the
suggestions popping up on various websites, I gave up hope - not
that it was a big problem, but I must say I thought the designs
were downright awful. Water!?...."oh, but Brighton is by the sea!"
why not roads, then? - I bet there's a few of them in the city
as well - nothing to do with THL, but you'll be the judge -
here's the sleeve suggestions from 'Secret Films Records':
Luckily the band didn't like them either, and seeing that it was
about to be released, they were more-or-less forced to use my
crap designs. 
All
the elements were seperated and forwarded to the graphic
designer at 'Secret Films Records'. They added the text on the
spine and back.
The photo used on the back, was taken by Michiel Van
Bokhorst during soundcheck before the gig - a beautiful photo of
the mixing desk and the chairs leading up to the scene, with
camera men running around.
I've increased brightness and contrast, to make it more visible.
The enhanced photo, before crowd were added and before it being
cropped.
I took the crowd photo the day before the Brighton gig (London,
Shepherds Bush Empire). It took me 3 hours to cut out the crowd
and converting it from a bitmap image to vector graphics.
The final design of the front, were also used on the 2004
tourprogramme. |
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Info/buy DVD
Recorded on 19th December 2003, and released officially
March 2005.
Info/buy CD
Recorded on 19th December 2003, and released officially
September 2005.
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