MASSIVE Barney Bubbles rare art scoop: clues to the mysteries
RandM writng: Here is the original cassette release for Elvis Costello’s ‘Get Happy’, designed by Barney Bubbles in 1980. the artwork is entirely different to the LP artwork which you showed in an earlier post.
rebecca and mike and 
David Lowbrow are discussing. 
David Wills tells tales 
rebecca and mike 5:54 pm on April 18, 2009 Permalink |
the make-up was a nice discovery when we opened this cassette up for the first time. the comment on the eyebrow pencil is particularly resonant:
lowbrow, not eyebrow (eyebrow highbrow geddit?)
this seems to be another Barney Bubbles line along the lines of ‘Elitism is the curse of…’
David Lowbrow 1:40 pm on April 24, 2009 Permalink |
Four eyes on there too — reference to Costello’s trademark look I wonder?
rebecca and mike 9:03 pm on April 24, 2009 Permalink |
we had never sussed the ‘eyes’ bit, but think you just hit the nail on the head there. nice!