Berlin Beauty Queens

A Breadfruit Obsauditory sleeve, one of many often seen on 1970s Roxy audience recordings.

From Roxy Art

From Roxy Art

Alleged to be the work of a trader somewhere in Tennessee, Breadfruit Obsauditory sleeves consistently amuse. They are full of in-jokes despite the primitive software used to design them. (Some sleeves have strange formatting errors in the text suggesting that they were laid out in Excel.) The "which clearly states" part of the disclaimer kills me every time. It is clear that Breadfruit Obsauditory's designer was inspired by the classic labels of The Amazing Kornyfone, and made no attempt to make his sleeves look like anything other than bootlegs.

No details are given about the bonus tracks. This, unlike Omnibus's "Archive Volume 1," appears to be the full show.

Archive Volume One

Who knows how long this will last? Who knows where these recordings are? Don't ask, because I will not tell.

The first item up for display is this vixen from "Omnibus Records & Tapes," advertising an incomplete copy of Roxy Music's Berlin 1974 show. There were fifteen songs played that evening, but this one-disc edition omits "In Every Dream Home a Heartache," which would be the eighth song on a full show.

From Roxy Art

From Roxy Art

The model on this record appears to be fetish model Lydia "Ivy" West. She would appear on the next two volumes of the Archive series. Where Omnibus sold or traded their wares, I do not know.