LiveGlasgow29.09.01

Here is another Mr. Monopoly design, this one of Roxy's second appearance in Glasgow when they returned to the UK for the final four or five shows of the 2001 tour.

From Roxy Art

From Roxy Art

The text is a very quirky and odd "no spaces" choice done in what appears to be carbonated gothic. Mr. Monopoly recalls that he had designed three and a half sleeves for the 2001 tour prior to this, one of these remaking another fan's back cover with modified text. Of the others, one was an attempt at comedy, making a CD sleeve like a beer label, one was a photo of Ferry and Eno (of which he remains very proud) and one was the City of Angels cover with the half-naked model. Nevertheless, he was called out, jokingly, by a fellow fan as always having naked girls on his sleeve and so he agreed that his next effort would attempt to be something different.

The result squeezes the maximum possible use out of a single publicity photo by Kevin Westerberg. In retrospect, it is perhaps odd that more use was not made of publicity photos by designers, rather than regular re-use of blurry sixth row camera shots. On the other hand, there were aggravatingly few publicity photos available from that tour.

Why the text is all run together like that, however, nobody can say.

This design is not believed to have been treed or weeded, and should never have been sold.